Family Constellations & Parenting

Felicity Grace is an fully trained facilitator and also teaches Family Constellations to holistic therapists.
Bert Hellinger’s family therapy technique began as groupwork where participants played the role of key members of your family of origin and you and the facilitator used group members to “stand up” your family and explore the overall atmosphere of your family and find opportunities for healing.

Traumatic events, strong emotions and old beliefs are experienced and released to allow for new possibilities in the future.

Constellations work has evolved over 50 years and can now take several formats and address a wide variety of issues. Each year Felicity offers group work Constellations for you to create your family constellation within a small group of 6-12 participants.

Individual therapy constellations replace group members with small “dolls” to “stand up” your family – One on One constellations sessions create a more individual experience and allow you to address a few different issues across a number of sessions.

Constellations can explore:

  • Family of Origin – and address unresolved issues with your mother, father, step parents and siblings. Felicity’s model of family is very inclusive and explores and accepts families in all their wonderful variations across past and current generations. Many clients do two of these one exploring relationship to mum and then exploring relationship to dad.
  • Family of Creation – to address partner(s) and children – co parenting and step parenting as is relevant to your family and future generations. You may opt to explore – not being able to find a partner; or separating; or becoming more intimate and loving with a current partner; or transforming your parenting style and relationships with your children and grandchildren.
  • Business Constellations – Many of us find we repeatedly struggle with workplace relationships and “standing up” key work colleagues and exploring how we might be replaying key “family issues” allows us to find new ways of working at work without feeling bullied or isolated, competitive or stressed when relating to others at work.
  • Key Friendships and Collective actions – Any important relationship where we are having difficulty may benefit from a constellations perspective.
  • Chronic and inherited illness – Especially mental illnesses like depression and anxiety and addiction and health issues that seem to pass from one generation to the next can be transformed for you and for future generations using family constellations healing from the origins or roots of a problem.
    Healing the inner image you have of your family allows you to heal a wide variety of relationships and hold a more ‘impartial view’ or see the ‘big picture’ and feel empowered in relating to others.
  • Sandplay brings new perspectives and creative solutions and helps planning a path forward