What are Constellations? 

Constellations offer a way of working with hidden dynamics within a human system. This can be used as a powerful means of exploring unacknowledged events and patterns. By surfacing these invisible dynamics, we can release them and create resolution.

Family Constellations are a way to look at your place in your family. The systemic lens enables you to see relationships in a much wider context and bring sense to confusing or baffling behaviours. Difficult or destructive behaviours in the people around you can be hard to deal with. By participating in a constellation, you will see the behaviour in a different light and find yourself able to deal with it from a stronger position.

Constellations are used by both businesses and individuals so they can flourish with more ease. My current focus is on family constellations which I have used and benefited from hugely in my personal life.

A family constellation session can stand alone, or a person may wish to work on an issue over time. Constellations can complement psychotherapy, counselling and/or spiritual work. 

People participate as issue holders or representatives. An issue holder comes and works on an issues. Representatives do not have to reveal their own issues and work in the service of the issue holder. The magic is that representatives inevitably make huge gains too. This means that all parties benefit from the workshop. 

Some of the outcomes of my workshops have been:

• Greater personal confidence
• More confident parenting
• More understanding towards "difficult" family members
• Increased "inner resource"
• Increased self awareness
• Increased self acceptance
• The experience of standing in someone else's shoes
  
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  Further information about Family Contellations:
  
   The  method is used to create movement in situations which are "stuck" and allows solutions to emerge.  People use the systemic constellation method to resolve issues in their personal emotional life, including relationship difficulties with partners, parents, children, or siblings.  The method is also used to cast new light on professional issues, either for an individual within a work context, or for a whole organisation such as a school or work-place.
  
  In these particular workshosp we focus on family constellation work and the deep connections and loyalties we hold with our ancestors.
  
  The basic tenet of systemic family constellations is that all have a place in the family. If someone is excluded from the family - for example through shame or unfortunate birth circumstances, a descendant will "re-member" that person, even without being conscious of their ancestor's existence,  and unconsciously try to share their fate.
  
  The systemic approach both liberates a client from feeling responsible for issues that are not theirs and also enables a client to take responsibility for issues that are theirs and theirs alone.  This is not unlike psychotherapy, and constellation work grew out of the therapy movement.  The difference in the approach is that by using representatives to model the client's circumstances, the work enables hidden truths and loyalties to be  recognised.
  
  Participants and witnesses frequently find the work profoundly enlightening and healing. Participating merely requires an open heart and a preparedness to stand in a circle and represent someone else.  When representing, participants will be asked to report  their feelings and experiences to the facilitator. This could range from "absolutely nothing" to something obscure like, "well I only want to look over there at that corner of the room" to "I am so angry with that person there I want to hit them."  From this feedback and general observation, a trained and skilled facilitator may move representatives or give them sentences to say, that may be quite contrary to what the participant feels they would like to say.  These actions help to move things on.
  

This video, of Cambridge Biology Professor Rupert Sheldrake, gives a clear and accessible explanation of how Constellations work.

 "This is the best short explanation of Constellations I've seen, and clarifies for me the way in which it works." (Tina Deubert, Lewes)

This Video of Shamanic Constellator Daan Van Kampenout gives more information about constellations

Constellations are getting more mainstream;  The Guardian have an article about constellations for organisations here

And now, even the Daily Mail is reporting on:  "How the trauma of life is passed down in SPERM, affecting the mental health of future generations "

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2611317/How-trauma-life-passed-SPERM-affecting-mental-health-future-generations.html#ixzz30SXSJwmi 

More evidence from Academics about trauma and memories being passed down the generations through DNA

This is an interesting story about the impact of a missing child on the surviving child.  Very family constellationy: