It Didn’t Start With You: Understanding the Power of Constellations
Release Date: 05/15/2025
Families and consequences of big traumas
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If someone takes their own life in a family, it can have massive long term consquences within (and without) the family system. Teenage children may feel responsible, or fell divided loyalties, blame or shame. A constellation will uncover the hidden dynamics and demonstrate powerfully that the consequences only belong where they should be - not with a loving child sibling or partner, who may feel they "deserve" to carry that burden even though it is not theirs to carry. This episode my seem a bit harsh if this is close to home, but I urge you to persevere!!
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Making sense of your world in these complicated times
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Old Trauma - where does it fit?
Family Constellation Guy
All of us have old trauma stuck in our systems smewhere. The question is what can we do about it? and how can we find out what it is. Well ther brain has a fantastic set of tools to distance us from immediate trauma experience, and bury it. And the Family Constellation is a fantatsic set of tools to elicit that information and reference where in your family system that it belongs. As soon as you see where it belongs you no longer have access to the feeling of that trauma, only the knowledge that it exists!
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Training in 2026
Family Constellation Guy
The Rafe Nauen Academy is hosting another Family Constellation Therapy training on 7th/8th Febraury 2026 and this episode is all about whats new! If you expect to be a bit tired, because we are packing in quite a lot of information to help you get quickly to the nub of any issues your clients friends or family have. The training is accredited and certificated and I am assured that insurance companies are happy to add in the certificate to your current Public Liability insurance I offer stage payments if you need that and It will be a fun weekend too.
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Start the new year
Family Constellation Guy
As the earth moves us into 2026 it is often a time to reflect on the year past. I recommend going a bit further back, and perhaps reflecting on the things we have picked up out of blunt loyalty. Those things are easy to deal with - of course I recommend Family Constellation Therapy, but other therapies are very capable too!
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Injunctions
Family Constellation Guy
Sometimes we get told things in early life that stay with us for life. This episode is about some of the starting points for releasing those injuctions, and finding our freedom
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Rafe Nauen Academy update
Family Constellation Guy
This episode explains how it is worthwhile doing just 2 days training in constellation work, some of what you will learn and how the training operates.
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Clara's Story
Family Constellation Guy
I have written a little story based on true facts that gives an insight into the sort of journey hany of the participants ina Family Constellation workshop will go through. Clara (name changed) presented with an issue around repeating patterns in her journey through life. The constellation helped to unpick that thread!
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What to expect on the training
Family Constellation Guy
At Rafe Nauen Academy I teach the constellation model to coaches, trainers, healers, therapists, counsellors, psychologists and others. The 2 day workshop is designed to add to the work you already do, not replace any of it. You will get and accredited certificate, and you'll be able to add it to your repertoire immediately
info_outlineIn this episode, Rafe explores the often-asked question: What is a constellation, and why would someone choose to do one? Through personal insight and professional experience, Rafe unpacks the profound impact of inherited emotional patterns—those invisible threads passed down through generations that shape our lives in unexpected ways.
From feelings of not being good enough to repeating relationship struggles, we often carry burdens that aren’t truly ours. Family Constellations offer a respectful and revealing way to bring these hidden dynamics to light. Rafe explains how this process works, what participants can expect, and how unresolved ancestral experiences—like early deaths, miscarriages, or unspoken grief—can echo through our lives until they are acknowledged and integrated.
Whether you're curious about systemic healing, or wondering how your past might be influencing your present, this episode offers a compassionate and eye-opening introduction to the transformative power of constellations.