Family Constellations & Focalizing: Energy Psychologies for the 21st Century

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The major problems of our time are systemic; they cannot be understood in isolation. They need a systemic, or holistic, approach to be solved. - Fritjof Capra


Capras’ statement illuminates my experience. Cristina Casanova, Jan Crawford and I recently planned April 19th as the 1st in a series of Special Saturdays called Family Constellations & Focalizing (click bold title for full details); it is our approach to manifesting Capras' statement. Bert Hellinger’s techniques are drawn from his many years of developing Constellations for healing and restoring the natural flow of life. Personally, Hellinger’s unique observations have brought to light and resolved a long-time personal struggle of mine (see 11/19/06 entry below). My take on the distinction between Hellinger’s Constellations work and Focalizing and all other energy psychology healing processes I’m familiar with such as Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Wave Work, Healing Imagery, Thought Field Therapy, among many others, is that they make us more resilient, whole, and capable of meaningfully connecting with our world. As a result, our healing gets rooted and grounded, or what I refer to as becoming vertically integrated. What I experience as profoundly different vis-à-vis Hellinger’s work and Focalizing is that accessing our ancestries we can restore the “hidden order of love” and resolve unseen entanglements. This produces a palpable and felt-sense horizontal integration of healing energy. We become less the “reach-outers” attempting to pull in what we desire to us.

Focalizing, albeit a newer matrix in the energy psychology family, weaves and envelops an individual in a vortex of healing energy and, in effect, re-organizes emotional and psychological DNA and works on our “3rd dimension.” The goal and outcome of focalizing is to get us to the place where we can rest into a place of serenity and grace thereby allowing intentions, needs and desires to become fully and freely self expressed and manifested. In a sense, the chase is over as we learn to just be with the wholeness of life’s’ paradoxes.

I invite you to join Cristina, Jan and me on April, 19 as we eagerly share our learning and experiences of these remarkable transformative tools. If you are unable to attend, stay tuned for a full report.