Family Constellations online workshops explore the hidden generational entanglements that adversely impact your relationships, work, health and career.
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences.
Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. By working together online, participants have the chance to create constellations for other workshop members, resulting in a therapeutic and healing experience for everyone involved. Representing allows a member of a family system or some other important systemic element to be present in the constellation. This permits us to observe and sense the dynamics of the past by experiencing them through the representative's words, physical expressions, and movements. Instead of observing events from a distance, we immerse ourselves in them. By doing so, we can use the knowing field to understand how to mend, reconcile, and address the past in a different way than past generations. Bert Hellinger's teachings reveal that all family systems operate under natural laws that have an impact on their overall well-being. |
When these laws are ignored or violated, it can have a detrimental effect on relationships and create systemic entanglements. These entanglements will persist, influencing emotional, physical, and mental well-being until they are resolved. Online Family Constellations workshops can help identify where these orders are broken and work to repair systemic entanglements. Then, the client is free to live their life without them. |
Information about Family Constellations online workshops
- In all of our online workshops everyone pays the same price and works together as a group and community.
- 100% refund if you cancel 24 hours or more before the workshop. 50% if you cancel less than 24 hours.
- All times on the 2024 schedule are for CHICAGO, IL USA.
Schedule of online workshops 2024
Dynamics of Alcohol Abuse in the Family Systems
Friday, April 26 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
According to Bert Hellinger alcoholism is a systemic issue often associated with missing masculine energy. In his work with family constellations, he found that many addictions, such as gambling, drugs, and alcoholism, are connected to a missing father (or masculine energy). It's as if the addict is attempting to fill the void left by their father through their addiction.
Alcohol is used to fill the emptiness, sedate the feelings and allow behavior that is forbidden, including rage and aggression. We may observe many generations that use alcohol in this way but never resolve restoring their missing fathers. Reconciling with the missing masculine is essential to restoring health and well being to the family and filling the void of its absence with safety and love.
Alcohol abuse can also be there result of an entanglement with a family member or ancestor who has abused alcohol. Out of loyalty, sacrifice or love they may drink with the one or ones they identify with.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Friday, April 26 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
According to Bert Hellinger alcoholism is a systemic issue often associated with missing masculine energy. In his work with family constellations, he found that many addictions, such as gambling, drugs, and alcoholism, are connected to a missing father (or masculine energy). It's as if the addict is attempting to fill the void left by their father through their addiction.
Alcohol is used to fill the emptiness, sedate the feelings and allow behavior that is forbidden, including rage and aggression. We may observe many generations that use alcohol in this way but never resolve restoring their missing fathers. Reconciling with the missing masculine is essential to restoring health and well being to the family and filling the void of its absence with safety and love.
Alcohol abuse can also be there result of an entanglement with a family member or ancestor who has abused alcohol. Out of loyalty, sacrifice or love they may drink with the one or ones they identify with.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Sperm and Egg: Entanglements Around Conception
Saturday, April 27 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Often children feel a deep pain about their conception. If the moment of conception for the parents contains shame, ambivalence or anger at a conscious or unconscious level, instead of ecstasy, joy or fullness, the child can feel burdened with guilt regarding their conception. This experience creates entanglements that include loyalties, sacrifice or atonement out of guilt for their conception.
Setting up a Family Constellation at the moment of conception with representations for the sperm and egg can allow us to explore the hidden dynamics occurring in this moment and search for resolutions that will help the client to have a different feeling/image about their conception.
These constellations can also be used to help clients experiencing challenges with conceiving a child. Systemic dynamics may be blocking the sperm and egg from merging, with the sperm often resistant to reaching out to the egg. This approach can be particularly helpful for children who are conceived through sperm or egg donations.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Saturday, April 27 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Often children feel a deep pain about their conception. If the moment of conception for the parents contains shame, ambivalence or anger at a conscious or unconscious level, instead of ecstasy, joy or fullness, the child can feel burdened with guilt regarding their conception. This experience creates entanglements that include loyalties, sacrifice or atonement out of guilt for their conception.
Setting up a Family Constellation at the moment of conception with representations for the sperm and egg can allow us to explore the hidden dynamics occurring in this moment and search for resolutions that will help the client to have a different feeling/image about their conception.
These constellations can also be used to help clients experiencing challenges with conceiving a child. Systemic dynamics may be blocking the sperm and egg from merging, with the sperm often resistant to reaching out to the egg. This approach can be particularly helpful for children who are conceived through sperm or egg donations.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Sibling Conflicts and Systemic Entanglements
Saturday, May 11 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Siblings who have conflicts are often entangled in their parent’s marriage. They may also be entangled with ancestors who had troubled or traumatic sibling relationships. Sometimes siblings are caught in a perpetrator and victim dynamics with each being entangled with different sides of the conflict. At other times siblings may be in conflict because they different ways of being loyal to their parents or siblings are entangled with parentification.
We will look at how these sibling conflicts manifest at the systemic level and what can be done to repair these relationships and restore balance and perhaps love.
In this Family Constellations workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators. In all of our workshops everyone pays the same price and works together as a group and community. You can be on the list to receive a constellation.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites
Saturday, May 11 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Siblings who have conflicts are often entangled in their parent’s marriage. They may also be entangled with ancestors who had troubled or traumatic sibling relationships. Sometimes siblings are caught in a perpetrator and victim dynamics with each being entangled with different sides of the conflict. At other times siblings may be in conflict because they different ways of being loyal to their parents or siblings are entangled with parentification.
We will look at how these sibling conflicts manifest at the systemic level and what can be done to repair these relationships and restore balance and perhaps love.
In this Family Constellations workshop is appropriate to those who are new to Family Constellations or more experienced participants of facilitators. In all of our workshops everyone pays the same price and works together as a group and community. You can be on the list to receive a constellation.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites
Resolving Narcissism in Family Systems
Friday, June 7, 2024 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Narcissism in Family Constellations is seen as a systemic disorder, one that affects everyone in the system and some very strongly. Narcissistic personality disorder involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration. Often, we find missing maternal energy far back in the system is the source for this disorder. Narcissism is always challenging. Its paradox, complexity and gaslighting make it hard to see the facts and discover a solution. We will look at the ancestral origins and hidden dynamics of narcissism and look for resolutions.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop include lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. You can be on the list to receive a constellation if you contact us, but we will always see in the moment who needs to work. No prerequisites'
This workshop is NOT designed as a substitute for therapy with a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or other mental health services professional, or for any other professional consultation. Family Constellations are designed as an educational (and often spiritual) experience only.
Friday, June 7, 2024 at 6:00pm - 9:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Narcissism in Family Constellations is seen as a systemic disorder, one that affects everyone in the system and some very strongly. Narcissistic personality disorder involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration. Often, we find missing maternal energy far back in the system is the source for this disorder. Narcissism is always challenging. Its paradox, complexity and gaslighting make it hard to see the facts and discover a solution. We will look at the ancestral origins and hidden dynamics of narcissism and look for resolutions.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop include lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. You can be on the list to receive a constellation if you contact us, but we will always see in the moment who needs to work. No prerequisites'
This workshop is NOT designed as a substitute for therapy with a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or other mental health services professional, or for any other professional consultation. Family Constellations are designed as an educational (and often spiritual) experience only.
Energetic and Spiritual Protection for Family Constellations
Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 11:30am - 2:30pm (CDT)
$75.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Energetic and Spiritual Protection is important for keeping all participants and the facilitator safe with good boundaries and healthy practices. This protection needs to be constantly practiced and resourced on regular basis to become a highly skilled and habitual way of holding a safe container while immersed in the knowing field. When we practice and develop our Energetic and Spiritual Protection we go into our work with an adaptable and strong protection for helpful and successful work with our clients.
After a lecture/discussion of the key concepts of protection we will use guided visualization to provide participants with new ideas and experience of a varied and complex approach to maintaining energetic and spiritual protections in a good way.
This training is intended for those who are familiar with Family Constellations. It is not intended for new participants.
Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 11:30am - 2:30pm (CDT)
$75.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Energetic and Spiritual Protection is important for keeping all participants and the facilitator safe with good boundaries and healthy practices. This protection needs to be constantly practiced and resourced on regular basis to become a highly skilled and habitual way of holding a safe container while immersed in the knowing field. When we practice and develop our Energetic and Spiritual Protection we go into our work with an adaptable and strong protection for helpful and successful work with our clients.
After a lecture/discussion of the key concepts of protection we will use guided visualization to provide participants with new ideas and experience of a varied and complex approach to maintaining energetic and spiritual protections in a good way.
This training is intended for those who are familiar with Family Constellations. It is not intended for new participants.
Family Constellations for Systemic & Individual Healing
Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 2:30am - 5:30pm (CDT)
$40.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants to create a healing experience for everyone.Then we look to see what can be healed for the client and their system.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
It's a good introductory workshop to this amazing healing work. No prerequisites.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 2:30am - 5:30pm (CDT)
$40.00 US - Experiential (Open to any issue)
Family Constellations explore how deep forces in our family systems, sometimes over multiple generations, can influence our thoughts, behaviors and emotional experiences. Tapping into a “knowing field” that surrounds each family allows you and volunteer representatives to explore this living phenomenon. Participants have the opportunity to participate in creating constellations for several other participants to create a healing experience for everyone.Then we look to see what can be healed for the client and their system.
Repairing a broken family system is central to helping an individual create a satisfying and meaningful life with healthy relationships and genuine love. When the past withdraws and has no power over the living the future can enter with possibility. In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems in service to client’s wellbeing.
It's a good introductory workshop to this amazing healing work. No prerequisites.
Working with Autoimmune Disease Systemically
Saturday, July 13 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
In Family Constellations we look at autoimmune disease as a symptom of entanglements with the past, sometime with our immediate family and often with events of long ago. We lose our sense of self when we become entangled and identify with someone who is not us. Often we feel foreign energies, thoughts and feelings that are not us or conflicts or dynamics that did not happen to us, AND they can unconsciously cause us to resist, withdraw, fight or surrender. These entangled feelings can result in physical symptoms or illnesses that attempt to deal with what does not belong within us. This can appear as an inflammatory response as our immune system fights against what does not belong..
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Saturday, July 13 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
In Family Constellations we look at autoimmune disease as a symptom of entanglements with the past, sometime with our immediate family and often with events of long ago. We lose our sense of self when we become entangled and identify with someone who is not us. Often we feel foreign energies, thoughts and feelings that are not us or conflicts or dynamics that did not happen to us, AND they can unconsciously cause us to resist, withdraw, fight or surrender. These entangled feelings can result in physical symptoms or illnesses that attempt to deal with what does not belong within us. This can appear as an inflammatory response as our immune system fights against what does not belong..
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Family Constellations for Money and Success
Saturday, August 17 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
According to Bert Hellinger issues around money and success begin in the entanglements of the family system. Entanglements can block the energies that need to flow through the system and into our individual lives to allow us to use our intentions, resources, intellect, experiences and agency to create wealth and opportunity.
In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems so that money and success can find a place in our client’s lives.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Saturday, August 17 at 10:00am - 1:30pm (CDT)
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
According to Bert Hellinger issues around money and success begin in the entanglements of the family system. Entanglements can block the energies that need to flow through the system and into our individual lives to allow us to use our intentions, resources, intellect, experiences and agency to create wealth and opportunity.
In this workshop, open to anyone interested and those with experience, we will create Family Constellations that use volunteer representatives to help discover how to repair and restore symmetry to family systems so that money and success can find a place in our client’s lives.
This unique online Family Constellations workshop includes lecture/discussion, guided meditation or exercise and Family Constellations with participants. No prerequisites.
Generational Sexual Abuse in Family Systems
November 2024
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Description coming soon.
November 2024
$50.00 US - Discussion and Experiential
Description coming soon.
Future Family Constellations Online Workshops
• Family Constellations for Adoption
• Family Constellations for Illness and Disease
• Letting Go of Our Mother & Father with Family Constellations
• Releasing Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics and Patterns
• Reconciling Elderly Parent Dynamics with Family Constellations
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is a Family Constellations Facilitator and Trainer. He has been in private practice for 40 years and began exploring Family Constellations in 2003. He has worked with many leading Family Constellations trainers and facilitators in the US and Europe.
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Testimonials About Family Constellations Workshops
"One of the most beneficial aspects of attending ongoing group Family Constellation workshops with Barry Krost that I have personally experienced is the positive shifting of family patterns - even when you are not chosen as ‘the client’. I have received physical and energetic confirmation that an excluded family member has been brought back into the family system and order has been restored even though this family situation had never been directly addressed in an individual or group constellation. Barry is extremely adept at reading the energy of the room, whether in person or on zoom, and prioritizing the situations he feels most urgently need to be shifted in that moment. In this way everyone involved in the constellation, from the client to the witness, is reaping the maximum energetic reward from the constellation experience as we have similar generational patterns, entanglements, and exclusions in our family lineages. What’s the expression…Priceless!"
-- Lisa H, Palatine, Illinois, USA
"As a teacher and facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations, Barry Krost is one of those rare gems whose words and practices align and land in a place of heart-centered compassion and authenticity. Throw in some solid humility and a dash of humor, and the outcome results in a lighthearted sense of safety for the client/student on the receiving end to explore their family/systemic dynamics in greater depth. His grasp of the conceptual is masterful, and yet, he is open to being challenged and changed, as he journeys through the work with you as a gentle guide. I’m delighted and relieved to know that Barry’s wisdom is reaching far and wide these days, and am deeply honored to travel in the same sacred healing circles as this gifted soul!"
-- Susan Crimmins, Ph.D., California USA
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), MSW, Certified Energy Healer, Facilitator of Systemic Constellations with Horse
"Thanks so much Barry for a truly enlightening seminar! I now have a clearer understanding of narcissism, the core of current politics, what creates mass murderers, and the dynamics of murder in general. It will take a while to digest all of the information on perpetration both political and familial and the systemic solutions. IROm or interrupted movement is always at work. Your seminar was so instructive and valuable! "
-- Vicki Santell, Florida, USA
“Life as I know it has been shifting in the most peacefully invigorating ways since my first Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. Each time, no matter whether I’m the client, the representative, or the witness, I experience elements of my family and interpersonal relationships, as well as life in general showing up in incrementally improved ways.
Barry’s passion and enthusiasm for ancestral healing and personal growth is infectious. While respectfully honoring and communicating Bert Hellinger’s foundational teachings, Barry is a unique and masterful facilitator, teacher, mentor, and healer. He is continually implementing innovative workshops to address current life situations, working with energies in all realms, in addition to addressing foundational issues.
Barry often humorously tells us that he doesn’t know what the $#^@&* he’s doing. It is obvious to all of us fortunate to be in a therapeutic session with him, that Barry’s ability to be in the flow of the present moment informs his ability to tune into and execute exactly what is needed in each moment of healing”
-- Lisa H, Illinois, USA
"It took me many years to attend a Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. I tend to lean towards evidence-based interventions that are logical and pragmatic. Eventually I found this approach to be limiting, and my conventional strategies of psychotherapy and medication were not working. I felt stuck, in a rut, revisiting the same past hurts again and again and living a day-to-day life haunted by a pervasive anxiety and chronic pain. One day, I took a what-the-hell it's only $45 attitude, and figured at the very least it couldn't hurt.
"I was completely blown away. This form of therapy is so much more holistic than anything that I have tried before, and I have done the gamut (CBT, EMDR, MBSR, somatic-emotional release, client-centered psychotherapy, internal family systems, etc.) Family Constellation Workshops are physical, kinesthetic, emotional, and spiritual work. I grew up in a less than supportive environment and I tend to be highly critical of myself, and often unfairly of others. The unconditional and unwavering support of this group was truly profound. The people in the workshop helped ground me in knowledge that I began to accept at an emotional level rather than superficial intellectual understanding.
To give an example, at one point I leaned back into a line of about seven women who were standing there with the sole purpose of supporting me. As my resistance and need to be in control finally began to soften, the woman behind me spontaneously began to hum like a mother does to a child. Almost immediately, I melted and I began to weep, not in the half choked sobs I am familiar with, but a gentle catharsis of grief I had been holding on to for years. I had held so many others up in times of pain, given when I had nothing left to give, and now I leaned back into the steady strength of a literal line of women and a symbolic lineage of mothers. Their wordless, selfless compassion registered in my body and soul and lifted me up. Barry intuited that I was rushing myself, ashamed of taking too much time... and he told me "take all the time you need. This is for you," and he whispered to the woman behind me "she's never had this before." He was right. For the first time I truly *felt* that I was not alone. I was supported, I was cherished, loved, and safe. In the sacredness of that space I was finally able to *receive* and I will carry it with me always. "
-- E, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
-- Lisa H, Palatine, Illinois, USA
"As a teacher and facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations, Barry Krost is one of those rare gems whose words and practices align and land in a place of heart-centered compassion and authenticity. Throw in some solid humility and a dash of humor, and the outcome results in a lighthearted sense of safety for the client/student on the receiving end to explore their family/systemic dynamics in greater depth. His grasp of the conceptual is masterful, and yet, he is open to being challenged and changed, as he journeys through the work with you as a gentle guide. I’m delighted and relieved to know that Barry’s wisdom is reaching far and wide these days, and am deeply honored to travel in the same sacred healing circles as this gifted soul!"
-- Susan Crimmins, Ph.D., California USA
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), MSW, Certified Energy Healer, Facilitator of Systemic Constellations with Horse
"Thanks so much Barry for a truly enlightening seminar! I now have a clearer understanding of narcissism, the core of current politics, what creates mass murderers, and the dynamics of murder in general. It will take a while to digest all of the information on perpetration both political and familial and the systemic solutions. IROm or interrupted movement is always at work. Your seminar was so instructive and valuable! "
-- Vicki Santell, Florida, USA
“Life as I know it has been shifting in the most peacefully invigorating ways since my first Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. Each time, no matter whether I’m the client, the representative, or the witness, I experience elements of my family and interpersonal relationships, as well as life in general showing up in incrementally improved ways.
Barry’s passion and enthusiasm for ancestral healing and personal growth is infectious. While respectfully honoring and communicating Bert Hellinger’s foundational teachings, Barry is a unique and masterful facilitator, teacher, mentor, and healer. He is continually implementing innovative workshops to address current life situations, working with energies in all realms, in addition to addressing foundational issues.
Barry often humorously tells us that he doesn’t know what the $#^@&* he’s doing. It is obvious to all of us fortunate to be in a therapeutic session with him, that Barry’s ability to be in the flow of the present moment informs his ability to tune into and execute exactly what is needed in each moment of healing”
-- Lisa H, Illinois, USA
"It took me many years to attend a Family Constellation Workshop with Barry Krost. I tend to lean towards evidence-based interventions that are logical and pragmatic. Eventually I found this approach to be limiting, and my conventional strategies of psychotherapy and medication were not working. I felt stuck, in a rut, revisiting the same past hurts again and again and living a day-to-day life haunted by a pervasive anxiety and chronic pain. One day, I took a what-the-hell it's only $45 attitude, and figured at the very least it couldn't hurt.
"I was completely blown away. This form of therapy is so much more holistic than anything that I have tried before, and I have done the gamut (CBT, EMDR, MBSR, somatic-emotional release, client-centered psychotherapy, internal family systems, etc.) Family Constellation Workshops are physical, kinesthetic, emotional, and spiritual work. I grew up in a less than supportive environment and I tend to be highly critical of myself, and often unfairly of others. The unconditional and unwavering support of this group was truly profound. The people in the workshop helped ground me in knowledge that I began to accept at an emotional level rather than superficial intellectual understanding.
To give an example, at one point I leaned back into a line of about seven women who were standing there with the sole purpose of supporting me. As my resistance and need to be in control finally began to soften, the woman behind me spontaneously began to hum like a mother does to a child. Almost immediately, I melted and I began to weep, not in the half choked sobs I am familiar with, but a gentle catharsis of grief I had been holding on to for years. I had held so many others up in times of pain, given when I had nothing left to give, and now I leaned back into the steady strength of a literal line of women and a symbolic lineage of mothers. Their wordless, selfless compassion registered in my body and soul and lifted me up. Barry intuited that I was rushing myself, ashamed of taking too much time... and he told me "take all the time you need. This is for you," and he whispered to the woman behind me "she's never had this before." He was right. For the first time I truly *felt* that I was not alone. I was supported, I was cherished, loved, and safe. In the sacredness of that space I was finally able to *receive* and I will carry it with me always. "
-- E, Madison, Wisconsin, USA