Family Constellations Facilitator Training
Would you consider training as a Family Constelations facilitator? My experience of Family Constellations Training with Barbara Morgan was and still is so much more than just learning to facilitate systemic work.
Training with Barbara Morgan, Stephan Hausner and Poppy Altmann in Frome, Somerset 2023.
Barbara Morgan offers an 18 month training in Family Constelllations Facilitation.
Each training is fully comprehensive, transformational, and takes you on deep dives into the history, background, theory and practice of family constellation work. It allows many opportunities to practice facilitation and to do the personal work that we need to step into the role of facilitator. Many people choose to repeat the training for personal development, healing and depth of connection to ourselves and others that it gives. On the last training almost 50% of the 26 participants rejoined for a further 18months. This work is always ongoing and deeply healing for ourselves, our families and our ancestors if that is what is needed.
You can find out details and practicalities for the training here and Barbaras next training will begin in May 2026 so there is time to think and process how amazing it might be to take this opportunity for a transformational journey.
Below I will share my experience and thoughts, having been involved for nearly 10 years now.
I have been facilitating constellations workshops since the first training and I became an apprentice to Barbara as well for the support, supervision and the personal development that I felt, at such a visceral level, comes from being part of such a group. Being an apprentice meant repeating the training with resonsibilities that involve some facilitation demonstrations, a role as mentor for the trainees support groups and learning to give assessments and feedback to trainees. So currently I am midway though our fourth training and my next move could be to step into training myself.
Whats in it for me? Why do the training?
As I started to look at life from the perspective that includes the continuing presence of our ancesteral heritage in our day to day experience AND as I started to fully accept my parents - which is often the main work of Family Constellations - I very much welcomed the group support for the changes occuring in my life! As this journey unfolds change is inevitable and for me it has meant letting go of my long held poor relationship with my Mum, replacing it with an acceptance, compassion for the life she has lead and gratitude for all she was able to do for me. I am better able to be present for my children (they tell me this!), I have left my profession as a pharmacist in the NHS, met a kind and handsome man and moved into a loving relationship. I have more space in my life for the people and things I love and I travel quite often - time to process and take space.
This extraordinary training does not JUST give you the tools to facilitate Family Constellations it is an opportunity for very profound personal work. Here we get to fully appreciate our bodies and their sensitivity or insensitivity to both the internal and external world. We learn to tune into the messages we receive, we are trained to articulate these messages, to take responsibility for our responses to them and where and why we have not listened or been able to feel before. We get to experience ourselves in a profoundly different way. We learn to trust our bodies to tell us what we need to know. The practice of representation is a great way to gain such insights, we learn to trust, to gain confidence that our body knows. We get a lot of practice of representation on the training and really begin to appreciate the gifts this gives us.
With Barbara Morgan as our trainer and her assistant trainer, [currently Poppy Altmann ], modelling how it is to be working on fully accepting and being accepted just as we are, and presence it is a uniquely safe place to thrive.
During these years of laughter, joy, rage, anger, grief and so much more, working alongside Barbara my life has changed as I began to trust the container of the training, the trainers, the other group members and myself. I have experienced a safe place to dive deeply into those places of shame, of rage and deep grief. There is so much more and at times I am too long in the pain of resistance, but overall I see the progress and I am in AWE.
During the training there are many opportunities to have transformational experiences - from rebirth to being held by your mother or father, perhaps for the first time, or to tell your body directly how awesome it is! I have been supported by a group of men who lovingly came forward to support me after I had expressed deep rage and hatred to many of them. They lovingly lifted me up, supported me and held me for long enough to allow myself to trust and to let go of much of my fear. Where else could that have been possible! I am moved as I look back and so glad I began this journey that continues every day, with every beautiful person I work alongside in one to ones or at workshops, with every person that takes a step on this journey with me.
On each training day we spend every afternoon doing personal constellations and each of the trainees has to do at least 2 personal pieces of work with the whole group. This is a unique experience to work with a large group of up to 30 people, there are not many workshops that have such large numbers and definitely not many opprtunities to work with facilitators like Barbara, Stephan Hausner and Tye Francis. Both Stephan and Tye lead one module each in the trainings. Each of these internationally renowned male facilitators bring their own unique style.
Tye teaching us about the world of organisational constellations. We learn that organisations such as businesses, schools, health centres etc, like families, are unique systems affected by similar natural laws, heirachies and are sensitive to that which is openly acknowledged or that which is excluded for whatever reason. He teaches us how to adapt our facilitation to the work environment and gives many invaluable insights into the complex world of money, finance and business - this merging of the deeply personal and our external face to the world of work is often such a tricky interface and I have learned so much from Tye!
Stephan brings his background as a homeopath, an osteopath, a naturopath, a psychotherapist and his application of all his learning and international teaching on complimentary health care and systemic work. He has worked with Thomas Hubl on his timeless wisdom training. The chance to have Stephan facilitate your personal constellation is rare and a great addition to the personal work available on this training. His facilitation style is different to that of both Tye and Barbara and he offers many insights into his way of working.
Through the training we learn from morning teachings, many done through experiential work. The lectures are short and filled with gems, the backup material comprehensive and thorough. The afternoons give us an opportunity to see the theory in practice as facilitation takes place with time for questions and discussion afterwards too.
We learn how natural laws govern our lives unconsciously and once we know and understand what these laws of the systems we live in are, we can make changes to align with them.
Did you know this?
Did you know that sleeping on a particular side of the bed might affect the dynamic of your relationship, for example? Also do you take the right place in your family? Are you the right size in relationship to your parents or other siblings? Do you fully acknowledge former partners and give them the right place in your heart? Or is there still resentment or anger playing out in your system because you have walked away from unresolved issues. Who is excluded and who fully included in your family system? Who should be included? What did you learn about giving and receiving from your parents? Do you know much about the lives of your ancestors?
This work certainly makes you curious about your ancestors.
It engenders respect and humility too when we fully realise what came before ourselves! If there are people that need to be included or feelings that need to be fully felt or acknowledged then we need to do this work. Perhaps the horrors of war, early death, forced migration, famine, poverty, early separation from parents - perhaps death, or trauma causing physical or emotional absence, adoption, - were too difficult for people to deal with in the moment and often the trauma has to be worked through by generations to come. When time has passed - there is space from the intensity of emotion and day to day struggle to keep family alive and we can begin to heal. We learn a lot about how our ancestors built resilience and passed on life to us despite many extraordinary circumstances.
For many English people, such as myself, there is a history of colonialism in our ancestry - either our families members colonised or reaped the rewards of lives stolen from those in colonised countries - much of life as we experience it here in England today is built off the back of others who suffered greatly in the hands of our ancestors and we pay the price unconsciously if we fail to look at what happened and what part our family played in this. For many living in England and other parts of the UK their ancestors experience was as a victim of colonialism, many have been part of the british empire and moved here because we were there in their countries. They suffer here, now from our lack of education, or miseducation about colonialism through systemic and personal racism.
We can begin to feel the pain of previous generations, to educate ourselves and to change the way we view ourselves, seeing and experiencing in constellation work how such traumas of both victims and perpetrators have such a powerful effect on our lives today. In a constellation we turn to face the pain of what happened and the more fully we can do this with the support of the group the more we can move on and build the lives that should be our birthright.
During the training you have access to a comprehansive library - all the books you will need for this training. The works of Bert Hellinger, all of the knowing field journals - a huge resource of articles written by those involved in constellation work as it has developed over the years. and many books by those that have been researching and working in this field for the last 30 years or so have written and many others too. There are books to support us to look at our own biases, our priviledges and our blind spots - many of which are likely to surface and are welcomed as a great opportunity for personal growth.
There are so many stories to tell of the training but most of all I would love you to experience it too, if you are interested, even vaguely - get in touch and I can share more of these stories.
The training will probably start next May in 2026 and could be mostly residential but otherwise will be based in Frome, Somerset or nearby. It is 10 modules - one every 2 months - and each module is 5 days. On-line modules are shorter, usually 3 days and we have 2 spaced evenly in the training. On line facilitation of family constellations is a different experience but as it gives enormous flexibility it is great to learn how and to practice with each other too. iI works really well - you can’t beat being in the room in person but if this is not an option for you the on line work is great!
The in person nature of this training is vital to really build your practice of embodiment, witnessing each other representing and being a representative yourself in others constellations, being freely able to share our experience in the moment face to face is vital and an integral part of Barbaras training.