Writing & Blog
Below you will find a selection of my published book chapters, articles and reflections on the Ancestral Constellations process and Transgenerational Healing.
Published Book Chapters
Chapter 8
Healing the tears & fears of our mothers
Black women carry within them not only the pain of ancestral trauma but also the strength and resilience of the women that came before them.
Chapter 19
Ancestral Constellation in Practice
Are a form of brief therapy and a visual, embodied ‘storying’ process, that explores unresolved past transgenerational relationships.
Published Articles
The Knowing Field
International Systemic Constellations Journal: A Personal Reflection on Black Issues in the Constellations Space. Issue 33 January 2019
Therapy Today
British Association of Counselling & Therapy Journal: Where are you from? When I get asked this question, I answer Volume 30, Issue 8, October 2019
Context
Association of Family Therapy Journal: Decolonising Systemic Constellations in therapeutic practice, my approach. Issue 194, August 2024
Reflections & Musings
Events: Workshops
Mixed emotions When you leave a Diaspora transgenerational workshop, you may have a mix of emotions. In part there may be a warm fuzzy feeling, you know, that sense of having seen or done something...
In Spirit and Soul
In Spirit and Soul A family constellation is a way of looking at a family or community system within and across generations. Family constellations help people to think about how to create individual...
Systemic Reflection
My Systemic Background At the same time I was beginning my journey into family constellations. I had heard about constellations as I had completed a PG Dip in Systemic Management in 2000. Systemic...
Afri-Centred Therapy
African-centred therapeutic practice Today many of us are living in a multi-heritage world, side by side with people of different ancestry. Often we are distanced and separated from our homeland or...
Embodied Wisdom
Embodied African Wisdom The wisdom of indigenous communities relates to their knowledge of the past and their commitment to the family line that is rooted in the present and the natural order of...
Practice: Representatives
Role of the Representatives In an Ancestral Family Constellations workshop, you create a living ‘map’ of your family system, past and present. With the help of other group members, who act as...
Sonya Welch-Moring
For over a decade I have been writing about and developing Ancestral Constellations as a Diaspora transgenerational practice. My writing centres an ancestral and indigenous approach to mental and emotional healing, for families and communities of colour.
My therapeutic model has been published in two books; Therapy in Colour (Jessica Kingsley 2023) and Black Women Trauma and Therapy (PCCS Books 2025). I have also contributed articles to several other professional journals.
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