Family Constellations: Essential Elements of Facilitation

The Essential Elements of Facilitation is a 13-month live online Family Constellations training course designed to strengthen your personal and professional development as a facilitator. Whether you're on the certification track or simply seeking to deepen your understanding of systemic work, this course offers a rich, immersive exploration of the core skills required to lead healing constellations.

Through live lectures, experiential group exercises, role-playing, breakout rooms, and guided constellation demonstrations, you'll develop a grounded, phenomenological understanding of family systems free from judgment, interpretation, or pity. You'll learn how to use healing sentences, systemic interventions, and intuitive perception to support meaningful shifts for clients.

You'll also receive access to curated learning materials, including recommended books, articles, videos, charts, and facilitator notes to help anchor key concepts. While this course is required for the Family Constellations Facilitator Certification Program, it is open to anyone interested in facilitation, or already a trained facilitator who wishes to strengthen or refine their facilitation skills.


What you'll learn in the Essential Elements Facilitator Training

By the end of this 13-month Family Constellations course, you will:

  • Practice the core skills of systemic facilitation and representation

  • Cultivate a phenomenological way of seeing love, relationships, and family patterns

  • Explore systemic dynamics through interactive small-group exercises

  • Build competence in 13 essential facilitation topics

  • Use healing sentences to resolve systemic entanglements

  • Understand and repair the Orders of Love using practical interventions

  • Recognize systemic dynamics as felt, embodied experiences

  • Access insights from the knowing field to guide constellations with intuition and presence

Core topics covered in this live online training

You'll dive deeply into 13 foundational areas of systemic facilitation, including:

  • 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 essential topics for Family Constellations practitioners

Course requirements

  1. Prior participation in Family Constellations (online or in-person)

  2. Completion of the required reading assignments from the book list with reading guides plus watching constellation videos. There are assignments for each topic to be turned into the instructor prior to classes.

    • Love's Hidden Symmetry — Bert Hellinger, Gunthard Weber & Hunter Beaumont (1998)

    • The Art and Practice of Family Constellations — Bertold Ulsamer (2020)

    • Family Constellations: A Practical Guide — Joy Manne, Ph.D. (2007)

Please read the Policies & Agreement, Code of Ethics, and the Representative Guidelines for Online Workshops.

Cost

$950 USD: 13-month live online Essential Elements of Facilitation course. A $100 deposit is required to reserve your place. Full payment due by May 6, 2026.

$475 USD: to repeat the complete 13-session training.

International discounts and payment plans available.

  • January 23, 2027 – Guilt, Innocence and Order

    February 20, 2027  – Knowing Field / Phenomenological Stance

    March 20, 2027 – Children and Parents

    April 24, 2027 – Order, Energy and Facts

    May 22, 2027 – Man and Woman

    June 26, 2027 – Practical Aspects of Constellations

    July 24, 2027  – Healing Words and Sentences

    August 21, 2027  – Individual Sessions

    September 18, 2027 – Interrupted Reaching Out Movement

    October 23, 2027 –  Illness, Disease, Death and Fate

    November 20, 2027  – Being a Constellations Leader

    December 18, 2027 – Violence, Psychosis and Darkness

    January 22, 2028 – Working With Clients / Orders of Helping

    Saturdays: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CDT/CST (Chicago, USA)

    Additional Sections may be added based on interest.

Days/Times for 2026-2027

Saturdays: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM CDT/CST (Chicago, USA) Additional sections may be offered based on interest. Sessions are recorded for participants.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • 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.

  • ​​Family Constellations is based on three core principles:

    • Belonging: Every family member has an equal right to belong.

    • Order: There is a natural hierarchy in family systems based on birth order 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.

  • ​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.

  • "One of the most beneficial aspects of attending ongoing group Family Constellation workshops with Barry Krost that I have personally experienced is the positive shifting of family patterns — even when you are not chosen as ‘the client.’ I have received physical and energetic confirmation that an excluded family member has been brought back into the family system and order has been restored even though this family situation had never been directly addressed in an individual or group constellation. Barry is extremely adept at reading the energy of the room, whether in person or on zoom, and prioritizing the situations he feels most urgently need to be shifted in that moment. In this way everyone involved in the constellation, from the client to the witness, is reaping the maximum energetic reward from the constellation experience as we have similar generational patterns, entanglements, and exclusions in our family lineages. What’s the expression…Priceless!"

    —Lisa H

  • ​"As a teacher and facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations, Barry Krost is one of those rare gems whose words and practices align and land in a place of heart-centered compassion and authenticity. Throw in some solid humility and a dash of humor, and the outcome results in a lighthearted sense of safety for the client/student on the receiving end to explore their family/systemic dynamics in greater depth. His grasp of the conceptual is masterful, and yet, he is open to being challenged and changed, as he journeys through the work with you as a gentle guide. I’m delighted and relieved to know that Barry’s wisdom is reaching far and wide these days, and am deeply honored to travel in the same sacred healing circles as this gifted soul!"

    —Susan Crimmins, Ph.D., California USA. Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), MSW, Certified Energy Healer, Facilitator of Systemic Constellations with Horse