ISTANBUL - Healing People and Places

We are increasingly coming to understand the impact of inter-generational trauma not only on individuals and families, but on entire communities, cities and even countries. For more than 30 years, Systemic Constellations has been used for healing and releasing inter-generational trauma within family systems - as explored in the popular Netflix series, Another Self. In this workshop, we look at how we can bring healing to wider communities that have experienced trauma.

The human body’s natural response to extreme events is to shut down some aspects of the feeling self, through freezing and dissociation. This is an intelligent and necessary response in order to enable us to survive. However, trauma that is not processed is held in the body and, we now know, can be passed on to subsequent generations. This can also happen at the level of whole communities who have suffered from wars, persecution and other forms of…