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System phenomenology

Gurnhard Weber and Bert Hellinger are considered to be the creators and developers of systems phenomenology. Hellinger integrated his knowledge as a psychoanalyst, a pastor and his experience as a missionary in Africa in the creation of the method. The basic principle of the method is to work with "field energy", or the flow of love energy, the normal course of which is disturbed either by the peculiarities of human perception, sometimes deformed perception. Sometimes the presence of dominant and inherited "patterns" or templates. Similarly, the causes of problems can be traced back several generations, for example, if there is a history of an outcast or unrecognized family member or those who died in war. The systems phenomenological approach can be divided into several subgroups:

 

Family systems phenomenology - the work is basically oriented towards relationships in the family, family. Intergenerational relations, restoration of system order.

 

System phenomenology of symptoms – work with health problems (called a symptom), the cause of which is a conflict between relationships or an unresolved conflict between generations.

 

Phenomenology of organizational systems – work with the organizational system and the individual system of a person. This work deals with the problems that arise in the conflict of interaction between these two systems. Where the employee enters the organization with his own "patterns", ideas, "bringing" them into the organization, which already has its own laws, "patterns", as a result of which mutual conflicts may arise.

 

System-phenomenological coaching - a systemic approach in Koch's work, when the problems of the employee and the organization are analyzed in the context of the overall, large system.

An example from Bert Hellinger's systems phenomenological setting, which is led by B. Hellinger himself

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