How Family Constellations Work: A Step-by-Step Guide and What to Expect

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Hello!

Organize what keeps repeating. Lighten what feels heavy. Reclaim your place. Some things cannot be resolved through willpower alone.

Perhaps you have already been to therapy. You may have read extensively, reflected deeply, and worked hard on yourself. Yet something remains. A relationship that never seems to flow. A pattern that returns wearing different faces. A burden, or an emptiness, that you carry without fully understanding where it comes from.

This is not weakness, nor is it a lack of effort. Some dynamics belong to the family system of which you are a part. They begin to shift only when the relational context that sustains them is finally seen, acknowledged, and reorganized.

That is precisely what Family Constellations are designed to facilitate.


What Is a Family Constellation?

A Family Constellation is a systemic method of inquiry that makes visible the hidden dynamics shaping relationships, inherited patterns, unconscious loyalties, and roles that people occupy without consciously choosing them.

It is not psychotherapy. It is not a spiritual practice. It is a way of reading relational systems. When you begin to perceive how your system is actually organized, not as you imagined it to be, but as it truly developed over time, something begins to move.

Not because someone tells you what to do. Because the system discovers a more coherent way of organizing itself. Family Constellations can be used to explore virtually any area of life, including family relationships, professional challenges, financial blocks, recurring patterns, children’s emotional suffering, life purpose, and persistent exhaustion.


Your Family Constellation Step by Step

1. Choose Your Focus

Identify the central issue you would like to explore, such as relationships, career, health, family, or finances.

2. Select the Format

Choose between an Individual Session, which offers complete personal focus, or a Group Session, which combines personal work with collective learning.

3. Schedule Your Session

Contact us via WhatsApp to arrange the date, time, and format, either online or in person.

4. The Constellation Session

Together we explore the systemic field, identifying hidden relational dynamics and creating the conditions for new forms of organization to emerge.


Individual Family Constellation

Designed for those who wish to explore a specific issue with depth, privacy, and focused attention.

Sessions last approximately 2½ hours and are available online or in person in Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Your session is dedicated entirely to you and the question you bring.

There is no group, no divided attention, only you, the systemic field, and more than two decades of professional experience in Systemic Intelligence and Family Constellations.

Common themes include:

  • Couple and family conflicts
  • Emotional challenges involving children
  • Financial or professional blocks
  • Lack of purpose
  • Emotional exhaustion
  • Repeating life patterns

Every session combines careful listening with methodological rigor and ethical responsibility. Whenever a specific clinical referral would be more appropriate, this is discussed during the scheduling process.

Investment: R$ 550

Payment by credit card or bank slip, with installment options available. Appointments are scheduled via WhatsApp.


Group Family Constellation

Designed for those who wish to work on their own issue while also deepening their understanding of systemic dynamics through the collective experience.

Participants have the opportunity both to present their own constellation and to serve as representatives in the constellations of others. Experiencing both perspectives is one of the richest aspects of systemic work.

You learn not only from your own process, but also from the experience of everyone present. Sessions are offered online via Zoom or in person in Araxá, Minas Gerais.

Groups are organized according to demand and waiting lists.

Investment: R$ 550 per participant.

A 20% deposit reserves your place. The remaining balance is paid on the day of the event, with installment options available. If you are unable to attend, your reservation may be transferred either to another participant or to the next available group.


Online or In Person

The quality of the work and the investment remain exactly the same whether the session takes place online or in person.

What guides the process is not the physical environment. It is the systemic field and the capacity to perceive and work with it.


Before You Decide

Family Constellations do not offer ready-made answers. They offer something more valuable.

The opportunity to perceive what has been operating outside your awareness and to make your own decisions with greater clarity, freedom, and coherence.

Once you recognize the pattern, it no longer governs your life in the same way. Not because someone instructed you differently.

Because something within you has reorganized itself. That is the movement Family Constellations make possible.

If something in these words resonates with you, not as new information, but as the recognition of something you have long sensed, the next step is simple.

Contact us through WhatsApp to schedule an individual session or reserve your place in the next group.

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Warm regards,

Rosana Jotta

Professor of Systemic Intelligence
Instituto Rosa da Terra

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