Family Constellations: A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict

The first-ever user-friendly guide to Bert Hellinger's Family Constellations--a powerful group therapy method that uses family history as an avenue for understanding and resolving conflicts.

Mapping out a "family constellation," explains Dr. Joy Mann?, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person's inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding.

In this book, Dr. Mann? uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger--the founder of Family Constellations therapy--to clearly describe this unique therapeutic method. Most Family Constellation sessions are carried out in a group setting, with the facilitator first seeking clarity regarding the issue or problem the client has come to work out. Representatives are then chosen from among the group and the constellation is set up and worked in until it comes to resolution. This may be followed by a closing ritual and advice about how to integrate what the constellation has revealed. Through the use of real-life examples of Family Constellations, Dr. Mann? makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.

Author: Joy Manne
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 09/22/2009
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.04w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781556438325
ISBN10: 155643832X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Couples & Family
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Group

About the Author

Joy Mann? holds a PhD in Buddhist psychology and teaches internationally in the areas of breathwork, energy work, relational intelligence, and family constellations. She is the editor of The Healing Breath, the only peer-reviewed journal on breathwork practice, psychology, and spirituality. The author of several books on Buddhist psychology and breathwork, she lives in Switzerland.