What is Family Constellations? It is a kind of systematic family therapy developed by the German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger in the 80s. Family Constellations are created when a person wishes to clarify a specific issue in their lives.

What is a Constellation?

Etymologically constellation known by a group of stars that are part of a dynamic and continuous interaction and evolution and form an image.

Analogous human beings are part of constellations familiar to depart for being extended to other groups.
The constellations are governed by natural laws, family, social and spiritual condition their operation.

The family constellation work is a phenomenological method of treatment that applies to individual or group that seeks to restore “The order of love” in human systems.

How are based family constellations?

They are based on systems theory. And within it the recognition that human groups are governed by laws and innate patterns, to which are added all those that are built in everyday interaction within families and families build himself laws and principles governing the interaction of nuclei with those of other families, coming to build the social laws which allow operation in line with individual and group needs.

This set of laws of nature, family, social and spiritual governing the functioning of the human core is what Bert Hellinger calls the orders of love. Any breach of the orders of love in human interactions is the origin of conflicts and internal inconsistencies that may become manifest as individual pathology, family, group or social.

Bert Hellinger systemic part of the idea that the individual is a local group. Thus the existence of a child is essential to create some parents and the existence of these parents was essential to turn the existence of its own and we could go back in time to the start of the creation of life. Each person is the end of a pyramid of many human beings who have been indispensable to its existence. Each new link will enhance existing systems and expand the story and will be responsible according to their concordance with the laws of life and its social nucleus, the gradient of nutrition and health of present and future generations.

Family systems are open systems that tend to self-regulate to ensure its survival but that in turn feed, interact and relate to other family systems, reaching up clans, groups, communities, societies and nations. All of them enriched by many virtues, but in turn blocked by countless conflicts that we are woven over the years.

Every human being brings itself all the information about the lives of those that must be both psychological and physical level. It is what we call heritage and is printed in the depths of our being, in our genes and in the collective unconscious of our family and has the ability to be transmitted from generation to generation.

So some inherited grandfather green eyes, short legs that also had our father and that in turn had his own mother. Other members of our family will be born with brown eyes and short legs evoking another faction of the family inheritance.

Also inherited by example, good or bad character, certain tastes, diligence, strength and commitment or depressive tendencies, neurotic, psychotic or obsessive that characterized possibly some of our ancestors.

Will then form part of the soul and the fate of many people with whom we are somehow directly related. It is a soul that is part and parcel of a story and that is inherited from generation to generation and brand to every human being in a particular way. We are part of the morphogenetic field of our species and particularly the morphogenetic field of our family. There are houses all the information about our family history to know it or not. This story is printed in our cells led to an order that allows life to flow through us. This order will translate into qualities. But we also inherited the unresolved conflicts that have generated within our families due to factors such as:

• The intra-and extra-family violence (wars, murders, suicides, power struggles).
• Bereavement.
• Abortions.
• Traumatic separations.
• Withdrawals.
• Fatal Accidents.
• Exclusion of the family.
• Investment hierarchy within the family.
• Family secrets, such as that of the existence of binding extramarital relations, unacknowledged children, crime, etc..

The more clutter, the more conflict, more severe difficulties are often manifested in people and often we are faced with chronic illness, addictions or serious mental problems, more conflict, more wars, more destruction, more family problems, social, labor, etc..

What can help the family constellation?

Through this method, is to identify points of conflict and nudales the family system, social work or are hindering the smooth flow of life. And from there, to the extent that the same system permits, the lost order is restored, unleashing these knots and allowing a new flow into the lives of people involved.

This work is intended that each individual is consistent with their destiny and assume the rightful place in the groups with which it interacts so that you can develop your project to life in a more harmonious and sustainable.

The importance of family constellations lies not only in the fact that I can afford to heal personal aspects of our lives. Its real strength is manifested in the family soul and often after a constellation changes start happening within families or groups involved.

Another of the great virtues of family constellations is that we can restore an order that will encourage future generations, for what experience has shown us is that many unresolved issues in families, may end up reproducing and affecting a member of a later generation, in a way often not conscious, terms identified with any of the members involved in the unresolved situation.

Origin and history of family constellations

Bert Hellinger, the creator of this therapeutic approach is a German psychotherapist, born 1925, trained in multiple disciplines, most notably within psychoanalysis, psychodrama, Gestalt therapy, primal therapy, hypnosis, and particularly the systems approach. The work and skill development of family constellation therapy is a synthesis that draws on the foundations of these schools and who was born in the eighties in Germany.

Bert Hellinger has made profound reflections on the order and natural laws that govern human family. For him, every human being is part and parcel of their family system and depend on it for their existence and quality of life. In his opinion, for life to flow properly is necessary consistency and harmony with yourself and family and social system in which we live. Each family pays members particular information that has been woven and built over time and its own particular history.

Currently family constellations have taken hold globally for its depth and its ability to reach a simple and inexpensive way to many people in the process of reviewing and finding solutions in their lives. Bert still gives lectures and seminars