Family Constellations

For the past few months, I have been participating in family constellation sessions and am hooked. FC is part therapy, part shamanic theater with the outcome equal parts ancestral healing and an empowered client. Every time is an adventure.

At the beginning of a constellation the client speaks the intention for the constellation- usually an experience of a static place in their life or a desire to grow. The facilitator asks for a specific number of participants. The volunteers then become 'representatives' in the constellation.

'Participants' play everything from specific family members to general concepts such as beauty. I have played aborted children in the family but most recently I played the role of War.

The lessons I channeled- and I use that word not having the precise language to describe the experience- were profound.

1: War will always exist
2: It is of the utmost importance for the younger generations to learn from what has happened
3: There is a sacred law to be honored when going to war- their are ways to prepare, honor the dead and the enemy- without this there is no balance
4: War's lover/equal/opposite is Justice. Justice comes to put the dead to rest an allow the living to move on.

I really have never experienced anything like Family constellations, it is subtle and powerful, safe enough that most people feel comfortable holding space if not participating yet really really on the edge in terms of wholeness and health,