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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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. Sibling relationships can also be very confusing, especially with favor going more to one child than another. 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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

 We begin with the hidden stories of our lineages. As the northern hemisphere begins to hint that spring exists, we explore the weight of family secrets and the ways they shape belonging, identity, and silence. We attune to the energy of withheld truths, unspoken shame, and the movements that arise when what was buried begins to shift. Themes include abortion, abuse, money, infidelity, gender identity, queerness, and migration. We will practice holding space for what is not fully known and following the subtle signals of emergence.

This optional additional offering invites those interested in astrological archetypes to explore how hidden dynamics show up in natal charts and transits. We will engage astrology as a relational practice of listening to what is beneath the surface, leaving behind the idea of astrology as a tool for prediction. Participants will learn to sense what stories are living in the chart, what is nudging us toward consciousness, and how to meet what is emerging with care and curiosity.

As the season cools and darkens, we enter the inner sanctum of privacy. In this class, we sit with the parts of ourselves that are not ready to emerge and may never need to. We also bring respect and care to the parts of ourselves that are hibernating, waiting for different impulses for awakening. We ask, is there difference between vulnerability and oversharing? We attend to what is staying hidden and to what is beginning to stir. We work with the slow timing of emergence and learn to trust the movement of the field without forcing it forward.

Sarah’s approach to Emergent Constellations encourages facilitators to integrate relational neuroscience and an understanding of relational vs instrumental language into the work. Participants learn the basics of constellation work within the framework of emergent constellations, and enter into a meaningful partnership with reps and clients to harvest all the wisdom that is present in the field.

For beginners and experienced practitioners alike, this 2-day, 10-hour class will give you the vocabulary and experience you need to enjoy other facilitation classes.