Learnings from systemic constellations - first session
What is it
A way to get another perspective on issues that you are experiencing and how to possibly solve it. At work or play. Traditionally it is used in family therapy.
How we did it
We came together as a group and presented some conflict scenarios that we currently find ourselves in. As a group we decided what scenario we would play out first.
One person owned the scenario. He then assigns the different roles of his scenario to different people. The People gets placed and positioned in the room to best represented the scenario by the scenario owner.
People are then asked how they feel the scenario and the space that they are in. Yes it seems very airy fairy.
After a couple of minutes we get feedback from each person on how they are feeling in the position.
The scenario owner listens and then tries out moving the people arround and positioning them differantly.
We then get feedback again. This process was repeated a couple of times until the scenario owner was satisfied with the outcome.
The outcome
I did not have any expectations going into this session, however the result was quite amazing. Being able to be an outsider to your scenario and getting feedback from your scenario really helps.
Some of my learnings
People are usually not the problem. The environment is. People are good. In some cases you find the random serial killer, however those are few.
Try to notice the impact of the conflict in a bigger scope. See how it impacts others.
We also touched on the feedback model, i need to read up on it a bit more to comment about it.
Next time
I would like to, with the groups permission, to take some photos while we are in the positions to post here as well.
As a last positioning exercise of each scenario, ask the participants to move around to where they feel most comfortable. I think this will be interesting to see as well.