Family Constellation: Master Course

Explore your family history by reflecting on generations, past events, and possible secrets; approach with curiosity and an open heart to invite conversation.

Lead viewers through a relaxed breathing exercise to draw connections with family members from what you heard, inviting loyalty, love, and surprising mind pictures that emerge, without forcing results.

Discover the core of the family constellation method, distinguished by its lack of prescribed roles and guidance. See how representatives embody family dynamics to reveal truths and foster peace.

Learn how in family constellation the client's openness and inner connection guide healing, with the facilitator outlining steps, while recognizing healing is not magical and may take time.

Establish the right place for everyone in the family system to create a clock-like order, with father at first, mother beside him, then the children in sequence, spaced for visibility.

Explore the family order where parents are 'big' and children are 'small' without domination, emphasizing care, exchange of giving and receiving, and the goal of equality in grown-up life.

Affirm that every member belongs to family with right to be at home; in third order, exclusion is not appropriate, and if someone is excluded, another is taken in again.

Explore the four family orders that define each member’s place, belonging, and personal fate, emphasizing loyalty, balance of giving and taking, and moving from family confusion to mature responsibility.

Explore how facilitators lead family constellation by balancing order and energy, identifying personal strengths, and learning to combine aspects to enrich group energy.

Explore Bert Hellinger's journey from priest to founder of family constellations, detailing the shift from order to the energy movements of the soul and a book that sparked a wave.

Distinguish energy from facts in family constellations by showing how energy can appear to connect people without proving actual events. Avoid mistaking energy insights for facts to prevent harm.

Explore how order guides growth in family constellations through a real consolation example, showing that true change comes from inner acceptance, not trying to alter others.

Learn to conduct a solo family constellation using imagination and symbols on a table, guiding inner dialogue with figures to center your issue.

Engage in a guided family constellation exercise to reconnect with your mother or father by visualizing them with fresh eyes, expressing a single sentence, and noting emotional responses.

Discover how the child’s open heart and the parent–child bond shape life tendencies, and how shifting attitude toward parents can bring deeper peace through family consultations.

Parents shape a child's identity, with the mother guiding feminine identity and the father guiding masculine identity; honoring line of women and men helps you come in peace and grow.

Learn in the family constellation course how an adult relationship with parents looks by recognizing patterns: obedient child, contrary child, detached contact, hopeful change, and open your heart for peace.

Explore aging parents and changing family dynamics, emphasizing the child's responsibility to care for and support weak parents while avoiding domination and revenge and cultivating a loving attitude.

Explore the love and pain in parent-child relationships and learn to make peace with living parents, while reflecting on differences and shared similarities.

Death in a family is heavy, painful, and filled with sadness, yet part of life. Early deaths before puberty have profound consequences for the family, unlike natural old-age deaths.

Explore how early death of a sibling can create guilt about living and a pull toward death. Learn healing through acknowledging the sibling, offering blessings, and reclaiming joy.

Explore how the early death of a parent creates a painful, unconscious bond in a child, fostering a tendency toward death and healing through imagining the deceased.

Explore how family constellation helps process a suicide's impact. Address guilt and heal by creating distance, representation, and concrete statements that acknowledge a loved one's death and family dynamics.

Examine two solutions in family constellation: a child role with parents and love, versus a grown-up role with a partner, where responsibility and consequences shape relationships.

Take personal responsibility for the relationship as it is, and give space for the other's responsibility. Explore resistance and power dynamics, find your truth, and avoid blaming.

Explore how the victim mindset stems from personal and family past, childhood helplessness, and loyalty dynamics, and how power and gender histories shape present responsibility.

Practice a practical exercise to discover your child feelings in current conflicts. Stand, breathe, and revisit childhood emotions to become a grown-up partner who can set limits and respond differently.

Explore how loyalty binds children to unhappy family patterns, including loyalty to parents and to the family when divorce occurs, shaping relational life and echoing across generations.

Explore how your current relationships mirror or differ from your parents' relationship, examining happy and unhappy moments, loyalty, and the pull between closeness and distance.

Explore the family constellation by mapping your family of origin and your present life. Learn how past relationships, including the first love, influence your heart, trust, and current connections.

Explore the call of love and growth in relationships, emphasizing listening, accepting, and respecting others, while recognizing you cannot change your partner and must focus on self-improvement.

Practice gratitude in love relationships by recognizing the big gift of life and the connection to a higher force, fostering inner peace and thankfulness.

Discover the paradox of parenting: become big for your child by becoming smaller before your parents, reconcile past wounds, and give love as you received.

Practice a family constellation exercise that acknowledges the tension between being big and small, grounds you with breath, and renews connection with your child through parental love.

Learn to separate adult relationship dynamics from child involvement using family constellation techniques, guiding partners to articulate own feelings and set boundaries that protect the child.

Explore a family constellation practice to come to peace with your abortion partner by facing emotions, sharing responsibility, releasing blame, and envisioning the child together.

Explore how traditional and modern patchwork families form through marriages, divorces, and new partners, and clarify that a second husband or wife does not replace the father or mother.

Experience personal guilt through a family constellation in prison, where you and your victim confront anger and pain, find consolation, and recognize responsibility through compassionate eye contact.

Explore how a family constellation addresses sexual abuse within parent-child dynamics, naming responsibility and guilt, and guiding healing by separating past trauma from present relationships.

Identify retraumatization in a constellation by two patterns: quick overwhelm with screaming or freezing, and a delayed shock that disconnects from the present; stop early to prevent harm.

Learn to leave the role after a constellation with a ritual that separates personal issues from the client and clarifies what belongs to you and what belongs to the client.

Explore how family constellations address trauma therapy by linking current symptoms to ancestral wounds, wars, and cultural upheavals; distinguish old-life trauma from present life and apply steps toward resolution.

Trauma is discussed as a broad and narrow concept. Many carry childhood shocks, yet not everyone is traumatized. Use trauma as a concrete medical description of severe, lasting impact.

Examines a negative example of a family constellation after 9/11, contrasting emotion-driven portrayals with grounded insight and personal connections, and emphasizes peace through representations of victims and perpetrators.

Explore intercultural understanding through family constellations, connecting people across nations by tapping shared emotions and finding common ground as humans, from Indian to Chinese and German contexts.

Share a personal goodbye after a long journey through the family constellation master course. Use what I know to enrich your life and help others, and spread the learning.

Explore organizational constellations by mapping a company to a family, placing administration, doctors, nurses, and patients as representatives to reveal conflicts, order, and healing in the workplace.

Demonstrate a family constellation in a jail, with representatives for German and Turkish youth, a security officer, and a social worker to reveal organizational and client conflicts.