Family Constellations is proposed as a method which provides the psychologist with a direct phenomenological experience of the subtle range of consciousness as well as nonlocal and nonspatial information encoded into fields of consciousness. This experience is both embodied and spiritual, and is therefore holistic in its integration of the body-mind-spirit. With its roots in the practices of the South African iSangoma, Family Constellations is proposed to provide a bridge between Western psychotherapy and traditional African healing for South African clinical psychologists.
Finally, as a method of healing one’s relationship to one’s parents and ancestors and restoring harmony and the flow of energy from God/Source/Creation, it is proposed as a transformative practice similar to other spiritual disciplines. Impact on therapeutic skills such as sensitivity to subtle energy fields and their embodiment, intuition, closer atonement to natural orders and processes, as well as higher intrinsic ethics and compassion are considered, as well as the implications for training.
