Episode 23: Back to the Foundations — The Essentials of Family Constellations with Suzi TuckerI began this conversation thinking about weaving—something I’ve been doing lately with leaves and willow. As I was weaving, I found myself thinking about basics and movement, and wondering about the connection to Family Constellations.It made me want to return to the foundations: What are the essential ideas we come back to, even after years of learning and facilitating?Suzi brought the image of weaving back into the work in a way I loved: as facilitators, we are also weavers, bringing together the threads a person carries with the threads of those who came before them.In this conversation, Suzi Tucker and I explore some of the foundations of Family Constellations and what they mean in practice:• Looking for the metaphor beneath a client’s question• The “kitchen table” and what we inherit from our family of origin• Parents give and children take• Everyone belongs• The balance of giving and taking• What it means that parents are “big” and children are “small”• Hellinger’s earlier and later work• Essential Hellinger books and recordingsI love going back to the foundations. We can meet them again from where we are now, understand them differently, and continue to make the work our own.I hope you enjoy this conversation.Connect with Iriswww.irisconstellations.com© 2026 Iris Shaham. All rights reserved.

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