EISEC facilitator training

The making of a facilitator

Everything the family constellation training contains, in one place: the curriculum semester by semester, how the teaching and supervision work, what marks your progression, who teaches, what it costs, and how a group forms. Read it in order, or jump straight to what you came to check.

A trainee facilitator placing a wooden figure on a low table with care while three others watch and a teacher stands back by the window

years

semesters

modules

360

live teaching hours

Live online

A small closed group

Certification on the full track

One weekly slot, kept for three years

Cecilia Altieri

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Chapter 1

The programme

The shape of the three years, what each semester makes you able to do, and what a week asks of you.

The three-year arc

What each year builds

Three years, one progression: each year rests on the one before it, and each is named for what it adds. The six semesters below tell the same story at full depth.

Year 1

Reading the system

The first year lays the ground everything else stands on: how to hold a room safely, how to work trauma informed, and the five levels of the Systemic Tree, from survival to individuation, read one level at a time.

By its end you can map a family across multiple generations, keep a group steady while it works, and read a living system: where it holds together, what it did to survive, and where it is stuck.

Year 2

Running constellations

The second year turns reading into craft. You learn the interview, the hypothesis and the intervention: every step of a constellation, in the group setting and one to one, and then the themes clients actually bring.

By its end you have facilitated full constellations inside your own group, under supervision, and can work death, illness, money and love, each with its own dynamics. From here you are also free to practise outside the training.

Year 3

Mastering

The third year goes inward, then beyond: constellations in the mind’s eye, work with inner parts and the timeline, and structural constellations, where what you set up is no longer a family but a decision, a problem, a goal.

By its end you can run the whole method unaided, in both settings, with three years of supervision behind you. The final module turns to your future with constellations, designed before you leave.

Semester by semester

The skills you grow each semester

Thirty modules across six semesters, with each one building on what came before. Follow how your understanding, practice and capability develop across the three years.

Semester 1 Foundational

Safety and Stance

You begin with the conditions that make systemic work possible: creating safety, understanding the field, working trauma-informed, developing your therapeutic stance and learning to map a family across generations.

By the end of Semester 1 you can create and hold a safe systemic space, recognise activation, work from a grounded therapeutic stance and map a family across three generations.

What you learn

Creating a Safe Space

What creates enough safety for constellation work, and the facilitator’s role in holding it.
Exploring the Field

What happens in a constellation field, what may emerge, and how to stay grounded in what is actually there.
Working Trauma-Informed

To recognise activation and adapt the session to what the client can safely hold.
The Therapeutic Stance

A relational way of facilitating that stays responsive to the client without taking over their process.
The Genogram

To map a family across generations and use that map to understand the wider system.

What skills you develop

Creating safety
Reading activation
Mapping generations
Holding your stance

Semester 2 Foundational

Reading the System

You learn to read a family system through the Systemic Tree, moving from survival and belonging through structure, balance and individuation to understand how patterns take shape and persist.

By the end of Semester 2 you can use the Systemic Tree to read how survival, belonging, structure, balance and individuation shape the system in front of you.

What you learn

Survival

How survival shapes a system, from immediate responses to patterns that continue across generations.
Belonging

The ways belonging, loyalty and meaning connect people to their system and influence what happens within it.
Structure

To read position, role, function and responsibility, and see what changes when the structure shifts.
Balance

How giving, taking, obligation and entitlement shape relationships and the wider system.
Individuation

How people become more themselves while staying connected, and what can interrupt that movement.

What skills you develop

Spotting systemic patterns
Understanding family dynamics
Feeling into relations
Thinking systemically

Semester 3 Foundational

The Craft of Constellating

You learn the complete craft of facilitation: opening the field, interviewing, forming and testing hypotheses, intervening, and bringing a constellation to a close in both individual and group settings.

By the end of Semester 3 you can facilitate a complete constellation from first conversation to close, in both individual and group settings. This is the foundational milestone.

What you learn

Opening the Field

To open a constellation, orient yourself in what emerges and form a working hypothesis.
The Interview

To move from the client’s story to a clear systemic focus and a workable goal.
Transforming the Field

When and where to intervene, and how to read what changes in response.
The Individual Setting

The different ways to facilitate constellation work one to one, without a group of representatives.
The Group Setting

To work with representatives while holding the client, the group and the constellation together.

What skills you develop

Interviewing systemically
Forming hypotheses
Choosing interventions
Facilitating complete constellations

Semester 4 Advanced

Core Themes

You deepen the method through recurring themes in systemic work, learning how different dynamics appear around ritual, grief, health, money, success, love and couple relationships.

By the end of Semester 4 you can bring the method to complex themes such as grief, illness, money, success, love and couple relationships, adapting your approach to the dynamics each one brings.

What you learn

Rituals

When ritual and symbolic action can help give form to something that is difficult to approach directly.
Death, Mourning and Grief

The systemic dynamics around death, loss and grief, and ways of working with them in constellations.
Illness and Health

To explore illness and symptoms systemically, how illness impacts systems, and how the system impacts health.
Money and Success

How survival, belonging, structure, balance and individuation can shape money, work and success.
Love and Couples

What happens when two systems meet in a couple, and what each partner brings into the relationship.

What skills you develop

Recognising theme-specific dynamics
Working symbolically
Holding complex themes
Applying different approaches

Semester 5 Advanced

Inner Work

You turn the systemic lens inward, working with inner representations, parts, timelines and individual practice to understand and transform systems within the person.

By the end of Semester 5 you can work systemically inside the person as well as around them, using imagery, inner parts, timelines and individual constellation practice.

What you learn

In the Mind’s Eye

To work with constellation processes through imagery and the client’s internal experience.
Inner Parts I

To recognise different inner states and understand them as parts of a wider inner system.
Inner Parts II

To work more deeply with an inner part, including its function, history and what it carries.
Healing the Timeline

Ways of working across a personal timeline with experiences that continue to shape the present.
Individual Practice

To bring the semester’s approaches together in a complete one-to-one constellation.

What skills you develop

Reading inner systems
Working with inner representation
Working across time
Integrating different approaches

Semester 6 Advanced

Beyond the Family

You take systemic constellation work beyond the family, applying it to decisions, problems, groups and structural questions while bringing the three years together into a practice of your own.

By the end of Semester 6 you can extend constellation practice beyond family systems, facilitate increasingly independently and bring the three years together into a practice of your own.

What you learn

Structural Constellations

To take constellation work beyond people and families, working with goals, options, obstacles and other elements.
Taking Decisions

To make the different forces around a difficult decision visible and explore them systemically.
Problem and Miracle

Different structures for exploring a problem, a possible solution and the relationship between them.
Group Practice

To bring theory, technique and stance together while facilitating complete group constellations.
My Future with Constellations

To integrate the three years into a way of practising constellation work that is recognisably your own.

What skills you develop

Working beyond family systems
Constellating abstract elements
Applying structural set ups
Working in different systems

Explore another semester

How the programme runs

The week and the month

One class a week, three weeks of teaching, then a week given to constellations. The rhythm repeats every module, in the same weekly slot, for three years.

Every week · one class

Three hours, live

The theory

The exercises

The practice

Across the month

A week of constellations

Supervision, in many modules

Open workshops

Optional, never required

How you learn

Understand, experience, practise

This is the teaching method itself: one cycle, run through theory, demonstration and application, repeated at rising complexity in every module of the three years.

Stage 1 of 3

Understand the dynamic

The theory first: the systemic concepts that make a dynamic recognisable at all. You cannot work with what you cannot name, so every module starts by giving you the names.

Stage 2 of 3

Experience the dynamic

Then the same material from inside: exercises, representing, personal work, live constellations. Understanding a dynamic and standing inside one are different kinds of knowledge, and the training insists on both.

Stage 3 of 3

Practise changing the dynamic

Then intervening: moving a system and reading what moves back, first in single steps, then whole. This is where facilitation begins, and it is rehearsed at rising complexity for three years.

Free introductory webinar

Meet the training live

Come and see the training before you decide. In two hours we introduce the programme and do a first constellation exercise together, live. You will have met the way we teach before you commit to anything. No cost, no obligation.

10 September 2026 · 19:00 to 21:00 Brussels time That is 19:00 CEST where you are.

Supervision

How supervision works here

Supervision is how competence becomes visible, to you and to us. It enters progressively through the second half of the foundational stage, and it deepens as your facilitation does.

Level 1

Analysis after constellations

Constellations are talked through after it closes, inside the training and in the online workshops you attend alongside it: what happened, what the facilitator saw and did, and why they did so. This is where facilitation starts becoming conscious.

Level 2

Practising the steps and dynamics separately

Single steps and single dynamics, rehearsed on their own under supervision before you carry them in a whole constellation. Isolating a move lets you repeat it, get it wrong safely, and be corrected while the stakes are still small.

Level 3

Internal supervision

From Semester 4, supervision on your own facilitation inside the group: what you brought, how the session ran, and the judgement behind your choices. It builds a facilitator’s judgement rather than checking compliance.

Level 4

Supervision with external clients

From Semester 5, once you begin working with clients of your own, supervision can follow you there. It runs when the group’s circumstances allow, so it is offered rather than guaranteed.

Throughout

How feedback is given

Feedback runs through every level above: spoken in the room, specific, given by the trainers and by peers. Once internal supervision starts, you also receive supervision forms that are a complete record and analysis of your current facilitation.

A supervision conversation: one facilitator presenting their work to a small group on a video call, a systems diagram in their notebook

Progression and what you earn

What marks each stage

Across the three years, there are clear milestones in what you can do and formal records of what you have completed. Three transcripts document your progress along the way. The certificate marks completion of the full training.

Year 1 · Foundations
You can read a family across the five levels of the Systemic Tree, hold a room safely, and work trauma informed. The ground the craft stands on.
Semester 3 · Every step of a full constellation
Every step needed to run a full constellation has now been taught, in the group setting and one to one. And you get to practice your first full constellation.
Semester 4 · Internal supervision
Supervision on your own facilitation inside the group begins: what you brought, how the session ran, and the judgement behind your choices.
Semester 5 · Working with external clients
After the second year you may begin working with clients of your own through full constellations, and supervision can follow you there when the group’s circumstances allow.
Year 1, 2, 3 · A transcript each year
A transcript records where you stand, so a gap surfaced in one year is closed in the next.
Month 36 · One certificate
One certificate, earned once, at completion, with the graduation package. The programme’s full credential, and the whole curriculum stands behind it.

Your time and participation

What this asks of you

Three kinds of time: the scheduled hours certification requires, the variable hours between classes, and an open programme alongside. They are counted differently, so they are shown apart.

Fixed and scheduled

360 live teaching hours across 36 months

One 3-hour class a week

The 360 live hours are a certification requirement, not an estimate of how long the programme runs: they are counted, and completing them is part of earning the certificate. The supervision the programme carries is required in the same way.

Live classes and constellation weeks
Required for certification

Variable, outside class

2 to 12 hours a month, depending on the period

Between sessions, at your own pace

Some months ask less outside class and others invite considerably more. Attendance at the live classes is expected; a missed module has a make-up route, decided case by case on availability and on what was missed.

Reading, written work, practice with peers
Expected, but not counted in the 360

Optional, alongside

Participation covered by the institute; only a constellation spot is paid

300+ hours available across the three years

The open workshop programme runs beside the training for all three years: monthly online workshops and several weekends a year, attended as a participant. It is genuinely optional, only some attend all of it. And for students, participation is covered by the institute: attending costs nothing, and you pay only if you take a constellation spot of your own.

Monthly online, several weekends a year
The open workshops and the intensive
Not required, and counted separately and in addition to the 360.

Only the first card counts toward certification. The open programme alongside is there to be used: never required, never added to the 360, and nobody attends all of it.

Chapter 2

Is this training for you?

What this training asks of you, who it is designed for, and the institute behind it.

Who it's for

Four ways in

People come to this training from very different places. These are the four we see most.

Coaches

Bring a systemic lens into your coaching. You learn to read the relationships around a problem rather than only the person in front of you, and to work with them in your own style.

Therapists

A clear model and a teachable method, trauma-informed throughout, that sits alongside the methods you already use. You learn to work with the family system a client brings into the room, not only with the client.

Spiritual seekers

If constellation work has already opened something for you, this is where you learn the craft behind it: a grounded method, taught in systemic theory and supervised practice, with room for the depth that drew you in.

A new direction

Some are building a new practice around constellations, or moving one they already have towards it. Others come first for their own development and find the professional path opens later. The training holds both.

The origin

Why EISEC exists

EISEC began in a practice room. Cecilia Altieri opened her practice in 2010, client-centred and trauma-informed, with Simon Maebe helping a great deal behind the scenes. For seven years the method deepened with real clients, before there was any thought of teaching, and what she learned in that room is what became the training.

The institute began with the first training, in 2017, and it began with a frustration. For years, Cecilia and Simon had trained across the field, returning to the practitioners they found great, and still most trainings were short, or asked years of sitting through workshops where the method was absorbed rather than explained: facilitation passed on as a calling, never properly developed to be taught. So they founded EISEC together and developed it: a training where you learn to run constellations you can feel, understand, explain and apply to bring change, and the whole method as one system that works together.

Cecilia Altieri and Simon Maebe teaching together

The mission

What we are changing

What we are changing is what a family constellations facilitator can be trusted to know and to do: trained on a full curriculum, formed in supervised practice, trauma-informed in how they hold people, able to explain the theory behind every move, and formed over time.

Everything you have read above is that intention made concrete: the theory taught from the ground up, the supervision that deepens year by year, the milestones that mark real capability. The curriculum is the mission, written out in full.

The Al-Ma Model

What we built to do it

Working to that standard needed its own model, so EISEC built one. The Al-Ma Model sets out the method in four frameworks: the theory, the technique, the stance and the competences of a facilitator. All four run through the three years, and the model has a page of its own.

the theoretical framework

Systemic Tree

Five levels for reading how a system holds together, and for locating where a difficulty actually lives.

the technical framework

Field Compass

The map of a constellation as it runs: which stage you are in, and what belongs there.

the client and facilitator framework

Relational Stance

How the facilitator holds the client and the room: trauma-informed, client-centred, present.

the competence framework

Facilitator’s Path

The competences of a facilitator, named and built deliberately, from first exercise to independent practice.

Read how the model works →

Who teaches

Who teaches the programme

Five practitioners who all facilitate as well as teach. Their own pages carry the full stories; this is who you will learn from.

Cecilia Altieri

Co-founder and Director

Has trained facilitators all over the world.

Meet Cecilia →

Simon Maebe

Co-founder and Head Trainer

Makes complex systemic thinking practical, teachable and usable in the room.

Meet Simon →

Anca Florea

Trainer

Part of the very first training group, and has facilitated constellations since 2017.

Meet Anca →

Xilo Espinoza

Trainer

Came to constellations through her own healing, and now brings that lived understanding into her facilitating and teaching.

Meet Xilo →