Family Constellations: A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict

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This user-friendly guide introduces a powerful therapeutic method that uses family history as a tool for understanding-and resolving-problems of the present Mapping out a "family constellation," explains Dr. Joy Manne, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person's inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding. In this book, Dr. Manne uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger-the founder of Family Constellations therapy-to clearly describe this unique therapeutic method. Most Family Constellation sessions are carried out in a group setting, with the facilitator first seeking clarity regarding the issue or problem the client has come to work out. Representatives are then chosen from among the group and the constellation is set up and worked in until it comes to resolution. This may be followed by a closing ritual and advice about how to integrate what the constellation has revealed. Through the use of real-life examples of Family Constellations, Dr. Manne makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.

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"This is a special book.... And it is such easy and beautiful reading. Beyond this, it is soul warming with many surprising hints on how to make our lives and our relationships richer and more fulfilling."
From the foreword by Bert Hellinger, principal developer of Family Constellations therapy and author of more than thirty books

"You have only to read the table of contents in Family Constellations to know that this is a book that addresses everything you want to know about Bert Hellingers system and how it is being used. Joy Mann presents a clear and simple description of this effective method of reconciling with others, with the past, and with ourselves."
Kylea Taylor, author of The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships

"Family Constellations is the book that I and many others have been waiting for. This introduction to Family Constellations is written in clear language that breathes on the page. Like a good chef making sauce, Dr. Mann has reduced the manifold ingredients of this branch of therapy to the essence of both the practice and its spiritual nature. Aptly illustrated with case histories, the central message uplifts and inspires: when we open our hearts and agree to what is so, rather than what we believe to be so, we meet Lovethe one and only healer."
Philippa Lubbock, Life Alignment therapist, Constellator (Family Constellations), Healing Through the Family Soul

"Joy Mann has done a wonderful job distilling Bert Hellingers Family Constellations method. If you are interested in this work, you dont need to buy a shelf-full of expensive books that you will never have time to read. Dr. Mann has done the work for you and written it all down with a clarity and directness that is all too rare in books about therapeutic approaches."
Ken Sloan, co-developer of Nature Constellations Work

"Joy Mann has written a succinct, didactic book about Family Constellations that focuses on the essence of the approach. She has a gift for unveiling the method, its usefulness, and the different parts so that readers understand the overall picture before delving into the details. This book is a jewel among books on Family Constellations. Dr. Manns wisdom, respect, and love come shining through making this mini-textbook a testimony to the devotion and discipline of Family Constellation facilitators."
Kate Lindley Scheidegger, The Talent Spirit, Geneva, Switzerland

This slender guide gives a succinct outline of family constellations work a useful guide for those new to the method.
New Consciousness Review

[Family Constellations] certainly is very detailed and easy to understand, even to those whose background is not in psychotherapy [The book] provides a unique view on the causes and solutions to many of lifes problems.
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Author Bio

Joy Manne holds a PhD in Buddhist psychology and teaches internationally in the areas of breathwork, energy work, relational intelligence, and family constellations. She is the editor of The Healing Breath, the only peer-reviewed journal on breathwork practice, psychology, and spirituality. The author of several books on Buddhist psychology and breathwork, she lives in Switzerland.