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QUO VADIS: WHERE ARE YOU GOING? A FAMILY CONSTELLATION WORKSHOP WITH BILL MANNLE
In our lives, we often find ourselves at a crossroads, questioning our direction and our choices. One profound question arises in these moments: "Am I truly on my "own" path?" "Where am I going?"
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.
Signs You Might Not Be on Your Path
Lack of Fulfillment: You feel a persistent sense of dissatisfaction or emptiness despite achieving external success.
Repetitive Patterns: You notice recurring themes or challenges in your life that mirror those your family members face.
Inner Conflict: There is a constant internal struggle between what you want and what you feel obligated to do.
Feeling Stuck: You experience a sense of being stuck or unable to move forward despite your efforts.
The Role of Family Constellations
Family Constellations is an approach that helps uncover and bring these hidden influences to light. By setting up a "constellation," you can visually and experientially explore the dynamics within your family system. This process can reveal how past traumas, unresolved issues, and unspoken agreements affect your life choices.
Discovering Your True Path
Awareness: The first step is understanding the unconscious patterns and expectations influencing you.
Exploration: Through Family Constellations, you explore these dynamics and gain insights into how they impact your life.
Release: By recognizing and acknowledging these influences, you can begin to release them and make conscious choices that align with your true self.
Empowerment: With this newfound clarity, you can step onto your path, guided by your values, passions, and desires.
LIMITED TO 15 PARTICIPANTS.
FEE: $575
EARLY BIRD UNTIL JANUARY 30, 2025: $525
Artwork by: Loren Doucette, SHE WALKS WAY, Lorendoucetteart.com (With Permission)
Bill Mannle, LMFT is a Gestalt and Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in Connecticut, USA. He has been involved with Family Constellations since 2003. Now as an international trainer and facilitator, he has conducted seminars in Connecticut, New York, California, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Romania, Bali Malta & Lisbon, Portugal.
Interested in Constellations ever-expanding nature, he is exploring its deeper, spiritual, heart opening nature and its affect along the path.
WESTERN CONSTELLATIONS INTENSIVE
This is true especially understood in the desert, where generations of ancestral knowledge insure the ability to discover, conserve, share, and respect the flow of water. It represents birth, re-birth, sustenance, abundance, and even death.
Connecting to our ancestors and lineages means connecting with all these aspects of life. When we do, we remember the sufferings and strength of those who came before, and we are resourced to live with commitment, courage and creativity.
Systemic Constellations Work helps us do this. It 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.
I am truly excited and deeply honored to be leading Constellations with these amazing humans, Francesca Mason Boring, Sneh Victoria Schnabel and Leslie Nipps, the leader and organizer of this amazing gathering.
REGISTRATION OPENS OCTOBER 9TH. THIS EVENT SELLS OUT QUICKLY. USE THE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER AND TO SELECT YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS.
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS: ADVANCED TRAINING
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. Constellate in relation to the person’s felt sense.
Where to reconnect? Identify where reconnection is possible for a person, whatever their family history.
Get to the heart of the matter: work with few representatives to get straight to the heart of the problem. Avoid getting lost in complex family systems and histories.
Friday will be a teaching day, Saturday Bill will facilitate constellations on personal issues, and on Sunday we'll debrief the previous day's constellations. The workshop will take place in English with live French translation.
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QUO VADIS: WHERE ARE YOU GOING? A PRE-SOLSTICE FAMILY CONSTELLATION RETREAT
In our lives, we often find ourselves at a crossroads, questioning our direction and our choices. One profound question arises in these moments: "Am I truly on my "own" path?" "Where am I going?"
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.
Signs You Might Not Be on Your Path
Lack of Fulfillment: You feel a persistent sense of dissatisfaction or emptiness despite achieving external success.
Repetitive Patterns: You notice recurring themes or challenges in your life that mirror those your family members face.
Inner Conflict: There is a constant internal struggle between what you want and what you feel obligated to do.
Feeling Stuck: You experience a sense of being stuck or unable to move forward despite your efforts.
The Role of Family Constellations
Family Constellations is an approach that helps uncover and bring these hidden influences to light. By setting up a "constellation," you can visually and experientially explore the dynamics within your family system. This process can reveal how past traumas, unresolved issues, and unspoken agreements affect your life choices.
Discovering Your True Path
Awareness: The first step is understanding the unconscious patterns and expectations influencing you.
Exploration: Through Family Constellations, you explore these dynamics and gain insights into how they impact your life.
Release: By recognizing and acknowledging these influences, you can begin to release them and make conscious choices that align with your true self.
Empowerment: With this newfound clarity, you can step onto your path, guided by your values, passions, and desires.
Fee $695: The fee includes workshop, lodging, Dinner on Friday, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on Saturday, Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday. The food will include vegetarian and non-vegetarian selections. However, I will not be able to accommodate strict diets. You are welcome to bring your wine, beer, etc. Water, coffee and tea are available throughout the weekend.
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS.
Artwork by: Loren Doucette, SHE WALKS WAY, Lorendoucetteart.com (With Permission)
CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY:
You will be entitled to a Full Refund of fees, minus the deposit if you cancel at least 30 calendar days before the event's start date.
If I cancel the event for whatever reason, you will be entitled to a Full Refund, including the deposit.
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.