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23. Understanding the History of Family Constellations: From Bert Hellinger to Today · Constellations and all that...

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  Kia ora, and welcome to Constellations and All That.
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  I'm your host Tracey Cartwright, and together we will be exploring the world of family constellations with facilitators and clients from around the world, looking at different perspectives and experiences in the work, having a cup of tea, and just chatting with some friends around their experiences in constellations.
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  We'd love for you to join us.
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  I hope that you enjoy this series as much as I have loved making it.
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  Kia ora, welcome to Constellations and all that.
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  Today I'm going to just share a few things about Constellations, and this has come about from a conversation that I've had with a very dear friend of mine, Vicky.
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  Vicky, I hope this answers a few of, a few more of your questions.
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  So one of She's She pointed out that if you know nothing about constellations, it can sound a bit woo -woo, and it could sound a little bit like members only, or it's a little bit clicky.
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  I personally don't feel that way, but this is coming from an outside perspective.
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  So she's asked me, where did constellations start?
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  And there's two parts to this for me.
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  So constellations started with a gentleman called Bert Hellinger, who brought this through in the 80s.
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  He originally had been a missionary in Africa.
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  So prior to being in Africa, he was a young gentleman in Germany and he was conscripted to the war.
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  And during that time, in a very short period of time, he found himself a prisoner of war, to which obviously he survived.
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  And through that time he was very interested in people and he had a very strong faith.
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  So he became a priest when he was released from the prison.
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  He went into the priesthood and then he went to Africa.
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  He was with the Zulus for 16 years and you can imagine coming from Germany, very lineal, structured ways of thinking to Zulu country where there was much more tradition and connected to the greater picture of things in a different way to religion and that which we know in the Western world.
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  So one of the things that, this is my understanding and this is my take on it and many facilitators.