Family Constellations online workshops explore the hidden generational entanglements that adversely impact your relationships, work, health and career.
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Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences.
Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. By working together online, participants have the chance to create constellations for other workshop members, resulting in a therapeutic and healing experience for everyone involved. Representing allows a member of a family system or some other important systemic element to be present in the constellation. This permits us to observe and sense the dynamics of the past by experiencing them through the representative's words, physical expressions, and movements. Instead of observing events from a distance, we immerse ourselves in them. By doing so, we can use the knowing field to understand how to mend, reconcile, and address the past in a different way than past generations. Bert Hellinger's teachings reveal that all family systems operate under natural laws that have an impact on their overall well-being. |
Family Constellations Online Workshop
When these laws are ignored or violated, it can have a detrimental effect on relationships and create systemic entanglements. These entanglements will persist, influencing emotional, physical, and mental well-being until they are resolved. Online Family Constellations workshops can help identify where these orders are broken and work to repair systemic entanglements. Then, the client is free to live their life without them. |
Information about Family Constellations online workshops
- In all of our online workshops everyone pays the same price and works together as a group and community.
- 100% refund if you cancel 24 hours or more before the workshop. 50% if you cancel less than 24 hours.
- All times on the 2024 schedule are for CHICAGO, IL USA.
- Workshops are NOT recorded but usually repeated.
Netflix is currently featuring the TV drama "Another Self" which includes Family Constellations as part of the story. Three women discover how their present is affected by the past and the power of Family Constellations to bring healing in their lives.
Schedule of Family Constellations online workshops 2024 - 2025
Reconciling Elderly Parent Dynamics with Family Constellations
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 6pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Many us at some point find ourselves caring for our elderly parents. Serious questions about decision making and our parents agency even as their physical and/or mental capacities decline challenge us to maintain the proper order and a healthy give and take required for love to continue to flow. It can be even more problematic if entanglements with our parents have not been resolved.
In this Family Constellations workshop, we will explore through discussion and experiences how to help our parents in a way the honors and respects them but allows us to remain children and not become parents to our parents.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 6pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Many us at some point find ourselves caring for our elderly parents. Serious questions about decision making and our parents agency even as their physical and/or mental capacities decline challenge us to maintain the proper order and a healthy give and take required for love to continue to flow. It can be even more problematic if entanglements with our parents have not been resolved.
In this Family Constellations workshop, we will explore through discussion and experiences how to help our parents in a way the honors and respects them but allows us to remain children and not become parents to our parents.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Brief Family Constellations that Get to the Heart of the Matter
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 10am-1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Family Constellations can be created in highly intensive short processes that get right to the issue and a possible resolution quickly. This workshop will be of interest for those new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants who are interested in these shorter therapeutic sessions.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 10am-1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Family Constellations can be created in highly intensive short processes that get right to the issue and a possible resolution quickly. This workshop will be of interest for those new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants who are interested in these shorter therapeutic sessions.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Sexual Abuse in Family Systems
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Sexual Abuse results from systemic dynamics that reflect a deep brokenness in a family system. According to Bert Hellinger resolution becomes possible only when the complexity of the situation as a whole is clearly seen and the responsibility for the harm is returned to those who must be accountable. Often sexual abuse reflects emotional or sexual problems between parents who harm or allow harm to a child in their efforts to solve it. Viewed systemically the victims are sacrificed to avoid resolving unconscious conflicts, required to consciously keep the sexual abuse secret, and bare the shame and guilt that is not their doing.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. Prerequisites: one previous Family Constellations workshop or permission of the facilitator.
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Sexual Abuse results from systemic dynamics that reflect a deep brokenness in a family system. According to Bert Hellinger resolution becomes possible only when the complexity of the situation as a whole is clearly seen and the responsibility for the harm is returned to those who must be accountable. Often sexual abuse reflects emotional or sexual problems between parents who harm or allow harm to a child in their efforts to solve it. Viewed systemically the victims are sacrificed to avoid resolving unconscious conflicts, required to consciously keep the sexual abuse secret, and bare the shame and guilt that is not their doing.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. Prerequisites: one previous Family Constellations workshop or permission of the facilitator.
Family Constellations for Systemic & Individual Healing
Friday, December 20, 2024 at 6pm - 9:00pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants to create a healing experience for everyone.Then we look to see what can be healed for the client and their system.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
No prerequisites.
Friday, December 20, 2024 at 6pm - 9:00pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants to create a healing experience for everyone.Then we look to see what can be healed for the client and their system.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
No prerequisites.
Working with the Dead in Family Constellations
Sunday, December 22, 2024 at 11:00am - 2:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Family Constellations often are an encounter with the dead, who in some mysterious way are still present and can be accessed through representative perception and the knowing field. Bert Hellinger refers to those who have not completed their death process and remain as the “incomplete dead.”
In this workshop, we will further subdivide the incomplete dead into the "barely dead," those who do not know they are dead, and the "mostly dead," those who know they are dead but are unwilling to leave or are held by the living from completing their death.
Frequently the dead are still experiencing rage about their life (or death) and are unable to let go. Sometimes they are still wanting revenge or justice or reacting to past trauma. The dead who were perpetrators can be fearful of the consequences of their actions or refuse to release the power they feel in perpetration, and they too will resist complete death no matter the consequences to the living.
A healthy family system requires that the dead withdraw when it is their time. Following an overview of working with the dead in Family Constellations, we will set up several Family Constellations to learn to recognize and work effectively with the incomplete dead to restore symmetry and balance to the client’s family system.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Sunday, December 22, 2024 at 11:00am - 2:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Family Constellations often are an encounter with the dead, who in some mysterious way are still present and can be accessed through representative perception and the knowing field. Bert Hellinger refers to those who have not completed their death process and remain as the “incomplete dead.”
In this workshop, we will further subdivide the incomplete dead into the "barely dead," those who do not know they are dead, and the "mostly dead," those who know they are dead but are unwilling to leave or are held by the living from completing their death.
Frequently the dead are still experiencing rage about their life (or death) and are unable to let go. Sometimes they are still wanting revenge or justice or reacting to past trauma. The dead who were perpetrators can be fearful of the consequences of their actions or refuse to release the power they feel in perpetration, and they too will resist complete death no matter the consequences to the living.
A healthy family system requires that the dead withdraw when it is their time. Following an overview of working with the dead in Family Constellations, we will set up several Family Constellations to learn to recognize and work effectively with the incomplete dead to restore symmetry and balance to the client’s family system.
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Sperm and Egg: Entanglements Around Conception
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Often children feel a deep pain about their conception. If the moment of conception for the parents contains shame, ambivalence or anger at a conscious or unconscious level, instead of ecstasy, joy or fullness, the child can feel burdened with guilt regarding their conception. This experience creates entanglements that include loyalties, sacrifice or atonement out of guilt for their conception.
Setting up a Family Constellation at the moment of conception with representations for the sperm and egg can allow us to explore the hidden dynamics occurring in this moment and search for resolutions that will help the client to have a different feeling/image about their conception.
These constellations can also be used to help clients experiencing challenges with conceiving a child. Systemic dynamics may be blocking the sperm and egg from merging, with the sperm often resistant to reaching out to the egg. This approach can be particularly helpful for children who are conceived through sperm or egg donations.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Often children feel a deep pain about their conception. If the moment of conception for the parents contains shame, ambivalence or anger at a conscious or unconscious level, instead of ecstasy, joy or fullness, the child can feel burdened with guilt regarding their conception. This experience creates entanglements that include loyalties, sacrifice or atonement out of guilt for their conception.
Setting up a Family Constellation at the moment of conception with representations for the sperm and egg can allow us to explore the hidden dynamics occurring in this moment and search for resolutions that will help the client to have a different feeling/image about their conception.
These constellations can also be used to help clients experiencing challenges with conceiving a child. Systemic dynamics may be blocking the sperm and egg from merging, with the sperm often resistant to reaching out to the egg. This approach can be particularly helpful for children who are conceived through sperm or egg donations.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Scapegoats and Systemic Sacrifice
Saturday, January 18 2025 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Many family systems with traumatic and challenging histories choose children to carry a heavy, shameful burden as a scapegoat. Often these are children who are most entangled with someone shameful in the past who must be excluded, concealed or punished. The family scapegoat ends up getting criticized, blamed for everything that goes wrong within the family particularly for those past and present family members who will not take responsibility for their own actions and mistakes. Sometimes scapegoats hold the pain and suffering of the family system in the form of physical or mental illness.
Scapegoats carry their burden out of a need for belonging but are faced with exclusion, concealment and gaslighting. Often they are the symptom-bearer of whatever secrets and suffering that is hidden deep in the family. Their symptoms draw attention away from l what is unresolved and terrifying. The scapegoat is also the one most likely to care about for justice in the family, defending themselves and other family members from perpetration but without hope of healthy belonging and love.
In this workshop we will look at the hidden dynamics behind scapegoats and explore systemic solutions that bring order, healing and relief to those burdened and alone.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Saturday, January 18 2025 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Many family systems with traumatic and challenging histories choose children to carry a heavy, shameful burden as a scapegoat. Often these are children who are most entangled with someone shameful in the past who must be excluded, concealed or punished. The family scapegoat ends up getting criticized, blamed for everything that goes wrong within the family particularly for those past and present family members who will not take responsibility for their own actions and mistakes. Sometimes scapegoats hold the pain and suffering of the family system in the form of physical or mental illness.
Scapegoats carry their burden out of a need for belonging but are faced with exclusion, concealment and gaslighting. Often they are the symptom-bearer of whatever secrets and suffering that is hidden deep in the family. Their symptoms draw attention away from l what is unresolved and terrifying. The scapegoat is also the one most likely to care about for justice in the family, defending themselves and other family members from perpetration but without hope of healthy belonging and love.
In this workshop we will look at the hidden dynamics behind scapegoats and explore systemic solutions that bring order, healing and relief to those burdened and alone.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Autoimmune Disease
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
In Family Constellations we look at autoimmune disease as a symptom of entanglements with the past, sometime with our immediate family and often with events of long ago. Autoimmune diseases may indicate our bodies rejecting and battling these entanglements.,Autoimmune diseases seem connected to entanglements of resistance, secrets and distance while other illnesses seem connected to entanglement about sacrifice, parentification and exclusion.
We lose our sense of self when we become entangled and identify with someone who is not us. Often we feel foreign energies, thoughts and feelings that are not us or conflicts or dynamics that did not happen to us, AND they can unconsciously cause us to resist, withdraw, fight or surrender. These entangled feelings can result in physical symptoms or illnesses that attempt to deal with what does not belong within us. This can appear as an inflammatory response as our immune system fights against what does not belong..
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
In Family Constellations we look at autoimmune disease as a symptom of entanglements with the past, sometime with our immediate family and often with events of long ago. Autoimmune diseases may indicate our bodies rejecting and battling these entanglements.,Autoimmune diseases seem connected to entanglements of resistance, secrets and distance while other illnesses seem connected to entanglement about sacrifice, parentification and exclusion.
We lose our sense of self when we become entangled and identify with someone who is not us. Often we feel foreign energies, thoughts and feelings that are not us or conflicts or dynamics that did not happen to us, AND they can unconsciously cause us to resist, withdraw, fight or surrender. These entangled feelings can result in physical symptoms or illnesses that attempt to deal with what does not belong within us. This can appear as an inflammatory response as our immune system fights against what does not belong..
This unique Family Constellations Online Workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
ADHD and Hidden Systemic Dynamics
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
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Family Constellations for Systemic & Individual Healing
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 2:30pm - 5:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore the hidden dynamics that deeply affect an issue holder and their family system. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants. Working together creates healing experiences for all the participants.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
We will do 3-5 Family Constellations on any issue.
No prerequisites.
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 2:30pm - 5:30pm (CST)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore the hidden dynamics that deeply affect an issue holder and their family system. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants. Working together creates healing experiences for all the participants.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
We will do 3-5 Family Constellations on any issue.
No prerequisites.
Family Constellations for Systemic & Individual Healing
Saturday, April 25, 2025 at 2:30pm - 5:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore the hidden dynamics that deeply affect an issue holder and their family system. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants. Working together creates healing experiences for all the participants.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
We will do 3-5 Family Constellations on any issue.
No prerequisites.
Saturday, April 25, 2025 at 2:30pm - 5:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore the hidden dynamics that deeply affect an issue holder and their family system. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants. Working together creates healing experiences for all the participants.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
We will do 3-5 Family Constellations on any issue.
No prerequisites.
More workshops in 2025
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Systemic & Individual Healing
- Systemic Dynamics of Divorce and Remarriage with Children
- Dynamics of Alcohol Abuse
- Generational Trauma and Murder
- Family Constellations for Adoption
- Systemic Suffering: Guilt, Innocence and Loyalty
- Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
- Cancer as a Symptom of Systemic Imbalance
Barry Krost is a Family Constellations Facilitator and Trainer. He has been in private practice for over 40 years and began exploring Family Constellations in 2003. He has worked with many leading Family Constellations trainers and facilitators in the US and Europe.
Testimonials About Family Constellations Online Workshops
"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, Palatine, Illinois, USA
"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
"Thanks so much Barry for a truly enlightening seminar! I now have a clearer understanding of narcissism, the core of current politics, what creates mass murderers, and the dynamics of murder in general. It will take a while to digest all of the information on perpetration both political and familial and the systemic solutions. IROm or interrupted movement is always at work. Your seminar was so instructive and valuable! "
-- Vicki Santell, Florida, USA
“Life as I know it has been shifting in the most peacefully invigorating ways since my first Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. Each time, no matter whether I’m the client, the representative, or the witness, I experience elements of my family and interpersonal relationships, as well as life in general showing up in incrementally improved ways.
Barry’s passion and enthusiasm for ancestral healing and personal growth is infectious. While respectfully honoring and communicating Bert Hellinger’s foundational teachings, Barry is a unique and masterful facilitator, teacher, mentor, and healer. He is continually implementing innovative workshops to address current life situations, working with energies in all realms, in addition to addressing foundational issues.
Barry often humorously tells us that he doesn’t know what the $#^@&* he’s doing. It is obvious to all of us fortunate to be in a therapeutic session with him, that Barry’s ability to be in the flow of the present moment informs his ability to tune into and execute exactly what is needed in each moment of healing”
-- Lisa H, Illinois, USA
"It took me many years to attend a Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. I tend to lean towards evidence-based interventions that are logical and pragmatic. Eventually I found this approach to be limiting, and my conventional strategies of psychotherapy and medication were not working. I felt stuck, in a rut, revisiting the same past hurts again and again and living a day-to-day life haunted by a pervasive anxiety and chronic pain. One day, I took a what-the-hell it's only $45 attitude, and figured at the very least it couldn't hurt.
"I was completely blown away. This form of therapy is so much more holistic than anything that I have tried before, and I have done the gamut (CBT, EMDR, MBSR, somatic-emotional release, client-centered psychotherapy, internal family systems, etc.) Family Constellation Workshops are physical, kinesthetic, emotional, and spiritual work. I grew up in a less than supportive environment and I tend to be highly critical of myself, and often unfairly of others. The unconditional and unwavering support of this group was truly profound. The people in the workshop helped ground me in knowledge that I began to accept at an emotional level rather than superficial intellectual understanding.
To give an example, at one point I leaned back into a line of about seven women who were standing there with the sole purpose of supporting me. As my resistance and need to be in control finally began to soften, the woman behind me spontaneously began to hum like a mother does to a child. Almost immediately, I melted and I began to weep, not in the half choked sobs I am familiar with, but a gentle catharsis of grief I had been holding on to for years. I had held so many others up in times of pain, given when I had nothing left to give, and now I leaned back into the steady strength of a literal line of women and a symbolic lineage of mothers. Their wordless, selfless compassion registered in my body and soul and lifted me up. Barry intuited that I was rushing myself, ashamed of taking too much time... and he told me "take all the time you need. This is for you," and he whispered to the woman behind me "she's never had this before." He was right. For the first time I truly *felt* that I was not alone. I was supported, I was cherished, loved, and safe. In the sacredness of that space I was finally able to *receive* and I will carry it with me always. "
-- E, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
-- Lisa H, Palatine, Illinois, USA
"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
"Thanks so much Barry for a truly enlightening seminar! I now have a clearer understanding of narcissism, the core of current politics, what creates mass murderers, and the dynamics of murder in general. It will take a while to digest all of the information on perpetration both political and familial and the systemic solutions. IROm or interrupted movement is always at work. Your seminar was so instructive and valuable! "
-- Vicki Santell, Florida, USA
“Life as I know it has been shifting in the most peacefully invigorating ways since my first Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. Each time, no matter whether I’m the client, the representative, or the witness, I experience elements of my family and interpersonal relationships, as well as life in general showing up in incrementally improved ways.
Barry’s passion and enthusiasm for ancestral healing and personal growth is infectious. While respectfully honoring and communicating Bert Hellinger’s foundational teachings, Barry is a unique and masterful facilitator, teacher, mentor, and healer. He is continually implementing innovative workshops to address current life situations, working with energies in all realms, in addition to addressing foundational issues.
Barry often humorously tells us that he doesn’t know what the $#^@&* he’s doing. It is obvious to all of us fortunate to be in a therapeutic session with him, that Barry’s ability to be in the flow of the present moment informs his ability to tune into and execute exactly what is needed in each moment of healing”
-- Lisa H, Illinois, USA
"It took me many years to attend a Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. I tend to lean towards evidence-based interventions that are logical and pragmatic. Eventually I found this approach to be limiting, and my conventional strategies of psychotherapy and medication were not working. I felt stuck, in a rut, revisiting the same past hurts again and again and living a day-to-day life haunted by a pervasive anxiety and chronic pain. One day, I took a what-the-hell it's only $45 attitude, and figured at the very least it couldn't hurt.
"I was completely blown away. This form of therapy is so much more holistic than anything that I have tried before, and I have done the gamut (CBT, EMDR, MBSR, somatic-emotional release, client-centered psychotherapy, internal family systems, etc.) Family Constellation Workshops are physical, kinesthetic, emotional, and spiritual work. I grew up in a less than supportive environment and I tend to be highly critical of myself, and often unfairly of others. The unconditional and unwavering support of this group was truly profound. The people in the workshop helped ground me in knowledge that I began to accept at an emotional level rather than superficial intellectual understanding.
To give an example, at one point I leaned back into a line of about seven women who were standing there with the sole purpose of supporting me. As my resistance and need to be in control finally began to soften, the woman behind me spontaneously began to hum like a mother does to a child. Almost immediately, I melted and I began to weep, not in the half choked sobs I am familiar with, but a gentle catharsis of grief I had been holding on to for years. I had held so many others up in times of pain, given when I had nothing left to give, and now I leaned back into the steady strength of a literal line of women and a symbolic lineage of mothers. Their wordless, selfless compassion registered in my body and soul and lifted me up. Barry intuited that I was rushing myself, ashamed of taking too much time... and he told me "take all the time you need. This is for you," and he whispered to the woman behind me "she's never had this before." He was right. For the first time I truly *felt* that I was not alone. I was supported, I was cherished, loved, and safe. In the sacredness of that space I was finally able to *receive* and I will carry it with me always. "
-- E, Madison, Wisconsin, USA