CONSTELLATION:
a configuration of related people, properties, and concepts.

Recurring patterns echo in our personal and professional relationships. Constellations help us see these patterns – sometimes for the first time, but certainly in new ways. Constellations provides a creative, innovative and profound way of seeing the usually hidden dynamics that shape not only family, but also organizational, systems. By placing people in a special grouping (called a Constellation) we can explore perplexing issues with sensitivity and shed light on a variety of personal and professional dilemmas.

Darcy Cunningham, founder of Turning Light Constellations, is introducing this European-based work to the US. Turning Light Constellations is founded on the innovative work of Bert Hellinger (the German thinker and therapist, also a leading voice internationally in the field of healing systems) and on the work of Judith Hemming, (British Gestalt Therapist and leading teacher and codifier of Hellinger’s work).

TOUCHING THE SOUL
Initially known as the Orders of Love, and now as Touching the Soul, Judith Hemming, working with the nowherefoundation in the UK, has pioneered the applications of Constellations to organizational and social systems. Judith is the founder of MovingConstellations, whose mission is to support a dynamic community of therapists, consultants and other people committed to a systemic approach to therapy, healing, personal development, and positive social transformation. Darcy learned to practice constellations from Judith Hemming, Bert Hellinger, and others starting in 1998. Since then she has practiced this work in the context of personal and professional learning. Darcy is now an associate with MovingConstellations UK.

WIDE RANGE OF CLIENTS AND ISSUES
Turning Light Constellations is dedicated to working with a wide range of clients and issues: individuals, families, public organizations, leaders and consultants, social and political institutions, communities and corporations. We offer new insights and perspectives, healing, and resolution for some of the most troubling and intractable issues of our lives and times.

• For the individual seeking help, issues include relationship difficulties between partners, parents and children; issues around intimacy, death, divorce, adoption, illegitimacy, incest, rape, illness and addiction.
  
• For the larger levels of systems, issues include organizational strategy, structure, leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and community health, and the impact of forces on them such as history, globalization, population displacement, and religious and racial intolerance.
  
• For the consultant, this approach is also highly useful both for seeing the whole system and to find their “right placement” in a client system.

In each of these and other areas, Turning Light Constellations addresses deeply-felt issues about life, family, and community in ways that are profoundly moving in their simplicity and spirituality. We are dedicated to supporting the development of people, organizations, and communities through working with truth and compassion on action-based, solution-focused approaches that move things forward constructively rather than negatively.

PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SESSIONS
This work is generally and most effectively done in public workshops (see workshop schedule) with live people to stand in as representatives for people and components of an individual’s or an organization’s issue. Usually workshop participants do not know each other well, or at least are unrelated, and often they are perfect strangers.

However this is not always possible and there are tools to do this work in a small group (2-3 people) or even one to one. Please contact us for more information.