Between 1940 and 1950 a group of experts (matematicians, physicians and engineers among the others) gave life to the General Theory of Systems.

A system is an unique and a whole unity framed by components interconnected one another; the entire will be something different from the plain addition of all parts and whatever change may occur it will affect the globality of the system.

As human beigs we are not isolated from a psycho-phisical identity, but we are part of a series of wider and wider systems such as family, nation, continent, the planet, history, time, space in which our life takes place.

It's not just a case that we call 'ecosystem' the connection between environment and the globality of beings and its reciprocal influences.

Within human body there are organs, apparatus and systems (the nervous system, hendocrine, circulatory, respirator y, immunitary and so on) which have - each of them - a specific task and collaborate to the maintenance of life.

The General Theory of Systems studies the structural and functional rules implied in a description of any kind of system, separately from its composition.

The four main features are:

1)communication and elaboration of data
2)adaptation to change (self-adjust)
3)self-organization
4)self-maintenance

Self-adjust, self-riproduction, adaptation, elaboration, data storing and its related behaviours are based upon a process of self-corrective feedback, in which information about past activities and actions have been taken back to the system, influencing the future.

All this information and rules pass at a non verbal level, through analogic communication.

The genealogic tree, seen as a Familiar Soul, or Familiar Unconscious, is shaped by every kind of more or less dramatic experiences lived by its members; every person of the tree who would be eventually excluded will appear again under the form of suffer, or quite often, as a phisical symptom of a disease.

If a brother or a sister is killed or lost in war, if a child died in tender age or a woman dies during childbirth, an other member of the family in the next generations will tend to substitute unconsciously the excluded one and he will imitate his destiny expressing his emotions and symptoms, or will try to follow him into death.

If anyone in the past didn't take the responsability of a great guilt, a child will try later on to pay his dues, with his health, his happiness, his success in life.

Through staging family constellations, the hidden dynamics of the family are brought to light; the hidden tasks that force us to behave in a certain way and keep us tied to ouf family of origin; that dynamics that are the mark of our group of belonging.

PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

Into the phenomenological approach we are open to a wide range of phenomena without judging them nor concentrate upon one of them in particular. This kind of inquire needs an inner state rid of preconceptions, intentions and judgements.

From ancient greek "fainomai" (what is clear, visible), the phenomenological approach into Family Constellations consists into a scenic space in which "representatives" are put together, that is persons that lend their body and their voice to what is inquired.

Connected with the Morphic Field or Conscient Field, the net of information that floats around us, it is possible to put litterarly on stage not only the field of influence of the family, but also any system responding to phisical laws of the field.

Rupert Sheldrake, and english phisiologist, says that system are set not only upon the known laws of phisical science, but also upon invisible organized fields, which he called "morphogenetic".

Thanks to the System Theory and the Phenomenological Approach we are able to stage via representatives every single aspect of our inner and outer reality, and to observe what woul eventually happen.

The psychosomatic origin of phisical diseases is yet a common knowledge. In other words, there are signs, phisical indications that something or someone has been excluded from our conscience.

The influence of familiar dynamics into the genesis of systemic pathologies like schizophrenia, epilexsy, panic attacks, parkinson, anorexy, congenite diseases, cancer are nowadays well known.

Letting our unconscious levels to emerge, and observing the scenic representation into the constellation we can have a dialogue with every component and undersand deeply the origin of the disease or symptom and then re-integrate into the system the missing element.

The System of the subject is represented live by the participants of the seminary among which the "representatives" are choosen; after a brief inquiry upon the problematic of the subject (called also the 'client' of the constellation) we can have a question focused on the issue which the "Constellation" will try to bring a solution.

The subject will display into space/time the representatives of his own family, of his or her partner, of his job, of his inner organs, of his pathologies, of his archetypes. Then he sits down, and sees.

The representatives are guided by the morphic field and the spontaneous dynamics bring to light the emotional life of real person or of the situations which they are representing.

Through a measured and gradual shift of the representatives into space (more often this happens spontaneously, other times with the intervention of the facilitator) the "system" is brought back to the right order in a renewed harmony in which the subject regains, finally, his own right place.

Whenever we succeed to re-integrate the process in the most respecful manner, recognizing, honouring, thanking and reintegrating into the conscience every excluded element of our genealogic tree, all the tensions will immediately disappear, and the healing comes.