Family Constellation - Salt Lake City (group /in person)

261 East 4500 South,Murray UT 84107

23 April, 2022

Description

TO DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVITY / TO GET OUT OF BLOCKED SITUATIONS / TO BE RECONCILED WITH OURSELVES The approach of family constellation is as old as humanity. It is a proven method to get out of old wounds from direct ancestors, allies of your lineage or your clan, but also a way to build the present and project yourself in the future. Constellations do not replace psychotherapy, nor is it, strictly speaking, psychotherapy. It is rather a work of awakening in group, restructuring, comforting, reconciling. A restart in life that is for anyone who wants to get out of repeated failures for themselves or another member of their family. It is not a question of “working on family problems” but of finding a good and effective solution for the whole system. How to recognize a fully fulfilled life: - To pacified relations with his parents, - To the love that sustains the life of a couple, - The the fluid relationship with his children, - To inner peace, - Being in the right place at the right time, in your place.. Developed by the German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger, the systemic and family constellations were born in the early 90s. The journey of their founder is surprising to say the least since, before specializing in psychotherapy, he was a missionary priest in South Africa. South. “From this experience, he may have brought back the conviction that words, gestures and rituals are important within a community. From his experience as a therapist in Germany, he acquired the certainty that the power of a family system unconsciously conditions the existence of its various members over several generations" When he began his work as a therapist, Hellinger indeed noticed in some of his patients some problems rooted in the horrors of Nazism, which they had not yet experienced, unlike their ancestors. Could it be that an imprint of the family past can reach family members, even in the following generations? This is the basis of Hellinger's first reflections, which are also inspired by the work of Théa Schönfelder, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, a pioneer in the field of psychogenealogy and family therapy, and Eric Berne. Repetitions of the same situation or family history over several generations: - family secret: o how many of us prevent ourselves from living as if to expiate a fault that is not ours, out of love or loyalty for a member of our family that we sometimes did not know? It is from this observation and these questions that the systemic constellations were born, which will seek to declutter the life paths of patients who have been hindered in the past. For example: - among the descendants of victims: o we will identify difficulties in living happily. o the ban on happiness becomes an act of loyalty towards the unfortunate predecessors. - Among the descendants the persecutors: o the suffering of the descendants will (very unconsciously), out of solidarity and guilt, play a role of expiation for the executioners of yesterday. Global malaise, conflict situations, unhealthy shyness, difficulty finding one's place in the family, living as a couple, expressing one's love..., often, the highlighting of these problems which are in reality the reflection of conflicts not resolved that we are not aware of, makes it possible to heal thanks to this very particular transgenerational family therapy. Practice: how do these therapies work? Systemic and family constellations are brief therapies organized in groups (most often) in the form of role plays. The original German term 'Familieaufstellung' means 'placing the family in space', the idea being to metaphorically 'place' one's family in space in order to visualize it in space, and then put it back into its order. During work sessions of one to two hours, the patient chooses a member among the participants, the “focus”, to represent him. And others who will each play the members of their family (living or dead). Then he will place them in space, by "feeling". He will then have formed his "constellation", which he will be able to observe from the outside as on a cinema screen. The patient can also choose to integrate the constellation by playing their own role in order to live it from the inside and identify the problems. Quickly, the family representatives will feel emotions (pain, oppression, etc.) witnessing those of the ancestor or the problems of the parent whose role they have taken on. By gradually restoring order in his family history, and helped by the facilitator, the consellated [the patient] will then be able to identify the origin of his discomfort, conflicts, allow himself to free himself from these loyalties counter-productive which prevent him from living, but also stop the generational process and save his children from the generational process. “No child is autonomous in relation to his parents. That does not exist! No human being is autonomous in relation to his ancestors, in relation to life, to death. That does not exist. Freedom does not exist. It exists only if we recognize that we belong to a system that takes us into its service", said Bert Hellinger, the father of the family constellations. The method of the constellations proposes to become aware of this reality of our lives to solve the problems. It is a communication from unconscious to unconscious On the model of psychogenealogy, the family constellations consist of a communication from unconscious to unconscious that starts from the constellation to go to the representatives. The unconscious transmitted by the constellation is the family collective unconscious. And it is from this transmission that the structural elements of genealogy or possible trauma emerge. By moving the participants around until they obtain a representation of their family constellation that suits them, the constellated thus progresses in their work, day after day, towards an awareness of their family history and a rebalancing around their person. Psychotherapy can also consist of addressing family representatives to verbalize one's feelings and free oneself from them.