**Brand New** 2026 Trainings Announced:
For the past year and a half, I’ve been holding a question: What do my next trainings and offerings want to be? Something new was stirring, waiting to emerge, though its form was unclear. I’ve sat with this, patiently listening…
And now, it’s here. I’m thrilled to announce, like a proud parent, the birth of our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs!
These trainings are unlike any other, inspired by the transformative model of my Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator Training. That experience taught me how to create a sacred, safe space for deep healing and exploration. The Holotropic team’s rigorous approach—spanning two years and including nine weeks of intensive personal work in residential retreats—set a high standard. Not everyone who began the journey earned certification; only those who demonstrated true skill received their seal of approval. That’s a standard I deeply respect and carry forward.
Our new programs blend this proven framework with Family and Shamanic Constellation work, offering profound personal growth in stunning retreat settings. Join us to step into this sacred space and become a skilled facilitator of transformative healing.
Our 2026 Training Programs
Embark on a transformative journey with our two distinct paths (choose one or both):
- Family Constellation Facilitator Training
- Shamanic Constellation Facilitator Training (Learn more about Shamanic Constellations here)
Certification is earned through skillful completion of the program, typically spanning 10 modules. If you’re not quite ready, no worries—you can continue with additional practice until you’re fully prepared to step into this work with soulful confidence.
Flexible, Module-Based Learning Our training is designed to fit your life. Choose the 5-day modules that resonate with you and complete them at your own pace. This modular approach frees you from rigid schedules, empowering you to shape your learning journey.
Online Now, In-Person Later For now, all modules are offered online, ensuring accessibility. In the future, select modules will take place in breathtaking locations worldwide, blending deep work with inspiring settings.
A Commitment to Deep Work This training is rigorous and transformative, requiring significant personal growth to earn certification. As I learned in my Holotropic Breathwork training, one truth stands out:
“The best thing you can do for your clients is to do your own work.”
~ Tav Sparks
The deeper your personal exploration, the more powerfully you can serve your clients and humanity.
Why Our Training Stands Out
Our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs are designed for depth, transformation, and flexibility, setting them apart from traditional trainings. Unlike programs that focus solely on psychological frameworks, we integrate shamanic practices and hands-on experience to prepare you as a skilled facilitator or deeply engaged participant.
- Small, Intimate Groups: Limited to 8 Students and 6 Support Team members per module, we prioritize depth over breadth, fostering personalized attention and profound learning.
- Comprehensive Facilitation Training: Our rigorous curriculum equips you to confidently facilitate Constellations, blending psychological and shamanic approaches to address light/dark forces and cosmic/galactic issues.
- Flexible, Modular Structure: Choose 5-day modules that align with your schedule and interests, ensuring you never miss a session and can focus on topics that resonate.
- Extensive Hands-On Practice: Lead multiple supervised Constellations, far exceeding the minimal practice in most trainings, to build skill and confidence.
- Deep Personal Work: Engage in transformative inner work to heal your own wounds, enhancing your ability to serve others.
Join us to experience a training that’s as unique as your journey. Contact me with questions!
Who This Training Is For
Our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs welcome a diverse range of participants, including:
- Beginners new to Constellation facilitation, eager to learn the foundations.
- Experienced practitioners seeking advanced training to deepen their skills.
- Those drawn to Shamanic work, ready to explore and engage with The Field.
- Aspiring facilitators who want supervised practice in a safe, supportive environment.
- Constellation enthusiasts who love the work and seek personal healing and growth, without intending to facilitate (discounted rates available for “The Support Team”).
A Space for Everyone Our training is designed to meet diverse needs. Students gain hands-on facilitation practice, while attendees/reps participate in group exercises and receive profound healing. I will personally lead many full Constellation sessions for trainees, ensuring rich learning opportunities. Everyone—whether training to facilitate or attending for personal growth—experiences transformation and connection.
Flexible Pathways Not sure about facilitating? You can join as a participant and later apply completed modules toward certification, with adjusted pricing to honor your journey.
This Is A Challenging Training
This training is designed to empower you to become a strong, skilled Family Constellation facilitator. Facilitating this modality is an art form that requires courage, vulnerability, and resilience. Our program blends two healing approaches: a nurturing, supportive container to address safety and ancestral wounds, and a challenging, growth-oriented space that pushes you to your edge—where true strength emerges.
Over five intensive days, you’ll engage in 9-hour sessions of personal healing, facilitation practice, and group learning. You’ll confront your shadows, stand in vulnerability while leading others, and develop the resilience to hold space for deep transformation. This rigorous process mirrors the intensity of my Holotropic Breathwork training, where long hours and emotional challenges forged profound growth.
We meet you with compassion, holding space for your safety needs while gently nudging you toward your potential. While prior inner work is beneficial, we welcome you wherever you are on your journey. This training is not just about learning skills—it’s about becoming a stronger, more soulful facilitator, ready to bring this powerful work to the world.
The Student & Support Team Roles In Training
Our training offers two distinct roles: Student and Support Team, each designed to deepen your connection to Family Constellation work in a supportive, transformative environment.
Students are committed to becoming skilled facilitators through immersive, hands-on learning. They focus on embodying Constellation principles, connecting with the Field, and practicing facilitation under supervision.
Students will:
- Engage in all exercises and group discussions
- Receive full Constellation led by me to remove any blocks to their facilitation success
- Facilitate mini & full Constellations for Support Team members
- Experience a profound level of deep growth and personal work
Support Team members fully participate in the training, engaging in discussions, representing in Constellations, and joining small group exercises. They gain the same foundational knowledge as Students, except for hands-on facilitation practice, and receive mini Constellations facilitated by Students. This role is ideal for those passionate about Constellation work for personal healing or growth, with the option to later apply completed modules toward certification (additional costs and practice required).
The Problem With Current Constellation Trainings
Insufficient Hands-On Practice
For 15 years, I’ve emphasized a critical gap in most Constellation trainings: a lack of hands-on practice. Mastery of Constellations comes from doing—engaging your body, intuition, and presence. To become a skillful facilitator, you need extensive, supervised practice to build confidence and competence.
Most trainings in the U.S. and beyond offer just 18–20 days of instruction, with students leading, at best, one full Constellation—if they’re lucky. That’s simply not enough.
Imagine completing a training with only one facilitated Constellation under your belt. Would you feel ready to guide someone through profound emotional challenges, like suicidal thoughts or deep trauma? Without sufficient practice, it’s not safe—for you or your clients.
Our Solution: Rigorous, Supervised Practice
Our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs address this gap head-on. Trainees will lead multiple supervised Constellations, building the skills and confidence needed to facilitate independently. This hands-on approach ensures you’re fully prepared to serve those who need your support, making this program both foundational and advanced.
Meet Your Training Assistants
I am deeply honored to have trained with some of the world’s leading Family Constellation facilitators. My journey began with Mark Wolynn and Suzi Tucker, both direct students of Bert Hellinger. Mark authored the bestselling book It Didn’t Start With You, while Suzi translated many of Hellinger’s influential works from German to English. I also served on the leadership team for the 2015 Family Constellation Conference in San Diego, California, working closely with James Weber and Leslie Nipps. Additionally, I was mentored for several years by Dan Cohen, a leading figure in Constellation work in the United States, alongside other transformative trainings.
In Holotropic Breathwork, I trained directly with Dr. Stan Grof and the Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT) team. As a pioneer of Transpersonal Psychology, Dr. Grof has masterfully blended psychotherapy and spirituality, creating powerful healing modalities. His unique journey, much like Hellinger’s, has profoundly shaped my approach to facilitation.
Guiding the Next Generation
Inspired by my mentors, I am passionate about empowering others to carry this work forward. I’ve had the privilege of training dedicated students who share a deep love for Constellation work. I’m thrilled to be joined by these talented individuals as assistants in our 2026 training programs, supporting your transformative journey. Meet them below.
Themes Of Our 5-Day Modules
Our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs are structured around transformative 5-day modules, divided into required and optional themes. Required modules are marked with FC (Family Constellation path) or SC (Shamanic Constellation path) to guide your journey.
Required 5-Day Modules
- Family Constellation Training: Foundations of Facilitation (FC & SC)
Master the core skills needed to facilitate Constellations with confidence and presence. - Shamanic Constellation Training: Reclaiming Our Divinity (SC)
Explore spiritual connection and divine essence through Shamanic Constellation practices. - Healing the Mother & Father Wound (FC)
Address generational wounds to foster deep healing and balance. - Soul, Healing & Truth Statements (FC)
Learn to craft powerful statements that unlock profound transformation. - Shadow Work: Embracing Light & Darkness (SC)
Integrate your shadow to harness authenticity and inner strength. - Skillfully Healing Trauma (FC)
Develop techniques to guide clients through trauma with compassion and precision. - Shamanic Constellations: Working with Forces of Light & Dark (SC)
Navigate spiritual forces to facilitate transformative Shamanic Constellations. - Required 2-Day Certification Workshop (FC & SC)
A culminating private workshop to refine skills and earn certification.
Optional 5-Day Modules
Choose the modules that resonate with your journey:
- Healing Sexual Trauma: Reclaiming Life-Force
Restore vitality by addressing and healing sexual trauma. - Creating Loving Connection with Your Inner Child
Nurture your inner child to foster self-love and emotional resilience. - Be Supported in Life: Building Strength for Success
Cultivate inner and outer support systems to thrive in your purpose. - Integrating Pain & Grief: Finding Strength to See & Feel
Transform grief into a source of wisdom and emotional clarity. - Healing Money Trauma: Accessing Abundance
Release financial blocks to embrace prosperity and flow. - Cosmic Constellations: Healing Galactic Trauma
Explore interstellar dimensions to heal deep, universal wounds. - Healing the Divide: Harmonizing Masculine & Feminine
Balance inner polarities for greater harmony and connection. - Romantic Partnerships: Removing Blocks to Love
Clear obstacles to cultivate healthy, loving relationships. - Nurturing Vibrant Health: Working With Chronic Illness
Supporting clients with chronic illness to thrive in life.
Upcoming Constellation Training Modules
Certification
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Your Financial Investment
Our 2026 Family & Shamanic Constellation Training Programs are designed to be accessible and transformative, offering flexible pathways for all participants. Costs reflect the depth of this work while remaining competitive with U.S. trainings.
- Student Role: $975 per 5-day module (limited to 8 spots). Enroll in all 10 modules upfront to save 20%, reducing the cost to $800 per module.
- Support Team Role: $475 per 5-day module (limited to 6 spots), ideal for personal healing without facilitation training.
- Prior Training: If you’ve completed prior training with me or another facilitator, we can create a customizable certification program tailored to your experience.
- In-Person Modules: Future in-person modules may include additional costs for venues or logistics. All modules are currently online.
Limited discounts are available for participants from countries with different pay scales. Contact me to discuss roles, certification pathways, prior training, or financial options. Invest in your growth and join us!
In Closing
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More Family Constellation Training Resources
This section has resources for facilitators of Family Constellation work & students learning to facilitate.
The Best Trainings - Hands-on practice vs. Theory
It takes a long time to learn Family Constellation facilitation. It depends on your courage to practice and learn while holding people’s psyche’s in your hands. It depends on your ability to fail in front of a group. Your capacity to be vulnerable.
There are many Constellation trainings, most lasting 6-9 months. It takes longer than this to become a competent facilitator. I would suggest many years, though you can get the basics in one training. Dan Cohen, a mentor whom I greatly respect says it takes “100 Constellations to become a proficient facilitator.” 100 may not sound like many, but when we break it down, it is.
To accomplish this you have to gather groups & clients together and then repeatedly practice & learn. If you create a workshop once per month and facilitate 4 Constellations on this day, then you will complete your 100 Constellations in about 2 years. The number – 100 Constellations – is arbitrary and everyone’s progress will vary, but it’s a good benchmark. For me it took about 4 years to get the basics and begin to feel comfortable in the Field. Even now I learn more every time I lead a Constellation.
This hands-on practice concept is IN ADDITION
to any facilitator trainings you take.
There are many trainings out there. I’ve led 10 full trainings myself. I believe it’s most important for students to find a training with hands-on practice. I’ve taken 9 month trainings where I never facilitated a single Constellation. Over the 5 full trainings I’ve taken I’ve probably facilitated 5 Constellations. This is NOT ENOUGH. So you have to create your first 100 Constellations on your own, outside of a training. You have to create the event yourself, market it, bringing together attendees (clients and representatives), which is a skill in itself.
Some trainings create space for more hands-on practice than others – Find these.
Hands-on is so important because you must train your body – muscle memory & energetic memory – for the complexity of leading a Constellation. You must develop confidence in yourself & develop your intuitive accuracy while leading a group.
Do you remember that childhood nightmare, the one where you show up in front of your class naked and have to give a presentation? This is the skill you need to develop to lead a Family Constellation workshop. Your ability to be in your vulnerability (naked), while leading a group (in front of people).
You must train your body and energetic awareness to feel the group’s energy, the energy in the Field, while maintaining connection with your client and your intuition – All at the same time.
This takes hands-on practice. You can’t learn this in a book, you learn it in your body.
Bert Hellinger did not learn from a book. He learned from the Field & in his body. Yes, he had other trainings and skills that he learned along the way, but nobody taught him “The Orders Of Love” and no book trained his intuition. He learned by doing and the Field taught him. The Field is your best teacher and you only get this through practice.
So, my advice is, find a training with a LOT of hands-on practice. My 2023/2024 Family Constellation Training was 40 days and consisted of 50% hands-on practice, 25% theory & 25% personal work.
The Journey Is A Long One
But if you continue to move forward, apply yourself, feel the fears and vulnerability while doing the inner work, you will get there.
While you are developing during your first 100 Constellations – You ARE HELPING PEOPLE quite a bit. A mediocre Constellation is still usually more powerful than talk therapy. So, don’t dismiss those first Constellations as not of value. They are valuable and anyone lucky enough to have a Constellation with you is lucky indeed. Charge enough so there is a balance between give and take. I see ALMOST ALL new facilitators charging too little. Respect yourself, respect the work, respect your clients. Believe they will get tremendous value and they will.
I coach facilitators in business skills. It’s a passion of mine. I don’t charge much because I consider it an offering to our community. If you want business support (Where to market? How to market? How to build a group? How much to charge? Should you rent a space…?) – Reach out. I’ve been through all of this myself.
The Inner Work
Family Constellation work is a mastery-level modality, a powerful tool. Because of it’s power, it asks a lot of us regarding our skillfulness & health as facilitators. We must do the inner work to competently use this tool.
The level of inner work needed is high. It is HALF THE BATTLE to your success. Half is learning the skills (embodied and theoretical), the other half is working on your own trauma and wounds.
- Your fears of being seen.
- What if you reach out and nobody responds?
- Of asking for and receiving support.
- Of charging what you are worth.
- The fears of public failure.
- What if you harm a client or make a mistake?
If these particular fears impact you, you will have to work through them to succeed. Most healers have a few of these. This is normal, there is nothing wrong with you, it is the healers journey (You take on the wound, you heal it and then you share the healing medicine you learned with the world.)
To the level you resolve your wounds is the level to which you can bring your gifts & trust me, bringing this modality to the world is beautiful. It is WORTH the inner work.
Here are 4 blog articles I wrote to support students in learning the art of Family Constellation facilitation.
Other Ways To Learn
Aside from hands-on practice, the other way I like to learn is through books. The pacing of books soothes me, I feel relaxed. I take in the information slowly where it is allowed to integrate into my body. Here are the best Constellation books I’ve come across. I recommend these to all my students. The top section are the required readings & the bottom 6 are recommended. Click the heart image below to view the reading list.
The Training Manual – Over the years I have compiled quite the list of reading materials for my students, over 200 pages. I’m giving this to you. This manual has grown as I’ve come across more good information. It is now almost 200 pages long. It is a BIG DOWNLOAD, but if you are interested, you are welcome to have it. Most of my students download it and then have it printed. Any big office supply store can do this.
About ½ this manual are my personal writings. The other ½ are written by prominent facilitators. I thank them and I have always tried to give them credit when I have shared their materials. I hope I have not missed any citations.
Family Constellation Training Manual
Family Constellation Recommended Book List
Training Constellations
Training Constellations are my most recent project to support students to learn Constellation work. I do very complex Constellations, it’s what I love to do. As a Soul I enjoy challenging myself and I become bored when I am not challenged. My Constellations take about 1 hour and 45 minutes and usually involve 15 or so representatives. (You can create a much smaller container than I do, the work is still amazing.)
Students have said it’s beneficial when I explain to them my thinking process. This allows them to see inside my mind as I facilitate.
Like all artforms, from the outside it can look like I have it all under control, but I can assure you, I do not. There are many times I feel lost or have NO IDEA what is going on. There are times I am thinking – How am I ever going to wrap this Constellation up? It does not look like it will resolve. And yet, through the magic & intelligence of the Field, it does. (I would offer here that FAITH in the Field is one of the most important things you will learn over time)
My current facilitation skills are based on 15 years in the Field. A previous 5 years of leading Holotropic Breathwork events and 10 years of being a flight attendant, which is where I first started learning to manage the energetics of group Fields. All of these have taught me to manage group energies & emotions.
In these Training Constellations (The Mindset Of A Facilitator #1 & #2) I break down 2 full Constellations for you and share my thinking processes. These Training Videos are 2 & 3 hours long, so create the space to take it in. More of these Training Constellation videos will be created soon.
If you find it valuable, please “like” on YouTube. These are the first of many Training Constellations to come. If you want receive notice when they are published, subscribe to my Family Constellation based YouTube channel, where you can see Bert Hellinger Training Videos and more.
Also share your thoughts in the comments on YouTube, it creates a conversation and raises the algorithm, which supports others to learn about Constellation work.
Learning About Trauma
Anyone can lead a Constellation. Some have more aptitude than others. I once had an accountant in a training. She was worried, “who am I to lead a Constellation, do I have the skills for this?” My reply is, “yes, absolutely”
You don’t have to be a psychotherapist, healer or anything of the sort. All it takes is time, learning & dedication. Anybody can learn to facilitate Family Constellation work.
But, in addition to a Constellation training – you need to know how to work with trauma. You need to track where your client is energetically & emotionally and moderate their experience so they can be present to the process without getting blown out or dissociating. Learning this is up to you. It’s not hard, but you need the attunement and awareness to support your client.
You do not have to take a class to learn about trauma. you can look from a book or online resources. One of my favorite books on trauma is Bessel van der Kolk’s – The Body Keeps The Score. It’s well written & enjoyable. You can also find his resources on YouTube. Peter Levine is another skillful writer when it comes to learning trauma work, as you can see in his Waking The Tiger book here.
Whatever you do, or whatever your background or training. You must support your client’s emotional safety. To do this, learn about trauma. You do not need to take a full course, spend thousands of dollars or take years of study. You simply need to attune to your clients experience while you are working and support them when they need it. It is necessary to spend a few days or weeks learning about this in addition to any Family Constellation Training.
I hope this entire training page has been valuable to you.
If you would like to share anything. Or have questions, comments or thoughts – contact me
Jack
