Here is an invitation to come and join this upcoming family constellations group in Muizenberg on Sunday 14th April. A family constellation is a very beautiful way of mapping out the relationships between people who are intimately connected. This way of working allows an actual bodily experiencing of the texture and emotional content of the [...]
Saturday 9th March is the date for the second in series of 4 ½ day Family Constellations Study Groups. Loved working with this group, accompanied by the unexpected sound of beautiful rain, cooling all after the weeks of heat. What will this space be for? There will of course be an examination and exploration of [...]
This is an invitation to those of you who in feel stuck in old repeating patterns or grappling with issues that seem difficult to resolve. This one day family constellations workshop offers a way of working with these difficult issues using tools that step aside from our every-day way of solving problems. Come and experience [...]
The Present Holds the Past One day personal issues workshops Upcoming dates: Sunday 20th January 2013 Sunday 17th February 2013 Sunday 14th April Sunday 26th May 2013 A family constellation is a process that goes beyond words, beyond the thinking about how to solve an issue, a problem. It is a way of mapping out [...]
½ day Family Constellation Study Groups 2013 Saturday February 9th will be the first of a set of 4 These study groups will open a space for those who would like to go deeper into family constellation work, and use it to explore personal issues in a different way. The group will be useful for [...]
The family constellation workshop process is primarily experiential. Once a client and the facilitator decide together who in the family will be worked with, the client asks participants in the workshop to represent or ‘stand in’ for the chosen family members. The client will then place each person in the central space. The spatial relationship [...]
Phenomenology is a method of perception. It is a way of experiencing the world with conscious intentionality. The ‘knowing’ or perceiving is gained through a direct and conscious experience of phenomena. Phenomena would be objects or occurrences, changes, any experience open to observation by the senses. When a phenomenological stance is achieved, assumptions and judgements [...]
Hellinger has preferred not to describe family constellations as a therapy, although it may be used within a therapeutic process. He has also resisted creating a fixed theory for the modality, but there are underlying principles which guide a therapist or a facilitator in the work. An honouring and a respect for others, and an [...]
The family constellation process uses images and the body experience rather than words or narrative. The first image that presents at the beginning of a client’s process is that of their internal picture, the inner image of their current family system. From this image the facilitator can offer a working hypothesis of the family dynamic. [...]
Family Constellations is a non-verbal way of working with a life issue. It is a modality that can reveal the hidden dynamics of an intimate system; the entanglements often with roots in the past, that continue to influence and have an impact on those in the present generation. This way of working allows us to [...]
