Intergenerational Trauma Workshops
Using the powerful healing modality of systemic family constellation work
Exploring the Impact of Our Ancestors’ Trauma on Our Daily Lives
Saturday, October 12, 2024 9:30 to 5:00
at Anne’s home in Cincinnati 45223
$130 ($110 if registered one week in advance)
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Saturday, December 7, 2024
9:30 to 5:00 at Vitality Cincinnati in Walnut Hills
co-facilitated with Paula Dunson
$130 ($110 if registered by early-bird date listed on Vitality website)
Please register through vitalitycincinnati.org
Originally from Argentina, Paula Dunson is a professional international rider and trainer. Through her relationship with her horses she became interested in the innate power of healing and the body, soul and mind relationship. After a life changing series of events, she discovered the power of family constellations and became a student of Reiki and Healing Touch. She is a trained facilitator in Family Constellations having studied and graduated in Uruguay with Veronica Correa.
How These Workshops Transform Intergenerational Trauma
Family constellation workshops explore how the traumas of past generations directly affects our lives. This work allows us to live more freely, not by distancing ourselves from our family wounds, but by integrating our ancestral past as a source of blessing and strength.
In family constellation workshops, participants act as representatives for one another’s family members. The burdens each family carries come to light through a series of interactions and very spare dialogue. The process reveals intergenerational roots of illness, depression, addictions, problems with intimacy, and other troubling issues. Such sweeping ancestral experiences as immigration, slavery and war, as well as particular family experiences of early death, institutionalization, or violence are seen, honored and lovingly transformed.
Reasons to Attend a Workshop
Relationship Struggles
Creative Blocks
Children in Pain
Spiritual Numbness
Addictions
Physical and Mental Illness
More about Family Constellation Work
Constellation work is grounded in the practice of mindfulness.
It communicates at the same deep level of consciousness
as art, myth and sacraments. Yet in its ability to cut
through resentments, and wake up what has been
“stuck”, it is simple and practical.
Family constellation work was developed by Bert Hellinger
in Germany in the 1990’s. With roots in psychoanalysis, family
systems and gestalt therapies, it is aligned with Jung’s idea of
the collective unconscious and with holistic approaches to
healing. Relatively new in the U.S., it is widely practiced in
Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Constellation facilitators consistently observe interruptions
in the “flow of love” across generations. Such blocks are
often caused by individuals being excluded from the family’s
consciousness as a protection against shame, trauma or grief.
Children in later generations sacrifice their own well-being out of loyalty to these forgotten ones.
They replicate the ancestors’ trauma and try to atone for their
crimes. This leads to great suffering unless the original
trauma is recognized and both victims and perpetrators are
acknowledged.With this honoring, the health of the family can
be restored going forward.
I am…impressed with [Anne’s] ability to venture into the power of love, compassion, and healing from trauma, by uncovering the hidden resources we all have inside us.-
– Fanchon Shur
Director, Growth in Motion,Inc
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Private Sessions Are Effective Too!
Some individuals prefer to meet one on one. In these sessions, we use small wooden dolls to represent family members.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many workshops will I need to attend to experience progress?
One of the strengths of systemic family constellations is that tremendous change often happens after one workshop. This is because the client gains an entirely new inner image of the family, and this image works over time on the nervous system.
I just want to work on my own issues and explore the dynamics in my own family. Why a full day workshop?
The energy from each participant’s constellation flows into the subsequent ones. While each family is unique, the commonalities are breathtaking. Each constellation tends to be healing for all involved. Inevitably, the participants feel bonded in the experience of what it means to be human.
How can we know what happened to another family in the past?
Constellation work is not about discovering facts, but about sensing dynamics. I call it “reiki for the family soul.” The participants are not told what to do or say. Movements and words, if true, will resonate. The facilitator makes no assumptions, but observes changes in energy that often lead to revelations and resolution.
Can this take the place of psychotherapy?
Family Constellation Work holds a unique place in people’s healing journeys. It is right brained and largely nonverbal. Many clients find it cuts to the quick, revealing deeper truths than they might have come to in talk therapy. One of it most powerful effects is to free us from the psychotherapeutic trap of blaming our parents, and to replace it with transcendant gratitude and wonderment at our lives.
Why have so few people heard of family constellation work?
It is much more mainstream in countries which are less individualistic than the U.S. North Americans, usually descended from traumatized immigrants, often find it easier to forget that they are part of a family, or part of history. They try to solve their problems as if they exist in a vacuum. Restoring a historical dimension to their lives expands their reality and widens their respect for who they are and where they have come from.
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