Is Family Systems Constellation work a form of psychotherapy?
No, a constellation is not psychotherapy although it originally emerged from professionals within the field of psychotherapy. In fact the work and its results are very different. The domains that this philosophy encompasses are much broader than any one field and that is part of its richness. The constellation is an intervention that does not focus exclusively nor primarily on problems, there is no emphasis on cognition or process or intellectualizing of issues. There is no diagnosis or assumptions, and judgments are dropped. From Source, truth reveals itself and it may not fit expectations. This work does not take place in the mind, it takes place in a universal system that includes the Body-Mind-Spirit continuum, the ancestors, the family field, the whole of the human condition, and what is beyond our comprehension, whether we call it the collective intelligence, spirit, God, Creation, or the nameless Tao. Some speak of the resolving influence of the Knowing Field, others of the work
