North American Systemic Constellations
We educate, nurture, and encourage diversity and collaboration to create more peace, love, and inclusion for individuals, families, communities, and organizations through Systemic Constellations.
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Our Hope.....
It is our hope to continue to bring you all the sense of deeply connected community where we can learn and share and mentor each other and have a place of deep connection. This work has evolved over the years and as a community following this work, we will naturally be evolving with the flow.
We are very honored and proud to be able to expand our community’s base and widen our reach with this amazing work. Please follow us on our social media pages and stay connected. We will be sending periodic updates as they unfold.
Systemic Constellations
Systemic constellations are a way of working with issues within human systems.
Developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist, they originally focused on family systems to disclose the deeper forces that unknowingly influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences through multiple generations.
Family Constellations create a model of the family system to reveal and transform hidden patterns that are difficult to understand and change.
In Systemic Constellations, we set up a model of a system with volunteer representatives, objects or guided visualizations. In a typical workshop, participants are chosen to represent members or elements of the family or organization that is being addressed. In this process, hidden and unexpected dynamics operating within the system are revealed and addressed in a way that aims to find a healthy and respectful place for all members of the system in question.
A powerful insight of Bert Hellinger is that each family system has a conscience that requires that all members be connected and remembered in a particular way. If someone in the system is not remembered correctly then younger members, out of love or the need to belong, can become "entangled" with their ancestors, particularly with those who have been excluded, forgotten or shunned, or have experienced a difficult fate. Unconscious entanglements are behind many of the issues that are explored in these constellations.
During the process, we search for possible solutions that can release these entanglements and restore order and balance to the family system. Exploring what is hidden in our family system can help us heal our deepest wounds.
During a Systemic Constellation, representatives begin to take on the essential qualities of who or what they are representing, and begin to sense thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations through the “knowing field.” They are able to reveal what is true even if they have no prior knowledge of what has occurred historically.
A key part of the Systemic Constellation process is the use of healing sentences that speak the essential truth of entanglements or issues. There can also be powerful sentences that bring a resolution and a compassionate restoration of balance to the system. Bert Hellinger created many sentences that are still effective, and new ones are created spontaneously during the process. Healing sentences are transformative when spoken in the right moment.
Challenging relationships within the family
Effects of past traumatic events
Problems in work environments
Dealing with a difficult fate or illness
Unexplained anxiety and depression or other mental illness
Difficulty in love and relationships
Missing sense of connection and purpose
Fear of success
Impact of violence on the family
Sadness not associated with actual life events
Unresolved physical issues/illnesses
Conflict resolution between colleagues
Challenges of innovation and organizational restructuring.
Resolution for larger social, cultural, ethnic and racial issues
Healing the relationship between humans and the earth.
Resolving past traumas individually, in families, and collectively in our relationship to nature, organizations and society
Some issues explored in Systemic Constellations:
Nature Constellations
Nature Constellations can explore the relationship between human systems, natural systems and the earth. They explore the interconnectedness between the health of human systems and the larger natural world. These constellations often include elements of indigenous peoples' insight into nature, shamanism, ecology and other environmental perspectives. They can include global environmental issues, individual relationships with nature, using resources, dynamics with animals and plants, and insights and wisdom from being in nature that support a deeper understanding of family systems.
Organizational Constellations
Systemic Constellations – which expand the method from family groups to other kinds of groups – are exceptionally helpful to solve problems in organizational development, leadership development, executive coaching and business.
Organizational Constellations are an evolution of Family Constellations that can reveal the hidden dynamics in companies and other kinds of organizations and communities. Organizational facilitators can set up representatives to look at leadership issues, conflict resolution between colleagues, dynamics between founders and successors, relationships between various stakeholders, challenges of innovation and organizational restructuring. This approach can also be used to discover a deeper understanding and resolution for larger social, cultural, ethnic and racial issues by shifting perceptions, creating new insights and uncovering different forms of action for moving forward.
A penetrating methodology, constellation sessions and workshops allow you to look at the hidden dynamics that hold your most demanding problems in place. Seeing the obstacle and the path to clearing it can result in movement more rapidly than you can imagine.
Coaches and consultants are using this method to understand:
The status of essential relationships
The viability of different strategies
Customer needs
Organization design
Strategic planning
Leadership selection and leadership derailment issues
Decision-making
Conflict resolution.
Volunteer
NASC is a volunteer-run community. NASC volunteer opportunities are ongoing as new projects emerge. Whether Board members, conference directors or committee organizers, everyone benefits as a result. Please email nasconstellations@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering.
