Systemic and Family Constellations
A relational, field-based approach to healing trauma, restoring belonging, and supporting intergenerational repair
What are Systemic & Family Constellations?
Systemic and Family Constellations are phenomenological and relational practices that reveal how invisible loyalties, unresolved trauma, exclusions, and disruptions in belonging continue to shape individuals, families, organizations, and communities across generations.
We do not live as isolated individuals. We live within living systems, shaped by histories that often operate beyond conscious awareness. We are shaped by the relationships, histories, and systems we belong to, including experiences that may reach across generations.
In Systemic and Family Constellations, we explore the patterns of relationship that can live within a family system, often outside of our conscious awareness. Families carry stories of love and loss, belonging and exclusion, resilience and hardship. Sometimes, the effects of these experiences continue to shape how we relate, respond, and find our place in life.
Constellation work offers a way to bring these patterns into awareness through embodied experience, relationship, and careful observation. Rather than analyzing or trying to fix what has happened, we slow down and listen for what is asking to be seen. As hidden dynamics become more visible, there can be opportunities for acknowledgment, belonging, and a greater sense of clarity about what belongs to us and what may have been carried on behalf of others.
The intention is not to change the past, but to find a more grounded and life-giving relationship with what has been, allowing each person to stand more fully in their own life while remaining connected to those who came before.
Upcoming Gatherings
October Gatherings
Ongoing Monthly Gatherings
Pricing
Three-Hour Gatherings
Sliding scale
Friday Evening + Saturday Gathering
A reduced rate is offered when attending both sessions.
Scholarships
No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you need financial support, please reach out directly to Clara to explore scholarship options.
Please complete the google form below to register for an existing gathering, or to schedule an individual constellation. We will be in touch within about three business days to confirm your placement in a group, or to connect you with Clara for individual scheduling.
Please note that gatherings require EIGHT participants to happen, so please do sign up if you’re interested!
How Constellations Work
Constellation work can happen in a group or in an individual session. Each offers a different way of approaching relational patterns and allowing new possibilities to emerge.
Group Constellations
A participant presents an issue or intention
Representatives stand in for family members, symptoms, or system elements
Information emerges through bodily sensations, emotions, and impulses
The facilitator follows the field with minimal intervention
Healing occurs through acknowledgment of truth, restoration of belonging, appropriate separation of burdens, and honoring fate and limits.
Benefits of group work include:
A strong and clear collective field
Healing for participants beyond the presenting client
Collective witnessing and shared integration
Individual & Object-Based Constellations
In individual sessions, objects such as figures, stones, cushions, or symbols are used instead of people.
Spatial placement of objects
Tracking bodily and emotional responses
Following relational impulses and movement
Object work offers a gentler, more contained experience and is an excellent entry point for those new to healing practices, as well as for sensitive nervous systems or particularly tender material.
Group or Individual?
Group Constellations
Strong collective field
Community witnessing
Faster pattern recognition
Powerful ancestral themes
Individual / Object Work
Highly contained and private
Slower, more regulated pacing
Ideal for early or developmental trauma
Neither approach is better — they serve different nervous systems, intentions, and stages of healing.
The Approach
The Knowing Field
In constellation work, we often speak of a knowing field: a relational field that holds memory, emotion, impulse, and information beyond individual psychology. This field is understood as connecting members of a family system across generations, carrying patterns of relationship, belonging, loss, and resilience that may not be consciously known.
The idea of morphogenetic fields, developed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake, offers one way of thinking about the organizing patterns that appear within living systems. Within Family Constellations, this concept has been used to describe how information about a family system may become perceptible through representatives, embodied awareness, and the relational field of a constellation.
As a constellation unfolds:
Representatives or objects may access information they do not consciously know.
Sensations, emotions, movements, and phrases may arise spontaneously.
Patterns and relationships that were previously outside of awareness can become visible.
We approach this field not as something to be explained or interpreted, but as something to be encountered with curiosity, humility, and care. Rather than relying on analysis, the emphasis is on slowing down, listening, and allowing what is present to reveal itself.
Through accurate perception and careful attention to relationship and place, new possibilities for acknowledgment, belonging, and integration can emerge.
Trauma, Development, and the Nervous System
Constellations are integrated with an understanding of early developmental trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation.
Pre-verbal and pre-conception trauma
Titration, pacing, and safety
Working with impulse, movement, and regulation — not only words
This approach is especially supportive for infants and children, prenatal and birth themes, and trauma-sensitive or somatic practitioners.
Foundational Principles (Orders of Love)
Belonging
Every member of a system has an equal right to belong, including those who were:
excluded
aborted or miscarried
perpetrators or victims
forgotten, shamed, or judged
When someone is excluded, a later descendant often unconsciously identifies with them.
Order (Hierarchy / Time)
Those who came earlier have precedence over those who came later.
Children suffer when they carry burdens that belong to parents or ancestors.
Balance
Love flows when giving and receiving are in an appropriate proportion.
Over-giving, rescuing, or carrying another’s fate disrupts systemic balance.
These are not moral rules, but observed systemic laws that reveal themselves through the field.
No one is pathologized
Nothing is forced
The facilitator does not “know better” than the field
Healing arises through acknowledgment, humility, and truth-telling — allowing what is difficult to be seen without fixing, honoring complexity, and trusting that small, precise movements can create lasting change.
Ethical Stance
What Healing Looks Like
Healing does not mean:
Changing the past
Removing pain
Fixing others
Healing means:
Burdens returning to where they belong
Love flowing without sacrifice
Truth being acknowledged
Standing in one’s own life with greater clarity and choice
In Essence
Systemic and Family Constellations are a practice of truth, humility, and relational repair.
They remind us that:
We are shaped by forces larger than ourselves
Love often moves unconsciously
When what was excluded is included, life and love can flow again
Upcoming Gatherings
October Gatherings
Ongoing Monthly Gatherings
Pricing
Three-Hour Gatherings
Sliding scale
Friday Evening + Saturday Gathering
A reduced rate is offered when attending both sessions.
Scholarships
No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you need financial support, please reach out directly to Clara to explore scholarship options.
Please complete the google form below to register for an existing gathering, or to schedule an individual constellation. We will be in touch within about three business days to confirm your placement in a group, or to connect you with Clara for individual scheduling.
Join a Gathering or
Create Your Own
If you are interested in an individual or group Systemic and Family Constellation, please complete our intake form. Your responses will help us understand what you are hoping to explore and give us a sense of how we can best support you. Take care in answering each question to the best of your ability, keeping in mind whether you wish to set the group constellation yourself (more background info) or if you wish to witness &/or represent.
Once we receive your form, we will review your information and be in touch with next steps, usually within 3 business days.
Interested in Diving Deeper?
We are exploring the possibility of forming an ongoing educational group for those who would like to learn more deeply about Systemic and Family Constellations.
Once we have a group of interested participants, Clara will begin the learning group, creating an opportunity to explore the principles and practices of constellation work together.
If this is something you’ve been curious about, we’d love to hear from you.