Systemic Constellations are a method, a technique which can help identify and resolve known or hidden issues. It does not negate other methods or techniques but rather it compliments them all with one goal in mind to help provide answers for struggles.

In its current form they were developed in the nineties by the German psychotherapist and philosopher Bert Hellinger. Through his work and lifelong experience as educator, priest as well as a missionary in the Republic of South Africa he became one of the most provocative psychotherapists, who wrote a number of books and contributed on the topic (group and family therapy).

Every day Constellations therapy is being more and more recognized as an astonishingly effective therapeutic technique. It helps individuals gather insights and revelations about how their good or bad relationships with family, friends, love, business, money and community in general determine who they are. Thus it brings solutions when it appears there are none.

The technique is meant for individuals whether for their personal or professional aspect of life. For example it can be beneficial for those who:

• Are struggling with negative or harmful relationship patterns

• Are feeling stuck with their romantic status

• Are trying to find a solution to family issues (parent-child relationship)

• Have suffered trauma or loss

• Are trying to gain professional success (business) etc.

Each Constellation session is different and it is not possible to predict what is going to happen. Usually the session is conducted as a workshop made up of a group of individuals who are not related and have not met each other previously. But it can also be conducted individually without the presence of the group with the constellation board.

First the facilitator will conduct a short interview with the seeker, a person seeking resolution of an issue, to establish the topic (issue).

Afterwards the seeker will choose, among the group, representatives for each person who is in real life connected to the issue as well as representative for themselves.

The seeker will position each representative and the issue in the work space (so called “family order”) as they currently see it, thus creating the “field of knowledge” (the morphogenic field).

Once in the field, the representatives illuminate the disharmony within the family (personal or professional) since they are able to feel and experience the emotions and energies of the person whose role they have taken on. As Hellinger puts it, this is ‘connectedness’, i.e. the group members can feel it telepathically.

With the help of the facilitator, the seeker will gain insights and possible solutions to the issue.