Deep Ancestral Healing
Family Constellation / Movements of the Soul
Create Peace for yourself and Throughout your Family Lineage
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An example of a Family Constellation facilitated by Shannon with Playmobil figures.
“The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
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There’s a saying, “If you do not know your history, you won’t know where you’re going.” Doing family constellation work can help you see the patterns that are influencing you today and help you understand that the behavioral patterns you experience did not start with you—but can end with you if you choose.
Family Constellation work illuminates unresolved issues within your family system, reconnecting the disconnected or excluded members, to allow love to flow throughout. It corrects unhealthy entanglements and works through issues in your ancestry or current family which impact you in profound ways. This very deep and powerful healing work can also be used in decision-making or to bring healing and clarity to other current life situations. This system evolved out of Bert Hellinger’s work as a family therapist and his belief in the energy found in familial bonds, both positive and negative. It is an empowering, effective experience of awakening to greater perspective, and a powerful, proven way that has brought acceptance, compassion, and peace to people around the world.
Shannon delves deeper into the ancestral patterns and energies that shape every level of our lives. Shannon’s unique style of constellation work includes her innate ability to move blocked energies throughout the family system, using her signature Intuitive Empathic Healing modality and an essential oils technique to clear emotional patterns.
Benefits—Have a Family Constellation for:
Soothing your family dynamic & spark family healing
Relationship issues
Decision-making
Resolving conflict
Illuminating unconscious disruptive patterns
Guidance and healing
Restoring balance & harmony in relationships
Making peace with the past
Healing health issues
Resolving unhealthy entanglements
Uncovering hidden dynamics & loyalties in family system
Help with financial, career or business decisions or conflicts
Family Constellations have helped people from all walks of life find new, unprecedented peace through a broader viewpoint and a shift in consciousness.
What can you use it for?
Because we have a relationship with everyone and everything we interact with, the possibilities for healing, gaining perspective and benefiting from Constellation work is limitless. Constellation work is a uniquely powerful way of solving complex problems that you struggle to answer and can be used for a variety of personal or professional relationship issues.
Family constellations are typically facilitated one of two ways: in a group or private, one-on-one.
In an individual session, when specifically focusing on the family energy field, Shannon utilizes Playmobil figures (as developed by Sieglinde Schneider) as representatives for the significant family members identified. Through the intention of the client to work on a specific issue, be it physical, emotional or spiritual, the family energy field becomes present in the room just as in group work. The issue often appears as a symptom of the hidden dynamics within the family system.
In the constellation, energy blocks or entanglements are exposed so they can be addressed. The unresolved energy blocks or issues between family members may be released through specific statements, movements, or emotional patterns by the different family members represented by the Playmobil figures allowing the energy to flow freely within the family field.
Once the natural flow of energy has been restored, the family field can come into balance. Every member in the family, living or deceased is affected even though they were not physically present for the individual session.
We embark on the path to peace through the perspective of working with the feminine and masculine energies that are present in your Family Lineage – a lineage that stems back generations upon generations.
Through this approach, you can begin to realize your place in the vast tapestry of your ancestral lineage.
HOW IT’S DONE - You will be asked for an intention that you can put into three succinct sentences. We start at the beginning, the start of identification with the problem or challenge you’d like help with or resolve. i.e., “my sister and I aren’t close” “it never felt like my mother loved me” or “I can’t seem to get XXX.”
GET STARTED - You’ll be asked to complete a Genogram and an INTAKE FORM to help make the best use of your session time. You’ll gain clarity and better connection with your lineage, and help Shannon see your family structure and find the disconnects or entanglements she needs to address. Do not worry if you don’t know or have certain information. Simply start with the information you have.
“This Constellation experience has been amazing. Thank you so much. I had no idea how deeply this could go. It’s amazing could be so entangled with someone I never met! The disentanglement made all the difference.”
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
The Constellation method expands what we can see in a given system, things that have been unconscious, blind, and excluded are included in our field of awareness. As Carl Jung said, all inner work aims to make the unconscious conscious, this, in turn, expands our circle of connection and is a healing gesture for all involved.
Stay tuned for online group Family Constellations workshops in 2024 …
Playmobil figures serving as representatives for the significant family members identified during Family Constellations facilitated by Shannon.
“My Constellation experience with Shannon was life-changing. I’m also a Family Constellation facilitator and I’ve done many Constellations before but during this constellation we worked with the energy of my father and some of the traumas he suffered in his family. I avoided this side of my family because of the amount of grief and anger I had. Since my constellation, the biggest shift I’ve noticed is that my father has become softer. For the first time in my whole life, I’ve witnessed him being kind to himself. He began fishing again, and even has taken my mom on dates and recently told all of his daughters, including me, to be happy and have a great life! I highly recommend Shannon if you are dealing with any family issues that have felt hard to heal.”
What is it?
What’s the first picture you see when you think about your family tree?
What adjective describes your family?
How would you talk about it?
The Origins
Family Constellation work was developed by German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger, considered one of the most innovative and influential therapists in the world of psychotherapy. This healing approach is a unique integration of diverse elements that blend years of Hellinger’s training and experience with numerous modalities as a way of disentangling the current members of a family from the unresolved issues of previous generations, so that love can flow from one generation to the next.
Hellinger’s background includes both traditional, extensive, classical psychological training and other distinct influences including, becoming a Jesuit priest for the Zulu in South Africa, serving as the headmaster of a missionary school for 16 of his 25 years there, and experiencing combat, capture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war of the Allies after being drafted into the German army at age 17.
During his time in South Africa, Hellinger was exposed to interracial ecumenical training in group dynamics led by the Anglican clergy. Their approach to dialogue, phenomenology and individual human experience influenced his later work. After leaving the religious order amicably, he pursued training in psychoanalysis, Gestalt Therapy with Ruth Cohn and Hilarion Petzold and studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnotherapy with Milton Erickson. He studied family therapy with Ruth McClendon, Leslie Kadis, and Thea Schonfelder and Jay Haley’s perverse triangle wherein he discovered the importance of hierarchy in families. He trained with Arthur Janov, Virginia Satir and Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Janov’s primal scream, a body-based therapeutic experience, and then later became familiar with the dynamics of identification and of invisible bonds and hidden loyalties.
Extrapolating various aspects of all his major influences, Hellinger created the Family Constellation approach to healing the family field, or lineage in the mid-1990s, and shared this with the world. This system is hugely popular around the world, and popular constellation is around the world, (it seems to be slower in catching on in the US) and in fact, it is used in the judicial system in South America for people to work out issues so that they don’t have to go to court.
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