FAMILY SERVICES: RESOLVING FAMILY CRISES & RIFTS
Is Your Family in Crisis?
When deep-seated family rifts occur, external, specialized assistance can help identify the true underlying causes.
Most conventional therapy focuses on behaviour and poor communication skills as the root causes of conflict. However, while communication skills are undoubtedly important, behaviour is rarely the fundamental source of family rifts and ongoing in-fighting.
Is Your Family Navigating:
- Estrangement from one or more family members?
- Sibling rivalry, hostility, or deep-seated friction?
- Complexities surrounding adoption, fostering, surrogacy, or IVF?
- The impact of divorce or marital breakdown?
- Navigating life after the loss of a family member, death, and complex grief?
- The strain of long-term illness within the family system?
- Drug and alcohol dependency?
- Legal issues causing severe family stress and tension?
- High-stress pressures associated with public life, celebrity, news coverage, or politics?
A Systemic Perspective on Family Conflicts
With over 25 years of experience in Systemic Family Constellations, Shavasti has found that the visible issue presented by family members is rarely the true core problem. While the symptoms are often behavioural, the underlying root cause frequently originates years, decades, or even generations prior within the family lineage.
Through Family Services, we explore both the spoken and unspoken dynamics of your family history in complete confidence. Shavasti brings an exceptional depth of expertise, grounded in having facilitated more than 500 family systems workshops, over 8,000 private sessions, and authoring two authoritative books specializing in ancestral and systemic healing.
This approach is markedly different from traditional family counselling. It is designed to uncover the deeper, systemic roots of family conflict within an environment of profound respect, discretion, and confidentiality. Shavasti guides your family towards resolution not only through extensive professional mastery, but with the compassionate clarity of a practitioner who looks through the eyes of the heart.
How Family Services Work
This bespoke service is tailored for two or more family members seeking to resolve deep-seated systemic issues and heal family relationships.
- Format: Designed for 2 or more individuals committed to family resolution.
- Duration: A minimum of 3 days reserved for tailored individual and group sessions.
- Location: Facilitated in the privacy of your own home or a neutral, high-end location nearby.
Note on Schedule Structure:
Three days typically means 3 to 4 hours of formal sessions per day. The schedule typically accommodates up to three personal sessions per day for individuals, or a combination of two personal sessions and one group session.
- Individual Sessions: Up to 75 minutes each
- Group Sessions: 2 hours each
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