Family Constellations

Family Constellations is a highly effective way of healing on a deeply felt energetic level, with long-term and often life changing results

In working with several thousand family systems, renowned German psycho- therapist Bert Hellinger discovered age-old, hidden "Orders of Love" that operate in the depths of family organisms. Violation and disrespect of these natural laws due to tragic circumstances and unconscious behavior in the generations that came before affect the lives of later members of the family.

Leading a grounded and authentic life requires restoring harmony to the Orders of Love in the family.

Workshop participants are frequently amazed and deeply touched when the hidden love connections and entanglements within their systems are revealed.

For instance, could we ever imagine that unhappiness or health problems could be connected to a stillborn child of our grandmother? Or that difficulties with a current partner could be related to an abortion 15 years ago, or even to the former partner of one's mother? That the severe illness of a child might be caused by an adoption?

Hidden entanglements of this kind are found behind most personal and even professional issues. Restoring balance and harmony to the family system will be equally effective for physical illness - from lower back pain to cancer - as it is for emotional and mental suffering.

The Family Constellation is the main technique for revealing the hidden dynamics in a family so they can be worked with and healed.

Release begins with the participant's issue or problem and some factual information about his/her family (i.e. sudden or early deaths, severe illness, miscarriage, divorce, etc.). Then she/he chooses from the other participants a representative for each family member- alive or dead - and places them in relationship to each other according to his/her inner picture of the system. This creates an energy field in which all involved participants begin to receive information (physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, etc.), related to the family member whom they are representing. Every change in position within the constellation affects the information received. As a result, previously sub-conscious, often tragic family ties are made perceptible and the dynamic that caused the participant's issue can be discovered.

With the information provided by the representatives, and using steps such as appreciation or detachment rituals, the constellation can now be restructured according to the "Orders of Love" into a balanced family system where love, flowing consciously and unimpeded, heals, and guilt, once acknowledged, can turn into energy.

Monique does work one-on-one by using mats for the representatives.

Loves Hidden Symmetry

A Family Constellation Workshop
Facilitators Michael and Monique Schoenau

Join countless others worldwide and experience for yourself this powerful model of healing.

There is a natural flow of love and loyalty that runs from one generation to the next in family systems. Sometimes, however, this flow is interrupted by the unresolved misfortune or pain of previous generations, creating the entanglements at the root of many current life difficulties.

Children will naturally and unconsciously take on the unfinished business of parents or other ancestors in an attempt to create resolution; this often shows up as unexplained physical, mental or emotional illness. Of coarse, they are neither equipped nor entitled to take on the fate of another, even out of love.

“There’s nothing a child won’t do to help the family, even to the detriment of the self.”
- Bert Hellinger, Psychotherapist from Germany who developed this profound model of healing and reconciliation.

Constellation work restores order in families so that love can once again flow in its natural state and life can proceed well.

We can set up a Constellation one-on-one at any time. Group work is also available

More info in the Mosaic Magazine Winter 2005
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