This volume represents the core of Bert Hellinger's thinking and insights and his experience with family constellations work. Set out as a reference book, it gathers together for the first time previously unpublished discourses and illustrations, prefaces, summaries, incidental comments and answers to questions from his many seminars and workshops on Family Constellations. Also included are several interviews and a lecture.
In family constellations, the work of reconciliation begins in the individual soul and in the family. When reconciliation is achieved there, it can spread to larger groups and contexts. In this book, Bert Hellinger inquires into the emotional prerequisites that are necessary for peace and reconciliation. He finds answers in examples from historic conflicts between peoples and cultures. But Hellinger also devotes himself to peace among religions, for example, between Christianity and Islam, as well as to peace between victors and vanquished in the Spanish Conquest, and between masters and slaves in Brazil or the United States.
In his years of experience with patients, Hellinger has witnessed the consequences of the guilt of persecutors and the fate of victims of Nationalsocialism for subsequent generations. This book documents the attempt to help these patients confront the victims and persecutors in their own families and thereby lessen and even heal their suffering. In doing so, all participants are allowed to survivors, children, even the guilty and the dead. When these voices are recognized, they withdraw and allow the living to transcend that boundary which still separates them from death.
In his courses and seminars Bert Hellinger works with patients to map out family constellations in a highly concentrated form. This book documents for the first time these highly intensive short-term therapies. These sessions provide insights into the hidden realities and broken relationships revealing new perspectives.
The family constellations of Bert Hellinger make visible the often startling entanglements of individuals and families in their past and present. This image allows for deep, soul-touching movements of the soul towards resolutions previously unconsidered. Not only the participants, but also observers, are touched and moved in new directions. This transcribed documentation of a family constellations workshop allows readers to experience this process and join in the movements towards peace and resolution in their own souls. The setting of this workshop in Isreal, a land burdened by a grief laden past and present, adds a dimension of depth and poignancy to the healing power of love.
This is a first collection of Bert Hellinger’s lectures and stories now translated into English. In this book he allows us to confront without fear the deep issues of guilt and conscience and brings to light the hidden orders through which love within and between people and groups succeeds. These stories attempt to lead us to a peaceful centre - a place where we can be collected and calm, in touch with our deepest love and longing, in tune with the world, and from which our relationships can be fulfilled and our lives healed. This is a book of exciting, moving and profound.
This volume is a record of journalist Gabriele ten Hovel's probing interview with Bert Hellinger. In it Hellinger sheds new light on his unique use of family constellations to reveal hidden, often destructive family dynamics and to activate healing resources.
