Featured Speaker
Hunter Beaumont, PhD, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (Inactive) in California and in Germany. He is a pioneering contributor to the development and international introduction of Constellation Work. Dr. Beaumont is the Founding President of the International Systemic Constellations Association as well as the program director and organizer of the annual International Intensive Workshop in Family Constellations.
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Featured Speaker
Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Circle Wisdom and Ritual in Community Constellation
Francesca Mason Boring, an enrolled member of the Shoshone Nation, is an international trainer and facilitator of Family Constellation. Her work has been instrumental in the development of Nature and Environmental Constellations, Constellation as Ceremony and Community Constellations. She is an author and advisor for The Knowing Field Constellations Journal.
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Featured Speaker
Circle Wisdom and Ritual in Community Constellation
Cosmology, Culture and Constellations
Malidoma Somé, PhD, is an initiated elder in his village in Dano, Burkina Faso, W. Africa. He travels throughout the world bringing a message of hope, healing and reconciliation through the powerful tools of ritual and community building. Malidoma offers life-altering opportunity to explore the meaning of purpose within one’s own community.
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Featured Speaker
Intention and Intuition: In Service to the Client, In Service to the Field – An inquiry in progress
Gordon Wheeler PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over thirty years of practice, teaching and training widely around the world. He is noted for his work using the Gestalt model to integrate relational, developmental, self, narrative, and evolutionary psychology, and his related work in integral education. Since 2003 Gordon has served as President of Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
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Team Co-Leader
Constellations for Integrative Healthcare
Scott Bader, DC has been immersed in the field of Constellations for over a decade and brings wholeheartedness to this work. His style of facilitation incorporates his somatic training as a bodyworker and chiropractor, as well as formal and informal training in the human energy field, psychodynamics, and depth psychology.
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Team Co-Leader
Constellations for Integrative Healthcare
Envisioning a US Systemic Constellations Association
Lisa B. Iversen has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1993 and Systemic Family Constellations practitioner since 1999. Lisa enjoys working with people from diverse lineages and faith traditions in the Pacific Northwest region. She works with individuals and groups of all sizes and is on the council for the Seattle Constellations Network.
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Panelist
Constellations for Integrative Healthcare
Brigitte Essl is a licensed physician (University of Vienna Medical School, Austria) with postgraduate training in classical homeopathy. After completing her MA in Counseling Psychology and receiving her chiropractic license in 2001 she opened her private practice of Classical Homeopathy and Integrative Therapies in Mill Valley, California.
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Constellations for Integrative Health
David Rupley, Jr., MD is a psychiatrist currently practicing in Arizona. He is a licensed MD in California and has a license from the Homeopathic and Integrative Medical Board in Arizona. He has been regularly facilitating Constellations for the last 6 years as a part of his alternative practice in Tucson. He has facilitated Constellations across the country as well.
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Conference Co-Director
Panelist
Constellations for Integrative Health
Cosmology, Culture and Constellations (with Malidoma Some, PhD)
Conference Co-Director Carolyn Zahner, MSW, LISW, maintains a private practice, in Cincinnati, OH, as an Integrative Psychotherapist. She utilizes Constellation Work in her psychotherapy practice, as well as, in her work as a mediator, instructor and community organizer. In addition to using Constellation work in the individual setting, Carolyn also facilitates group Constellations.
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Team Co-Leader
Constellations for Organizations
Systemic Strategic Planning
Volker Frank works as a management consultant, executive coach and leadership trainer. He is a co-founder and principal of the management consulting company Emergent Horizon. His coaching career focuses on systemic group dynamics enabling teams and organizations to flourish. He studied family and organizational constellations and offers national and international workshops.
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Featured Speaker
Team Co-Leader
Constellations for Organizations
“Just Trust Me on This!”: Talking About Constellations So Others Believe You
M. Jane Peterson, PhD, is the founder and director of the Human Systems Institute, Inc. Her work is internationally respected for the high quality of training and consulting she offers in the field of systemic constellation work, including both family and organizational constellations. Jane has trained systemic constellation work internationally.
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Panelist
Constellations for Organizations
Elmar E. Dornberger, LPC, MFA, MPsych., is the founder of Hemisphere Consulting in Boulder, CO and is a member of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Systemic Constellation Work. He started working systemically with individuals, groups and organizations almost 10 years ago.
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Panelist
Constellations for Organizations
Deborah Gavrin Frangquist is a San Francisco consultant committed to changing workplace and organizational cultures so that real people can thrive at work. She has been engaged with Systemic Constellations since 2000. She particularly treasures the capacity of Constellations to reveal hidden patterns and unacknowledged relationships, going beyond the types of causation addressed by common business models or analysis.
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Panelist
Constellations for Organizations
Lisa Marie is an accomplished leader, trainer, executive coach, and master facilitator of interactions that lead to alignment and results-based action. Her acute understanding of the subtle energies and dynamics in human systems, coupled with creativity, are brought-to-life in her sessions. She is the Director of Training and Development for Verus Global.
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Conference Co-Director
Team Co-Leader
Constellations and Coaching
Political, Cultural and Sociological Constellations
Dan Booth Cohen, PhD, is Conference Co-Director for the 2011 US Systemic Constellations Conference. He is the first US trainer/facilitator certified by the German Association for Systemic Constellations (DGfS). His PhD dissertation in Psychology from Saybrook University was based on using Constellations with a group of long-term inmates in a Massachusetts prison.
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Featured Speaker
Team Co-Leader
Constellations and Coaching
Co-owner and President of CRR Global Inc. CRR Global is a leader in the field of training Coaches and other professionals in the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) approach. She is a consultant to several large organizations and mentor to a large number of practitioners in the field of Relationship Systems work.
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Featured Speaker
Team Co-Leader
Constellations and Coaching
President of CRR Global and a co-author of the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching Program (ORSC). She is a psychologist, and educator and a coach with over 18 years of experience in working with organizations, 12 years of training and supervision experience and 9 years of coaching training experience.
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Panelist
Constellations and Coaching
Named “One of the Top Ten Most Influential Coaches in the U.S.,” Cynthia Darst has been a Professional Coach for over 20 years and is internationally known as a passionate pioneer in the world of coaching. She has been studying, experimenting and working with ORSC Constellations since 2003.
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Panelist
Constellations and Coaching
Michael Reddy is a Constellations facilitator, certified wellness coach, and author with a national practice based in Philadelphia, USA. Trained originally in Constellation work by Mark Wolynn, he has since learned from nine other facilitators, notably Hunter Beaumont, Dan Booth Cohen, Judith Hemming, Ed Lynch, and John Payne.
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Team Co-Leader
Training and Supervision in Systemic Constellation Work
For more than a decade, Peter has been deeply immersed in the constellation approach, both as a teacher and a student. Educated in Europe and most importantly, in life, Peter brings extensive experience in the healing arts as a counselor and mediator for couples, families and corporate clients.
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Team Co-Leader
Training and Supervision in Systemic Constellation Work
Body, Trauma and Relational Constellations: Healing the Traumatized Heart
JoAnna Chartrand-Benz has been a European trained Somatic Psychology Educator since 1980 and has been in private practice for over 30 years. She is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California (RCIOC). JoAnna originally trained with second generation German Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger.
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Panelist
Training and Supervision in Systemic Constellation Work
Body, Trauma and Relational Constellations: Healing the Traumatized Heart
Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, Psy.D, is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California (RCIOC) in Santa Barbara. The RCIOC Learning Program, trains participants in the main concepts of Constellation work, and flavors it with a relational accent. Dyrian originally trained with second generation European Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger.
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Panelist
Training and Supervision in Systemic Constellation Work
John Ulfelder is an attorney by training, having specialized in civil rights and environmental law. Since 2002 he has been a co-trainer of the facilitator training programs in the Washington, DC area where he also co-facilitates Family Constellations workshops with his wife, Susan.
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Panelist
Training and Supervision in Systemic Constellation Work
Individual Constellations Using Playmobile Figures
Susan Ulfelder, ND, LMT, RPP, RDH, is the founder of the Hellinger Institute of DC, where she facilitates workshops, individual constellations and leads a facilitator training program. As a traditional naturopath and hands-on-healer, Susan broadened her scope from the individual energy field to the family energy field when first exposed to Family Constellations.
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Team Co-Leader
Personal Constellations – Friday Workshop
Ed Lynch came to the field of Systemic Constellations from an already deep professional background. His years of facilitating Systemic Constellations were preceded by in-depth Gestalt and Family Therapy training and practice. His professional life consists of university teaching, a Systemic Constellation training program, workshop facilitator, and therapist in private practice.
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Team Co-Leader
Personal Constellations – Friday Workshop
Sheila Saunders is professionally licensed as a Registered Nurse and as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Sheila has trained extensively in Family Constellations with Bert Hellinger, as well as with the most experienced international facilitators. Sheila offers Systemic Constellation workshops, individual sessions, family sessions, phone sessions, trainings, and ongoing Learning Circles.
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“Walking In Your Shoes” – A Way of Understanding Yourself and Others
Chris A. Assel, M.A. was born in Germany in 1967 and has lived here most of his life. He studied Philosophy and English Linguistics at the University of Hannover, Germany. He is a second generation facilitator in Family Constellation work. For many years, before he began his own career, Chris attended his father’s Family Constellation workshops that he still offers today together with his second wife. This experience was a great asset in Chris’ professional life.
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In the Presence of Many – Individual Work and Trauma Constellations
Vivian Broughton is an experienced Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice in the UK since 1989. She became interested in constellations in the mid-’90′s and in 2000 invited Albrecht Mahr to the UK to teach. Since then she has run a full training in constellations work in the UK, teaching herself and inviting prominent teachers in the field to the UK. Currently the training is in its tenth year.
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The Warm Up: A Psychodramatic Contribution to Constellation Work
Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP, is a psychotherapist, coach, consultant and educator who employs traditional, contemporary and alternative models to work with people to solve problems, make decisions and expand creativity. She is a licensed clinical social worker and nationally certified trainer, educator and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy.
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5 Element Constellations
John has facilitating Organizational Constellations, 5 Element and Family Constellations since 2004 in Seattle, Bellevue, Renton, Kirkland, WA. Vancouver, BC. Whistler, BC. Lake Lindbergh, MT. He has been on the faculty at NW School of Massage, teaching Acupressure, since January, 2010 and maintains a private practice in Acupressure and Mind|Body integration.
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Soul and Psyche: Bridging the Gap
Connie Donaldson is a writer, therapist and teacher with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. After experiencing her own constellation in 2005, she enrolled in Pittsburgh’s first Hellinger Learning Center training led by Mark Wolynn and Suzi Tucker, and in Waynesburg University’s Counseling program.
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Organisational Constellations In Global Corporations and Complex Public Sector Organizations
Ty Francis, PhD, has been involved in Organizational Constellations for over 12 years. He works internationally, running constellations workshops and trainings with clients including Nokia, Bristol Meyers-Squibb, WHSmith, NHS, MOD, McKinsey and others. Ty writes regularly on developments in Constellations practice for journals including Coaching at Work and Self & Society.
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Personal Constellations – Saturday Workshop
Carol Heil, LCSW-C, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with 30 years of experience; primarily in the Washington DC area. She is a founding member of The Systemic Constellations Group, LLC and has been co-leading Constellations Workshops since 2002. She participated in the second US Constellations training by the Hellinger Institute USA in 2001, attended two intensives in Bernreid, Germany and completed advanced training with Heinz Stark. In addition to workshops, Carol does individual Constellations with many of her private clients.
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Personal Constellations – Saturday Workshop
Betsy Hostetler uses a systems approach to help leaders create healthy, productive cultures. Working at the individual, team and whole-system level, she has facilitated culture change efforts in academia and healthcare for nearly three decades. She helps leaders achieve breakthrough results by learning to ask for authentic participation. Through constellation work, she helps them find their own ground of belonging.
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Personal Constellations – Saturday Workshop
Amrita Jung-Ansorg has a degree in Psychology (Dipl.Psych.) from the University of Hamburg, Germany. In the US she is licensed as Massage Therapist and certified in Hypnosis. She is a Teacher of Meditation and has a broad background in Bioenergetics, Primal Therapy and Counseling.
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History, Heart and Home and The Constellation of Belonging
I have been practicing architecture since 1964. Trained traditionally at Pratt Institute, I began to see the role of the unconscious through training in Core Energetics with Dr. John Pierakos, from 1975 to 1980, and later Gestalt and Family systems training with Dr. Ed Lynch at Southern Connecticut State University, from 2004 to 2006. There I embraced the tools developed by Fritz Perls and others to help clients access the voices of others that impact their choices in life and in making the decisions in their home their own.
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Dream Constellations
Kirsten Love Lauzon has studied Constellation Work for over 5 years, first with Dietrich Weth and then intensively between 2005 and 2007 with Mark A. Johnson as well as with Johannes Schmidt, Ursula Franke, Albrecht Mahr, Sneh Victoria Snable, Dietrich Kinghardt and others. Kirsten helped Mark Johnson create and establish the Seattle Constellations Network in 2007, serving 3 consecutive years on the SCN Council, and then helped form the Seattle Constellations Institute in 2009. Kirsten currently serves as Training Assistant for The Seattle Constellation Institute.
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Intention and Intuition: In Service to the Client, in Service to the Field – an inquiry in progress
Long a student of Systemic Constellations, together with her husband, Gordon Wheeler, she has developed a dynamic synthesis of Gestalt and System Constellations approaches. She has served for 30 years as Programs Director of Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and continues to serve as the Senior Advisor to Programs and Communications.
Read the rest of → Nancy Lunney-Wheeler, MA, LMFT
Systemic Supervision: Moving through Impasse and Discovering Resources
Bill Mannle, LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Connecticut since 1994. He has served as a Clinical Supervisor in the Marriage & Family Program at Southern Connecticut State University since 2005 and has been the Clinical Supervisor For the Town of Cheshire Connecticut Youth & Social Service Department since 2008.
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Family Constellations and Bowen Theory: A Healing Workshop for Couples
Marriage and family therapist for the past 32 years, Co-Director, Hartford Connecticut Catholic Archdiocesan Family Life Office. Completed New England Systemic Institute training program (J. Edward Lynch). Founder and President of Connecticut Consultation and Training, providing leadership training for businesses, organizations and work systems using Family Systems Thinking and Family Constellations.
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Personal Constellations – Saturday Workshop
Mary Rentschler, M. Ed., has been involved with Constellations for ten years. Formerly a special educator for learning disabled and severely emotionally disturbed children, she brings decades of professional experience in learning and emotional problems to her work with neurosensorimotor development and Systemic Constellations. She lives in Washington, DC, and is a founding member of The Constellations Group.
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The Constellation of Belonging
Diane Rogers is a management consultant, executive coach, researcher, and writer. Her organizational work assists individuals, leaders and teams to achieve their goals by navigating the systemic complexities where people, processes, and technology converge.
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Using Constellations in Your Coaching and Consulting Practice
Dr. Kathy Scheiern has been creating and implementing individual and group transformational experiences since 1989. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Spanish, a Master’s in Accountancy and International Business, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in the dynamics of transformation in human systems. She was introduced to constellation work in 2001 in England, and completed her training in Family Constellation Work with Heinz Stark in 2005, and in Organization Constellation Work with Jan Jacob Stam in 2006.
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Using Family Constellations in Addiction Rehab Centers
For the past year, Jeffrey and Diana Smith, a husband and wife Family Constellation team, have been adapting the use of Family Constellations at a highly recognized Malibu addiction recovery center.
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Consecutive Constellations – A Methodological Reflection
Heinz, now in his late sixties has been an educator and workshop leader since 1972. He integrated Bert Hellinger’s phenomenological systemic approach in his body-psychotherapeutic practice already in its early states 1989/90.
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Conference Staff: Registration Chair
Presenter: Reincarnational Constellation Experience – Exploring Our Souls’ Inter-Lifetime Missions
Gary Stuart has been exploring invisible family dynamics as a constellation facilitator for more than 10 years. Now double-certified, his first certification was completed during Heinz Stark’s first U.S. facilitator training in 2002. Gary is currently serving as the Registration Chair for this conference.
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Facing Grief
In 1997, Brigitte Sztab discovered constellation work in her native Germany and became one of its primary promoters in Washington State in the late 90’s. She initially sponsored workshops led by Dietrich Weth of Germany who was her teacher and mentor until she began to facilitate workshops in early 2001. Brigitte also learned from many other leading facilitators in the field.
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Rituals for Release and Awakening
John is a semi-retired professor of psychology and linguistics from the City University of New York, where he trained doctoral students in Developmental Psychology and Discourse Analysis. Trained as a psychoanalyst and psychodramatist, he specializes in addictions, family therapy and spiritual development. John has published extensively in several areas of human development.
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Breakthroughs with Couples through Constellations
The Rev. Leslie Nipps, M.Div., has been an ordained Episcopal priest for fifteen years. A parish minister for twelve years, she founded Leslie Nipps Counseling three years ago. Her training in Family Constellations is through NLP Marin (www.nlpmarin.com), where she also received her Masters NLP certification. She has received advanced training in couples therapy at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, and in couples somatic therapy at JFK University in Berkeley.
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Hummingbird Constellations
Karen is a Certified Counselor and Agency Affiliated Counselor in Washington State, and a longtime Seattle area Artist-in-Residence and Public Artist with Collaborative, Community-generated Tile Murals in many schools and other Northwest settings. And she sings! Karen has a Masters in Sculpture and a Post Masters Training in Marriage and Family Systems; background/training in Narrative Therapies, Hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness Practices, Trauma, and is an avid reader of breakthroughs in neuroscience!
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Just Dance
Rachel Whalley, MFA, MA, LMHCA, is a Seattle-based psychotherapist and healer who helps women let go of being “Good Girls.” She is a Certified Systemic Constellations Facilitator, having survived (and loved) the Seattle Constellations Institute’s 12-month intensive training program. Rachel integrated Constellations into her work and is developing Enneagram Constellations.
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Mother Earth’s Love: Birthplace as a Source of Strength
Christina has an interest in integrating psychology and spirituality, Christina brings thirty years of experience to family therapy, workshops, group and private constellation soulwork, shamanic ritual circles and spiritual healings.
Christina co-facilitates with Dale who has ten year’s of experience as a shamanic spiritual healer and thirty-five years as a nature guide.
Read the rest of → Christina Wright-Lonheim, MA, LMFT and Dale Wright-Lonheim, MS