There are three roles Constellation participants can engage in:

Observer:

Everyone will have the opportunity to observe the rituals and hold the space. This is an important role that allows you to witness the intuitive healing processes and universal themes that will touch you deeply the way great films or theatre can. The observing alone can be personally healing and transformative.

Representative:

Representatives are chosen by the client to represent themselves and the significant others that are involved in the issue the client wants help with.  Representatives are placed by the client in the room in relation to one another in a way that intuitively portrays the interpersonal dynamics between them.  What then happens next is hard to explain, but representatives begin experiencing the feelings of the person they are representing.  For example when playing one woman’s uncle I reported to the facilitator that I felt cold, emotionally numb and it was like my right leg wasn’t there.  When this was checked out with the client, she reported that he had been a soldier on the Eastern Front in WWII and had lost his leg. Playing the role of representative opens up intuitive abilities, helps develop universal compassion and understanding for a wide spectrum of people and shows you how to let emotion move through you freely.

Client: 

Choosing to work as a client involves having an issue that is of emotional importance to you that you want to resolve and find loving intelligent solutions for.  The client only describes the core concern, who the key people are, their desired outcome and the basic existential issues of the family like birth, death, illness, marriage, migration and other such events. Generally for most of the constellation the client observes the facilitator interviewing the representatives and guiding their movement through the ritual space as emotional and interpersonal shifts occur.  The shifts generally come about from people acknowledging and coming to accept the truth of what has happened, people taking responsibility for their actions and people finding their natural place in the family.