{"id":15376,"date":"2013-09-11T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/about-me-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:00:00","slug":"about-me-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/about-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-07-Jackett-3-dpi-300.jpeg&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.1&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; alt=&#8221;Thomas Ge\u00dfner 11 2023&#8243; title_text=&#8221;2023 11 07 Jackett 3 dpi 300&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;13px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Thomas Ge\u00dfner<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dipl.-Theologian, Teaching Therapist for Systemic Constellations (DGfS), Counselor, Author Born in 1964 in Halle (Saale), grew up in a Protestant parsonage, father of two, married, practice &#8220;Gessner Constellations&#8221; in Halle (Saale), lives in Halle (Saale, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Ge\u00dfner practices and teaches phenomenological constellation work, life-integration process (LIP according to Nelles) and counseling. Methodologically, he stresses the distinction between the relatively safe &#8220;now&#8221; of a person and his perhaps threatening &#8220;then&#8221;, and in terms of content what life wants from us and how we can follow it. To be able to see his work more clearly, he writes about it. As a child he uses to live in the country side between chickens, as a teenager in the city between cars. After handicraft apprenticeship and carpentry as well as the matura at the evening high school he studied theology in Leipzig. The Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the wall surprised him there. He then had the opportunity to experience and reflect on twenty years of pastoral soul care, most recently as a city church pastor at the Herderkirche in Weimar. At the same time he encountered constellation work. It grew in a way that there was no longer enough room for it in the pastoral service.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2011 he took leave of the parish office in order to be able to concentrate on constellation work. Now he works as a teacher for phenomenological constellation work and as a consultant in free practice. He completed his diploma training with Wilfried Nelles and Heinrich Breuer at the former European Institute for Systemic Constellations (eurasys). This was followed by further training in hypnotherapy for systemic constellations (Heinrich Breuer), organizational constellations (Jan Jacob Stam, NL) and the Life Integration Process (LIP) with Wilfried Nelles. Together with Wilfried Nelles there is a book about this method of working developed by him. It is about an innovative, contemporary view of counselling and therapy that fits well with Thomas Ge\u00dfner&#8217;s spiritual roots in pastoral care. In his current book \u201eHow we love\u201c he describes what he sees in his counseling and constellation practice about the human inner life and its effects on the outer everyday life. It is about &#8220;how our life is shaped by unconscious love out of an inner necessity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Ge\u00dfner: How we love. And what we do or avoid everything out of love. Innenweltverlag Cologne, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;|auto|12px|auto||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;14px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb image=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DIVI-Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen-2.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Halle Saale wall paintings&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; body_line_height=&#8221;0em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|10px|0px|10px|false|false&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/blog\/&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|3px|3px|3px|3px&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;5px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset2&#8243; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-5px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Blog<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb image=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/S-DIVI-Podcast-Paarleben-Himmel-und-H\u00f6lle-Kopie.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Couple life &#8211; heaven and hell&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; body_line_height=&#8221;0em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|10px|0px|10px|false|false&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/podcast-couples-life-heaven-hell\/&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|3px|3px|3px|3px&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;5px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset2&#8243; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-5px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Podcast<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb image=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Vita.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Pubilications&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; body_line_height=&#8221;0em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|10px|0px|10px|false|false&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/books-and-essays\/&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|3px|3px|3px|3px&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;5px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset2&#8243; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-5px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Books<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb image=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DIVI-S-Videos-Icon.png&#8221; alt=&#8221;Videos with Thomas Ge\u00dfner&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; body_line_height=&#8221;0em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|10px|0px|10px|false|false&#8221; link_option_url=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/videos\/&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|3px|3px|3px|3px&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;5px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset2&#8243; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-5px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Videos<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>[et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.4&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_divider]<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DGfS_Lehrtherapeut_CMYK.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;DGfS Teaching Therapist&#8221; title_text=&#8221;dgfs_lehrtherapeut_cmyk&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DGfS_Weiterbildung_RGB-300-Pixel.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Recognised Training of the DGfS&#8221; title_text=&#8221;DGfS_Weiterbildung_RGB 300 Pixel&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DGfS_Systemaufsteller_RGB-klein.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Recognised Systemic Constellation Facilitator of the DGfS&#8221; title_text=&#8221;DGfS_Systemaufsteller_RGB klein&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DGfS_Weiterbildner_RGB.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Recognised trainer of the DGfS (German Society for Training and Education)&#8221; title_text=&#8221;trainer of the DGfS (German Society for Training and Education)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Ge\u00dfner practices and teaches phenomenological constellation work, life-integration-process (lip according to Nelles) and counseling. Methodologically, he focuses on the distinction between the relatively safe &#8220;now&#8221; of a person and his perhaps threatening &#8220;then&#8221;, and in terms of content on what life wants from us and how we can follow it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12501,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15376","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19718,"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15376\/revisions\/19718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gessner-aufstellungen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}