Monthly online family constellations workshop
Bring a difficulty, question or recurring pattern into a live online family constellation and see what becomes visible when others step into the picture.
Constellations in a nutshell
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The workshop at a glance
12
Limited Places
4
Hours
2
Constellations
1
Facilitator
Online family constellations
We have worked with constellations online since 2010, and in a dedicated online constellation space since 2012. The video call keeps the group together while the constellation has a space of its own: representatives can take their places, move, turn, approach one another and respond as the picture develops. You can see the whole system and still experience your own position within it, wherever the people taking part happen to be.
A space built for constellations
Everyone has their own point of view
Representatives move for themselves
See your place and the whole system
Inside a constellation
Every constellation is different, but the process has a recognisable shape from the first question to the closing.
Stage 1 of 4
You begin by talking through what you are bringing. The facilitator helps you find the question or issue you want to explore, the goal you want to work towards, and the relevant facts from your life and family history.
Stage 2 of 4
You then set out the people or elements that belong to your question, on the platform, using simple figures that everyone can see and move. As the representatives take their places, you can begin to see the relationships and dynamics in the system in front of you
Stage 3 of 4
The facilitator asks representatives what they notice from where they are standing and follows what begins to emerge. Positions can change, movements can be tried, and different possibilities can be experienced as the picture develops. You stay involved throughout, watching and responding to what happens.
Stage 4 of 4
Towards the end, it comes back to you. You may step into the constellation yourself, experience the new picture directly, and take time to notice what has changed. We close carefully, leaving space for the experience to continue settling afterwards.
Who takes part
There is the person bringing the question, the facilitator, and the representatives who take places in the constellation. As the session moves from one constellation to the next, you experience it from different positions.
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.
The four-hour workshop has its own rhythm around the two constellations. You join as part of the group, represent in other people’s constellations, and, if you have booked one of your own, bring your question when your turn comes. We open together, move through the two constellations, and close the session as a group.
1
We meet live over Google Meet, with the shared constellation space alongside it. We begin together, explain the shape of the session, and make sure everyone knows how to take part.
2
Across the two constellations, you may be chosen to represent. You take your place, notice what happens from where you are, and say what you experience as the constellation develops.
3
If you have booked a constellation of your own, we start with what you want to explore, your goal, and the relevant facts. From there, you choose representatives, set out the first picture, and we begin.
4
After the second constellation, we come back together, close the session and leave some space for what you have experienced to settle.
The schedule
1
Arrival
2
Opening round
3
First constellation
4
Break
5
Next constellation
6
Closing round
Led by
Cecilia has practised family constellations since 2008 and trained at ISPAB in Munich. She began working with clients online in 2010 and built a dedicated online constellation space in 2012. She is the co-founder and director of EISEC, where she trains facilitators.
Simon first encountered constellation work in 2007, began training in 2012, and has worked in the field since 2014. He trained at ISPAB in Munich and is co-founder and Head Trainer at EISEC, where he teaches systemic theory and the practice of facilitating systemic constellations.
Next dates
One four-hour session, with the next dates below.
Next constellation spot
25 September
Next workshop, in your own time zone: 25 Sept, 15:00 CEST
25
Sep
€155
23
Oct
€155
27
Nov
€155
I want to say a big thank to Cecilia. It was my first experience online with constellations, but it was amazing. Cecilia did it very gently, deep, professional and intelligent!
Questions
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Further reading
Two short pieces on constellation workshops and what it can be like to take part.
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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The online layer only: joining, the two window setup that makes the day easier, and being one of many faces for a whole day without going flat.
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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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You can’t do it wrong, and feeling nothing counts too. A psychotherapist explains what representatives actually do in a family constellation.
Read moreTwo constellations, four hours, and a small group meeting live online once a month.
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