Systemic work is a way of seeing. To see with your heart and soul what your eyes cannot see. A setup is about looking and really seeing what is going on in a system. You are inextricably linked to your (biological) family system. They reveal invisible patterns. This could be about a question from yourself, your family dynamics or from your organization/company.
Participants experience a deepened insight into themselves. Both when you make a constellation yourself, and when you represent it in the constellation of others, serve as a source of inspiration to take steps in the right direction, to make a commitment to yourself, your own process.
A different inner experience of the (family) system arises, which has a physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and relational effect. The soul receives a push with love, so that movement becomes possible (again).
In a setup we look at the following principles:
- Order: everyone has the right to a place in the system
- (connection): everyone takes their own place in the system
- Balance: there is a healthy interaction between give and take in the system.
What can you exclude that is excluded. What can you look at with love and compassion? How does a setup work if you are allowed to postpone your judgement? I see you, I hear you.
Listen with your eyes
Look with your heart
Feel with your ears
My vision on Systemic work
The work was brought together by Bert Hellinger. I also like to look at the work of Virginia Satir, which for me is certainly part of it. Due to my years of experience doing constellations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, I think it is important to mention that constellations have their roots in Africa. South Africa to be precise where he spent years as a missionary in a monastery. I think it is important to recognize and acknowledge the African roots and to create the connection between Africa and the West. What about the Africa in you?
Systemic work and constellations have stolen my heart from the moment I met them in the late 1990s. Although I have years of experience in training and coaching and supervising constellations, every constellation touches me again and again. The magic of the knowing field, the group that is together to experience this together and how processes connect with each other. I love the direct transformative effect of seeing what can be seen. To welcome back into the heart that which has been excluded. It is wonderful and moving to see when someone can take their own place and from there take steps to focus on what is important.
My farming roots and the connection I have with Kenya give the training a deeper dimension. Setups also have their origins in Africa and I use Ubuntu as a common thread throughout setup and training.
Example is how greetings are found in Zulu (South Africa):
Sanabonani: I and my ancestors greet you
Gikonja: I and my ancestors see you
Chills ran down my body…
How wonderful it is to be able to rely on the strength of a system in addition to the pain that can exist in a system. And I want you to feel and experience that.