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Acknowledging What is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger

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This very straightforward book tackles many controversial subjects in psychotherapy with empirical wisdom: what helps people and what doesn't. Bert Hellinger does not seem to be concerned with anything else, and his practice reflects that simplicity and directness. The questions asked by the interviewer are often the very ones the reader wants to ask. This family constellation work is worth much more investigation.

A wonderful book for those who have seen Bert Hellinger in action, and even for those who haven't . For those of us who have witnessed the integrity he brings into the art of helping people it is a book filled with the knowledge and insight he has gained experientially while working with family systems and setting up constellations. For those new to his breathtaking work it is full of things to spark one's interest and inform.
Do not dismiss this work. It is quite simply the beginning of something unbelievably profound and soul-enriching. It is in fact about working with the movements of the soul.

Read the book impartially and look for the thing in your life that you do not know where they come from- why there's always been difficulties in relationships, secrets and neglected families members- then you will undestand what is Hellinger doing, which is much more "positive" than labelling people' problems. Read it over and read it again after some time, this book deserves unprejudiced attention.

This introduction to Bert Hellinger's work consists of interviews of him with a political scientists. The way Hellinger's family constellations unfold, they usually support more conservative positions regarding sexuality and labor division in family, so there is some interesting tension between the liberal interviewer and the wise old man Hellinger. It also becomes clear that Hellinger treats spirituality as something quite earthly and this-worldly, amounting mostly to facing life's challenges.

The biggest minus of the book is absence of diagrams of the constellations that are described. For this reason, I suggest getting 'Love's Hidden Symmetry' or 'Love's Own Truths' instead. But this is definitely an okay book too.

The book is accessible and a good introductio nto family cinstellations. The therapy is effective and has its roots in phenomenological psychotherapy as well as in traditional folk ways.

Informative, challenging, insightful, life changing,couldn't stop readingit and thinking about the perspective presented by Bert Hellinger. A must read for every family therapist and parent to help decide how you raise you children, in fact read it to figure out why your life is like it is. Just brilliant

If you really believe, that you can change your attitudes by visiting Hellinger's family constellation therapies, then wake up! It does not work like that easy, to change one-self. Sadly.
The patterns which arose passivly, without your consciousness, will not change by this method. You will run into a short high. Then you will fall even deeper. It is easy to climb a mountain. Particular if somebody offers you a lift. But it is difficult to climb down. Because the lift was an illusion. So you stay up there and pretend, that you are flying. Fly well, the impact of the fall will help others to earn more money.