Description
This year-long series includes twelve deep-dives (also available individually) exploring the healing power of family constellations.
These twelve 5-hour Fridays from Feb. 2025 to Jan. 2026 will walk people through both constellation facilitation skills (for facilitators) and through the healing offered by participating in and receiving constellations (for people who don’t want to facilitate, but who love to receive healing) – for a total of more than 85 hours of Emergent Constellation study and healing with Sarah Peyton.
Each 5-hour exploration includes a brief lecture on the relational neuroscience of the focus topic for the session, multiple mini-constellation breakouts so that everyone can explore, and one large-group constellation. Purchase includes an invitation to the live Friday class (9 AM – 3 PM Pacific Time) and the recording afterwards.
The workshops lay a clearly designed path for people seeking a structured education in the healing work of constellations. These workshops also support those who wish to learn to facilitate healing through Sarah’s framework of emergent constellations principles.
This 12-class series from February 2025 – January 2026 includes:
Feb. 7, 2025 – Module 1: The Art of Representing in Family Constellations
It is possible for representations that we hold to bring us deep experiences of joy and meaning. How can we approach our work as representatives from a stance that is most likely to open doors for us to a larger understanding of the human condition?
March 21, 2025 – Module 2: The Role and Resolution of Trauma in Constellations
Trauma is the element that most brings people to seek healing from constellations. In this class, we will learn the hallmarks of trauma, how to recognize its effects, and what to look for and offer in constellations in order to create resolution.
April 18, 2025 – Module 3: Finding Ourselves in the Web of our Contracts and Loyalties
Once we have begun to understand unconscious contracts, we start to notice how common they are, and how they are the props and supports of every waking moment for most of us. How do we find ourselves in such a world, and how can we look in order to see people’s true selves inside their contracts?
May 9, 2025 – Module 4: Healing our Sense of Mother
We learn how to love ourselves and others from our mothers, less from what they try to teach us, and more from the way they care for themselves. The relationship with mother forms the way the inside of our brains feel, the way we pay attention, and the way we live. Constellation work is one of the most effective approaches to bringing change and healing to our sense of mother. This session will explore ways to bring this healing about.
June 20, 2025 – Module 5: Healing our Sense of Father
We learn how to interface with the world, and how to play, from our fathers, less from what they try to teach us, and more from the way they themselves interface with the world. When there are problems with our father’s relationship with his world, or with us, it impacts our ability to gain traction in our lives. Constellation work is one of the most effective approaches to bringing change and healing to our sense of father and world. This session will explore ways to bring this healing about.
July 18, 2025 – Module 6: Finding our Right Place as Parents/Mentors
One of the most difficult things for us as both parents and mentors is to find our right place in relationship to our children or mentees. Many things keep us stuck trying to get other people’s attention, or to make sure that others are okay, instead of being able to be grounded in our own lives, and instead of simply being able to let the love flow through us. Constellation work teaches us where to locate ourselves, and how to let our attention, and our love, flow through us. This session will explore ways to reposition and open ourselves.
August 15, 2025 – Module 7: Working with the Hidden: Secrets and the Unconscious in Families
When a sense that something is secret arises in a constellation, what might it point us toward? What can we do when there are secrets in our families or in our constellations, and what is the neuroscience of how such things might feel, and might affect us?
September 19, 2025 – Module 8: Acknowledging Scale and Magnitude in Constellations
One of the things that stops brains from integrating difficult life experience, and keeps trauma memories suspended in our daily consciousness, instead of moving through us, is the scale and magnitude of what we’ve lived through. If no one can acknowledge the enormity of our hard times, then they continue to plague us. Once we understand this, constellation work can be ideal for helping us to move through and integrate our lives.
October 31, 2025 – Module 9: Opening the Door to Mystery and Awe in Constellations
Some of the loveliest and most nourishing things that happen in life are the moments of mystery and awe. Sometimes they even happen in constellations. What can we do to open ourselves to more mystery and awe in both our constellations, and in general in our lives?
November 21, 2025 – Module 10: Supporting the Movement Through Heartbreak in Constellations
Our hearts can be broken in so many ways – by lost love, the death of parents, siblings, children, good friends, the loss of land, of home, of livelihood, of passion – how can constellations help us survive, heal and grow to love again?
December 12, 2025 – Module 11: Negotiating Death and Darkness in Constellations
Transitions are always difficult. Our death, the death of people who are important to us, the way time is always slipping away, these things hurt us and make it hard to breathe. What can constellations do to help us?
January 9, 2026 – Module 12: The Resurrection of Hope in Constellations
Hope is both impossible and indispensable. It buoys us up, it makes people happy, it makes life worth living, and at the same time the circumstances of the world and of our lives make it difficult to catch any hope at all. Constellations, with their expansive and paradoxical ability to reflect reality, can take us a giant step toward the integration of life-giving skeptical hope and optimism.