The course of a workshop

The participants and facilitators sit in a circle. First there is an introduction. Then, every time when a new constellation is to be set up, the facilitator senses whose issue is at that moment most pressing. The participants usually sense it too. This determines the order in which the constellations are done. Before your family is set up, the facilitator has a conversation with you, to help you make contact with the depth of your issue, and for you to mention the most important events in your family’s history. On that basis the facilitator chooses the family members that you are going to set up. You then choose people from the circle as representatives for those family members and by sensing you move them to a place inside the circle that feels the right place for them. This placing brings the representatives in contact with the family members they represent.

Out of the “knowing field” that then emerges, the representatives experience feelings and physical sensations. These sensations are related to the persons they represent and so are not their own. The information from the representatives guides the process that brings entanglements to light and helps the finding of a possible resolution.

A workshop affects the participants in three ways: by setting up your own constellation, by being touched by other people’s constellations and by being a representative in those constellations. All of this may be meaningful and sometimes needed for your process. When a constellation ends in a healing resolution, all participants share in the healing. Therefore, also a workshop in which you do not set up your own constellation will be an enriching and healing experience.