About this Event
What is Family Constellations:
Family Constellations is a therapeutic modality founded by Bert Hellinger, who spent many years as a catholic priest and teacher among the Zulu community in South Africa. In Family Constellations we explore dynamics and patterns that run through families. The focus is primarily on trans-generational trauma: how the events that affected our ancestors continue to have an effect on us. Our ancestors often had to deal with massive traumas: war, hunger, early deaths, extreme poverty, and the attitudes and strategies they developed to deal with those events can show up in our lives, where they are no longer helpful.
These unconscious memories can lead us, and those around us, parents, siblings, children, to behave in ways that are puzzling to us. When we can make sense of ourselves and crucially those around us we can soften.
Systemic constellation sessions can help you gain insight into past burdens, enabling you to deal with difficulties in the present. This in turn helps to gain clarity on our future journey. Many of us concentrate on where it is we want to get to in our lives however in Family Constellations we pay more attention to where we are at this precise moment, and how we got there. By doing this we can clarify which path into the future is best for us.
What to expect at a workshop:
When we come together in a group we create a confidential space where we explore the hidden dynamics and loyalties of our family systems. At the workshop I invite people to bring their issue to the group and I ask them some questions about it. Together we create a human map of each issue or situation, using others in the group to represent the various aspects of the question. By doing this we remove the issue from inside our heads, where it can go round and round in unhelpful circles. Once we step into the representation that is requested of us we find that we feel the need to move in certain ways. Through this new lens we can begin to see why we and those around us behave in ways that seem unhelpful.
Although we all have our own unique story, witnessing or representing in another persons history allows us to see how connected we all are and how often our stories overlap. So that even if we don’t feel ready to bring our own issue to the workshop, we gain deep insights from the experience. It literally puts us in the shoes of others from where we can allow judgements to soften. This in turn helps to gain clarity about our future.
About Ricí:
I facilitate Family Constellations in Ireland and the UK, running regular workshops, in An Seomra, a bright, sunny, secluded space looking out on a pretty garden at the back of my house in Dublin 6w. I also offer one on one sessions in this private setting.
With a background in Fine Art, I came to Family Constellations through Barbara Morgan whom I first met in 2012. In 2015 I embarked on an intense 6 years of training, 4 years of training and in May 2026 I will work as an assistant trainer on her training.
The changes I see in myself and my loved ones over those years is what makes me passionate about the value of this work.
I have also attended short trainings and workshops with Ty Francis, Stephan Hausner, Vivienne Broughton and Francesca Mason Boring.
My article ‘Beyond Ideas’ was published in issue 34 of the Knowing Field.
And a further article ‘Clean or Dirty Pain’ was published in issue 37.
I am a member of the core team of Constellations Camp Ireland, a 5 day, midsummer retreat with constellations and nourishing supportive events. In 2024 we launched a sister event which will take place in July.
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 07:00 AM
TWO DAY EVENT
Info: THE WORKSHOP RUNS FROM 10AM TO 5PM ON BOTH SATURDAY 22ND AND SUNDAY 23RD.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
An Seomra, 8 Larkfield Avenue, Dublin, Ireland
EUR 220.00
