Essential Elements of Family Constellations Facilitation Training
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
By the end of this 13-month training, you will:
Practice the core skills of systemic facilitation and representation.
Cultivate a phenomenological way of perceiving love, relationships, and family patterns.
Explore systemic dynamics through interactive small-group exercises.
Build competence in 13 essential facilitation topics.
Use healing sentences to help resolve systemic entanglements.
Understand and restore the Orders of Love through practical interventions.
Recognize systemic dynamics as felt, embodied experiences.
Develop the capacity to perceive the Knowing Field with greater confidence, presence, and discernment.
Core Training Topics
Throughout the training, you'll explore thirteen foundational areas of Family Constellation 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 other essential topics that support competent and ethical Family Constellation facilitation.
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Course requirements
Previous participation in Family Constellations through online or in-person workshops is required.
To remain enrolled, participants are expected to:
Attend at least 80% of the live sessions.
Complete the assigned reading and submit reading guide questions before each class.
Watch assigned Family Constellation videos
Read the Policies & Agreement, Code of Ethics, and the Representative Guidelines for Online Workshops.
Required Reading
Loves Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships, — 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)
Participants who complete all the requirements receive a Certificate of Completion.
Tuition
$950 USD
13-month live online Essential Elements of Facilitation training.
A $100 deposit reserves your place. Full payment is due by December 23, 2026.
$475 USD
Repeat the complete 13-session training.
International discounts and payment plans are available.
Training Schedule
The training follows a structured sequence of monthly topics that build progressively throughout the year. Each session builds on the capacities developed in earlier meetings while preparing participants for the work that follows.
Your Instructor
Barry Krost has been studying Family Constellations since 2003 and brings over 40 years of experience in bodywork, somatic education, and systemic healing. A former high school teacher, he has taught massage, bodywork, and continuing education since 1992 and has developed professional training programs for practitioners and helping professionals. He teaches Family Constellations internationally, mentors facilitators through his Family Constellations Training & Certification Program, and has presented at international systemic constellations conferences. His teaching emphasizes presence, disciplined perception, ethical facilitation, and the practical skills needed to facilitate Family Constellations with confidence, clarity, and integrity.
What Students Are Saying
★★★★★
“Barry is so experienced as a Family constellation facilitator and educator—I’ve learnt so much from him over the past year in his online group constellations and his Essentials development education for facilitators. Highly recommend!”
Elizabeth D.
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Registration
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Related Resources
This comprehensive guide introduces the principles, practices, and perspectives of Family Constellations. Learn how family relationships, belonging, the Orders of Love, the Knowing Field, and recurring family patterns may continue to influence life across generations through a clear, balanced, and experience-based approach.
Explore how systemic patterns, trauma, attachment, and unconscious loyalties may continue affecting later generations.
A constellation is often considered effective when hidden dynamics become visible and the client gains a broader understanding of their experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Family Constellation facilitator guides the process of exploring family relationships and patterns from a systemic perspective. Rather than interpreting or directing the experience, the facilitator carefully observes what emerges, supports the unfolding process, and helps participants remain connected to what is becoming visible. Effective facilitation requires presence, careful observation, systemic understanding, and respect for each person's experience.
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Family Constellations is often described through three foundational principles:
Belonging — Every member of a family has a place within the family system.
Order — Family relationships tend to function more smoothly when generational relationships are respected.
Balance — In many relationships, a healthy exchange of giving and receiving supports connection over time.
These principles provide one framework for understanding recurring family patterns and relationships.
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Family Constellations may be offered in therapeutic settings, but it is also practiced by facilitators from a variety of professional backgrounds, including coaching, education, bodywork, pastoral care, and organizational consulting. Rather than focusing only on individuals, it explores relationships within the broader context of the family system and the ways experiences across generations may continue influencing present-day life. It is not a replacement for psychotherapy, medical care, or mental health treatment.
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No. A Family Constellation facilitator does not prescribe solutions or tell participants what decisions to make. Their role is to observe carefully, support the unfolding process, and help participants explore what becomes visible within the constellation. Insights and decisions remain with the participant.