a little history

We are in transition!

Hellinger Institute of Britain > centre for the study of intimate and social systems > centre for systemic constellations

This note is to let you know of our support for and appreciation of the group who will now be running the business-side of what was CSISS and is now the Centre for Systemic Constellations (the Centre). The three of us will continue to teach and participate in developing the curriculum.

As many of you might know, six of us, Karen Hedley, Judith Hemming, Philippa Lubbock, Barbara Stones, Jutta ten Herkel, and Richard Wallstein, founded our first UK training in family constellations back in 2001. We called our training organisation the hellinger institute of britain (HIB), and this was actively supported by Bert Hellinger.

Later, when we joined the Nowhere Foundation we changed our name to the Centre for the Study of Intimate and Social Systems, in order to both mark that shift and expand the range of what we offered in addition to the family training - research and guest seminars, supervision and conferences.

Over the course of those years, several of our former students have become successful and experienced practitioners and teachers, committed to developing and extending the reach of constellations work here in the UK. It is with much pleasure that, after nearly a decade of both running the organisation and teaching, this year we have handed over the holding and running of what has now become the Centre to Gaye Donaldson, Nicola Dunn, Edward Rowland and Chris Williams. We three will remain actively involved in teaching and developing the reach of the curriculum. Now the Centre has the benefit of an extended set of practitioners to increase what it can offer. We support this with delight. Students will have the opportunity to work with us all.

We look forward to our continuing connections with you all.
Richard, Jutta, Judith