Past Family Constellations Workshops
Family Constellations: Healing Deeply Held Suffering In Family Systems
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
Often in family systems there is suffering that has existed for a long time that is challenging to reveal and resolve. We sometime see patterns that are like fractals over time that resist change. Finding the source of these issues can help to clear long held suffering and release the client from the burden of identifying not just with an ancestor but with a system wide trauma.During this workshop we will explore the issue about deep suffering through group constellations processes and guided meditations in accordance with the philosophy and principles founded by Bert Hellinger (1925-2019).
Brief Family Constellations that Get to the Heart of the Matter
December 1, 2020
Family Constellations can be created in highly intensive short processes that get right to the issue and a possible resolution quickly. The workshop will include short overview for the entire group and 3-6 Family Constellations with participants on any topic that shows up. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators. All participants pay the same price.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
January 30, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics and inherited traumas that are often behind illnesses and diseases that are an expression of shame, guilt, mental illness, violence, war, immigration or an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system. Constellations reveal how the experiences of the past can dominate our present. Often without being aware, we are reliving the suffering of our ancestors through physical, emotional, mental or spiritual suffering. How can we move back into a beneficial connection to our family system so that we stand in the flow of life in a good way? This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Finding an Adult Place in the Family System: From Secondary to Primary Emotional Experience
February 16, 2021
Adults who are bound to the entanglement in their family system experience the system from secondary emotions that don't lead to action or movement. When an adult can free themselves from these entanglements and experience the system from primary emotions, they can take what is needed for healthy and satisfying relationships and a successful and meaningful life. Adults can also learn to find the primary emotions in themselves to help clear their entanglements and take action that leads to movement in their lives. In this workshop we will use guided meditation, rituals, and constellations to discover how to stand as healthy adults in our family system.
Family Constellations: Standing with the Strength of Men
March 6, 2021
Many clients find relief when they can stand with the strength of men. Often this strength is missing, replaced by the magical thinking of boys who are loyal to destructive or disconnected identifications that effect relationships, power and love. Both women and men often find a special kind of support when the healthy strength of men is rediscovered and restored to its place in the family system.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
March 23, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics that are often behind illness and disease that may be an expression of something that needs to be seen and acknowledged. Often illness and disease are an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system.
Family Constellations: Letting Go of Your Mother
April 17, 2021
Often our deepest pain is a missing connection with our mother and an absence of safety and healthy love. Early disruptions of our bond with her can lead to challenging relationships with others, the world and make our successes more difficult to accomplish. Our ability to let go of our mother and move forward with our lives can have a profound effect on our relationships, marriage, success, health and inner happiness. In this workshop we will look at ways that Family Constellations can help us to let go of our mother and move forward with our lives in a good way. We will explore this issue through group constellations processes and guided meditations.
Family Constellations: Being Friendly with Death
May 11, 2021
We can never fully thrive, mature and grow until we face death. When we can have a friendly relationship and acceptance of death we can have healthier relationships, manifest our personal and professional goals and stay connected to our family system in a good way that supports our life. Turning away from death keeps us in secondary emotional experience and more likely to maintain magical thinking from childhood. Avoiding death can also manifest illness and disease as we create tools that protect us from death that actually create suffering and reduce our capacity to respond to life. We will explore this topic with guided mediations and Family Constellations.
Brief Family Constellations that Get to the Heart of the Matter
June 5, 2021
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 workshop is one of three being offered this weekend.
Restoring Systemic Balance with Family Constellations
June 6, 2021
In this workshop we will create Family Constellations for issues that create imbalance in the family system and look for solutions that reconcile, honor and restore balance for the system and healing for the clients.This workshop is appropriate for first time attendees as well as those who have experienced Family Constellations. It includes a very brief overview of the orders of love and setting up family constellations for participants. This workshop is one of three being offered this weekend.
Family Constellations: Releasing Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics and Patterns
June 22, 2021
Every family system has the experience of the victim-perpetrator dynamics. When these traumas are unresolved, they continue to create suffering for those who come after until this original experience is allowed to be cleared and resolved into peace. Sometimes there are multiple events over many generations that become systemic patterns that require healing. In this workshop we will explore how to find reconciliation and resolution for these dynamics and patterns to restore healthy balance and boundaries for the client and their family system. The workshop will include an overview of the topic, guided meditation and family constellations several participants.
Family Constellations: Standing with the Strength of Men
July 11, 2021
Many clients find relief when they can stand with the strength of men. Often this strength is missing, replaced by the magical thinking of boys who are loyal to destructive or disconnected identifications that effect relationships, power and love. Both women and men often find a special kind of support when the healthy strength of men is rediscovered and restored to its place in the family system.
Working with the Dead in Family Constellations
July 24, 2021
Family Constellations often are an encounter with the dead, who in some mysterious way are still present and can be accessed through representative perception. Bert Hellinger refers to those who have not completed their death process and remain in some way 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 held in some way from completing their journey. We will also add the radiant dead—those who have completed their death and are far enough back in time to be an amazing resource for the client. Following a brief overview of the topic, we will use guided meditation and Family Constellations processes to learn to recognize and work effectively with the dead. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Energetic and Spiritual Protection for Family Constellations
August 21, 2021
Energetic and Spiritual Protection is important for keeping all participants and the facilitator safe with good boundaries and healthy practices. Keeping appropriate boundaries is a key part of our protection against all levels of potential infection or danger to our lives. At the level of the body our immune system has a complex approach to guarding us against harmful viruses, bacteria and parasites. After a lecture/discussion of the key concepts of protection we will use guided visualization to provide participants with new ideas and experience of a varied and complex approach to maintaining energetic and spiritual protections in a good way. This is even more important as we move into an online environment. This training is intended for those who are Facilitators or in a facilitator training.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
August 22, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics and inherited traumas that are often behind illnesses and diseases that are an expression of shame, guilt, mental illness, violence, war, immigration or an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system. Constellations reveal how the experiences of the past can dominate our present. Often without being aware, we are reliving the suffering of our ancestors through physical, emotional, mental or spiritual suffering. How can we move back into a beneficial connection to our family system so that we stand in the flow of life in a good way? This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Family Constellations: Being Friendly with Death
September 18, 2021
Turning away from death is an interrupted reaching out movement. Just as reaching out and taking life is essential so too must we in the end reach out to death to complete our life. Avoiding death can manifest illness and disease as we create tools that protect us from death that actually create suffering and reduce our capacity to respond to life. When we can have a friendly relationship and acceptance of death we can have healthier relationships, manifest our personal and professional goals and stay connected to our family system in a good way that supports our life. Following an overview of topic, we will explore this topic with guided mediations and Family Constellations. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators.
Family Constellations for Systemic Schizophrenia
October 16, 2021
Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations, suggested that schizophrenia was actually a systemic issue that sometimes showed up in individuals but actually affected the entire family system and many members specifically in some way. According to Hellinger, schizophrenia is the result of a murder within a family system. In such systems, the energies of the murderer and the victim are entwined, creating conflicting and paradoxical behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In some cases, specific family members can be deeply entangled with the murderer and the victim. Other family members may also be entangled in some way and suffer as well until the entanglement can be resolved and peace can prevail. Hellinger suggested that family members not diagnosed as schizophrenic could make a difference in helping with the pain surrounding those affected. There is work to do that can be helpful for everyone in the system and potentially those who suffer the most. Following an overview of the topic, including a video featuring Hellinger, we will set up 2-3 Family Constellations. This webinar is intended for those who have completed or are currently in formal Family Constellations training, have extensive experience, or have permission of instructor. This workshop is NOT for someone who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, nor is it designed as a substitute for therapy with a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or other mental health services professional, or for any other professional consultation. Family Constellations are designed as an educational (and often spiritual) experience only.
Looking at COVID as Grief with Family Constellations
November 3, 2021
The primary attack of COVID-19 is the lungs and respiratory system. In Chinese Medicine the lungs are related to grief. From that understanding we begin to explore COVID-19 and it’s possible relationship with grief.Our question is whether COVID-19 is an expression and symptom of generational trauma that is connected to grief and how does this effect our response and experience of the pandemic individually and systemically. The workshop will include short overview, a guided visualization for the entire group and 3-5 Family Constellations. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators.
Healing Generational Trauma with Family Constellations
November 20, 2021
Generational trauma shows up often in Family Constellations. In this workshop we will focus on the role of constellations in releasing inherited trauma through our understanding and experience with the Orders of Love (the natural laws of family systems that support love and wholeness) to support a movement towards individual and systemic healing. We will also include current theories about generational trauma, attention to body sensations, awareness of trauma responses and the role of attachment in prolonging trauma in individuals and family systems. The workshop will include an overview of the topic, a guided visualization for the entire group and several Family Constellations with participants on generational trauma. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators. This is not a workshop for someone in an active crisis.
Family Constellations for Healing Resolutions
December 18, 2021
Family Constellation can help us how we often share the suffering of family members and/or ancestors with whom we are entangled. These entanglements (or identifications) with family systems is a source of illness, emotional distress, problems in relationship, anxiety, depression and trauma. With Family Constellations we can discover how to acknowledge this suffering differently and separate ourselves from it. When we can see family members or ancestors as distinct from us, we don’t need to share their fate. We can begin to live our own unique lives freed from burdens that were never ours. Family Constellations can also help resolve issues around our birth and attachment style with our biological parents. The workshop will include short overview, a guided visualization for the entire group and 2-4 Family Constellations with participants on any topic that shows up. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators.
The Orders of Love in Family Constellations - Love’s Hidden Symmetry
January 8, 2022 - 10am-1:30pm (CST) / 17:00 (CET)
In this online workshop/training participants will read Loves Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships, by Bert Hellinger, Guthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont. Participants will complete reading guides / questions beforehand so that we can have a deep conversation about the Orders of Love. Love's Hidden Symmetry forms the foundation of understanding the early work of Bert Hellinger and the primary philosophy and principles of Family Constellations. Option video from this time period will also be available online. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators.
Philosophy, Principles and Facilitation of Family Constellations - 2022-2023
This online course will explore the philosophy, principles and facilitation of Family Constellations. As we read seven unique books, our discussions and experiential exercises will deepen our understanding, skill and capacity to stand stronger in the field with individuals and groups.
We will expand insights to uncover underlying family entanglements and systemic imbalances so that we can guide our clients to healthy resolutions and reconciliations. A deeper understanding of the philosophy and principles of Family Constellations grounds the facilitator, increases the comfort and ease of coming in tune with the greater forces that are accessed during constellations, and helps create the powerful moments that encourage profound healing for clients and their family systems. This course will strengthen the foundation of trained facilitators and those in training by enriching their intellectual understanding of Family Constellations while increasing the connection of this understanding with the wisdom of the heart and soul.
This course consists of 7 three-hour sessions with required reading, group discussions, videos and homework for each session.
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
Often in family systems there is suffering that has existed for a long time that is challenging to reveal and resolve. We sometime see patterns that are like fractals over time that resist change. Finding the source of these issues can help to clear long held suffering and release the client from the burden of identifying not just with an ancestor but with a system wide trauma.During this workshop we will explore the issue about deep suffering through group constellations processes and guided meditations in accordance with the philosophy and principles founded by Bert Hellinger (1925-2019).
Brief Family Constellations that Get to the Heart of the Matter
December 1, 2020
Family Constellations can be created in highly intensive short processes that get right to the issue and a possible resolution quickly. The workshop will include short overview for the entire group and 3-6 Family Constellations with participants on any topic that shows up. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators. All participants pay the same price.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
January 30, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics and inherited traumas that are often behind illnesses and diseases that are an expression of shame, guilt, mental illness, violence, war, immigration or an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system. Constellations reveal how the experiences of the past can dominate our present. Often without being aware, we are reliving the suffering of our ancestors through physical, emotional, mental or spiritual suffering. How can we move back into a beneficial connection to our family system so that we stand in the flow of life in a good way? This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Finding an Adult Place in the Family System: From Secondary to Primary Emotional Experience
February 16, 2021
Adults who are bound to the entanglement in their family system experience the system from secondary emotions that don't lead to action or movement. When an adult can free themselves from these entanglements and experience the system from primary emotions, they can take what is needed for healthy and satisfying relationships and a successful and meaningful life. Adults can also learn to find the primary emotions in themselves to help clear their entanglements and take action that leads to movement in their lives. In this workshop we will use guided meditation, rituals, and constellations to discover how to stand as healthy adults in our family system.
Family Constellations: Standing with the Strength of Men
March 6, 2021
Many clients find relief when they can stand with the strength of men. Often this strength is missing, replaced by the magical thinking of boys who are loyal to destructive or disconnected identifications that effect relationships, power and love. Both women and men often find a special kind of support when the healthy strength of men is rediscovered and restored to its place in the family system.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
March 23, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics that are often behind illness and disease that may be an expression of something that needs to be seen and acknowledged. Often illness and disease are an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system.
Family Constellations: Letting Go of Your Mother
April 17, 2021
Often our deepest pain is a missing connection with our mother and an absence of safety and healthy love. Early disruptions of our bond with her can lead to challenging relationships with others, the world and make our successes more difficult to accomplish. Our ability to let go of our mother and move forward with our lives can have a profound effect on our relationships, marriage, success, health and inner happiness. In this workshop we will look at ways that Family Constellations can help us to let go of our mother and move forward with our lives in a good way. We will explore this issue through group constellations processes and guided meditations.
Family Constellations: Being Friendly with Death
May 11, 2021
We can never fully thrive, mature and grow until we face death. When we can have a friendly relationship and acceptance of death we can have healthier relationships, manifest our personal and professional goals and stay connected to our family system in a good way that supports our life. Turning away from death keeps us in secondary emotional experience and more likely to maintain magical thinking from childhood. Avoiding death can also manifest illness and disease as we create tools that protect us from death that actually create suffering and reduce our capacity to respond to life. We will explore this topic with guided mediations and Family Constellations.
Brief Family Constellations that Get to the Heart of the Matter
June 5, 2021
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 workshop is one of three being offered this weekend.
Restoring Systemic Balance with Family Constellations
June 6, 2021
In this workshop we will create Family Constellations for issues that create imbalance in the family system and look for solutions that reconcile, honor and restore balance for the system and healing for the clients.This workshop is appropriate for first time attendees as well as those who have experienced Family Constellations. It includes a very brief overview of the orders of love and setting up family constellations for participants. This workshop is one of three being offered this weekend.
Family Constellations: Releasing Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics and Patterns
June 22, 2021
Every family system has the experience of the victim-perpetrator dynamics. When these traumas are unresolved, they continue to create suffering for those who come after until this original experience is allowed to be cleared and resolved into peace. Sometimes there are multiple events over many generations that become systemic patterns that require healing. In this workshop we will explore how to find reconciliation and resolution for these dynamics and patterns to restore healthy balance and boundaries for the client and their family system. The workshop will include an overview of the topic, guided meditation and family constellations several participants.
Family Constellations: Standing with the Strength of Men
July 11, 2021
Many clients find relief when they can stand with the strength of men. Often this strength is missing, replaced by the magical thinking of boys who are loyal to destructive or disconnected identifications that effect relationships, power and love. Both women and men often find a special kind of support when the healthy strength of men is rediscovered and restored to its place in the family system.
Working with the Dead in Family Constellations
July 24, 2021
Family Constellations often are an encounter with the dead, who in some mysterious way are still present and can be accessed through representative perception. Bert Hellinger refers to those who have not completed their death process and remain in some way 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 held in some way from completing their journey. We will also add the radiant dead—those who have completed their death and are far enough back in time to be an amazing resource for the client. Following a brief overview of the topic, we will use guided meditation and Family Constellations processes to learn to recognize and work effectively with the dead. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Energetic and Spiritual Protection for Family Constellations
August 21, 2021
Energetic and Spiritual Protection is important for keeping all participants and the facilitator safe with good boundaries and healthy practices. Keeping appropriate boundaries is a key part of our protection against all levels of potential infection or danger to our lives. At the level of the body our immune system has a complex approach to guarding us against harmful viruses, bacteria and parasites. After a lecture/discussion of the key concepts of protection we will use guided visualization to provide participants with new ideas and experience of a varied and complex approach to maintaining energetic and spiritual protections in a good way. This is even more important as we move into an online environment. This training is intended for those who are Facilitators or in a facilitator training.
Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
August 22, 2021
Family Constellations can be effective for revealing the hidden systemic dynamics and inherited traumas that are often behind illnesses and diseases that are an expression of shame, guilt, mental illness, violence, war, immigration or an attempt to resolve belonging to our parents and/or the family system. Constellations reveal how the experiences of the past can dominate our present. Often without being aware, we are reliving the suffering of our ancestors through physical, emotional, mental or spiritual suffering. How can we move back into a beneficial connection to our family system so that we stand in the flow of life in a good way? This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators.
Family Constellations: Being Friendly with Death
September 18, 2021
Turning away from death is an interrupted reaching out movement. Just as reaching out and taking life is essential so too must we in the end reach out to death to complete our life. Avoiding death can manifest illness and disease as we create tools that protect us from death that actually create suffering and reduce our capacity to respond to life. When we can have a friendly relationship and acceptance of death we can have healthier relationships, manifest our personal and professional goals and stay connected to our family system in a good way that supports our life. Following an overview of topic, we will explore this topic with guided mediations and Family Constellations. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators.
Family Constellations for Systemic Schizophrenia
October 16, 2021
Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations, suggested that schizophrenia was actually a systemic issue that sometimes showed up in individuals but actually affected the entire family system and many members specifically in some way. According to Hellinger, schizophrenia is the result of a murder within a family system. In such systems, the energies of the murderer and the victim are entwined, creating conflicting and paradoxical behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In some cases, specific family members can be deeply entangled with the murderer and the victim. Other family members may also be entangled in some way and suffer as well until the entanglement can be resolved and peace can prevail. Hellinger suggested that family members not diagnosed as schizophrenic could make a difference in helping with the pain surrounding those affected. There is work to do that can be helpful for everyone in the system and potentially those who suffer the most. Following an overview of the topic, including a video featuring Hellinger, we will set up 2-3 Family Constellations. This webinar is intended for those who have completed or are currently in formal Family Constellations training, have extensive experience, or have permission of instructor. This workshop is NOT for someone who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, nor is it designed as a substitute for therapy with a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or other mental health services professional, or for any other professional consultation. Family Constellations are designed as an educational (and often spiritual) experience only.
Looking at COVID as Grief with Family Constellations
November 3, 2021
The primary attack of COVID-19 is the lungs and respiratory system. In Chinese Medicine the lungs are related to grief. From that understanding we begin to explore COVID-19 and it’s possible relationship with grief.Our question is whether COVID-19 is an expression and symptom of generational trauma that is connected to grief and how does this effect our response and experience of the pandemic individually and systemically. The workshop will include short overview, a guided visualization for the entire group and 3-5 Family Constellations. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators.
Healing Generational Trauma with Family Constellations
November 20, 2021
Generational trauma shows up often in Family Constellations. In this workshop we will focus on the role of constellations in releasing inherited trauma through our understanding and experience with the Orders of Love (the natural laws of family systems that support love and wholeness) to support a movement towards individual and systemic healing. We will also include current theories about generational trauma, attention to body sensations, awareness of trauma responses and the role of attachment in prolonging trauma in individuals and family systems. The workshop will include an overview of the topic, a guided visualization for the entire group and several Family Constellations with participants on generational trauma. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators. This is not a workshop for someone in an active crisis.
Family Constellations for Healing Resolutions
December 18, 2021
Family Constellation can help us how we often share the suffering of family members and/or ancestors with whom we are entangled. These entanglements (or identifications) with family systems is a source of illness, emotional distress, problems in relationship, anxiety, depression and trauma. With Family Constellations we can discover how to acknowledge this suffering differently and separate ourselves from it. When we can see family members or ancestors as distinct from us, we don’t need to share their fate. We can begin to live our own unique lives freed from burdens that were never ours. Family Constellations can also help resolve issues around our birth and attachment style with our biological parents. The workshop will include short overview, a guided visualization for the entire group and 2-4 Family Constellations with participants on any topic that shows up. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants or facilitators.
The Orders of Love in Family Constellations - Love’s Hidden Symmetry
January 8, 2022 - 10am-1:30pm (CST) / 17:00 (CET)
In this online workshop/training participants will read Loves Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships, by Bert Hellinger, Guthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont. Participants will complete reading guides / questions beforehand so that we can have a deep conversation about the Orders of Love. Love's Hidden Symmetry forms the foundation of understanding the early work of Bert Hellinger and the primary philosophy and principles of Family Constellations. Option video from this time period will also be available online. This workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations and more experienced participants of facilitators.
Philosophy, Principles and Facilitation of Family Constellations - 2022-2023
This online course will explore the philosophy, principles and facilitation of Family Constellations. As we read seven unique books, our discussions and experiential exercises will deepen our understanding, skill and capacity to stand stronger in the field with individuals and groups.
We will expand insights to uncover underlying family entanglements and systemic imbalances so that we can guide our clients to healthy resolutions and reconciliations. A deeper understanding of the philosophy and principles of Family Constellations grounds the facilitator, increases the comfort and ease of coming in tune with the greater forces that are accessed during constellations, and helps create the powerful moments that encourage profound healing for clients and their family systems. This course will strengthen the foundation of trained facilitators and those in training by enriching their intellectual understanding of Family Constellations while increasing the connection of this understanding with the wisdom of the heart and soul.
This course consists of 7 three-hour sessions with required reading, group discussions, videos and homework for each session.