Systemic constellations (family – organisation – structure)

““What happens out of love and is held together by love
can only be solved by love as well””

Bert Hellinger

From our early childhood, life has many systems. Our family of origin as family system that we come from; the family systems of our father and mother, and the connection between those systems. We grow up and develop ourselves further in various systems, among other things with our educators, our school, a team, an association, and later we once again work in systems such as an organisation. We learn and develop ourselves therefore within a systemic context and each system has its own dynamic field of influences that often operates at an unconscious level. The origin of Working Systemically lies with the systemic family therapy of Bert Hellinger and e.g. the contextual /generative psychology of Böszörményi-Nagy.

With systemic constellations, you look at a broader picture, at the whole system in which you live and work, and the relations that are not immediately visible between the members of a system and possible bottlenecks become clear. This system gives power by finding and taking in your place in it, but can also set limits to your life and actions. A constellation can visualise where the forces, limits, and bottlenecks are.

With a constellation it is therefore possible to make your unconscious inner images and desires visible and tangible. It is a live painting of a group of people. A process in which you let others (representatives) or objects depict your unconscious dynamics. This happens without many words and according to your feelings, so that many factors are mapped that influence your life or the situation that you are in.

In case of organisation constellations we work with issues from organisations in order to uncover inner processes and dynamics of organisations. Important thereby is that each part of the system belongs to it. We will address the role that people play within their position as well as themes like dropping out, lack of leadership, us against them, shirking, never enough, things never seem to work, set in your habits, overtime, theft, always the same story, illness, and staff turnover.

With a life story you obtain more insight in yourself. What happened to you and what is still taking place? Arranging emotionally strained events into a coherent story works healing. Once you know how to put it all together in the present, you have the opportunity to give new direction to your story and can anticipate on the future. Questions such as who, where, when, and which events will emerge. For organisations the life story is essential as well.

The genogram  is part of the coaching sessions and connects to the life story. It is an overview of your family and helps you to become aware of events such as family members who passed away too early, complications during childbirth, hospital admissions, year and cause of someone’s demise, or children from previous relationships. Among other things, questions that are asked here include: How did your parents become acquainted? Has someone had important love relationships previously? How many brothers and sisters do you have? Are there family members with a dire fate such as a war record? How is your relationship and do you have children?