Foundations of Family Constellations - a systemic approach

Foundations of Family Constellations - a systemic approach

Online experiential course | Two 3-hour sessions

How do belonging, our place in a family, and giving and receiving shape our relationships? Together, we’ll explore these questions through Family Constellations.

This foundation course brings together the core principles of Family Constellations with opportunities to experience and reflect on them. Developed by Bert Hellinger, the approach considers individuals within their wider family system, exploring relationships, significant events and patterns across generations. We'll also consider latest insights from neuroscience and how they relate to the method

Everyone is welcome - no prior knowledge or experience is needed. You may be curious about your own family relationships, interested in a different perspective on your professional work, or both.

Learning through experience

Experiential learning is at the heart of this course. Across two sessions, we’ll combine teaching with guided exercises, personal reflection and discussion, helping you connect the theory with lived experience.

We’ll explore questions of belonging, responsibility, loyalty and balance, with time to share observations, ask questions and consolidate your understanding. You can choose how much you share; there is no expectation to disclose personal experiences.

What we’ll explore

• Conscience and belonging: personal, systemic and meta conscience; acceptance, loyalty and what we feel we must do to belong.
• Place: hierarchy, structure and the roles and responsibilities we hold within a family.
• Exchange: giving, receiving and balance in relationships.
• The ordering forces of time: how history and sequence are understood within the approach.
• The orders of helping: support, responsibility and the place and limits of the helper.
• Ten features of human systems: a framework for bringing these ideas together.

Personal and professional relevance

You’ll develop a foundational understanding of Family Constellations, supported by exercises that make the concepts more tangible. The course offers new questions to bring to familiar relationship patterns and space to consider your own position within the systems you belong to.

For therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches, supervisors and trainees, it also offers an opportunity to consider how systemic perspectives might inform your understanding of clients and your role as a helper.

This course supports further learning and reflection within your existing practice; it does not qualify participants to facilitate Family Constellations.

Please be aware that the sessions will be recorded. 

Your facilitators

Sara Poss

Sara is a UKCP-accredited Systemic Psychotherapist and trained Systemic Constellations practitioner. Trained in the UK and Germany, she works with individuals, couples, and families, bringing a systemic and relational perspective to understanding the patterns and relationships that shape people's lives. She has been facilitating group Family Constellations workshops for many years, supporting individuals to explore family histories, relational patterns, and wider systemic dynamics through the Constellations process.

https://www.saraposs.com/

Betsy Gibson

Betsy is a Systemic Coach and Constellations Facilitator with many years of experience, and a background in education and Chinese Medicine. Her own therapeutic journey led her to train in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Hellinger’s systemic approach. She continues to deepen her practice through further study, including Sarah Peyton’s Resonant Language and the role of neuroscience in understanding healing. Betsy is the co-creator of systemic programmes for parents, schools, educators and counsellors. 

Dates and booking

Dates: November 26 & 27
Times: 10am-1pm
Location: Zoom
Group size:  max 10

Fees include both sessions - six hours in total.

• Early booking: £150 until Nov 8
• Standard: £170
• Concession: £120 - limited places for people on a low income, including students and trainees, who would otherwise find it difficult to attend. No proof is required.
• If you'd like to join but your current financial circumstances make it difficult, please don't hesitate to get in touch: saraposs4@gmail.com, betsygibson@btinternet.com