the arc of tomorrowwith erik andersenThe reference library
A practical collection on family and systems constellations: the orders, movements and entanglements that shape a field.
23 pieces retained from the original archive“Isn’t anyone else blown away by this? How is it that we can experience being someone else in a Constellation? How is it possible?” This was a comment made by a psychology student when I participated in my first constellation. Those who are new to Constellations are often anxious they will not be able to […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What is the dynamics you have seen in working with addicts? When there is addiction, for example alcoholism, we have very strange family constellations. In such a family the wife […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Can you give us examples regarding those whose misfortune or death brought the family an advantage or gain? In constellations with the descendants of those who had acquired great wealth, […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. [These are the views of BH in 1999 and not necessarily those of Erik Andersen] What about Aids? To be infected with the virus or contract AIDS is not a […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. [These are the views of BH in 1999 and not necessarily those of Erik Andersen] What are the patterns you have observed in relationship to homosexuality? I’ve observed three patterns […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What if someone is murdered in a family? I will give you an example. It was in a supervision group. A therapist set up a client. The father had killed […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What laws govern the behavior of those who belong to the family soul? As I said before, the family members behave as if they all share a common soul, or […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What kind of solutions can be found for a client? What constitutes the phenomenological approach here? The phenomenological field of vision ranges from a narrow point of view to a […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. How many times do you have to repeat a Constellation? No repetitions. It is done once. The Constellation shows it and then a healing movement can start operating. But it […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. I’m not clear what you mean when you say, “recognize his love and honor his fate.” When a child dies, the other members of the family tend to become afraid […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. You have said there are dynamics conducive to recurrent patterns of accidents or misfortune. Will you please tell us about the dynamics in such cases? Serious illnesses, suicides or suicide […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. How is it that somebody is selected to represent an excluded person? The force that operates to select somebody to represent the person excluded, that is the family conscience and […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Can you share with us some of your experiences with former partners? Yes, from experiences I had recently with persons who have suffered a loss in favor of somebody within […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Are your therapeutic methods also applicable with people who are severely ill? Yes, specially in cases where the problem or illness is caused by systemic implications, or when it is […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Who are those included in the family consciousness? A circumscribed number of persons belong to the family consciousness: 1. the children, including stillborn children and those who have died early, […]
ReadThe below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. I have seen you require very little information from the client before asking him to set up his Family Constellation. Is that enough? How come? Yes, for the perception is […]
ReadSome kabbalah enthusiasts and I get together once a week to meditate on the spheres and tone the holy names on the Tree of Life. This sort of meditation is part of the meditative kabbalah and is know to be healing. Archangel Raphael is placed at the middle of the Tree, Tipheret. His name comes […]
ReadThis is a beautifully written article by Tanja Meyburgh of African Constellations. Tanja is a very experienced constellations facilitator and psychologist. There are some powerful healing sentences at the end of the article that I encourage you to use. One possible method is to visualise each ancestor starting with your mother, then father, then grandmother […]
ReadFamily Constellations called me to it. My exposure to the method began many years ago in South Africa, in part due to my quest for physical healing and in part due to my need know in a way deeper than doctrine and ideology, information and books. I learned meditation, yoga and Kabbalah in my own […]
ReadIn all constellation work, the onus is on the Facilitator to make sure that a client is well resourced after the workshop. The impact a constellation has can be quite profound on an individual and they may need to discuss the process with the facilitator afterwards or with a therapist if they go into overwhelm. […]
ReadAs of April 2018, the way I like to work is to be sensitive to the Knowing Field first and to allow healing sentences to intuitively form within me, then to use known interventions second. That said, there are certain patterns, dynamics and natural laws I have noticed in constellations work. I use a combination […]
ReadFacilitating Classical & Organic Constellations A week before this programme took shape the Ancestors made their Presence felt. What follows is largely their doing. Learn the fundamentals of Classical Family, Systemic, and Organic Constellations. Develop your facilitation skills for one-on-one and small-group sessions with clients, in person and virtually. By “organic” we simply mean following […]
ReadWhat is a family constellation? by Tanja Meyburgh (website) What is a family constellation? Systemic Family Constellations were developed in the form that I use them by Bert Hellinger in the 1990’s as a culmination of his life journey and work. Born in Germany his biography took him through experiences in his own family, as […]
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