Family Constellation: Master Course

the lecture explains how families exclude members to protect social belonging, due to shame around crime, mental illness, out-of-wedlock children, homosexuality, trauma, or early death; fear and secrecy shape exclusion.

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

Discover how family exclusion across generations shapes behaviors and emotions, guided by loyalty and love, with awareness as the first step before relaxation and yoga.

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.

Learn how a spontaneous inner image of family in a constellation shifts tensions and connections, changing the picture inside you and guiding growth beyond willpower.

Discover the ground of constellation work through facts, energy, and order, and learn how these elements shape family constellations and the practice of leading them.

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 family constellation blends order, energy, and facts on the ground through guided placements of parents and children, revealing connections and tensions as energy moves in a coordinated dance.

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 facing and acknowledging past wounds between parents and children, including writing a personal letter to your parents, to foster peace with yourself and deeper connection.

Explore your parent's life through the adult's eyes in this family constellation practice, relaxing, imagining their beginnings, adolescence, love, and becoming a parent.

Cultivate thankfulness for life by recognizing that life comes through your parents, seeing yourself as their child, and following steps to feel the gift of life.

The lecture underscores the essential role of biological and adoptive parents in a child’s life, highlighting gratitude, grounding, and the right to know one’s biological origins.

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.

Death and guilt intertwine in families with a handicapped child, as healthy siblings and parents bear hidden suffering, while consolation calls for bowing before the child's fate.

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 a mother's death during birth shapes generations with guilt and fear, and how family constellation healing guides release through healing sentences.

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.

Practice stepping out of the victim role in family constellation by using rephrasing and responsibility statements, owning your choices and consequences, and reconnecting with a deep connection.

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.

Examine how early mother separation seeds longings and resistance in love relationships, and how consolation through therapy helps facing pain to gradually open the heart.

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.

Join an exercise to explore jealousy by acknowledging the former partner’s place, expressing respect for their role, and processing pain to understand the current relationship.

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 expressing the appropriate respect for your partner through guided visualization, sharing relationship truths, and honoring burdens to strengthen support within the family constellation framework.

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

Explore the parent–child connection, addressing the couple’s desire for a child, barriers, and the pain of not having one, and learn to channel love to children and others.

Explore how modern doubts and expert advice shape parenting, the stress of being a good parent, and maintaining order between parent and child.

Practice takes on the role of a parent to your child by imagining each child, adjusting distance, and speaking from the parent's perspective to foster authentic connection.

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.

Accept imperfection through calm breath and present awareness, connect with your child in eye contact, acknowledge limits, give what you can, and trust the child’s life.

Keep children out of parental conflicts. Tensions between partners stress the child, who may take roles as judge, comforter, or ally, which is harmful.

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.

Navigate tensions between single parents and former partners to support a child who loves both parents equally and foster a peaceful, united parenting approach.

Explore how family consolation frames abortion beyond morality, recognizing women's body rights while addressing pain, guilt, and healing within couples and family relationships.

Explore a guided exercise that helps acknowledge responsibility, process sadness, and offer a child a place in the heart after abortion, through breathing, visualization, and reflective ritual.

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.

Explore finding order in a patchwork family by recognizing current and former partners and children with clear boundaries and mutual respect.

Explore heavy guilt, the roles of perpetrator and victim, and trauma, including how a shock and war influence the next generations and family dynamics.

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.

Practice guiding you through a breathing exercise and eye contact with the person you harmed to own responsibility, heal pain, and grow your humanity through reflection and apology.

Explore how guilt and responsibility are distinguished from intention through family constellation practice, using eye contact, connection, and the healing of trauma around abortion and loss, guided by facts.

Delve into sexual abuse as a broad and often hidden topic within family dynamics, examining the range from lustful looks to explicit acts and the impact on memory and therapy.

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.

Define trauma as a heavy life event that produces lasting symptoms such as anxiety at night, trembling, and suspicion, stemming from a past experience you cannot transfer to others.

Explore trauma as a natural body reaction, detailing instinctive fight or flight, freezing, and surge responses illustrated by animal behavior and how freezing relates to trauma symptoms.

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 how facilitators in family constellation sessions prevent retraumatization by respecting client boundaries, gauging readiness, and giving clients the power to pause or stop at any moment.

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.

Apply a practical family constellation exercise to release ancestral trauma by connecting with a relative, acknowledging emotions, breathing, and offering blessings for healing in the present.

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.

Explore the home country as a special collective connection, examining how migration creates loss and pain, while consolation with ancestors and gratitude foster belonging to the receiving nation.

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.

Explore how constellations help clients understand addiction as a quest for relaxation and meaningful human contact, shown through a client and a drug representation.