Rafe uses pieces of felt to layout the dynamics of your system - you get a chance to "stand in the place of" one of your forebears - it can have a great impact - sometimes showing the pain in one of the ancestral lines Enabling the movement of elements of a family or even business system with pices of felt on the floor, or wooden pieces on a table, can establish very real shifts in the relationship between those different elements, in real life - sometimes remarkably rapidly.