Family adjustment (also known as system adjustment or family and system resetting) is a profound self-awareness and therapeutic method that explores how family and generational patterns, unconsciously inherited behaviours, traumas and loyalties affect us.
The method was developed by German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger at the end of the 20th century. The idea is to examine and solve the individual's problems in the context of a "larger system", mainly within the family system.
What is the purpose of family transport?
is that:
reveals the invisible but powerful family dynamics,
raise awareness of the generational patterns we have inherited,
restore order and the flow of love in the family,
enable inner liberation and healing (whether physical or spiritual).
How does a family transport take place?
1. In a live group format (the classic method):
A person (the "presenter") brings a topic (e.g. relationship problem, anxiety, illness).
Selects actors from the group: representatives for the roles of mother, father, brother, sister, self, etc.
These people enter the space, move intuitively and share their feelings and impressions.
The therapist (leader) guides the adjustment and helps to create a new, healing image in the family system.
2. Individual family delivery:
It can be done with puppets, sheets of paper, stones or visualisation.
The same energetic and psychological mechanisms are at work.
What can it be used for?
Family relationship problems
Repetitive life situations (e.g. failure, relationship breakdown)
Mental illnesses, physical symptoms
Anxiety, depression, self-doubt
Financial hold-ups
Inherited traumas (e.g. miscarriages, war history, taboos)
It is not a substitute for psychotherapy, but it can be very effective as a complementary method.
Participants are often going through profound emotional experiences - so a professionally trained leader is needed.
It does not "predict" the future, but highlights unconscious patterns that can be rewritten.
