“Silent Spiritual Family Constellations”
Facilitators Training 2025/26
with Charaka
The Facilitators Training is a deep and powerful healing journey, offering not only the needed training and support to pursue Constellations work, but also a healing space that supports students to become in tune with their own family system, enabling them to hold space for others in this healing modality.
Who is it for?
This facilitators training is designed for people who wish to explore a career in Family Constellations. It can also be for anybody who wishes to do their own personal healing journey in ancestral healing.
It would also be helpful to professionals, coaches, teachers and counsellors who wish to incorporate Family Constellations into their current practice.
Students who have already completed some training with Charaka may wish to join the modules in 2026 as these are new, different modules with the inclusion of other topics. They may also wish to repeat some of the early modules to observe the work and inform their own practice and personal healing.
What will it include?
It will include silent constellations, working with art in constellations, story, dreamwork, inner parts of the individual psyche, rituals, meditation, practice for facilitators, guidelines for the facilitator, film sessions, nature sessions, song, question and answer sessions, campfire and sharing food. It will be a deep healing process with clear steps that will support a journey into this work.
The Returning
The first four modules are called The Returning. As we return to our original nature, with the stillness and presence we can experience from this place, we see how many things become possible. As a natural consequence of this, whatever we do is enhanced, flowing and coming from love, not fear. Then what we share in life takes on a different quality, not of the mind, and expectations, but instead it includes a freshness, openness and presence. Bert Hellinger called this ”Working with the Spirit Mind”.
The first year of the training has been very carefully planned starting the journey with birth, moving through parental issues, health, relationships, to meeting death in a new light and finding your own inner song. It allows each participant to make their own journey of healing while training.
Dates for Training
Each module offers four days which often, but not always, have an evening session. Each module begins with an evening session, there will also be morning meditation sessions.
Dates for 2025 Year One
Module One – The Tap Root
24th April 7pm – 28th April 3pm.
Module Two – Health and Connection to the Body
26th June 2025 – 30th June 2025 3pm.
Module Three – Relationship
28th August 2025 7pm – 1 September 3pm.
Module Four – Your Own Song
6th November 7pm – 10th November 3pm.
Dates for 2026 Year Two
Zoom Days
1 day in January / 1 day in March, dates to be confirmed. Ongoing support group and teaching.
Module Five – The Knowing
Dates to be confirmed.
Module Six – The Facilitator
May 2026 (Likely to be the third week in May).
This will be a seven-day module, venue and date to be confirmed.
Module Seven – Business Constellations
Dates to be confirmed.
Year One 2025
Module One - The Tap Root
This module introduces the foundational principles of Constellations according to Bert Hellinger, focusing on the movements of the spirit mind and spiritual Constellations. It explores the essential orders of love and the ramifications of deviating from these principles including:
Equal rights to belong in a family/group.
Hierarchical Structures within the family/group.
Balance of giving and receiving.
In this module of the training, we look at the early beginnings of our life with our parents and any early separations from parents which can cause an interrupted movement that has far reaching effects for our life.
We focus on situations in the family of origin that come in the way of the flow of love between parent and child. We explore where you are now in your life and if you have a strong ‘taproot’. By this I mean connection to the land of your
birth, your mother, father and family of origin. Constellations are all about love and the flow of love. They offer a way we can open to the possibility for the flow of love to be resorted to our parents, our family and our taproot. Working with breath, ancestral ritual and meditations we support our connection to nature and source energy. Level one is about the foundations of your life and is fundamental to any training in this work.
Module Two - Health and Connection to the Body
Participants will explore the underlying causes of physical and mental illness within families as a potential healing process.
It includes identifying life restricting patterns and finding ways to overcome them. We also explore the minds process in physical healing, discovering our own inner attitude to our body and health which can often be carried down through generations. In my experience, as we deal with issues in the family system, it opens up opportunities for healing of both body, mind and soul. We will be working with laughter, movement, nature, healing journeys and art with Constellations.
Module Three - Relationship
In this module we tap into the hidden realms of our love relationships. We are connected to deeper dynamics and unseen forces, including non-present family members in past generations and the choices that were made long ago.
These forces can affect relationships with current partners and connections with each other on many different levels.
In this module we address:
The dynamics of couple’s relationships, including the balance of giving and receiving and the flow of love.
Conflict between male and female.
Complexities of child/child parent relationships, adoption, victim/predator dynamic, the effects of former partners within this.
Bonding, separations and divorce.
Past relationships, early relationships, how interrupted movement effects partnerships, what you hold from your family system.
We use Constellations, meditation, story, your own inner connection to yourself and nature to support this module.
Module Four - Your Own Song
We all have our own song, deep inside. Here we look at what suppresses it and holds us connected to the dead and generations before us. We look at how we can be pulled to death by our system and the events of the past in our family such as war, suicide, early deaths, death in childbirth, or murders. We learn how to give one to one Constellations, we use art and meditation, and we bring light and honouring to those in our family system who had a difficult destiny and whose destiny that we may be linked to. Then at last we can find our own song.
Year Two 2026
Module Five - The Knowing
Story/ Dreamwork/ The Inner Realms of the Individual/ Soul and Spirit
Here we work looking into deeper parts of the individual psyche and subconscious realm. Working with the inner elements, power, safety, helplessness, weakness – to mention a few. These inner parts can sometimes oppose each other which can lead to inner struggles preventing the energy moving forward in certain areas of our lives. We also take a look into the soul and spirit realms.
Using story and dreamwork we will be working with inner dimensions. This can often bring a different view and insight leading to inclusion of parts of ourselves that need to be included and seen. The focus is very much on how these effect our everyday lives. In this module we look at our sixth sense and how important it is, doing exercises to open and trust this inner knowing.
Module Six - The Facilitator
This will be a seven-day module in May 2026, venue and date to be confirmed. Venue is likely to be Menorca, allow 80/100 euros for food and accommodation, plus travel costs.
In this seven day module, we take a very deep dive into the work of Constellations from the facilitating perspective. Now we change venue, hopefully have some sunshine, and with the sea this will help participants to be able to drop into a silent place where they can hold this space for others in the knowing field. This module is very much a step up and will not offer time for personal work in the same way as in all the other modules. This section includes practice sessions with feedback from Charaka and your peers. Alongside this will be film excerpts of Hellinger working, bringing greater understanding to the intricate depth of this work. This is a deep dive where I will share the transmission I received from Bert Hellinger and other Teachers. We will be offering some participants from Menorca a chance for Constellations work, which will be facilitated by the students.
The module includes:
Steps for setting up Constellations. The attitude of the facilitator. Guidelines for the facilitator.
Sentences that heal. Movements of the soul. Practice sessions.
Film sessions of Bert Hellinger. Questions and answers.
The art of meditation, presence.
Students are now encouraged to set up in-person practice days together after this module.
Module Seven - Business Constellations
Our working life is often connected to our family of origin and past generations. For example, if your grandfather lost money and went out of business, often this pattern is repeated by subsequent generations. The family is the foundation of a healthy business life. You will be part of business Constellations, also having the opportunity to look at your own professional life. Once this module is complete you will receive a certificate of attendance and completion of this training.
Applying to do the Training
You are requested to write to Charaka, giving her your reasons for wishing to join. Please also add any experience you have had with this work. We ask for around 500 words as a suggestion in your application, no more than one thousand. Please note you must have worked with Charaka previously in order to apply for the training or intend to come to a session before the start date in April. Ideally, we like people to have done a few groups before joining, but each case is looked at individually.
How the training continues once all seven modules are complete
Students can choose to join monthly one-on-one sessions specifically for trainees in the form of supervisions. These can be booked for a small fee each month if required.
Apprenticeship Path
Students each by personal arrangement with Charaka will be able to join the workshops and new trainings and receive feedback sessions around the work carried out. You will have an opportunity to fine-tune your skills and practice facilitating Constellations. Once all the requirements for the training have been completed, you will receive a certificate of completion.
The venue: The School of Art and Wellbeing, Devon
The School of Art and Wellbeing is in a little corner of exquisite Devon countryside with a view all the way to Dartmoor and only a mile from the market town of Honiton with direct train lines to London Waterloo. It is set in 15 acres of wildflower meadows, formal gardens, orchard, vegetable plots and a secret forest garden. The beach is a short drive away.
It offers a range of different options of accommodation on site- from camping to glamping in a shepherd’s hut or the summer house, to staying in rooms in the main house. For our needs and to help budgets, Mary Ann has agreed to make a small dormitory in the main house. She offers a lovely continental breakfast which is offered at £5 a day, and everyone is asked to join this. It has been agreed we will have lunch and dinner as food to share, reducing the overall costs considerably. This will be the third facilitators’ training held at The School of Art and Wellbeing.
How Charaka Works
Charaka trained with the originator of this work Bert Hellinger. His work was started as a more psychotherapeutic method. His later work moved to a more spiritual approach. Charaka’s current practice in Constellations is more in line with Bert Hellinger’s later work. Her work is called “Silent Spiritual Family Constellations”.
“I see Family Constellations as about love. It can provide so many deep understandings about life and the hidden realms in the roots of our family. What I appreciate most is the positive impact it has on the lives of people. I really enjoy that many people meet and make friendships at the workshops and trainings, connecting others is something that brings me great joy and I consciously seek to do this. I believe that playfulness and fun are a very important aspect of life, and I try to bring this into the residential workshops where possible.” – Charaka