Family Constellations

What are Family Constellations?

What are Family Constellations? Family Constellations as a Healing Modality Family Constellations is a method used to bring reveal entanglements within a family system, so that they can be acknowledged, in order to bring healing for the client.  Psychologists may refer to it as therapy.  As I am not a therapist I think of it as a method, modality or tool that I work with. Up until I became aware of Family Constellations, the healing work that I had done…

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Doll people used in Individual Family Constellations

Family Constellations: A controversial and bold ‘development’ in therapeutic practices

Family Constellations: A controversial and bold ‘development’ in therapeutic practices I was interviewed by Catherine del Monte, a journalist from the Daily Maverick, on Family Constellations.  I was one of the many facilitators she interviewed for this piece.  It challenged me to put into words what family constellations are all about. I stepped into my first constellation at the start of 2015 without having any clear idea what a family constellation was – I just knew that I needed to experience…

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Dennis and Robyn at Mana Pools

Changing my Story

I need to change my story that goes “My father almost died”.  I was speaking to my friend Sam. I was sitting in the same spot in the garden that I’d been sitting in a few days earlier holding a dove that had flown into a window. A raptor was sitting in a tree opposite us. Waiting. I held the dove to protect it from a certain death. It was on the anniversary of my mother’s passing.  I was not…

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Mosiac Heart with Dragonfly

Letting the Wind Blow in Trust

When the wind is blowing like this – the Air element is making its presence known. The Air Element is about communication – from creating the sound of your words as air passes over your vocal cords to the airwaves that support electronic communication.

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Heart Connection

Creating Connection and Opening the Heart

That same heart opening I felt watching these two elephants, I so often feel during Family Constellation work. These giant beings embody that graceful honouring and gentle surrendering to one’s Life that may be witnessed towards the end of a Group Family Constellation

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Closed yellow oxalis flowers pushing their way through red soil

Emerging into Flow

I’m in awe of the tenacity of these delicate petals that in their tight binding push their way through the rain soften clay earth.

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Robyn Fergus and Tanja Meyburgh in Sydney at Constellation Intensive

Revoking Soul Contracts

I have always had a great need to be in control. It took me a long time to figure that out. I needed to keep things together. Avoiding situations where I could loose control of myself or what was happening round me. 

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