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Constellation can be carried out in individual and group therapy. I will describe how this happens in a group. The client voices his request to the therapist for 15-20 minutes, answering the questions: - What do I want to solve? - Which figures should be included in the arrangement? - What and to whom will I tell tomorrow if I feel that the arrangement has worked? - Who will be the first to know, that my problem has been solved? - Who will be the most happy if I solve this? - Who will be angry (sad) if I solve this? At the interview stage, the client may already have some awareness to get out of the situation. The therapist, if there are those in the group , who is at the arrangement for the first time, explains how it works. It is important to voice that the client, when choosing deputies, puts them in place, according to his internal image of the situation for which he has a request. During the arrangement, the deputies will experience some emotions and say something. Most often, these are exactly the emotions experienced by real participants in the events from the client’s story. This is the essence of the systemic-phenomenological approach developed by Bert Helinger on the basis of observations from his practice and analysis of the practice of other areas of psychotherapy. Further, in the process of gaining experience with constellations, it was revealed that vicarious perception really reflects the perception of real people. If there is a member in the group who is not feeling well, he can be told that he can refuse the role of deputy if he wants. The role of a substitute does not require acting ability, nor is it necessary for therapy. The deputy can be any person chosen by the client. The client chooses the deputies and leads each one in turn in the space of the hall behind his back and places him where he wishes. Next, at the request of the therapist, the client sits on a chair so that he can see the faces of most of the participants in the arrangement. At this stage, the client sees the image of the substitutes that is in his soul. The clarity of the arrangement allows the client to see something new in his situation. Next, the therapist asks the substitutes about their feelings in these places. But while listening to them, he constantly keeps the client in sight in order to understand which figures and statements he reacts to more sharply. Then the therapist asks the substitutes to change their place in space if there is a desire or impulse to move. Again there is feedback from the client and deputies. This is the image of the situation that actually exists; most often it differs in some way from the image in the client’s soul. The client takes his place in the constellation, here the intensity of emotions both for him and for the deputies changes. Next, the therapist, according to the information received in the constellation, restores order in the system, moving some of the deputies to their rightful places. The therapist asks the substitutes and the client in the most intense line of the constellation to say “liberating” phrases that return gratitude, respect, forgiveness and other feelings depending on the client’s request and the progress of the constellation. The constellation ends either when the client exhales deeply, indicating the release of feelings and gaining client forces. Or at the moment when the client’s energy is exhausted in solving a request, for example, if the therapist sees that the client is not ready to take the next step. This state is also a resource one, because Having not received strength, the client continues to search for a solution after the arrangement. And the exercise provided food for thought and a new picture of the situation. After the action, feedback from the group is collected. Who felt what, what was it connected with? If the substitutes cannot free themselves from the role, for example, continuing to experience some difficult feeling, then the therapist talks with them in the group circle, helping them come to their senses, realize something about their situation, and feel their separateness from the client’s history. The therapist’s task is to track the effect of the constellation for the entire group, and not just help the client. A group can undergo several constellations in one session. The experience of substitutes is valuable for better awareness and in.