Systemic & Family Constellations
Family Constellations • Nature Constellations • Organizational Constellations
And The Knowing Field
You are embedded in ever-larger fields of information which give shape to what is possible
What is the Knowing Field?​
Every system, whether a family, a business, or even a garden plot, or nature as a whole, is shaped and guided by a Field of information, history, conditions, and directives. This Field, unique to a system, comes into being when that system is formed.
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This Knowing Field shapes what can happen within the system. It shapes how elements can interact, and informs what outcomes are possible.
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This Knowing Field is alive. It is conscious. In Quechua, the word for this field is “Kawsay”, which simply translates as ‘life-force.' It is understood that Kawsay, life-force, is divine, sentient, alive, knowledgeable, and has its own purpose, desires, and drives. In a family system, one such drive is survival.
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A system wishes to include that which has been excluded. A system desires to put things in their proper order. It wants to remember, and wants us to remember, who and what came first. Everything belongs and has a place somewhere. The Knowing Field knows what the proper place is.
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Through systemic constellations, we have a conversation with the Field of a system to find out what the history is, what the current conditions are, and where they originated. We interact with the Knowing Field of the system to clarify what is known, and to nudge it in a direction of greater possibility and greater ease.
We can communicate with the system to improve the flows of love within that system. We do this by embodying portions of the system itself so that a conversation can happen and so that the dynamics can be witnessed. And changed.
We cannot change the foundational conditions of a system. For instance, we can’t alter the fact that the firstborn will always be the firstborn. What we can do is help everyone in the system find acceptance and balance in their unique position in a system.
We can help the forgotten and excluded to find their rightful place. ​
Systemic Constellation is the conversation with the Knowing Field
As we embody portions of the Field, either with ourselves or with objects, we begin to interact with this brilliant Knowing Field to discover and dissolve blockages, to include the excluded, and to increase the flows of love in the system.
We find the burden that someone is carrying for another out of love, and return it to its rightful place within the system.
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When we do this, the system relaxes and works in a much more efficient, loving manner.
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"Whose problem was it before it was yours?
Whose wounded heart are you carrying in your heart?"
— facilitator and teacher Dan Booth Cohen
