Episode 23: Back to the Foundations — The Essentials of Family Constellations with Suzi Tucker

I began this conversation thinking about weaving—something I’ve been doing lately with leaves and willow. As I was weaving, I found myself thinking about basics and movement, and wondering about the connection to Family Constellations.

It made me want to return to the foundations: What are the essential ideas we come back to, even after years of learning and facilitating?

Suzi brought the image of weaving back into the work in a way I loved: as facilitators, we are also weavers, bringing together the threads a person carries with the threads of those who came before them.

In this conversation, Suzi Tucker and I explore some of the foundations of Family Constellations and what they mean in practice:

• Looking for the metaphor beneath a client’s question
• The “kitchen table” and what we inherit from our family of origin
• Parents give and children take
• Everyone belongs
• The balance of giving and taking
• What it means that parents are “big” and children are “small”
• Hellinger’s earlier and later work
• Essential Hellinger books and recordings
I love going back to the foundations. We can meet them again from where we are now, understand them differently, and continue to make the work our own.

I hope you enjoy this conversation.

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