We tend to understand ourselves as individuals, yet around our individual selves lie webs of group dynamics. Constellation workshops offer powerful experiential insight of the influence of group dynamics, or contextual elements, on an individual. By recognising the hidden tensions that limit our living we may change the dynamics to live more of our full potential.
Constellation workshops offer powerful experiential insight to the influence of group dynamics on an individual. These group dynamics can be family, community, work or nationality based or any other social groups and systems. We can free the way we are in the present moment through acknowledging the systems, and hidden loyalties of past and present, that continually shape us.
With insight into the current systemic and ancestral and context of our life we are able to shift stuck patterns and relationships in our lives. This can be very helpful in transforming long-standing attitudes, symptoms or challenges that have persisted regardless of attempts at change.
You can attend and not present your issues
A person attending the workshop may or may not have an issue they want to address. It is alright if you do not wish to address your own issues. You may simply observe or participate by serving as a representative in another person's constellation. Any personal information or stories are kept confidential.
Family Constellation is NOT Group Therapy or Family Therapy
Whilst constellation work does free our "entanglements" with our family system, we do not require the participation of family members. We work as individuals with the systems that shaped us. We can not change another person or a historic event, we can only change our attitude to people and events and this can bring freedom. Frequently when we change our stuck attitudes it frees up other members of the group to act differently. Family Constellation allows us to firstly witness the dynamics at play and secondly explore different attitudes and thirdly to witness the impact of these different attitudes.
What happens in a constellation workshop?
Somebody who has a particular issue they want to address chooses to explore the dynamics and players involved in the this issue. For example: perhaps continual difficulties with business, unable to see their way forward, feeling unsupported in life, breakdown in family relationships, difficulty maintaining friendships or intimate relationships, ongoing depression or sense of not being able to "get it together" in life.The client very simply states the area they are experiencing this "stuck" feeling. They do not tell the stories around it. The facilitator may ask the client some questions around the symptom of the issue, significant elements, relationships or family history. The facilitator may sketch a brief geneogram.
When the facilitator has sufficient information a constellation can be set up. A constellation is a physical representation of the different elements involved in the dynamic. In group workshops people who are willing to "represent" stand as representatives of these persons or elements. The people representing are not acting nor do they need any particular skill.
When the constellation is set up, representatives feed back information to the facilitator. Bodily sensations and feelings provide a lot of information for the facilitator to guide the constellation to a more new order where a healing image can be experienced. Different possibilities for solving the problem can be tested until a place is found where various tensions experienced in the constellation subside. As part of moving towards the new image, the facilitator will guide the client through some spoken sentences.
What is to be gained from the experience?
A single constellation of a difficulty can have profound impact in allowing the individual to move forward. Even though the constellation does not always end with each element in its optimum place; the movement of a constellation reveals the next step towards resolution and gives the client actual experience of this next step to resolution. A key difference between Constellation work and other therapies is that the client actually experiences the resolved situation. So often we intellectually understand the solution but are unable to live it; having experienced the solution seems to offer a very powerful more direct route to living it.
Usually the client gains helpful insight through the process and leaves visibly more at ease and with sense of being resourced. Sometimes major shifts happen for example after a workshop a client received a telephone call out of the blue her brother who had been estranged from the whole family for years, called her and chatted at length and very openly with her.
Through standing as a reprentative in another person's constellation we ease tensions in our own relationships by having real physical understanding of interpersonal dynamics.
Clients' feedback:
I became present to the amazing resemblance of my granny’s life and the degree to which I have lived it. Right now, I am processing and taking stock of what is happening. The amazing thing that happened though is that I receive a call and was given an opportunity to do something I am very passionate about and get paid for. I see a possibility of amazing things coming my way.
Thank you very much. It was incredibly insightful.
I learned so much for myself and I felt totally safe addressing scary areas of my life.
So much has shifted since we have done the constellation.
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In terms of group dynamics and group values there's <em>also</em> been lots of interesting things to observe.</p>
<p class="style8 style28"> If you are interested in better understanding the dynamics of your relationships, your group loyalties, and your behavioural patterns in any kinds of relationships do consider attending the following introductory workshop to be held next saturday afternoon. </p>
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<p><span class="style7">Are unconscious group dynamics holding you back in life?</span> </p>
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<p align="left" class="style35"><span class="style3">We can free the way we are in the present time through acknowledging the group dynamics, past and present, that continually shape us. </span>By easing systemic tensions that limit our living, and connecting with those that empower and strengthen us, we may live more of our full potential.</p>
<p align="left" class="style17">Constellation workshops offer powerful experiential insight of the influence of group dynamics on an individual. These group dynamics can be family, community, work, nationality or any other social groups and systems. Because our family is the first group we take our place in, often family dynamics underly later group relationships. <span class="style3">With insight into the groups we are currently part of, and the ancestral context of our life, we are able to shift stuck patterns and relationships in our lives. This can be very helpful in transforming long-standing attitudes, persistent difficulties, symptoms or challenges that manifest regardless of attempts at change. </span> </p>
<p align="left" class="style23">A person attending the workshop may or may not have a question they particularly want to address. For example perhaps your love affairs seem to follow a pattern, perhaps certain ventures tend to get stuck at similar places. It is alright if you do not wish to work your own issues directly. You may simply observe or participate by serving as a representative in another person's constellation.</p>
<p align="left" class="style23"><span class="style3">For more information about Constellation work,please do refer to my website inlcuding this page particularly about constellation workshops <a href="/http|//www.beingwellbeing.com/Why-family-constellation/family-or-sytemic-constellation-workshops.html">http://www.beingwellbeing.com/Why-family-constellation/family-or-sytemic-constellation-workshops.html</a></span> </p>
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