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Next Workshop: 

"Life's Hidden Truths"

6/18      2 - 5pm

The Red Tent

20 S Swinton Av

Delray Beach, Fl  

 Observer (you get a lot out of it ): $ 27 

Participant (brings a question): $ 77

(2 spots left)

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Private Constellation Sessions

If you are interested in working privately in a one-to-one setting Carla is available for scheduling of Individual Constellation sessions.  Private Constellations can be arranged by meeting in person or by working via phone session. 
 

Participant: pay here $ 77 for 6/18

Observer:  pay here $ 27

Unexpected solutions for hidden family issues that still work through present and future generations   

                                                       

"Everyone has a life story. Everyone has a family story. To see our stories in a whole different way is the gift that we are blessed with by Carla's work with the Systemic (Hellinger) Family Constellations. Having been to Family Constellations as a participant, a client and as an observer, I am amazed at the healing that I have witnessed and experienced. If you are on a healing journey, this work may be an important missing piece of the puzzle that you may need to see the whole picture."  

 Laurie R. Ottombrino L.M.T.

                                                        

 

Sometimes our way of being connected in our family is to suffer like those who came before us.  When, for example, there's been a painful event in one generation, someone in a later generation may attempt to carry its weight, taking on the suffering of a parent, grandparent, sibling, aunt or uncle. 

 

 We are born into a family, as part of the family-soul. This soul contains the collected data of the past generations.

Illness, depression, anxiety, divorce, adoption-issues, unexplained fears and panic attacks, as well as financial failure, addiction and failed relationships can all be forms of this unconscious inheritance.

 

 Systemic Family Constellations allow us to break these patterns, make us be able to live more fulfilled, successful, happier and healthier lives. After just a few words, a hidden world is unfolding. In a moment of insight, a new life course can be set in motion. The results are often immediate and life-changing. 

Divorce:

Case: Elan, 8 years old.                                                                                         

Issue: Elan is often angry at the boyfriend of 2 years  of his mother. His mom is very equipped for emotional support of Elan. The boyfriend came in their life a year after Elan's father passed. The mother is seeking help for her son to be more happy.

Family History:  Elan lost his dad in a car accident, when he was 5 years old. The parents were already involved in a divorce procedure. 

Resolution: Elan is very naturally involved  in the constellation. He chooses a woman to represent his father. During the constellation the healing sentences of the father gave Elan 'permission' to like and accept the new partner of his mom. The father shared that he loves and supports Elan eternally and would always be near to him. The loving expression on the face of Elan was very moving for the audience.

Comments: Elan was freed from the pressure of loyalty to his father. The way to a healthy relationship with the partner of the mom was open. Since this constellation his attitude has changed totally towards the boyfriend until now, 2 years later. 

Addiction:    

Case: Max, 34-years-old, with a 5-year-old son
Issue: Max had been addicted to cigarette smoking since he was fourteen.
Family History: His father died when Max was six of lung cancer. His father's father died of black lung when Max's father was only eight.


Resolution: Max closed his eyes and visualized his father telling him not to die and abandon his son, as he and his father had done. His father told him that by living a long life, Max would honor his memory and break the family legacy. Max wept as he visualized his father holding him. He promised his father that he would quit smoking, and he did.


Comments: Max had been on a clear path to die young like his father and grandfather, and leave his small son fatherless. Children whose parents die young often have difficulty thriving. There appears to be an unconscious loyalty to follow down the same path. An intellectual understanding of the family connection is not enough to shift the behavior. Often, the understanding must be accompanied by a visceral experience.

 

 90 % of clients report that issues has been eased or totally resolved. A few words are said, hidden truths and solutions appear.

Info Bert Hellinger

Teens & Young Adult Family Constellation Workshop

Questions to ask yourself before a Constellation

More Constellations

Read here a chapter from the book:"I carry your heart in my heart" by Dan Booth Cohen Ph.D, Family Constellations in Prison, Boston

Read about more Constellations

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Testimonials Children Constellations

Carla's constellation workshop is moving, powerful, and healing on multi-dimensional levels simultaneously, enabling healing to occur in the past, present, and future timelines. Sunday's event will be amazing! I look forward to seeing you there."
Linda K.

         Carla has been trained and certified with Dr Bert Hellinger in Europe, the Dutch Hellinger Institute, Academy for Eclectic  Psychotherapy and with the Boston Constellation Approach. She has facilitated numerous constellations with groups and utilizes this work also in her private practice frequently 1on 1, with adults and with children.

Next Workshop: 

6/18      2-5pm

The Red Tent

20 S Swinton Av

Delray Beach, Fl  

 Observer/ Participant: $ 27 

Participant/Client: $ 77

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Private Constellation Sessions

If you are interested in working privately in a one-to-one setting Carla is available for scheduling of Individual Constellation sessions.  Private Constellations can be arranged by meeting in person or by working via phone session. 
 

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How Does it Work? 

 This work provide easy ways for solutions of all kinds, without hours of talking and digging...Some phenomenological constellations take place in 15 minutes, and it changes your life and others lives instantly.

A client who asks for a constellation is bringing concrete issues and real life concerns. The Constellation helps them see the possibility of a healing movement that can unfold in the ordinary dimension of day to day life and relationships

Constellation- work is based on a simple but profound idea: our wellbeing is tied to the well-being of our family system, or ‘family-soul’, which includes the living , the dead, and generations that preceded us. At  a deep level we are the sum of the past , we are connected with everything, especially our family legacy, whether we recognize it or not. It follows us until we heal it.

 Modern research shows that trauma has deep ramifications into the third generation, and trauma is every where. We carry it in our limbic brain, which is why we need ritual, which reaches deep into the soul. It is a powerful tool that opens you up because it bypasses the mind and goes right into the soul , it is vital for healing in the world.

Any painful event touches every single family  member and continues to reverberate down to later generations.

In the darkest places of our hearts, the difficult lives  experiences that  our fathers and mother, grandparents, uncles , aunts,experienced,  continue to live on inside of us.

For most of us they appear in any possible negative form, defined as a label. As incomprehensible occurring life events and not understandable troubling relationships.

These negative memories motivate our kindness and compassion, and make us choose to making the world a happier place, to be healers and teachers.

The wounds people carry are causing entanglements in the flow of love.  Issues like murder, incest, infidelity, abuse, adoption..Hellinger says these entanglements disturb our lives and manifest in the form of sudden illness or accidents, depression, physical or mental illness, persistent relationship conflicts and dysfunction. Love’s hidden symmetry appears often entangled.

 

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Dear Everyone !

 In the U.S., the economic downturn and  evaporating of wealth is putting many people under greater stress. Most of us are not equipped with tools to handle that stress adequately and positively.

Beyond worries about money and life, the outgoing tide of prosperity is exposing anxieties, conflicts, and vulnerabilities that previously had been hidden under the surface.  These are manifesting in the form of sleepless nights, broken relationships, new medical symptoms, and difficulties with children, parents, or siblings. 

In case after case, Systemic Family Constellations are an extremely cost- and time- efficient way to untangle today's real-world difficulties from the woes of our family history.  Unburdened from trying to fix what is not ours to fix, we can deal with the here-and-now with an open heart, clear mind, and positive emotions.

If you are carrying a burden or problem that is not getting any lighter, call me at 561-860-4883 or email me at

carlavanwalsum8@gmail.com  I will do my best for you!

You will be immensely surprised at what one session can accomplish. Always an unexpected outcome...

 

Constellations are also done by telephone and Skype for people around the world. These have been powerfully healing as well. Please email, visit my website for more info

 or call to schedule your Constellation.

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  Below is a quote from the book: Rachel Weeping for Her Childrenabout Family Constellations in Israel,  by Dr Bert Hellinger, who developed this work.

 “Systemic Family Constellations are  extremely powerful tools to bring to light that was previously hidden. Certain patterns, laws, are operating in families. Most of them are unconscious and revealed by their effects, which are visible in the constellations. Many people are ill, or unhappy, or have suicidal impulses, for no apparent reason. When we set up a constellation  of their family, we often discover that they seem to be unconsciously representing someone from the past and that unconsciously they are saying to this person , perhaps a family member who died in very difficult circumstances” I will follow you”.

This dynamic stems from a deep love in the soul. None of the people present in a Constellation is familiar with details of the client who comes with an issue, often shared in 1,2 sentences. As soon as representatives, chosen from the audience, strangers, stand in their designed places, they experience feelings that seem to reflect something about the people they represent, and don’t know at all. This can be amazingly accurate, and, when the constellation is over all feelings disappear immediately as well. Often is shared: “This is exactly how it is!!’

 One of the laws is that each member of a family has the right to belong to the system. If somebody has been denied that right, by being forgotten or excluded out of fear because of a difficult fate, the system will show its effects. Even a stillborn child has the right to be remembered. Divorce and remarry can cause big entanglements for children born in the new family of the previous married parent.

 An effect of the right to belong is that this person will be represented later on by another member of the family. In this way, a great grandmother who died in childbirth may be represented by a great granddaughter who suddenly feels a suicidal  urge or a need to leave the family, for no apparent reason. Strangely enough, if a representative for the great grandmother is brought into the Constellation, the representative of the great grandchild suddenly feels emotional relief, and now feels that she can remain in the family and stay alive.

Imagine what this means for working with descendants of Holocaust victims. Sometimes in families of survivors you find that the survivors don’t speak about their experiences and never mention  those of their family who have been killed because they do not want to burden the current family. But the children may respond by behaving as if they themselves were victims , for example, demonstrate their solidarity with those who were killed. But also, totally unexpected, demonstrate perpetrator behavior, by turning away completely from the family and its values.” (End quote.)

 If wounds of the past are not healed, the future generations continue to live with the burden, and love presents itself entangled. And how can those wounds be healed?

 

Experience this work that allows forces to  heal on soul level on such a variety of issues..

Carla has been trained with Dr. Bert Hellinger in Europe, the Dutch Hellinger Institute, Academy for Eclectic Psychotherapy in Holland and with ‘The Boston Constellation Approach’. She has facilitated numerous Constellations and utilizes this work in addition to group sessions in her private practice   with  adults and children.

 The family-soul has its wounds and secrets that work their way through to many future generations, when not healed. The chil­dren, by being so loyal, often take over what does not belong to them. “I take it instead of  you” or “I leave instead of you ”. With these types of entanglements, love cannot flow, it can disturb our lives and manifest in the form of sudden illnesses or accidents, depression, physical or mental illness, persistent relationships conflicts and dysfunction. Constellations are also used with  organizations