What are constellations?
Family or organisational constellations are extremely effective methods to gain insight into the field of influence you’re manoeuvring through. A constellation is a visualisation of the pattern, and the accompanying dynamic you encounter. This can be in terms of both your private and your professional life.
During a constellation we will ‘look systemically’. Which means: taking into account the enormous web that connects all the people and events within a family or organisation that effect the past, present and future.
During a constellation, all the elements relating to the field of influence of your question or stalled process will be identified. This is achieved by giving a problem a central role, for example that a lot of what you do doesn’t end well. Or that you far too frequently take on responsibilities that aren’t yours, or always have a problem with authority.
Other participants serve as representatives of the people around you and arrange themselves in a certain way in the space, an arrangement that exactly replicates your situation. The constellation clarifies how you are positioned in relation to other people. Blind spots become visible. After the diagnosis, possible interventions will be identified, so that you and your system become even more empowered. A constellation facilitates the emergence of solution paths. You’re provided with another perspective on a situation, that will work through to your life as a whole. Naturally, it will become clear what you must do.
Participants of the constellation days are often a little nervous in advance. Experience shows that most people feel enriched and empowered having participated. Space is also created, that wasn’t felt previously. Solution paths emerge, making it clear what you must do to address your question adequately.
Family Constellations
A family is a system where everyone has his own place and where everyone is inextricably linked to the other. A family system is intertwined by destiny. With a family constellation you will experience how it feels to stand in your place in your family system, and the effects should this not be the case. You will not only become aware of the dynamics you are dealing with on a rational level, you’ll feel it in your body too. You’ll also often get a renewed sense of your own potential.
Your place in day-to-day life is related to your family system. If you’re firmly in your place in the family system, you’ll more easily navigate day-to-day life. Because the patterns that occur in the family system also keep repeating themselves elsewhere.
A family constellation is done without the presence of your partner, family etc.
You do not have to involve them in your own process. Although it is possible. Registration for a constellation day is done individually.
Organisational Constellation
An organisation has a memory, in which the entire history of the system is stored. This means that all that’s happened to the organisation in the past can have a powerful influence on the future, without you often being aware of it as an employee or employer.
Besides this, an organisation also has to deal with certain systemic laws. Going against these systemic principles can ultimately work against you and cost you a needless amount of energy. When you experience this in an organisational constellation, you better understand how you can reverse a specific pattern within an organisation. It will subsequently become clear how both you and the organisation can be empowered.
You can register individually for a constellation day, during which your organisational question can be addressed. You can also do a constellation with a team. For this, I regularly use external representatives unfamiliar with the history of the organisation, and I’ll do everything to safeguard the integrity of everyone involved.
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At this moment family constellations are held in Dutch.
If you want to register you can do so at the dutch registration.