--- title: "Family Constellations Facilitator Training | Cecilia Altieri" description: "The three-year EISEC facilitator training in family constellations: the Al-Ma Model, the curriculum, how it runs, pricing, certification and faculty." url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/" markdown_url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/index.md" lang: "en-GB" alternates: - { hreflang: "en", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/" } - { hreflang: "es", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/es/formacion/" } - { hreflang: "nl", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/nl/opleiding-familieopstellingen/" } - { hreflang: "x-default", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/" } --- Family constellations training # Become a _facilitator _people feel safe with A three-year training to become a family constellations facilitator, live online and in a small group. You learn the whole method: how to see what is happening in a family, how to set up a constellation, and how to stay steady in the room while it unfolds. [Request the programme](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) At a glance - - Length - Cadence - Group - Curriculum * 3 years * Weekly online · Brussels weekends * 12 people at most * 30 modules, 6 semesters [In a nutshell ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#in-a-nutshell) · [The Model ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#the-model) · [Curriculum ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#curriculum) · [Pricing ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#pricing) · [Faculty](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#faculty) Constellations in a nutshell ## Five plain _answers_ to start with ### What it is A way of looking at a difficulty in the wider system it belongs to. Instead of only talking about what is happening, you give the important people or elements a place in relation to one another, so the pattern becomes something you can see and work with. ### Where it comes from Constellation work grew from systemic family therapy and several therapeutic traditions in the second half of the twentieth century. The team works systemically and phenomenologically: starting with what is actually there, reading the relationships between the parts, and staying curious about what the picture might mean. ### What happens You begin with a question, difficulty or something you want to change. The people or elements that belong to it are given a place. From there, you look at the relationships, test small movements and follow what changes in the system. ### What is asked of you For a constellation, you will need 3 things: a question or issue you want to explore, a goal you want to work towards, and the relevant facts about your life and family history. You do not need to prepare the whole story; what matters is the information that connects to what you are working on. ### Why we constellate You can understand a pattern very well and still find yourself living it. A constellation lets you work with it as an experience, not only an idea: seeing the relationships, feeling different positions and trying what happens when something changes. 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. ![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/training-online-class.webp) Family constellations, taught as one method. The Al-Ma Model is our name for the method itself, and the three years are built so that each part rests on the one before. By the end you are not copying a teacher. You are facilitating. The Al-Ma Model ## Four frameworks, _one_ method Each framework answers a different question: what you are seeing, how you work with it, how you meet the client, and how you develop as a facilitator. Together they form the Al-Ma Model, trauma-informed and client-centred throughout: paced to what people can hold, and led by what the client brings. the theoretical framework ### Systemic Tree A map of how a human system holds together, and where it gets stuck. Five levels, roots to crown: survival, belonging, structure, balance, individuation. You learn to read which level a difficulty actually sits on, in a client’s life or in the room. the technical framework ### Field Compass How you run a constellation, from the client’s issue and goal through its three stages: exploration, transformation, resolution. At every step you know where you are, and what to do next. the client and facilitator framework ### Relational Stance How you hold yourself with a client. Trauma-informed and client-centred, present to the client, the group and yourself. You learn to stay with a person without taking their process over, and what to do when the connection breaks. the competence framework ### Facilitator’s Path How you grow, from your first exercises to taking a constellation from the opening question to the close on your own, with practice, feedback and supervision along the way. [Explore the Al-Ma Model →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/al-ma-model/) Curriculum ## The _three_ years Three years, in sequence: learn to read the system, learn to facilitate within it, then deepen and extend your own practice. Year 1 Reading the system Year 2 Running constellations Year 3 Mastering Year 1 · Semesters 1 and 2 ### Reading the system You build the systemic foundations: learning how to create safety, take a relational stance and read the dynamics shaping a person, family or wider system. 10 modules 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. - Creating a Safe Space - Exploring the Field - Working Trauma-Informed - The Therapeutic Stance - The Genogram 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. - Survival - Belonging - Structure - Balance - Individuation Year 2 · Semesters 3 and 4 ### Running constellations You move from reading systemic dynamics to working with them: learning the full constellation process, practising facilitation and applying the method to the themes people most often bring. 10 modules 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. - Opening the Field - The Interview - Transforming the Field - The Individual Setting - The Group Setting 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. - Rituals - Death, Mourning and Grief - Illness and Health - Money and Success - Love and Couples Year 3 · Semesters 5 and 6 ### Mastering You broaden your range and deepen your judgement: working with inner systems, expanding beyond family constellations and developing a practice that is increasingly your own. 10 modules 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. - In the Mind’s Eye - Inner Parts I - Inner Parts II - Healing the Timeline - Individual Practice 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. - Structural Constellations - Taking Decisions - Problem and Miracle - Group Practice - My Future with Constellations [Request the full programme by email →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) The programme ## Every module, _in full_ All six semesters and every one of the 30 modules, how the training runs week to week, how facilitation develops, supervision, certification, what taking part involves and what it costs. We'll email you the link to the full programme. How it runs ## How the training works _in practice_ You meet live online each week, in the same small group and the same weekly slot. If you can get to Brussels, the weekend workshops there are open to you in person, included in your training fee. Online, live 3 hours a week A small, closed group 3 years, 6 semesters Across time zones Access to workshops Taught in English Nothing to install In person · Brussels ### If you can get to Brussels Most people do this training entirely online, from wherever they live, and it is whole that way: the full method, the full three years, nothing held back for a room. If you are in Brussels, or can travel here, you can also come to our weekend workshops in person, **included in your training fee**. Same group, same training, one more way to be in it. [See the Brussels option](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training-in-family-constellations-brussels/) Fees and certification ## What it _costs_, and what you earn You can join for a semester, for a year, or for the whole three years. Each commitment has its own monthly rate, and the people on the full track hold a fixed place in the group for all three. One semester €340× 6 €2,040 in total: the first payment enrols you, then five monthly payments. One year €310× 12 €3,720 across the year: the first payment enrols you, then eleven monthly payments. The training The full track €275× 37 €10,175 all in: the first payment enrols you, then 36 monthly payments. One semester - Six months of the training: one full semester, five modules - The full content of that semester, taught with the group - Above the first semester this buys the content, not progress towards certification [Request the programme](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) One year - Two semesters, ten modules, taken as one commitment with the same group - The full content of the year - Certification requires the full three-year track [Request the programme](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) The full track - A fixed place in the same small group across the full three years - 3 years, 6 semesters, 30 modules - The only route to the EISEC certificate - A transcript at 12, 24 and 36 months - Supervision from the second year, and a place in the alumni network [Request the programme](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) One certificate, at completion Complete the full three-year track and you earn the EISEC certificate. Your progress is documented along the way, but the certificate marks completion of the training as a whole. A transcript each year At the completion of each year, you receive a transcript of the work you have completed and anything still outstanding. If something is missing, you have the following year to complete it. The foundational milestone You start facilitating inside the training partway through, first in exercises and then with the group. By the end of the foundational stage you can take a constellation from the opening question to the close, with supervision running alongside. Why three years The DGfS, the German association for systemic constellations, sets two years as its minimum for facilitator training. We chose three because learning the method is only part of becoming a facilitator. You also need time to practise, receive feedback and supervision, and grow into a way of working that is your own. [Request the full programme →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) ![EISEC](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/eisec-shield-large.png) European Institute for Systemic Education & Coaching ## Raising the _standard_ of constellation work EISEC exists to increase the level of quality within the field of systemic constellations. That means training facilitators in more than technique: in the theory behind the method, the way you hold a client, practice under supervision, and the responsibility that comes with facilitating other people's processes. 2017 Training facilitators since 20 Groups taught 5 Dedicated teachers on faculty 360+ Live hours with faculty across the training Your teachers ## Who you'll _learn_ from The training is taught by practitioners who facilitate, teach and continue to develop the method themselves. ![Cecilia Altieri](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cecilia.webp) ### Cecilia Altieri Co-founder and Director Has trained facilitators all over the world. [Meet Cecilia →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/) ![Simon Maebe](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/simon.webp) ### Simon Maebe Co-founder and Head Trainer Did his first constellation at sixteen, and has been learning the method ever since. [Meet Simon →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/simon/) ![Anca Florea](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/anca.webp) ### Anca Florea Trainer Part of the very first training group, and has facilitated constellations since 2017. [Meet Anca →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/anca/) ![Xilo Espinoza](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/xilo.webp) ### Xilo Espinoza Trainer Came to constellations through her own healing, and now brings that lived understanding into her facilitating and teaching. [Meet Xilo →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/xilo/) ![Mina Kanashiro](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/mina.webp) ### Mina Kanashiro Trainer Practising since 2018, and works in four languages. [Meet Mina →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/mina/) ![Cecilia Altieri](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cecilia.webp) ### Cecilia Altieri Co-founder and Director Has trained facilitators all over the world. [Meet Cecilia →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/) ![Simon Maebe](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/simon.webp) ### Simon Maebe Co-founder and Head Trainer Did his first constellation at sixteen, and has been learning the method ever since. [Meet Simon →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/simon/) ![Anca Florea](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/anca.webp) ### Anca Florea Trainer Part of the very first training group, and has facilitated constellations since 2017. [Meet Anca →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/anca/) ![Xilo Espinoza](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/xilo.webp) ### Xilo Espinoza Trainer Came to constellations through her own healing, and now brings that lived understanding into her facilitating and teaching. [Meet Xilo →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/xilo/) ![Mina Kanashiro](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/mina.webp) ### Mina Kanashiro Trainer Practising since 2018, and works in four languages. [Meet Mina →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/mina/) From the people who did it ## What _students_ say > Cecilia and Simon have a deep knowledge of the subject and hold a very compassionate space. Dace [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) > It is an investment that will undoubtedly yield lasting benefits. Sandra [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) > The balance among technical things, theory and therapeutic work makes this online training a great opportunity to attend! Georgia [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) > Had I had the opportunity to be in Monet's or Modigliani's studio on a brilliant, sun drenched afternoon watching them paint, I would have witnessed something extraordinary. Such was my experience watching Cecilia paint beautiful life canvases with our training group this weekend. Profound. William L. Mannle [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) The next group ## A group forms _around the people_ in it We do not set a start date and ask everyone to fit around it. The group forms around the availability of the people joining it, and the start date is confirmed when applications open. Registration open Registration is free and non-binding. Tell us which weekly times could work for you, and we use everyone’s availability to shape the next group. [Register for free](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/next-group/) [About the next group](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) ## Questions, _answered_ Practical Programme Joining What about my time zone? Each group has its own weekly slot, chosen around the time zones and availability of the people forming it. The joining page shows the current options and practical details. How much time should I budget? Allow three hours for the live class each week, plus your own practice between sessions and any workshops you choose to attend. What if I miss a class? The material stays in your classroom, and if you need to make up a module, you can join it with a later group. Do I need special software or equipment? A standard browser, a good pair of headphones, and a stable connection. Nothing to install. What language is it taught in? English. The group is international by design. Do I need previous training? No. You do not need to be a therapist or coach, or to have studied constellations before. What matters is your motivation for learning this and your readiness to engage with it. Can I use it in the practice I already run? Yes. If you already work with people, the systemic thinking and relational stance can begin informing your practice long before you are ready to facilitate a full constellation. Will I be prepared to facilitate? Yes. You begin facilitating inside the training partway through the foundational stage, and by the end of it you can take a constellation from the opening question to the close. Supervision runs alongside that. Working with people outside the training comes after the second year. How is the training kept safe? It is trauma-informed from the first module. Safety and the relational stance come before any technique. How long can I access the material? It stays in your virtual classroom, including after you finish. When do groups start? The next group's start window is on the next-group page. The group forms around the weekly times of the people joining it, and the start date is confirmed when applications open. Places go in the order applications arrive, not the order people registered. Can I take a single year or semester? Yes. You can join for a semester or a year without committing to the full three years. You receive the complete teaching for that period, but only the full track leads to certification. What do I get when I finish? The EISEC certificate, a yearly transcript of your work, and a place in the alumni network. Choose what you need next: [The full programme All six semesters, every module, progression, supervision, certification and the practical detail. We email you the link. ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) · [A discovery call Talk through your questions and whether the training fits what you're looking for. ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/next-group/#call) · [The next group See the next group, its start date and the practical route to joining.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/next-group/) [The full programme All six semesters, every module, progression, supervision, certification and the practical detail. We email you the link. ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) · [A discovery call Talk through your questions and whether the training fits what you're looking for. ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/next-group/#call) · [The next group See the next group, its start date and the practical route to joining.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/next-group/) Notes ## Becoming a facilitator, and _how a group forms_ The two questions people ask before they request the full programme. [![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/blog/becoming-facilitator.webp)](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) [The training](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) [about 5 minutes](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) ### [How to become a family constellation facilitator](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) [What the craft actually requires, which backgrounds people train from, and what to look for in any training. From the head trainer of one of them.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) [Read more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-become-a-family-constellation-facilitator/) [![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cohort-forming.webp)](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) [The training](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) [about 6 minutes](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) ### [How a group forms, and how it gets its date](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) [A giant Doodle, filled in by strangers who end up in the same group. That’s how the weekly time gets found, and why the date comes last rather than first.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) [Read more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-eisec-forms-groups/) ## See the training in full You have the overview. The full programme takes you through every semester and module, how progression and supervision work, what certification requires, and the practical detail of taking part. [Request the programme](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/#programme-request) --- _Markdown version of https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/, generated from the published page. Site index: https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/llms.txt. Not sure where to go? Start at https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/agent-lobby/_