Systems Constellating Saturday Boulder

Constellating (all & and any) Systems

Gives Us a Leg Up  

Constellating is a magnificent tool if our presence to life’s joys is dimmed, our nimbleness to life’s challenges frozen, and we are stuck between needs and wants. Constellating makes stuck places visible and tangible. It is a place –and process– for nourishing change into emerging; updating meaning, feeling support, connecting to possibility. We may arrive, hindered by legacies, and find that Constellating Systems, creatively and attentively, finds and mends broken connections in our system’s fabric. Often issues reached far back into history (wars, famine, tragic deaths, and more), or ‘far out’ (unrelenting symptoms, a pesky work problem, school troubles, money issues, and more.)

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Describing constellations, as the method of choice, is notoriously difficult. Facilitators and participants, both, may throw up their hands, 🤷🏼. Moreover, what we see and experience, has no explanation in a Newtonian world view. So, let me try:

Constellating Systems (families, organizations, your Inner World System) is done by visibly representing parts of a given system, relevant to the issue presented. This allows us, as in a living, relational snapshot, to see relational patterns of disconnect and entanglement, mostly, not accessible in a spoken narrative. Representation illuminates (often) outdated loyalties to the family of origin, an organisation, a workplace, and, no less, across tribal generations. By standing “in an other’s shoes”, as a representative of a part, we receive access to an issues ‘relational architecture’ within the system, and can, via the spatial positioning, clearly see life-giving and life-limiting patterns. Constellating Systems Werkstatt Sundays in Boulder are in-person gatherings. We constellate via embodied representation, and relational interaction. This leans into our supportive willingness to embody a part of another person’s troubles.

As change seeker (‘client’) you choose representatives, set them up inside our circle, according to your inner experience of their spacial relationship. Within moments, the somatic awareness of a representative’s  experiences shifts (as, in sensations, emotions, ways of holding the body, needing to move, and more). The information given by your representatives guides the facilitation of processing relational grievances, nourishing possibilities, finding peace, and more.

I call this trauma mending through the use of language, placing, movement, emotional expression, play, and reconnecting. It adresses issues with a co-worker, your father, a sibling, your headache, exploring a generational legacy and, again, more. We attend to frayed places in your ancestral (or present day) fabric, notice entanglements, revisit outdated sacrifices, seek what restores belonging (or, makes live giving space!) and invite & discover new resources. In short, we imagine and try out possibility. Every Sunday Group, it bears mentioning, is a unique heterotopia (other-space) that co-creates and inhabits a distinct co-awareness. The take-away is a relational tapestry, co-woven during numerous constellations by each of us for each of us.We will have honoured painful and complex issues. We will have shared and generated grace. We will take away our gratitude for each other. And, above all, we will savor embodied connection to Self, Others, and the World at Large.

We look forward to seeing you, soon!    Karin & Marla