I ask big questions of Yildiz Sethi, psychotherapist, constellator, new modality creator and author. Listen here or on Youtube!
Updated: 2 days ago
There's something different here as I interview Yildiz Sethi, (yildizsethi.com) about her work, her family system, the founder of Family Constellations Bert Hellinger, and more. Click on the link above to go to my substack, GetConstellated to listen to the interview.
The intro, and my questions, which are just slightly different to what you hear, because of the organic nature of the conversation.
Karen: Ko te mea tuatahi he mihi atu ki nga mana whenua o te rohe nei, Ngati Kahungunu, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.
The first thing is to acknowledge the people of the land, the tribe, Ngati Kahungunu.
I was in one of your online family constellations training groups in 2024, Yildiz, and also participated in a weekend workshop in Sydney in July the same year.
That invaluable experience of representing in a large group, at the same time as learning and observing your ultra facilitator presence was the perfect rounding out of the training.
Q 1. For listeners who may to have encountered systemic Constellations, would you describe Constellations, as a modality, and your understanding of the role of the Facilitator.
Karen: You’ve come from teaching science, involvement in Vedic beliefs and practices, traditional mainstream psychotherapy, to systemic family constellations. Beyond that you have developed several new brief therapeutic modalities which can be used in conjunction with Constellations. You publish a Substack, Be free to be you, this podcast, Crazy normal for better mental health and well being, ad you’ve published four books:
Stardust on the spiritual path
Be rich and spiritual
Rapid Core Healing, and
Beyond the symptoms: rethinking depression ad trauma recovery. Brief neuroplasicity-based psychotherapy for lasting healing
Q. 2 How did your own realisation lead you to family constellations? What was it in your own practice of psychotherapy that made your move away from it imperative
Q 3. I’m interested in how you experienced, felt, observed, the differences i people you worked with, the difference between working in traditional psychotherapeutic modalities and Constellations. What do you attribute those differences to?
Q 4. You were among the earliest adopters of systemic/family constellations, in fact your early training included Bert Hellinger, the founder ad developer of the modality. How has that closeness to the source, to the man himself influenced your work, in the sense of intangible, energetic transmissions you received? I’m asking about the deeply human part of that.
Karen: In your recent substack piece Who is Yildiz Sethi, you include yourself in the category ‘crazy normal’. You touch o self sabotage, feelings of unworthiness, despite all the work you have done with others, and undoubtedly working on yourself, as the saying goes.
I that regard, we know the story never ends, and its beginning is countless generations behind us, and I would say, beside us. The myriad stories of trauma and resilience.
Q 5. Is there someone - or more - in your family system, further back than your own parents, that you understand you have received gifts from, whatever form the gifts have assumed in your life, whether in conventional terms they would be seen as gifts or obstacles?
Q 6. Finally, is there anything else you would like to say - something we’ve touched on or not arrived at?
You can contact Yildiz at her website and Be free to be you at Substack, hear her other podcasts at Crazy normal for better mental health and lasting healing, and buy her books mentioned in the podcast.
You can read my substack pieces at GetConstellated, and most often as blogs on this site.
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