Intuitive Heart: Family Constellation Retreat

Nestled in the serene surroundings of Cara Creek Eco Lodge, "Intuitive Heart: Family Constellation Retreat" invites you to immerse yourself in five days of self-discovery and connection. Each morning begins with a vitalizing and mindful practice of Hatha Yoga, followed by guided meditation to ground you in the present moment. After a break and wholesome brunch, we will meet for family constellation excersises to foster safety, opening up blind spots and experiencing the functioning of a key point of family constellation - representative perception. The afternoon is filled with a nature experiences to provide a perfect backdrop for reflection, allowing you to connect with the beauty around you. As dusk falls, we close the day in a sharing circle or small group excersise. On Saturday, we will we will have the oppertunity for a Family Constellation session for each one of you. This is an opportunity to confront your own’s shadows, paving the way for healing and the unfolding of the light within. After that intense day, we will use our last day to relax, reflect and release – going into nature and offering some nice soothing activities.

Benefits
Inquire into a concern / problem with Family Constellation (not limited to Family issues)
Understanding the dynamics in your family / life (questionnaire for self-reflection)
Becoming more self-aware, mindful
Improving personal relationships
Resolving trauma and conflicts within yourself
Getting in touch with your intuition and emotions
Open up in front of a group
Connecting to nature and yourself
Releasing daily stress
Becoming more response-able
Refresh, re-energize

What Makes This Retreat Special
Taking time to slow down the mind by unplug the mind from daily stress and city life, connect with nature and involve in mindful practices like Yoga and Meditation is obvious to connect with the potential of Family Constellation and still a rare offering. To use the first day to connect with the group and build safety is helpful so the mind opens up naturally, as well as knowing to have another day to reflect, release and let the soul to integrate the new information.

Family Constellation - What is it?
Family constellations is a psychotherapeutic method. In a family constellation, the person constellating has the opportunity to depict the “soul images” of their family relationship system that are at work in the depths. This brings to light the dynamics that unconsciously shape our lives and relationships, sometimes having a fateful influence. They are suddenly clearly visible in the constellation.The unresolved events, traumas and blockages in the family system as well as unresolved and unlived feelings are revealed, find their expression and can finally be resolved in a healing way. Symptoms of illness, if they have a systemic connection, can also withdraw.A constellation can bring our relationships back into a positive alignment and shows possible paths, new resources and answers to questions in all areas of life.

Family Constellation - How does it work?
Starting from an inner concern/problem, it is possible to set up, with the help of representatives who do not need any prior information, e.g. one's own current family or the family of origin in which one was born.All participants sit in a circle. The place next to the therapist is free for the next person to stand up. There is silence in the room. The constellator now sits next to the therapist and is asked about special events in the family and their concerns. The therapist then asks the participant to choose representatives from the group for certain family members and place them in the room. The participant then chooses, for example, one person to represent their father, one person to represent their mother, people to represent their siblings and one person to represent themselves and sets them up.The phenomenon is that the constellated representatives perceive the feelings and effects of events that have occurred or are occurring in the family. They often express themselves in the same words and gestures. The constellation obviously creates a force field. The effects of this force field can be felt by almost everyone without being influenced. It enables the therapist to recognize the mostly unconscious dynamics in the family system, some of which exert an existential influence on the constellation practitioner.It is important to note that the therapist cannot - even with good intentions - purposefully influence this “knowing field”. If this is attempted, what is effective will be lost and people will experience a manufactured solution that does not work. Thus, solutions can only be found that are in harmony with the great soul or the “big picture”.

Family constellations can be helpful
if you want to bring about reconciliation with yourself, parents, siblings and former partners
if you want to solve problems in your partnership and marriage
if you have an unfulfilled desire to have children
if you have to deal with a serious event
if children are particularly difficult in the family
if it seems impossible to enter into long-term relationships
if personal or professional goals keep failing
if life seems difficult or if you feel sad for no reason
when there are feelings of inhibition, heteronomy, apathy and soullessness
if you feel that you are always searching
if you do not feel that you belong to your family
with mental and organic disorders or illnesses, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, neurodermatitis or cancer
and much more.