Workshops
about 4 minutes
What to expect in a workshop
Across one workshop day you may be yourself, someone’s grandmother, and a quiet witness. A psychotherapist explains what each role is like.
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Groups, online and in Brussels
Family constellation workshops
See the pattern you are standing inside. A difficulty you carry is set up in the room, with people representing the parts of your system, so you can see what holds it in place and what lets it move. Family constellation workshops online every month, and in Brussels through the year.
What happens in a workshop
A day given to one thing at a time
One person works at a time, and together the group stands with them in their system. The group takes part in every piece of work.
1
Arrival
2
Opening round
3
First constellation
- Interview
- Constellation
4
Break
5
Next constellation
6
Closing round
For the method itself, not just the schedule of a day, what a constellation is takes it apart properly.
Who comes
People from many places, one language in the room
Workshops run in English, and the room is usually international. People are here for different reasons, all on the same day.
Who is in the room
Four roles make a workshop work
One scene, seen four ways. Everyone takes each of the roles across a day, which is why a workshop needs a group.
A constellation set out in the room: one person working on their own question, one holding the process, and the rest standing in for the people the question is about. Everyone in the group takes each of these places across a day.
The person whose question it is. You set the goal in your own words, you place the people who matter, and you decide how far the constellation goes. What is asked of you is to notice what you feel from where you stand.
Holds the direction and the pace, asks what you notice, and offers experiments you can try when you are ready. What the picture means stays yours to decide. Most people meet their facilitator for the first time on the day.
The other participants, standing in for the people in someone else’s question. They report what they feel from inside a position, as sensations, impulses and where their eyes go. You can step out of a role at any moment, and everyone is thanked and released by name at the end.
Two ways to take part
You do not have to bring a question
Every workshop offers two ways in. Both are full ways to take part, and most people begin with the first.
Represent
You join the group, represent people in other participants’ constellations, and take it in through your own body. No question of your own required.
- €155 online · €260 for the Brussels weekend
- Nothing to prepare, nothing to explain about yourself
- You will be moved, and often more than you expect
- The usual first workshop, and many people come back for it
Bring your own question
Everything above, and your own difficulty set up in the room and worked through with the facilitator beside you.
- €155 online · €260 for the Brussels weekend
- Bring a question or a difficulty that is alive for you
- Your constellation is set up, read and gently reordered
- Places are limited, because each one takes the group’s time
Representing is often the first experience of a constellation, and where the strongest shift of the day happens to you. Bring a question when you have one that is ready.
If you are taking part
How to represent
Most of the time, you will be representing for someone else. There is not much you need to know beforehand. When you are placed, pay attention to what happens and say what you notice. That is really it.
You are placed, and then you wait
The person working puts you where they feel you belong and says who you are representing. You do not need to think anything through. Let your attention drop into your body, give it a moment, and notice what is there.
Report the small, physical things
Where your eyes go. Whether you want to step forward or back. Heavy, light, warm, cold, restless, calm. Say it plainly and in one sentence. You are not interpreting the family or telling them what it means. You are telling them what it is like where you are standing.
You can stop, and you do not take the role home
Say so if a role is too much, and you will be moved or released. At the end, the client names you out of the role, out loud. People are often surprised by how quickly what they experienced in the constellation falls away once they step out.
You do not need experience and you cannot get it wrong. A representative who says I don't feel much has said something true and useful, and the facilitator will work with it.
Choose your workshop
Three ways in
The same work, different pace and setting.
Monthly
Online workshop
A four-hour session over video, from wherever you are, on a dedicated platform.
From €155.
Through the year
Weekend in Brussels
Two days in the room together, working at an unhurried pace.
From €260.
Once a year
The Annual Intensive
Four days, a facilitator team, trauma-informed throughout. Each edition takes one theme deep.
From €549.
What people say after a workshop
Questions people actually have
Do I need to do my own constellation, or can I just watch?
Both are full ways to take part. Representing others, or simply
being present, is real work, and many people begin that way.
Do I need to know anything about constellations first?
No. The facilitator guides every step.
Who leads the workshops?
You can find information about the facilitators on the booking
page.
Is this spiritual?
It can be, if that is what you bring. A constellation is
practical and physical. You stand, you sense, you move, and what
you notice in the room is ordinary human perception, taken
seriously. We work client-centred and across cultures, which has
taught us to meet people inside their own world view rather than
ours. So if you hold a spiritual frame, it is welcome in the
room. If you hold none, you do not need one to take part.
Is this therapy?
Family constellations can be used as therapy, and they can also
be used outside a therapeutic relationship. This workshop is a
single piece of constellation work rather than ongoing therapy.
If you want continuing therapeutic support around what comes up,
you can work with your own therapist or explore therapy with
Cecilia.
Can I take part online?
Yes. The monthly workshop runs over video at a set Brussels-time
hour (CET/CEST), shown in your local time when you book, open to
anyone, anywhere.
What if I need to cancel?
Cancel at least 30 days before the date for a full refund.
How big is the group?
Workshops run in a small group, both online and in Brussels.
Notes
What to expect at your first workshop
Three short notes for a first timer: what to expect, how to prepare, and what representing means.
Workshops
about 5 minutes
How to prepare for a workshop
You need less preparation than you think, and the useful kind is not what people expect. What to do the week, the night and the hour before.
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Workshops
about 5 minutes
How to represent
You can’t do it wrong, and feeling nothing counts too. A psychotherapist explains what representatives actually do in a family constellation.
Read moreLooking for a different path?
Would rather work privately? Private systemic sessions with a practitioner, in person or online. What a constellation is The method itself: what happens, who is who, and what it asks of you. Listening therapy The Safe and Sound Protocol, a listening programme we offer alongside constellations. Thinking of training as a facilitator? The institute trains constellation facilitators.
If you are in crisis right now, or you are having thoughts of harming yourself, please turn first to your doctor, to a crisis line where you live, or to the emergency services.