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Like everyone, the two of us could say our spiritual journey began with our birth or perhaps, as we have come to believe, before our physical birth. After a decade each working as healers, our path began to crystallize when we discovered the teachings and philosophy of Bert Hellinger. Hellinger is an engaging German psychotherapist and philosopher who innovated the therapeutic method known as Family Constellations. Family Constellations reveal hidden dynamics in a family system or relationships so that conflicts can be acknowledged truthfully and healed. These dynamics typically span multiple generations. Hundreds of professional practitioners across the globe have applied Bert Hellinger’s insights to a broad range of issues.

Our own experiences and trainings with Hellinger opened each of us up to a new path in our own healing and, ultimately, to helping our families and community. At first, we had no idea what we were getting into, but Hellinger’s constellation method changed every aspect of our lives.

Our earlier education in healing began with Barbara Brennan, the renowned spiritual healer, physicist, and pioneer in the field of energy healing. Her work offered us the opportunity to observe the Human Energy Field and taught us how to see the healing process in a new way. She also gave us an energy-based framework to comprehend, facilitate, and ultimately teach what has evolved into the Constellation Approach. But it was Bert Hellinger, who later taught us about personal healing through the family lineage, and how to observe family members from a place of non-judgment. He showed us ways to enter the healing process through the frame of the Family Soul, enabling us to work within a larger energy template.

A third important influence on our healing work was the teachings of Dr. Ralph Metzner, a multi-talented psychotherapist, writer, poet, and researcher. Dr. Metzner is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. When we began working with him, he shared his view of the journey of the human Soul and how it relates to the family we choose to be born into. He expanded our awareness of self immensely beyond the conscious mind into the level of Soul. Through those experiences of Soul consciousness, we were able to understand that Family Constellations not only offer a path to emotional and psychological healing but they also provide a lens into the Soul agreements that are made with parents, siblings, and ancestors. This awareness, once experienced and integrated, transcends the personality’s attachments to pain and suffering, shedding new light on why events and circumstances may have occurred in our lives.

The Constellation Approach teachings braid together the seminal, innovative work of these three pivotal teachers—Hellinger, Brennan, and Metzner—to whom we are deeply grateful. Hellinger has often described his work “phenomenological,” meaning, “results can be observed [but one can’t fully understand how it is happening].” This book, in part, is our attempt to explain, “how it is happening”—the movement that transpires in a Constellation, how healing occurs, and the necessary skills one needs in order to master this healing practice.

Other facilitators of Family Constellations have also contributed to our knowledge of this still-evolving practice. If there is one thing we have learned from observing the constellation practices of other facilitators, it is that the constellation method is a healing art of the highest degree. Each facilitator creates his or her unique healing style when administering this particular medicine for the Soul.

We are no different. Our Constellation Approach will help you find peace through your family lineage by emphasizing three distinct elements: an awareness of subtle energy, understanding larger energetic fields of influence on familial and lineage dynamics, and a focus on Soul Consciousness. Only when we move with Soul Consciousness, can we move towards deep peace.