Meeting the Moment

family constellations facilitator course




This is a course and it’s also a celebration. It is an eight month celebration of our collective intelligence. Our celebratory stance, aligned with the principles of balance and order, will honor the diverse intelligences inherent in our identities, lived experiences, and ancestral gifts and burdens. Our assembly will create a container where we practice being with it all: the joy and woe, grief and awe, innocence and guilt and beyond. Together, we’ll become more adept at meeting the moment; acknowledging what is and finding vitality in our belonging. We will continually calibrate our capacity. We will center our full weight within our width of composted adversity.




Family constellations is an artful movement modality that gives courage to our emergent mobility and our good-enough and iterative contributions.




What?

  • 8 In-Person Weekends May 2025-December 2025

    • Dates

      • May 10, 11 - June 7, 8 - July 5, 6 - August 2,3 - August 30,31 - September 27, 28 - October 25, 26 - December 6, 7

  • Consolidated e-book of course concepts & constellations literature guide

  • Art prompts and self-constellation exercises for hygiene, healing and integration

Where?

  • burlington, vermont - Abenaki Territory

Why?

  • Increase effectiveness as practitioner, citizen, spouse, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, or co-conspirator

  • Integrate field consciousness into your modality or body of work, a fresh take on stagnation and impasse

  • Heal inner child parts and other interrupted movements through acknowledgment and integration

  • Ancestral healing through revealing hidden loyalties and finding resource via the right place

  • Find balance between self and other, psychology and spirituality, left and right brain, etc.

  • Experience the emergent edge available in non-institutional community-based learning

  • Join concretely with the forces of life and love and resound a hum that supersedes what dehumanizes

  • Praxis holding place, in the great breadth of your ancestral lineage - a space to stay steady in these times

  • Turn ADHD, self-gaslighting and complex trauma into an expertise in navigating complex truth & human dynamic

  • Create a hub of convergence for all of your gifts to gather and hum

  • Be able to facilitate Family & Systemic Constellations

How?

  • A Love That Endures (Weekends 1 & 2)

    • The Field: Presence, Essential Self and Knowing in the Now

    • Bowing to Life

    • Harmonics: The Morphic & Mycelial

    • Acknowledging What Is: Essence, Fact & Content

    • Image & Imagination

    • Movement: Attunement & Agreement

    • Representation: Ancestors, Archetypes, Emotions, States Parts & Alchemy

    • Grief, Gratitude & Gravitas

    • Balance and Order, Guilt and Innocence, Give and Take

    • Mother, Father, Child

    • Emergence: Belonging and Individuation

  • In-Between Virtual Session: working virtually, foam feet, wooden figures, drawing

  • A Grief That Nourishes (Weekends 3 & 4)

    • Adversity, Interrupted Movement (Trauma) & Accompaniment

    • A People Without Culture: Ambivalence, Attachment & Addiction

    • Rupture & Repair

    • Anxiety & Depression, Accompaniment & Abandonment

    • Fixation, Impasse & Opening

    • The Language of Reconciliation

    • Parentification & Entitlement

    • Love & Distance: Enmeshment & Estrangement

    • Ego-Centric vs. Eco-Centric models of development, Eriksonian // Indigenous Medicine Wheel

  • In-Between: Whew! Oof! Ow! - The Ancient & Pre-Modern Coat Tails of Psychology and Spirituality, Industrial Complex

  • A Justice That Balances (Weekends 5 & 6)

    • Marginalized, Oppressed, Privileged: Identity, Family, Geopolitics & System

    • Power & Impact

    • Philosophy, Discipline & Practice

    • Facilitator Hygiene

    • Transference & Projection

    • Money, Success & Momentum

    • Seed Statements

    • Soul & Weight

  • In-Between: Practice Labs, Q&A

  • A Belonging That Widens (Weekends 7 & 8)

    • Craft & Business

    • Receiving & Reciprocity

    • Acknowledging the Land, Animism

    • Setting It Up

    • Not Knowing & The Four Directions

    • Adoption, Immigration, Neurodivergence and other special topics

    • Paint & Canvas

    • Visibility

    • Making Mistakes

    • Perseverance & Prudence

Learning with Mattie

  • Multi-decade dedication to internalizing “I am a human being therefore nothing that is human can be alien to me.” -Terence

  • 8 semesters teaching leadership development for University of Iowa in Italy and Boston University in NYC, coach and instructor for MBA neuroleadership development program for University of Iowa in Italy

  • 6 figure investment in healing and non-institutional education. Over 10,000 hours of practice working with clients and students.

  • Originally from charlotte, vermont - spent time teaching in Europe, Africa and Asia including 7 years in Italy

  • More about me: About Page and LinkedIn




"The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.”

- Bert Hellinger, Family Constellations Pioneer



Exchange

  • 8 in-person weekends: Sliding Scale Guidelines

    • Tier 1: $4800

    • Tier 2: $3500

    • Tier 3: $2300

    • Early bird: March 21st, 2025 - $475 off

    • Inquire about payment plans and offering or receiving partial scholarships

    • (Per weekend rate might become available at $375/$575/$775.)

  • Private constellations and supervision student rate: $150/75min through 2026.

  • To sign up:

    • Application

    • Call with me for vibe check and to discuss how it will fit in

    • $500 deposit

  • Other suggested materials: foam feet, wooden reps, sketch book, literature

Contact me to express interest and stay updated on information sessions and free introductory workshops.

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