Learn the Essential Skills to Confidently Facilitate Family Constellations Therapy
Gain deep insight into family systems and build the practical skills you need to guide healing constellations with confidence, presence, and clarity.
About This Training
The Essential Elements of Facilitation is a 13-week online training designed to support your personal and professional development as a Family Constellations facilitator. Whether you’re on the certification path or simply want to deepen your understanding, this course offers a rich, immersive experience in the foundational elements of systemic facilitation.
Through lectures, group exercises, role-playing, Zoom breakout rooms, and live constellation demonstrations, you’ll gain a phenomenological understanding of family systems—free of judgment or pity—and learn how to support meaningful shifts for clients using healing sentences and systemic interventions.
You’ll also explore a variety of learning resources, including recommended books, articles, videos, notes, and charts to help reinforce key concepts.
While this training is a required course in the Family Constellations Facilitator Certification, it is open to anyone with prior Family Constellations experience who wants to learn or refine facilitation skills.
Through lectures, group exercises, role-playing, Zoom breakout rooms, and live constellation demonstrations, you’ll gain a phenomenological understanding of family systems—free of judgment or pity—and learn how to support meaningful shifts for clients using healing sentences and systemic interventions.
You’ll also explore a variety of learning resources, including recommended books, articles, videos, notes, and charts to help reinforce key concepts.
While this training is a required course in the Family Constellations Facilitator Certification, it is open to anyone with prior Family Constellations experience who wants to learn or refine facilitation skills.
What You’ll Learn
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By the end of this course, you will:
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Topics Covered
Some of the 13 core facilitation topics include:
- The Knowing Field
- Orders of Love
- Entanglements and Loyalties
- Trauma and the Nervous System
- Healing Movements and Sentences
- Phenomenological Perception
- Personal and Collective Conscience
- Interventions and Timing
- Boundaries and Ethics in Facilitation
- And more
Course Requirements
Prerequisites:
- Prior experience participating in Family Constellations (live or online)
- Completion of required reading (see below)
- Love’s Hidden Symmetry by Bert Hellinger with Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont (1998)
- The Art and Practice of Family Constellations by Bertold Ulsamer (2020)
- Family Constellations: A Practical Guide by Joy Manne, Ph.D. (2007)
Class Schedule & Cost
Cost:
- $850 USD
- $425 USD to repeat the 13 sessions
- International discounts and payment plans available
- Section A: Fridays 6 PM - 9 PM CST | Saturdays 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM NZDT
- Section B: Saturdays | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
2025 - 2026
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October 24/25, 2025
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May 22/23, 2026
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FAQs About the Essential Elements of Family Constellations Facilitation
1. What is a Family Constellation Facilitator?
A Family Constellation Facilitator is a trained guide who leads individuals or groups through the therapeutic process of exploring hidden dynamics in their family system. Using representatives or objects, the facilitator helps reveal entanglements, ancestral patterns, and unresolved trauma that may be impacting your current life. At Healing Body Therapeutics in Chicago, Barry Krost brings over 40 years of experience to create a safe and compassionate space for transformation.
2. Does Family Constellation Therapy really work?
Many clients report powerful insights and emotional shifts after just one session. Family Constellation Therapy is not about talk therapy or analysis—it works on a deeper energetic and systemic level. While results vary, clients often feel more clarity, emotional relief, and improved relationships. At Healing Body Therapeutics, we’ve seen this process support lasting change for those open to healing intergenerational patterns.
3. What are the principles of Family Constellations?
Family Constellations is based on three core principles:
Belonging – Every member of the family has an equal right to belong.
Order – There is a natural hierarchy in family systems based on the order of birth and time.
Balance – Giving and receiving must be in harmony for healthy relationships.
These principles guide facilitators in identifying where the flow of love and connection may be disrupted.
Belonging – Every member of the family has an equal right to belong.
Order – There is a natural hierarchy in family systems based on the order of birth and time.
Balance – Giving and receiving must be in harmony for healthy relationships.
These principles guide facilitators in identifying where the flow of love and connection may be disrupted.
4. What are the side effects of Family Constellation Therapy?
While side effects are generally positive—such as increased awareness and emotional release—some individuals may experience temporary discomfort as old wounds or suppressed feelings rise to the surface. This is part of the healing process. At Healing Body Therapeutics, Barry Krost ensures each session is supported with care, integration, and grounding practices.
5. What is the most effective form of family therapy?
Effectiveness depends on the individual and their goals. Family Constellation Therapy is especially effective for addressing deep-rooted issues, generational trauma, and unresolved grief. It offers a systemic perspective that traditional therapy may not reach. For clients seeking insight beyond conscious awareness, this method can be life-changing.
What Participants Are Saying
“Barry is an integral teacher who embodies generosity, wisdom, warmth, and directness... I feel my knowledge of family constellations and facilitation has been brought to the next level under Barry’s guidance.”
— Rebecca Hadrill, Family & Organizational Constellations Facilitator, Ireland
“Barry’s excellent teaching skills combined with his thorough knowledge of the work has greatly enriched me as both a practitioner and as a human. I highly recommend it!”
— Martha Bache-Wiig
“It has been a truly transformative experience... I’ve grown as an individual, gained strength and resilience... and I have new and enormous compassion for all human beings.”
— Andrea D. Georgiou
— Rebecca Hadrill, Family & Organizational Constellations Facilitator, Ireland
“Barry’s excellent teaching skills combined with his thorough knowledge of the work has greatly enriched me as both a practitioner and as a human. I highly recommend it!”
— Martha Bache-Wiig
“It has been a truly transformative experience... I’ve grown as an individual, gained strength and resilience... and I have new and enormous compassion for all human beings.”
— Andrea D. Georgiou