People can join a family constellation group to look at any problem in their lives, or in their family or even larger group they belong to.
Do you feel a need to clarify something about a major relationship in your life?
Are you at a point in your life where you need to make an important decision, and somehow, you can't make it?
Do you have a child about whom you worry a lot?
Have you ever wondered why you have the same experience in relationships over and over again?
Do you carry feelings of guilt, or failure, or deep grief, and you don't know where they are coming from?

Your mother and you seem to be stuck in an unfortunate way of relating.
Do you feel issues around abuse or adoption affect your wellbeing?
Do you wonder about your relationship with your partner or your children?
You still  feel resentment towards your father.
You somehow feel you don't know where your place in life is.
You or someone else in your family is chronically or seriously ill.
Are some of your family members "missing"? Do you miss them? 
Do you wonder why they are not mentioned? 
This could be a child that was adopted out, or someone who died tragically, went missing in war.
Are you aware of very painful events in your family, and somehow you feel they could affect you?
Do you sometimes feel that life is just too hard?

"Family constellations" -  the role of connectedness within the family
In their immediate meaning family constellations offer a path of healing for individuals. And as we receive life through our parents and exist as part of a family  
a haeling of the heart is a shared event within the family as a whole. 
In the first step the painful and burdensome connections - which are really degrees of disconnection - within our family come to light. We get to see our deeper feelings. We experience how intensely connected we are subconsciously, all the more so where tragedy blocked  the expressions of love. 
When we face these deep feelings, the suppressed love begins to emerge, and expressing respect, acceptance, and love begins to be possible. 
In Bert's first type of approach a constellation is complete when all family members present feel they are at the right place now, and they can look at each other in a friendly way.

"The Orders of Love" - Bert on the importance of healing in the family
Applied to the family the orders of love explain the natural order of love wthin the family and also in other important human relationships. This concerns the right places and roles of the various family members. Trauma throws the natural order into upheaval, and if the trauma is too great the family does not bounce back to the orders that keeps the members feeling loved respected. 
When the orders of love have been restored in the family, the individuals feel secure, and therefore also free. Having a good place within the family, they can also go beyond it. still sensing the strength of the family supporting them from their back. When the connectedness in the family is acknowledged, the responsibilities are seen and shared clearly, the individuals feel relieved.  Now they can follow their unique individuality without being burdened and caught by what went on before them.

Movements of the Soul
Bert's work evolved over the years. As people grasped the process of representation more and more deeply, the dimensions of the soul began to appear. When people approach the work with humility and respect for the soul, it becomes apparent that the soul shows us the way back to peace and oneness.

Stay in the Great Love
Bert's work is speeding up in its development. He tells us to remain in the great love which includes everyone equally. In this space, together we invite the presence of great love which shows us solutions far beyond our narrow concepts- towards peace for all.

Going with the love of the spirit 

In the last three years or so Bert has brought spirit, love of spirit, and recently, spirit mind , into this work which is much changed now in its format. The essence, however has not changed but rather expanded, towards boundless love in which everything and everyone are loved as they are. Through connection with spirit, we can move closer to the love of the spirit, 
for the benefit of ourselves and everything that is.

Bert's work and his latest books are dedicated to this. 

Spiritual family-constellations
This is the term Bert uses the most at this point in time. 
Soon there will be more books available on this

How does a family constellation work?
Before people come to a constellation workshop, they have had a look at their family background. The information needed concerns any kind of tragic events in the family, even a few generation back. (Look at page "family questions" for details.)
At the beginning of the workshop, the group members sit in a circle and briefly introduce themselves to each other. The therapist/group leader gives an introduction. Then whoever out of the group feels ready to set up their family becomes the first client.
The client briefly presents the issue and gives the tragic facts in the family.
The therapist decides which family members will be set up first. Then representatives for these family members, including the client, are selected from the group.  Whether they are still amongst the living or not, does not matter. Males are represented by males, females by females. 
One by one, the client holds a representative and places the person somewhere in the centre of the group, just so, by feeling. When they are all placed, the client sits down to look at the unfolding constellation.

The amazing thing becomes apparent now: At this point the representatives are beginning to feel sensations and emotions of the family member they represent, inside themselves and in regard to the others. They may express even their physical symptoms. (To find out more, look at page "the knowing field".) The task of the representatives is to just stay with what they feel right at the moment, to allow their bodies to express that softly and slowly, and to tell the therapist what goes on for them. 

The therapist now guides the representing family members through a gentle process of unraveling. The feelings are explored, deep connections become visible. Through changes in positions, short sentences, and gestures the tangles in the family are gradually unravelled, always with the purpose of restoring the flow of love, for all. 

This process depends on the willingness of all present to keep their own ideas or opinions or feelings or prejudices out of the picture. It means they kind of empty themselves, and this is in fact amazingly easy in this work. The therapist can only act in a truly helpful way if even all intentions are left behind. the work has to stay very close to what the representatives are really feeling at the time. 

It is a very deeply cooperative process. Everybody's feelings count and have to be considered. The family members are asked for their feedback, as the healing, even of the client, depends on the well-being of all.