Family Constellations Group Session
Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations approach highlights how the challenges we face might not always start with us—they can often be tied to unresolved struggles or patterns passed down from our ancestors.
Family Constellations is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals understand how their family history and past experiences influence their lives today. It can reveal hidden patterns and dynamics within a family system that may be contributing to personal struggles, relationships, or emotional challenges. By bringing these patterns to light, Family Constellations allows individuals to process and release unresolved issues, creating space for healing and transformation.
Join us for a profound and deeply transformative experience that helps us discover old problems in a new light, offering a fresh perspective on conflicts we’ve been unable to resolve.
How Does a Family Constellation Session Work?
In a group setting, all participants play an active role in the process in one of three ways:
- Consultant: The person who brings a personal issue or theme they would like to explore.
- Representative: Volunteers from the group who step into the role of family members or key figures in the Consultant’s life.
- Participant: Those who observe, support, and help hold the space for the group’s process.
A session begins when the facilitator asks if someone (the Consultant) has a specific issue they’d like to explore. This could be related to family relationships, emotional struggles, health issues, or behavioral patterns.
Once the issue is clarified, the Consultant selects individuals from the group to act as representatives for family members or relevant figures. These representatives are intuitively placed in the space, and a fascinating process unfolds—often, they begin to experience emotions, sensations, or insights that reflect the dynamics of the actual family system.
As this unfolds, the Consultant gains a new perspective on their family’s influence, allowing them to release old beliefs, heal emotional wounds, and move forward with greater clarity and freedom.
Family Constellations is a deeply insightful process that can bring profound shifts, even for those simply witnessing or participating in the session.
Family Constellations is typically a one-time session, conducted individually or in a group. It’s not a quick fix or magical solution, but a powerful tool for breaking free from cycles of behaviors and attitudes that we no longer want yet struggle to shift. This deeply transformative work can free you from blame, hurt, and judgment, restoring the natural flow of love in your relationships—including the one with yourself. By bringing clarity and resolution, it allows you to step into your fullest potential and live more authentically.
Benefits
Family constellations was discovered and developed by Bert Hellinger (1925-2019). It is a therapeutic tool with a systemic, family-based approach that is brief in nature and solution focused.
Over time, this approach has allowed us to use this not only as a therapeutic tool but also as an innovative way to broaden our perspective and understand the relational dynamics underlying what we previously believed to be a certain way. They allow us to know and understand the laws that govern not only our relationships with other people but also with events, experiences, etc.
From the perspective of Family Constellations, ‘Order Precedes Love’, meaning that there needs to be order in relationships for love to flow adequately. When there is disorder, we feel obstacles, suffering, anguish, anger, and difficulty in moving forward in life. Through a Family Constellations process, we achieve a perspective that allows us to see possible paths toward order and solution.
Engaging in family constellations also offers broader benefits, including:
- Discovering new and expansive perspectives on repeating negative patterns
- Enhancing self-love and acceptance of the present moment
- Harmonising and deepening your relationships
- Connecting with ancestral wisdom
- Joining a supportive community dedicated to healing and growth
What can be constellated?
Anything that is affecting our life. Things that are repetitive, persistent, or very intense and difficult for us to overcome or resolve.
You can constellate an emotion, illness, personal relationship, symptoms, life event, or anything that is related to you.
In essence, you can constellate any aspect of your life that you feel holds significance or is causing distress, seeking resolution, understanding, or personal growth.
What cannot be constellated?
In Family Constellations, the work is focused on the consultant. However, since we are part of a family system, our change impacts other members of the future system in multiple possible ways. It is important to know that this work cannot change others around you, only how you see and respond to them.
What happens after a family constellation?
It is normal to experience a range of emotions after a family constellation session. These emotions may include relief, sadness, joy, anger, or a sense of release. Participants may also feel emotionally drained or physically tired. Engaging in self-care practices after a family constellation session is vital to support your emotional well-being.
- Hydration, Rest and Relaxation: Keep yourself hydrated. Prioritise rest and relaxation to replenish your energy. This may involve getting enough sleep, taking breaks, and engaging in activities that help you unwind and recharge.
- Emotional Expression: Allow yourself to express and process your emotions. This can be done through journaling, talking with a trusted friend or therapist, or engaging in creative outlets such as art or music.
- Grounding Techniques: Engage in grounding practices to reconnect with the present moment and your body. This can include mindfulness meditation, deep breathing exercises, or activities in nature.
- Self-Compassion: Be gentle and compassionate with yourself as you integrate the insights and experiences from the constellation session.
How can Family Constellations help with emotional healing related to past generations?
Many people discover that this method is a deeply powerful way to unravel long-held emotional struggles, often passed down through generations. One of the most impactful aspects of a family constellation is how the presence of supportive figures—like parents or grandparents, even those who’ve long passed—can shift a participant’s feelings and perception of their family. It’s as though they’re finally able to sense the strength and support of their ancestors in a way that feels real and tangible.
Testimonials
“Thank you Family Systems Hub for hosting the Constellation workshop, Very Powerful!” (Sarah,Qld)
“Devi was amazing. What an incredible opportunity to be a part of. It was powerful to be observing and I gained so much. I felt a powerful release in me take place in my relationship with my own mother. I”m coming back again!” (Valerie, NSW)
“I enjoyed the provocative nature of constellations. It was a unique experience on Saturday – it conveys how amazing things can happen when you listen to your body. A brilliant connection with self, and unthinkable connection with others.” (Sue, Victoria)
