Sometimes referred to as the Informing Field or the Informational Field, the following is a quote from Jane Peterson’s Human Systems Institute website, “In constellations we are confronted with the phenomenon of representatives having access to knowledge or awareness that actually belongs to the people they are representing. In other words, the representatives are aware of feelings and relationships of someone they don’t know.”

The representative seems to connect with the “field” of the client’s internally felt system. Representative can also come into contact with the system’s information. What we have seen consistently in this work is that complete strangers, without any training whatsoever, are able to step in as a representative and begin to perceive the physical, emotional and knowing states of the one they are representing. They seem to be able to accurately tap into information and feelings that could not be otherwise known, guessed at, or assumed about the client’s family system or relationships.