The Use of School Counseling Groups and the Classroom to Address Children's Needs:
Applications of Group Dynamics and Hellinger's Family Constellation Therapy to Stimulate Intellectual,
Social and Emotional Development in School Settings.
Description: Deep familial love and loyalty may compel children to unknowingly
attempt to ease others. suffering or complete unfinished family business that is not
their own. Such attempts often play out in the school setting in their interactions
with teachers counselors and peers.
Through family constellation work and focus on group dynamics, a class or counseling
group can be helped to connect with the family unconscious and access its power to
heal generations of destructive patterns.
These patterns include: guilt, anger, depression,
illness, substance abuse, and failure which children carry forward into their school lives.
Participants in this workshop will have opportunities to present cases and discover
applications of group dynamics and Hellinger's work to the children, classes and groups
they find most challenging.
