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Slide 1 ___________________________________ Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma and Constellations Approaches ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Julia Vaughan Smith ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 2 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ “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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 3 ___________________________________ Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma ___________________________________ “Traumatic experiences are handed down to the next generation through the emotional bonding ___________________________________ process” Franz Ruppert ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 4 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 5 ___________________________________ Traumatic experience in generation 1 ___________________________________ Bonding disorder in generation 2, increasing risk of further traumatisation ___________________________________ Bonding disorder in generation 3, high risk of further traumatisation ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 6 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 7 ___________________________________ Intra-Psychic Splitting ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 8 ___________________________________ 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) ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 9 ___________________________________ Perpetrator: Victim Dynamic • Perpetrators and Victims both suffer the intra- ___________________________________ psychological split; and develop survival strategies • Perpetrators become perpetrators as a result ___________________________________ of trauma • Part of the survival strategy is to create an internal perpetrator:victim dynamic ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 10 ___________________________________ Entangled Symbiotic Relationship • Symbiotic trauma = Symbiotic entanglement ___________________________________ • The child becomes entangled with the trauma of 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. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 11 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 12 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 13 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 14 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 15 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 16 ___________________________________ 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 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________