Outline of the Training in Family Constellations 

Course objective:

• Your personal growth and healing of your ancestral lineage.

• Develop an understanding of client issues and problematic situations.

• Develop facilitation skills and apply Systemic Constellations interventions in clinical, therapeutic, and consulting settings.

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Four modules are divided into:

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Module A - Learning the Concepts in Family Constellations

In this foundational module, we explore the key concepts that form the backbone of Family Constellations work. You'll begin to understand how unconscious dynamics shape our relationships and choices and how these patterns often stem from unresolved issues in the family system. Concepts such as Projection, Phenomenology, and Entanglements will be introduced with practical examples and guided exercises to help you experience them directly. This module lays the groundwork for seeing with new eyes—gently shifting from judgment to presence, from assumption to insight.

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• Projection: When we look at someone and see something that is not there, e.g., I look at you and see that you are angry, BUT you’re not angry; it is my projection of you.

 

• Phenomenology: It is when we look at things that are going on without judgment. Remain open to the problem to see where the solution is.

 

• Entanglements: This is when we are unconsciously affected by our family system (entangled). Even if we don’t know our ancestors, we are connected to their fate and vice versa. Especially when a person is forgotten or left out of a family.

 

• Field Transference and Counter-transference: The history (field) transfers into a balance: Everyone who is born into a family has the right to belong! When someone is forced out, ignored, shunned, forgotten, or left out of the family system, it creates disharmony in the field, and family members can become entangled with those who were left out.

 

• The 3 Levels of Conscience in Family Constellations: 

  • We look at how a family’s and a society’s Conscience influence us, our beliefs, and our values.

  • The invisible qualities of Systemic Conscience are a web that holds our family’s beliefs and rules that govern generation after generation.

  • Higher Conscience is the stream or field of consciousness that goes beyond the human "I" to the greater whole, the universe, God, or an energetic force. When we tap into this stream of consciousness, this field expresses words, sensations, images, and thoughts. Physically and somatically, we start to feel things in our bodies. This field goes beyond you and me. 

 

• Divorce, second marriages, unrequited love: how these affect the partners and children within these relationships.

 

• Crazy love & loyalty of children: The love that children have for their parents can be crazy and without limits, so much so that it can be called “crazy love,“ as Hellinger would say. Children will do anything for their parents to the point of self-sacrifice or death.

 

• Parents' histories: Mother and father wound healing, understanding the histories and traumas that our parents inherited from their parents and constellating these to bring healing.

 

• Loss in families: how this impacts the family members and how the loss can be carried through the generations.

 

• You will learn how to use constellation language, particular sentences that we use that are very powerful and clear in their intentions.

 

• Constellating careers: generally speaking, in family constellations, the idea is that our careers may be impacted because of unresolved issues in our family systems.

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• The importance of truth statements in family constellations: these statements have the power to “acknowledge what is” and restore wholeness and healing as well as self-respect for the person seeking the constellation.

 

Module B is practiced during online and in-person Family Constellation Retreats:

In this module, participants will exercise constellation processes with each other, applying the theoretical principles and guidelines to their work under supervision.

• Phenomenological facilitation: Observing everything as it is and being present with the phenomena.

• During the retreats, we observe the issues and their sources. Where do they arise from?

• Turning to the past, the importance of reconnecting with the past history and acknowledging it.

• Learning about derolling: How to de-roll after each constellation is vital to each constellation.

• Projections: Observing when this is occurring

• Countertransference and transferences: As representatives and facilitators, notice when this is arising.

• Paradoxical Interventions: When do we use these interventions in Constellation Work?

 

Taught in Year 2:

 

Module C 

• Radical inclusion: The idea that everything and everyone belongs regardless of what; we work with various styles of constellating to demonstrate this idea.

• Hidden stories: In our second year of training, we concentrate on how to uncover the deeper nuances present in our family dynamics.

• Interpersonal dynamics: We address and study these dynamics in our practical applications of Family Constellations

• Field of Consciousness/Knowing/Morphic Fields: We practice learning to “read,” understand, and listen into the field. 

 

Module D:

• Practicing Facilitation: Participants begin to lead constellations for groups on Zoom and in person as well as work one-on-one.

• Relationship between Facilitator and Field: We learn more about when to offer interventions and when to observe the field.

• Containment and Intervention: These nuances are an important part of Family Constellations

• Paradoxes and conflictual polarity: How to somatically work with these when they arise.

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The layout of each meeting:

Each meeting is 3.5 hours long and comprises three sections.

Section A: 

9-10 am Sharing, theory, Q&A. (60 minutes). Break: 15 minutes. 

Section B: 

Doing a Constellation as a group ( 2 hrs)

Section C: Sharing, highlighting interventions, and connecting to principles that arise from the process. (30 mins)

 

Mode of assessment: 

80% Positive and active role in all class activities

10% Theoretical knowledge

10% Facilitation practice

 

Course duration, time, and dates:

140 hours.  

As part of the 140 hours, we will also have:

Two Retreats.

One online 2-day retreat (no extra cost, as this is included in your training program).

One 4-day retreat (This fee will be an extra cost for the in-person retreat.)  most likely at the Mercy Center, Burlingame Dates (TBD). 

 

Certification:

You will receive certification at the end of your two-year program through the 7 Rays Institute of Holistic Studies.

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Dates 2026:

Each of the online monthly classes on Tuesdays will begin at 9 am PST and until 12.30 pm PST

 

Cost for 2026:

$1955 

Payment options are available if needed.

Three payment installments will be offered.