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A Family Constellations Workshop (sold out, waitlist only)
1 July 2023 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
£75 – £145Support your freedom, flow, and potential by exploring the systems we belong to at this 1 day in-person workshop.
This is the first in a two-part constellation workshop. Sophia will be hosting a second instalment of the popular Family Constellations Workshop this summer, part of our systemic constellation series which includes our workshop for qualified counsellors and therapists exploring the therapeutic relationship. The workshops can be attended in sequence or individually.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waitlist, please email Kajal at events@ptrust.org.uk
Summary
Would you like to look in a different way at what is limiting you, whether that’s in your personal or professional life?
Something in your life or work might feel like it is blocked, burdened, or just not happening?
Maybe you want to be more visible, less afraid to step forward, more willing to take a risk?
Maybe something feels stuck in your relationships with partners, parents or children?
The family story, the experience of our parents, grandparents and ancestors creates a web of relationships across time with its own patterns, possibilities, and limitations. We can be unconsciously loyal to these underlying dynamics, operating in our blind spot, until the entanglements are made visible and integrated.
Through Family Constellations, mapping and tuning into the wider family system, we begin to see the greater whole of which we are a part and surface the hidden dynamics at play in our lives. Seeing and understanding these systemic dynamics empowers us to create change.
The systems we belong to, whether family, work or society, shape us in ways that can be both resourcing and limiting. The more we can see and integrate that which is influencing our path, the more freedom and agency we have to follow the evolutionary impulse in our lives.
Workshop purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is to support freedom, flow and potential.
Traumatic or difficult events in our family history can create aftershocks that impact across generations, emerging as unconscious family patterns or habits that shape our experience in the present day. This “family field” creates a filter which means that there are things we cannot sense, see or feel, and mindsets we are compelled to take in order to re-create the past.
We unknowingly inherit, create, or perpetuate these systemic patterns and generational habits until someone does the work of integration and healing.
Through a Family Constellations Workshop we can begin to make visible and integrate the systemic entanglements that limit our freedom, potential and presence.
Who is it for?
This workshop is open to anyone interested in understanding family constellations for personal and professional development, or both!
Attendees can book as an ‘issue holders’ or ‘participant’, please read below for further information.
What to expect?
The workshop requires a mix or ‘issue holders’ and ‘participants’, with the group of up to 16 people working with those issues. Matt will facilitate four constellations through the day.
Below is further information on how the workshop will benefit ‘issue holders’ and ‘participants’ – please note, there are limited places for Issue Holders, do book early to avoid disappointment.
Issue Holders:
- Bring your question, challenge, hope or longing and explore this directly as the focal point of a group constellation.
- You may feel restricted, limited or blocked in some way. Perhaps you feel you are not free to be yourself or live your own life.
- You may have a sense that you carry a burden and yearn for more freedom, movement or change.
- You may be aware of a repeating pattern or difficulty in personal or professional relationships.
- You might feel cut off from creativity, life force or intimacy.
- Maybe you want to support the conditions for you and your children to flourish.
Participant:
- Experience the personal insights and perspective shifts of participating in different systemic constellations. Discover what can be seen when you take a systemic view, seeing the bigger picture, deepening your awareness and expanding your empathic potential.
- Experience the insights, healing and changes that arise from participating in systemic constellations .
- Expand your view on how people are impacted by their family group .
- Build your capacity for embodied intuition and sensing the Connecting Field .
- Connect to diverse experiences of being human .
- Gain insights into the nature of different relationships between family members .
- Stand in the shoes of different people, building a deeper more intelligent empathic capacity.
- Work with other ways of knowing beyond the cognitive.
Our approach
Psychosynthesis as applied to psychotherapy is a unique approach that combines both psychology and spirituality. It is a holistic process that helps the individual deal with patterns of behaviours which inhibit or prevent living life in meaningful and fulfilling ways. It brings us into contact with the life journey to meaning and purpose.
Ticket Price
£145 for Issue Holder (4 places)
£75 for Participant (up to 12 places)
If you are a current student at the Trust and you have any concerns around affordability, please contact Kajal at events@ptrust.org.uk.
Trainer: Matt Shepheard
Matt’s work is based on a depth of understanding of the dynamics that shape human systems and relationships. He draws on the theory and practice of systemic constellations, transpersonal psychology, psychosynthesis psychotherapy and his experience of working as a leader in organisations. Matt’s writing on the systemic constellations approach to coaching is published in the 2nd Edition of the Handbook of Coaching Psychology.
As well as his work supporting clients individually and in groups, Matt is Director of a charity that seeks to put belonging, acceptance and learning at the heart of mental health and social care services in Camden.
Matt was previously Programme Director of the Psychosynthesis Trust for 6 years and has also been the President and Vice President of the European Federation for Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy. He currently teaches on the Trust’s Postgraduate Diploma programme.
Website: www.mattshepheard.com
