workshop presented at 2008 ARAT Conference in Timisoara, Romania

1. Family Constellations Looking Systemically at Life Scripts Alexandra Piotrowska Timisoara TA Conference (2008)

3. Family Constellations JUST AS THE PLANETS AND THE STARS HAVE THEIR OWN PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE AND ARE HELD TOGETHER BY INVISIBLE FORCES, SO ARE YOU WITHIN YOUR OWN FAMILY. UNCONSCIOUS , POWERFUL FORCES RULE THE INTERACTIONS OF EACH FAMILY MEMBER.

13. Parental subsystem Division of care Siblings Subsystem

20. Looking at the bonds of love At the level of the family every person is embedded in a complex system of bonding relations that includes a minimum of four generations. Standing in the line of ancestors

23. Life Script Matrix Berne / Clarkson “ Script “pre-conscious life plan that governs the way life is lived out. Berne 1965 postulated that people make decisions in childhood that shape the rest of their life . The individual is subjected to injunctions both of external expectations and internalized obligations. . . . The parent—mother or father—in us”. Unconscious communication Counterinjunctions P -P Programme A- A Injunctions C-C

27. Bert Hellinger German psychotherapist (b. 1925) Was enlisted as a young German soldier to Wold war II, was wounded After war become a missionary in Africa Lived 25 years with Zulus Studied psychotherapy in California Primal Integration, Gestalt, TA Became CTA in seventies In eighties developed Family Constellation in Germany

37. Transmission of favourite feelings