Family Constellation or Systemic Constellation Therapy helps us resolve core entanglements within our family systems. The modality weaves family systems therapy with shamanism to reveal the original harm that is the cause of our suffering. When we are in conflict with ourselves, often it is because a part of us feels it is necessary to enact actions, illnesses and patterns out of loyalty to our family system, despite the great cost to our lives. After identifying the source, sentences will be offered to facilitate a “Movement of the Soul,” healing the underlying entanglement, and permitting love to flow once again.

A movement of the soul happens when our heart’s yearning for peace, joy or understanding is greater than our longing to fill a wounded void in our family system.

The ultimate goal of Family Constellation Therapy is to facilitate a path for love to flow through the family system by identifying and resolving entanglements.

We begin with an interview to hone the issue you are bringing. I will ask you questions about your issue to build the energy of the Field. I am feeling for the place in which the energy is electric because that is an indication that the energy is ready to shift.

Then we will begin the constellation. I will invite you to intentionally place objects representing you, your family or other important people, places or events in a

circle in front of you. Depending on how you place the objects–direction, proximity and placement–I will develop a hypothesis about what the Field is revealing.

I will offer sentences for you or other representatives to say out loud and we will feel in our bodies if the sentences are correct, until we have a full picture of what has occurred.

There is often great emotional catharsis in seeing what has not been seen. We make space for this.

Then we will see what movement is possible towards your heart’s desire. If someone has taken on a role that is not theirs, we will give it back. If someone is trying to solve something for someone in their family, we bow to their fate. If a child has stepped into a parental role, we help the child be small again. If a deep trauma occurred–that prevented a child from having their needs met–we create a new somatic imprint by allowing the child to reach out and have their needs met now.

Sometimes movement is not what is needed but acceptance of one’s fate. This can bring great peace as well.

Each constellation will come to a natural closing point when the energy dissipates and it’s clear to all that the work is complete.

The Field, the Knowing Field, The Morphogenetic Field is the invisible energy that ties everything and everyone in the universe together. It is everything past, present and future. It is sound, time and sensation. It is happening all the time all around us. In Family Constellation work, we tap into this Field with our intention and allow the energy to guide us.

Family Constellation provides a valuable framework for examining anything that is troubling us in our lives: illness, relationship dynamics within a family, partnership or workplace, unresolved grief, resentments, addictions, or insurmountable patterns.

There are no specific issues that are not good to bring to a constellation however there are two scenarios in which constellation work is not appropriate. For those experiencing daily dysregulation, constellation work can be further destabilizing and unintegratable. On a scale of 1-10, an issue is ready to be brought when it is around a 6, 7, or 8. More than that and initial regulation work is needed first. If this is a concern, reach out to me and I can advise.

Constellation work is also not appropriate for someone who deep down does not want to change. However, constellation work can be clarifying if someone is uncertain about their desire.

After you sign up for your session, you will receive an email in preparation to help you begin to identify your issue and heart’s desire. It’s not essential that this is fully formed going into the session together since we will spend time in our interview honing your issue.

Family Constellation work is so special because it can reveal information for those who do not know about their family of origin. Through the Field, we surface information that has been lost or forgotten. Often when something is seen in the Field, it will trigger a memory or fact-finding mission that will prove the truth of what was revealed.

After your constellation, the most important thing to do is trust that whatever needed to happen has happened. Allow the new image that the constellation provided to replace your initial pre-constellation stories.

Energy work is mysterious and powerful. Our brains cannot fathom all the different ways a major energy shift can impact our lives. The best thing you can do is be open to any and all shifts due to the constellation work. The integration window is at least six months long, if not longer.

Constellation work is not recorded. And that is because we really want to make space for whatever movement has happened to replace the story we had coming in. Constellation work is most effective when forgotten and so we do not keep a record. In some instances, I will encourage an action to help integrate the final image into your daily life. If it is necessary to write this down in order to remember, I will encourage you to do so.

As a general rule of thumb, it is best not to bring the same issue more than once in a six month period. However, sometimes a constellation reveals another constellation and another, like a thread that unravels and additional constellation

work can be helpful to support this opening. Different constellations can be brought more frequently, monthly or bi weekly IF the energy is supportive of this degree of rigor.

For more questions, contact me directly at celia@skymoonandme.com