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Touching the Soul: Family Constellation Workshop
with Moving Constellations and Judith Hemming

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FAMILY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTELLATIONS
A workshop with Moving Constellations and Judith Hemming

Constellations: Providing Insight into Intractable Issues
Much of the suffering, dysfunction, and stuckness in our family and organizational lives arises because of unresolved problems and issues. Conventional therapeutic and consultancy interventions tend to focus attention on the individual who is manifesting the greatest distress and disturbance. But such approaches tend to ignore the subtle, often hidden, dynamics that occur within the system as a whole. Without addressing these dynamics, such problems cannot be solved.

The nature of these entanglements is often out of our awareness, and may even go back several generations in the case of family issues, and to our predecessors in organizational life. Constellations, originally developed by Bert Hellinger in Germany, provides an innovative way of seeing systems, offering a larger frame of reference that can open life-enhancing solutions.

This work is being applied to family, organizational and wider social systems addressing issues such as:

• troubling thematic life issues or traumatic events
• difficult family or personal relationships
• difficult issues and relationships at work and in community
• dilemmas about leadership, business strategy, structure or “right” placement in a system

How do Constellations work?
Typically the approach is used in a workshop setting with small groups of people who want to explore deeply felt family or organizational issues in a confidential and creative environment. Working with phenomenological data offered by the group and interpreted by the constellator, a constellation provides a living map of the key systemic elements that are impacting the issue.

Stripped of all the detail, opinions, and stories that clutter true understanding and decision-making, you are able to look at issues with a freshness and objectivity, as if for the first time. You are able to see the particular image you carry of how things are presently in the world of work or the family, and you are able to test a better alignment of elements in the system enabling you to see new truths and opportunities.

“My experience of Constellations illuminated some of these hidden forces, like shining a torch into a dark corner and seeing the piece of the jigsaw you've been missing. It helped me understand why some problems seemed intractable and how to look at them differently so they might be resolved."
– Jo Howard, Director of Future Planning, WHSmith Retail

Fundamentals 3 Day Program
We have pooled our experience and designed a unique learning event that is a first of its kind in the US. It is for a range of people who are working with innovation and change, from the personal, to business, education, government, and community. It provides an overview of the essential aspects of Constellations in a way that will profoundly change your way of looking at the world, showing you a different way of being and working with the present.

You will work with real issues brought by members of the group,

witnessing and participating in a mix of constellations and using exercises, explanation, and short lectures to understand the underpinning processes of the approach.

The work will have a powerful impact on you personally and professionally - whether you are a leader, manager, change agent, or therapist, whether your focus is on one person, a family, a team, a whole company, or other larger system.

Specifically, you will learn about

• Seeing systems - literally and viscerally
  - Work with a systemic eye - find leverage points for most impact
• The forces that shape systems
  - Universal and organizational ‘orders’
• An overview of the constellating process
  - Name hidden realities
  - Work with energy
• Its potential use in your professional life
  - Constellations in a one to one context
• - Integrating the insights into change programs

At the end of these three days you will have a fundamental shift in your ways of thinking about individuals, families, and organizations and how they can flourish at a deeper level.

The workshops are led by Judith Hemming, Britain’s leading constellator, and assisted by Andy Stuck, PH.D, LISW, LLC (“Stuck Systems Inc”) and Darcy Cunningham, MBA (“Turning Light Constellations”) both US constellators. Judith, a gestalt therapist, has been leading workshops, and teaching and developing constellation work in Britain, Europe, Australia and the US for over 10 years. With the nowherefoundation of the UK, she is pioneering the application of this work to professional relationships and organizational systems. Andy and Darcy have trained with Judith, Bert Hellinger and others and are now practicing this work in the US.

Registration and further information
If you are interested in knowing more about Constellations or wish to apply contact Darcy Cunningham or call 207.829.2700.

“In over 25 years in the business world, as an advisor to Executive teams, and in the management of our own practice, I have progressively understood that it is the behavior and interplay of management teams that determines the tone and direction of the enterprise. These behaviors are often a manifestation of underlying assumptions, fears, baggage, taboos and unresolved issues held by individual members or the team system as a whole. Constellations brings these issues to the surface constructively and helps in their resolution-creating a shared awareness which is the basis for higher performance."
– Steve Martin, Partner in a global management consultancy