Biography of Albrecht Mahr

Albrecht Mahr (1943) started his career as a medical doctor, psychoanalyst en expert in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. He studied several other methodologies , like body-oriented therapy, lichaamsgerichte therapie, gestalttherapie, hypnotherapy (Milton Erickson), musictherapie en holotropic breathing. From 1987 Albrecht worked together with Bert Hellinger on systemic constellation and became a systemic therapist.

In a systemic way he works together with individuals, couples and groups. Albrecht Mahr also gives supervision to constellations that work with psychosomatics and social institutions. He gives training about family constellations in several countries and wrote articles about working together with Hellinger.

A summary of the work of Albrecht Mahr

• Albrecht Mahr is the CEO of the Systemic Constellations and Integrative Solutions Institute, Würzburg. Hereby he offers training worldwide for clients and organizes international conferences about systemic aspects, to solve big group conflicts.
• In between 2008 and 2011 he was the CEO of the International Working Group for Systemic Solutions.
• Albrecht Mahr is the co-founder of  ISCA – International Systemic Constellations Association.
• Founder and CEO of IFPC – International Forum Political Constellations. IFPC offers systemic counseling, supervision and therapy for clients of the political field.   
• Faculty member at the MA Peace Studies Program, University of Innsbruck.
• Since 2006 Albrecht Mahr teaches systemic work as a means for Conflict Transformation.
• Faculty member at the IAPI – Institut Africain pour la Psychology Intégrale in Kigali, Rwanda.
• Since 2008, Albrecht Mahr teaches systemic work in the context of the community based “Guérir les blessures de la vie” (healing the wounds of life) program, which is financed by Coopération Suisse (Swiss governmental institute for development and collaboration).
• In 2010, during the EU chair “From reactive to preventive diplomacy”, Albrecht Mahr presented about “Prevention of mass human rights infringement by doing political constellations and related treatments”.
• Since 2014, Albrecht Mahr is member of UNFPA Expert Group on Humanistic Integrative Approaches to Gender Based Violence at the UN, New York.
• Publications from Albrecht Mahr:
  Multiple texts about theory and practical apllications of systemic work in  German and English systemic magazines.
  Editor of “Konfliktfelder – Wissende Felder. Systemaufstellungen in der Friedens- und Versöhnungsarbeit”
  In 2016 the publication of the book “Von den Illusionen einer unversehrten Kindheit und dem Glück, erwachsen zu sein” was released. This book has not been translated yet.