What is Family Constellations?
A therapeutic approach revealing hidden dynamics in family systems.
Benefits
- Reveals hidden loyalties, entanglements, and patterns across generations
- Supports healing of family trauma, exclusions, and interrupted bonds
- Offers movement toward resolution of relational, vocational, and health difficulties
- Works without extensive verbal analysis — insight arises through embodied representation
- Effects can extend beyond the individual to the wider family system
What to Expect
Group constellations: you bring a specific question or issue. Representatives (other group members) are placed in the space to represent members of your family system. As the constellation unfolds, the facilitator observes and makes gentle interventions — movements, statements, restorative phrases. Individual constellations use figures or floor markers instead. The work is experiential, not analytical.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who developed Family Constellations?
- Bert Hellinger developed the method in Germany in the 1980s, drawing on systemic therapy, Zulu healing practices observed in South Africa, and phenomenology.
- Do I need to bring my family members?
- No — the work is done through representatives or objects. Your family members do not need to be present or even aware of the process.