We sit together in circle, creating a central space for the hidden dynamics of one person’s (the “issueholder”) issue to be brought to light. The facilitator asks some questions of the issueholder, listening for what wants to be heard to get us started. And then we begin. The other workshop attendees are then invited to represent different aspects that come forward through the facilitation – relatives, symptoms, archetypal energies like death and life purpose, the issueholder themselves. These people stand, following their own intuitively guided movements as they come into representation. The result is something like a dance, as the representatives find their places in relationship to each other in the space of the circle.
How do they know what to do? They don’t. But the “knowing field” does. And believe it or not, once we get our limited intellect out of the way with those magic words I don’t know then we gain access to the boundless ways of our intuition. Through the intuitive ways of knowing – sensing and feeling – the movements of the bodies and hearts of the representatives illuminate the central space with a picture of where the energy of the issue is stuck. Once seen, we can work with it, and once again from that space of not-knowing the facilitator trusts the healing movements that want to come through. The representatives are guided to speak healing statements, and make healing gestures, so that the knots in the patterning of the familial energy field can be released. So that life force energy (aka capital “L” Love). The founder of this work, Bert Hellinger, would say that the representatives have access to sense what they do because in a constellations process we are tuning into the Great Mystery, or the Greater Whole. It certainly does feel like a deeply mystical experience. A later constellator (Albrecht Mahr) coined the term the “knowing field” in his attempts to describe what informs the process. This brings to mind an actual physical thing that surrounds the issueholder, like an auric field, that we are all able to read. A helpful image, but perhaps only really in service to help our minds (which are very uncomfortable with not knowing) feel like they have some understanding to grasp. Whatever it is that we do and how we do it, to be an active or witnessing part of a constellations process certainly feels extraordinary. But that is not necessarily because it is! Really, this way of relating to the world – through being present and willing to having a direct experience with the moment that you are both in and completely a part of – couldn’t be any more ordinary. That is an aspect of our basic humanity. We have just spent hundreds of years separating ourselves from our own present moment beingness to live predominantly in the realm of the egoic mind and all of its very limiting opinions and perceptions. What is experienced in the practice of I-don't-knowing in these workshops can extend into every aspect of life. Rather than projecting all of what you think you know onto the world around you, what might happen if you turned up to be informed by it and all that it knows instead? A whole new world of possibilities is waiting for you to simply stop thinking you know everything, so that it can show you what is really there. UPCOMING IN-PERSON FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS WORKSHOP IN KINGSTON, ONTARIO. NOVEMBER 15th, 2025. Learn More & Register
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