The Principles and Practice of Hellinger’s Family Constellation Approach

A Five-Session One-Year Training Program with Mark Wolynn,
Judy Smith and Gail Cloud

Mark Wolynn is the Director of the Hellinger Institute of Western PA and the Co-Director of The Hellinger Learning Center in NYC. He conducts workshops and trainings in family systems therapy throughout the USA, England, Canada, Latin America, and for the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Social Work’s Continuing Education Program. Mark specializes in working with depression, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, panic disorders, self-injury, chronic pain and other medical conditions unresponsive to conventional treatment.

Judy Smith, author and keynote speaker, is a graduate of the Hellinger Institute of Western PA., the Hellinger Institute of the Netherlands, and the Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Institute of Dallas.

Gail Cloud a keynote speaker, is a Chiropractic Physician who has been in practice for over 20 years, and a graduate of Logan College in St. Louis, and a graduate of the Hellinger Institute of Western PA.

The Training

This training program is designed to provide a rich and deep understanding of Bert Hellinger’s phenomenological approach to working with family systems, as well as to provide a thorough working knowledge of the principles and practical aspects of facilitating systemic therapy in groups and individual sessions. Participants will explore the unconscious loyalties and destructive patterns present in our families and learn pathways that lead to possible solutions. With personalized guidance and numerous opportunities to practice all aspects of systemic work, students will gain the tools and skills needed to become effective facilitators. Profound internal shifts take place throughout the training, as new definitions of healing and health begin to take root.

Mark incorporates developmental theory, new avenues of somatic languaging, and a continually deepening body focus into his work. These integrations broaden and strengthen Mark’s reach as a facilitator and a teacher.

The Five Training Levels

Level One: The Foundations of Hellinger's Systemic Therapy.

This level is designed to provide a working knowledge of the principles, practical aspects and applications of Bert Hellinger's phenomenological approach to working with family systems. Together we will construct a systemic lens through which students can explore their personal as well as their clients' most complex and difficult issues. Students will learn to expand the traditional “family tree” to include those members whose exclusion or rejection caused discord in system. Topics will include: Orders of Love, Orders of Precedence, Three Levels of Conscience, What Creates Bonding and Belonging in Families and the Systemic Messages that keep us mired in destructive patterns. Upon completion, students will be able to begin to apply systemic principles in their own practices with groups, couples or individuals.

Level Two: The Anatomy of Love: Success and Failure in Relationships

This level of the training is designed to get to the heart of what prevents us from having the closeness we all desire. Students will learn how to work with singles and couples, and learn what to look for when relationships struggle. We'll explore the forces that influence relationship choices on a subconscious level — silent sabotage, hidden family loyalties, invisible identifications, as well as the habitual behaviors that erode our intimate relationships. We'll examine in depth the dynamics affecting the success and failure of relationships, learn how to determine who holds the true weight in a relationship, and discuss the importance of an equal balance of giving and taking. We will learn to differentiate between mama’s boys and father’s sons, as well as between daddy’s girl’s and mother’s daughters. Upon completing this level, students should be able to diagnose and recognize dynamics affecting relationships, as well as be able to construct pathways toward successful resolutions. Once we are free of entanglements from the past, new ways of giving and receiving love can begin to take root.

Level Three: Intake as Intervention

By exploring a client’s words, fears, symptoms and body language, students will learn an intake process that quickly and effectively reveals a client's core issue. Students will learn how to extract a Core Sentence ^TM from their client’s “list of complaints,” and develop it into a constructive inner image. In this way, a client's deepest issue can surface within minutes and be transformed into a healing resource. In this level, students will also learn The Systemic Approach to Working with Illness, how to identify the family dynamics that contribute to the development of physical and psychopathology, as well as how to work with patients with specific illnesses.

Level Four: Creating Effective Resolutions in Individual Sessions

In this level, students will learn how to identify systemic causes of anxiety and panic disorders, learn how to create three-dimensional resolutions, learn how to design individualized homework assignments, and learn how to implement practical and safe treatment plans to help clients break destructive family patterns. The process of working with fears, phobias, anxiety and panic disorders will be explored and analyzed. If time permits, How to Work with the Trauma of War, Sexual Trauma, etc. will also be presented. Whether working one-on-one or in a group setting, students will learn the importance of using dialogue, imagery, body-centered awareness techniques, homework and ritual to support healing and resolution.

Level Five: The Art of Facilitating Family Constellations

In this level, students will learn how to facilitate dimensional healing in large groups. Also in this level, we will discuss The Art of Helping, The Stance of the Facilitator and How to Work with Children.

The Format

Chicago: 20 days divided into 5 four-day weekends (Saturday through Tuesday, 10-6 PM) spaced approximately six weeks to two months apart. This schedule is designed to allow students the time necessary to absorb the essence of the work, practice the tools and integrate the concepts.

A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION from the Hellinger Learning Center will be issued at the end of the course.

Cost

THE COST for the training is $3000.

Pay in Full: Pay one payment in the full amount of $3,000.

We are also offering three payment plans to make this program as affordable as possible:

Plan One: After the initial $300 deposit, one payment of $2,700 is due at the beginning of the training program.  

Plan Two: After the initial $300 deposit, payment of $1000 is due by the end of the first level; $1000 by the third level; and the balance $700 by the 5th level.

Plan Three: After the initial $300 deposit, payment of $540 is due during the first, second, third, fourth and fifth levels.

Tuition must be paid by the end of the Family Constellation Training Program in order to graduate and receive your certificate. You cannot claim any of the rights and privileges associated with the certificate including presenting yourself as a graduate of the Hellinger Institute of Western PA.

There will be no refunds of tuition except in the event of program cancellation.

All payments must be made to Gail Cloud via check or you may pay via credit card using the links above. Any payments over 30 days past-due accrue a 5% late fee.

Click here to print a registration form to mail in a check deposit.

    Training Dates for 2010, 2011

October 16-19, 2010
Marriott Courtyard
Lake Cook Rd,
Highland Park, IL

December 4-7, 2010
Marriott Courtyard
Lake Cook Rd,
Highland Park, IL

February 19-22, 2011
Marriott Courtyard
Lake Cook Rd,
Highland Park, IL

April 2-5, 2011
Marriott Courtyard
Lake Cook Rd,
Highland Park, IL

June11-14, 2011
Marriott Courtyard
Lake Cook Rd,
Highland Park, IL