Events - Workshops - Trainings
Branford, CT • A Family Constellation Workshop with Bill Mannle: WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO LEAVE BEHIND?
Join us for a powerful day of self-discovery and release through Family Constellations. This experiential workshop invites you to explore the unseen burdens, beliefs, and patterns you may be carrying—and offers you the space to let them go.
Saint Paul, MN • A Family Constellation Workshop with Bill Mannle: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF THE HEART - Passion, Love and Longing
Our yearning to connect and belong is primal. The force that pushes and pulls us towards another or others is love. Disruptions in the flow of love, either through trauma or loss, carried across generations, create disturbances that often lead to illness, emotional distress, addictions, and broken relationships.
San Francisco, CA • A Family Constellation Workshop with Bill Mannle: WHAT ARE YOU CARRYING?
Disruptions in the flow of love, either through trauma, loss, or exclusions, create disturbances that, if carried across generations, often lead to illness, emotional distress, addictions, and broken relationships. Because the longing for repair and balance runs deep, children, out of love for mother or father, will try to carry their parent's pain and grief in an attempt to restore balance. The unconscious movement is to stay focused on the parents and not find fulfillment in one's life.
Ghost Ranch, NM • 9th Annual Western Constellations Intensive: FLOW OF WATER, FLOW OF LOVE
Systemic Constellations Work is about the alignments and arrangements in our larger family and communal stories, similar to the web of relationship we find in all ecosystems, including deserts. All of us are the recipients of many generations of collective experiences, just like a desert inherits millennia of unfolding geological, meteorological, plant, animal, and human processes. The practice of Constellations explores how the more immediate situations in our lives fit into those broad patterns that precede our individual lives, just like we see the results of geological history in the layers we see before us now in cliffs, arroyos, and bosques.
Poitiers, France • Family Constellations: Advanced Training with Bill Mannle
These three days will be dedicated to fine-tuning our facilitation tools, and we'll cover the following themes:
What the body says: deciphering in a person's body language the loyalties that hinder them.
Where to reconnect?
Get to the heart of the matter: work with few representatives to get straight to the heart of the problem.
The workshop will take place in English with live French translation.
Bucharest, Romania • A Family Constellation Workshop with Bill Mannle
A Family Constellations Workshop with Bill Mannle, hosted by Dragos Riti in Bucharest, Romania Summer 2025.
Dublin, Ireland • A Family Constellation Workshop with Bill Mannle: HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE LOVED?
This workshop grew out of the question above: How Do You Want To Be Loved? When I would ask this question of clients, there often followed a pause, a slight shudder in the body, a deep sigh, and sometimes tears. I am interested in that pause, the body response, the exquisite raw emotion that said, “See me.”
Hillsdale, NY • 2025 Berkshire Fall Retreat with Bill Mannle
Through Constellations, rituals, and exercises, we will explore what it means to surrender to the ground, to re-inhabit our lives, and to stand.
"Heartfelt thanks for making space for a beautiful memory. I feel complete and filled up from the life-affirming weekend retreat in Hillsdale. - KC
Madison, CT • 2025 Shoreline Winter Retreat with Bill Mannle
Inherited Patterns and Expectations
Many of us unconsciously carry our family members' expectations, dreams, and unresolved issues. These inherited patterns can shape our decisions and life direction without realizing it. From a young age, we might "be subtly influenced" to follow a path that our parents or ancestors have laid out, driven by a sense of duty, loyalty, or a desire to fulfill their unachieved ambitions.
"Just wanted to say thank you for an amazing weekend. Your healing energy is a blessing for anyone that is able to come to your retreats and spend time with you..” - AB
CLOSER TO THE GROUND
What I have learned about Family Constellations over the years is that the practice disrupts and dissolves any delusions we have about our families of origin and ourselves. As my colleague and friend Sneh Schnabel says, this method invites you down and closer to what is, and yes, possibly lays you flat on your back. While lying on the Earth, you become rooted, supported, and held by the ground that's always been here. By trusting gravity, you anchor and re-learn to inhabit your body. There are no fairies or flying monkeys to sweep you away. It's just you, the pain, the grief, and yes, joy! As you embrace your existence and listen to the whispers of nature and the depths of your soul, you enter into a new conversation, and healing begins.
2024 BERKSHIRE RETREAT: CLOSER TO THE GROUND
What I have learned about Family Constellations over the years is that the practice disrupts and dissolves any delusions we have about our families of origin and ourselves. As my colleague and friend Sneh Schnabel says, this method invites you down and closer to what is, and yes, possibly lays you flat on your back. While lying on the Earth, you become rooted, supported, and held by the ground that's always been here. By trusting gravity, you anchor and relearn to inhabit your body. There are no fairies or flying monkeys to sweep you away. It's just you, the pain, the grief, and yes, joy! As you embrace your existence and listen to the whispers of nature and the depths of your soul, you enter into a new conversation, and healing begins.
Through Constellations, rituals, and exercises, we will explore what it means to surrender to the ground, to re-inhabit our lives, and to stand.
Space is limited to 14 participants! A $50 non-refundable deposit is required to guarantee your place. You cannot hold a place via text, email, or phone call. In past years the Retreat sold out in 10 days!
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS INTENSIVE
Discover untapped resources and strengths of our Ancestors, Identify and release intergenerational patterns affecting relationships, Health, success and happiness
A FAMILY CONSTELLATION WEEKEND WITH DRAGOS RITI
Embark on a transformative, three-day journey of Family Constellations led by Dragos Riti from Romania. A preeminent facilitator in Eastern Europe, Dragos brings a wealth of experience and insight to guide participants through the intricate exploration of familial dynamics. This seminar offers a profound understanding of how Family Constellations work to bring healing to turbulent and fractured relationships, allowing participants to find peace and reconciliation.
THE MYTH OF SAFETY
Throughout history, the space between what we know for sure and what lies ahead has been called the "unknown" by wise people, mystics, and thinkers. When we feel like our safety is at stake, the thought of the unknown can bring about feelings of anxiety. For those who have experienced trauma or grew up in an unstable environment, the desire and effort to feel "normal" and to avoid the fear contained in uncertainty can be overwhelming. We will encapsulate our early childhood traumas to protect us from pain, to feel safe, and possibly to avoid "breakdown." We often develop harmful habits, construct barriers, fabricate stories, or rely on relationships for safety. To live a life free and unencumbered, we must confront our fears.
"The way out is through." Robert Frost
During this workshop, you will have the chance to delve into safety, certainty, and fear. Through constellations, small group exercises, and rituals, you will develop the ability to embrace uncertainty, understand what it means to feel safe, find balance in your life, and develop strategies to lead a more open and fulfilling life.
Artwork by: Loren Doucette, Sky Study in Red Watercolor and Gouache on hot press paper. Lorendoucetteart.com (With Permission)
THE MYTH OF SAFETY
Throughout history, the space between what we know for sure and what lies ahead has been called the "unknown" by wise people, mystics, and thinkers. When we feel like our safety is at stake, the thought of the unknown can bring about feelings of anxiety. For those who have experienced trauma or grew up in an unstable environment, the desire and effort to feel "normal" and to avoid the fear contained in uncertainty can be overwhelming. We will encapsulate our early childhood traumas to protect us from pain, to feel safe, and possibly to avoid "breakdown." We often develop harmful habits, construct barriers, fabricate stories, or rely on relationships for safety. To live a life free and unencumbered, we must confront our fears.
"The way out is through." Robert Frost
During this workshop, you will have the chance to delve into safety, certainty, and fear. Through constellations, small group exercises, and rituals, you will develop the ability to embrace uncertainty, understand what it means to feel safe, find balance in your life, and develop strategies to lead a more open and fulfilling life.
Artwork by: Loren Doucette, Sky Study in Red Watercolor and Gouache on hot press paper. Lorendoucetteart.com (With Permission)
Workshop: How Do You Want to Be Loved?
Paris, France, in English with French translation: This seminar grew out of the question above: How Do You Want To Be Loved? When I would ask this question of clients, there often followed a pause, a slight shudder in the body, a deep sigh, and sometimes tears. I am interested in that pause, the body response, the exquisite raw emotion that said, "See me."
2024 Family Constellations Facilitator Training
Facilitated by Bill Mannle: This 152-156 hour comprehensive, experiential program will cover the history and theory of family constellations developed by Bert Hellinger. The course includes knowledge of critical concepts, such as: the Orders of Love, the morphogenetic field, inclusion and exclusion, the right to belong, working phenomenologically, and how Constellations differ from other approaches. The program will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate Family Constellations as developed by Bert Hellinger.