Over the last year Pip has hosted a Family Constellation every month under the umbrella of Wild Fig, and now it’s time for that creation to spread its wings and fly the nest. Here’s Pip…
Over the past year I have been experimenting with online constellations and discovered a very powerful technique that I would now love to share with more people.
It all began a few years ago when I shared the practice of Family Constellations with the online Wild Fig community. There were so many people interested in receiving a constellation and willing to represent for each other, that we organised ourselves into a monthly online meetup that focused on 1 person’s issue and then allowed time for the group to reflect on the borrowed benefits they had received from the work.
I started to realise that if the month’s issue holder and I spoke, a week before the constellation, it gave us time to co-create a hypothesis for the constellation. When I then shared the bare bones of the hypothesis with the wider group it gave them time to tune in well ahead of our session with fantastic consequences.
We began to see shifts and insights occur in the week before the constellation, not only for myself as the Constellator and the issue holder but also the wider group and even those who couldn’t actually attend the constellation session itself.
And so the technique was honed and became our way of constellating as a community every month.
I would ask who wanted to be this month’s issue holder, we would have an hour together one-to-one for them to share their challenge and for me to overlay the theory. Once happy with our stating hypothesis I would share it with the wider group and put a call out for those feeling drawn to represent.
A week later we would gather online, with those called to join. Always on a Thursday 7-9pm.
We would start with a meditation to tune in and call in our ancestor, then a check-in to reconnect as a circle, then a reminder of the evening’s focus, a sharing of any initial guidance anyone had received in the last week and off we would go, with the issue holder picking their representatives on screen.
From there we would surrender to whatever the field brought forward, and I would offer the representative key statements to test our hypothesis and any emerging insights.
Over the course of a year of online constellations every single session brought insight, relief, release, repair, resetting, tears, understanding, settling, seeing, smiling and accepting.
Last week, to celebrate the completion of our year together we gathered as a group of those who had attended to each other’s deepest moments and by far the most consistent and rewarding feedback became – “I can barely remember what my initial issue was, so transformed is my world now”.
Now, it feels the right time to see if there is a wider community for this online work and so I am offering the following 10 dates to all those called to this work.
Dates for our online sessions in 2025 are:
Oct 17th / Nov 21st / Dec 12th / Jan 16th / Feb 13th / Mar 13th / Apr 10th / May 15th / Jun 12th / Jul 10th
Every session is a Thursday evening 7-9pm (UK) and will take place on zoom.
If this feels like something you would like to be part of you can sign up using the eventbrite link below to book a place and get the zoom link.
Systemic & Family Constellations Workshop – ONLINE Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
There is no requirement to attend all sessions, simply book onto the one(s) you can make at any time.
There is a suggested attendance cost of £45 for issue holder or representative, with an option to pay any other amount.
If you would like to be an issue holder for any of the sessions please DM me at pip@phillipabray.com or Kate at info@the-land.co.uk
Kate and I will also be starting a (100% optional) Constellation Community WhatsApp Group as a place people can share insights before and after constellations and stay connected to the work. We will also use this group to send reminders of upcoming sessions.
I look forward to meeting you in a Constellation soon.
Love, Pip
P.S. If you prefer face to face constellations, don’t worry! We still have 2 sessions this year – Oct 5th in Sheffield and Nov 23rd in the shed on The Land which you can book here Community Constellations – The Land (the-land.co.uk) and watch this space for the 2025 dates coming soon!