Come join us for a series Family Constellations (times TBA so please check back!). Please RSVP to Andie humandevelopmentcenter1008@gmail.com to secure your spot.
Research from the past two decades now sheds new light on how the unresolved traumas of ancestors could be discovered in the symptoms and struggles of family members born generations later. The legacy of traumatic inheritance is often unconscious, operating below the surface of our awareness yet influencing our health, well-being, and relationships in substantial ways.
A Family Constellation can illuminate hidden dynamics and unconscious family loyalties that contribute to depression, anxiety, physical symptoms, strained relationships, and financial struggle. In a safe and contained group setting, long standing family patterns, many of them originating from past trauma provide a broader context for working with current difficulties. In some instances, discovering the origin of an inherited family pattern is enough to begin easing the grip it has on our present life. In other instances, a new image, belief, understanding or re-organization of a previously held pattern offers promise for a new way forward.
In this workshop the time-honored wisdoms of Bert Hellinger’s teachings on Family Constellation Work will guide us through both small and large group explorations, constellations and mini lectures. The complimentary disciplines of Attachment Science, Birth Psychology, Epigenetics, Field Theory and Morphogenic Resonance will be included as we explore the significant and formative “relational spaces” between ourselves and others. The primary focus of the workshop is to promote greater awareness, understanding and harmony in our relationships as intimate partners, former partners, grandparents, parents, children, step parents, mothers and fathers in law and friends.
For those of you new to this 'work/field'
There are a few details about how the field of this work operates that may be useful for you to understand. I've quoted one of my teachers here as she sums up some of these basics very clearly.
"A sacred space is created where deep (often unspoken) truths about our families are acknowledged and honored.
Participants describe an issue or problem they want to solve along with some factual information about their family. A simple description of what they know about the family (even if that is not much) and what they experience as the problem is enough information. They choose workshop participants to represent themselves and family members, living or dead, and physically place the chosen representatives in relationship to each other according to their heartfelt inner image of their family system. This creates an energy field in which the representatives experience physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts related to the family member they represent.
Constellations look like a living tree or genogram. The experience is not role-playing. Representatives simply report what they experience. We carry our families with us like a hologram. In the workshops, we externalize an aspect of the hologram and, for a brief moment, have a glimpse into deeply unconscious patterns in the system.
The workshop leader facilitates an unfolding process where painful losses, information treated as family secrets, and previously unseen connections are revealed and honored. Once the unconscious system is revealed, it can be restructured into a more balanced system where love and energy flow freely as experienced by the people representing family members. Participants leave with a more nourishing family picture that inspires freedom, clarity, and love." Lisa Iversen
(See this link from her website for other useful info https://familyconstellationswest.com/about-constellations/frequently-asked-questions/)
FEE: $100 per day as Witness or Representative $150 for personal constellation. Some scholarships available as well as grouping rate if you intend to attend most, or all of the group sessions.
