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Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma and Constellations Approaches

Julia Vaughan Smith

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“So, there is always the question about how to begin; you have to be very precise and you can’t think it up.” Bert Hellinger

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Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma

“Traumatic experiences are handed down to the next generation through the emotional bonding process” Franz Ruppert

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Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma

• Bonding System Trauma- Where the

perpetrators and victims remain in the same close family system

• Symbiotic Trauma - “The trauma of parents

(trauma of existential threat, trauma of loss and bonding trauma) continue in their children as symbiotic trauma” Franz Ruppert

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Traumatic experience in generation 1 Bonding disorder in generation 2, increasing risk

• f further traumatisation

Bonding disorder in generation 3, high risk of further traumatisation

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The psychological impact of symbiotic trauma

• Dissociation, freezing, numbness
• Constant struggle between dissociation and

integration “psyche’s battle ground” Kalsched

• Franz Ruppert’s model of the three parts
• The perpetrator/victim dynamic as a survival

strategy

• The idea of entanglement

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Intra-Psychic Splitting

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The Survival Part

• Acts as the guardian of the trauma part, splitting

the trauma from the healthy part

• Denial, avoidance, distraction
• Control of traumatised self – despising what is

seen as weakness or neediness.

• Maladaptive defences including illusions and

control of others

• Little capacity for self-compassion or self-

soothing (seek soothing through other means)

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Perpetrator: Victim Dynamic

• Perpetrators and Victims both suffer the intra-

psychological split; and develop survival strategies

• Perpetrators become perpetrators as a result
• f trauma
• Part of the survival strategy is to create an

internal perpetrator:victim dynamic

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Entangled Symbiotic Relationship

• Symbiotic trauma = Symbiotic entanglement
• The child becomes entangled with the trauma
• f the mother as well as suffering own psychic

splitting

• Child tries to maintain a bond through

wanting to rescue or heal the trauma, and through other adaptive behaviour

• Original entanglement repeated in other

relationships.

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Entanglement at and with work

• Leaders need to be in touch with healthy part, if

not they operate through their survival strategies

• People meet each other with survival parts in

business to protect themselves from the trauma that can be triggered in business context

• Perpetrator:Victim dynamics
• Work disturbance
• Heavy reliance on survival strategies leads to

burnout and exhaustion

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Constellations as a way of working

• Family Constellations: Focus is on movement

towards reconciliation

• Trauma Constellations: Focus is movement

towards integration

• Constellations
• patterns, movement, embodied experience
• external representation of the unconscious

dynamics and traumatising realities

• group or one to one

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Constellations

• A client with a need and emotional urgency

for change

• Representatives for parts of the system
• Phenomenological experience
• Facilitator
• Holding group or space
• Each constellation runs for around 1 – 2 hours

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Constellations of Intention

• Trauma Constellations – Franz Ruppert
• Intent = focus or goal for the work
• Client in the constellations from the outset
• Additional representatives brought in as the

constellations progresses

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One to One Working

• Facilitator focus and becomes a representative
• Floor markers or other means to place a

representative

• One off sessions, as for groups
• 2 hours allowed
• Contract

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Thank You.

Julia Vaughan Smith Constellations Therapy Therapeutic Coaching Personal and Work Role Related www.anaptys.co.uk www.becomingourselves.co.uk jvs@anaptys.co.uk

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