Intensive Schedule
Details are subject to change.
Day 1: Wednesday, March 8th
| 3:00 pm | Registration Opens |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00–8:00 pm | Opening Large Group & Welcoming Ceremony |
| 8:15–9:15 pm | First Cohort Groups |
Days 2-4: Thursday - Saturday, March 9th -11th
| 6:45–7:30 am | Morning Activity (Optional) – Participant Led |
| 7:30–8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 am | Morning Large Group Gathering |
| 10:00–12:00 pm | Morning Cohort Groups (Thursday); (Friday & Saturday) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00–2:30 pm | Free Time |
| 2:30–5:30 pm | Afternoon Cohort Group |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Dinner |
| 6:30–8:00 pm | Open Space Workshops – Participant Led (Thursday & Friday); Community Celebration (Saturday) |
Day 5: Sunday, March 12th
| 6:45–7:30 am | Morning Activity (Optional) – Participant Led |
| 7:30–8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30–9:00 am | Pack Up Rooms |
| 9:00–10:30 pm | Morning Cohort Group |
| 10:30–12:00 pm | Morning Large Group Gathering |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Departure |
1. Morning Activity (Optional)–Participant Led
Do you lead a practice that would make a good morning activity? Yoga, tai-chi, sunrise walks, meditation, or something else? Let us know what you would like to lead and share.
2. Morning Constellation Gathering with Faculty Reflections
Each morning will begin with a short faculty talk on the theory, practice, or history of Constellation work, followed by a large group Constellation exercise. Large group constellations might include welcoming the land, as well as addressing social issues that are of interest to the group. The goal will be to connect the group and to go on adventures with each other with our personal and global concerns. And to have fun!
3. Morning and Afternoon Sessions: Cohort Groups
Although we will assign participants roughly by their experience level, all Cohort Groups will have the following activities and goals:
- Individual and group growth, evolution, and exploration as participants represent in constellations led by the faculty.
- Group learning is facilitated by the faculty and each other (peer learning).
- Reflection on constellation experiences as a means for deeper engagement.
- Different ways of doing constellations together as a way to pursue diverse healing movements and learning.
- Discussion, questions, and reflection together on the work.
- For those who want and who are experienced facilitators, the opportunity to facilitate under the guidance and mentoring of the faculty.
Cohort Group Guidelines:
- Participants agree to hold confidentiality and support each other in creating a safe space for the work, offering and respecting each other's vulnerability.
- Participants take care of themselves, respecting the needs of the entire group as well as their own, and ask for what they need.
- Participants engage the process in a spirit of inquiry and adventure.
- Participants who ask to facilitate must have experience as facilitators.
- Participants are willing to explore personal issues under the leadership of the faculty and other experienced facilitators/participants.
- Participants who agree to facilitate accept constructive feedback with an open mind and offer it to others with honesty and kindness.
4. Morning Constellation Workshops
The faculty will offer constellation workshops on a variety of topics for a deeper inquiry into and practice of different areas of constellations work. They will be rich constellation experiences on various themes. Go to to see descriptions of all morning workshops. Registrants will make workshop choices when they arrive on-site.
5. Open Space Gatherings (Optional) – Participant Led
The evenings are devoted to constellations, workshops, conversations, presentations, music, dance, or other offerings. We want what you have to offer! Space will be available based on the interest of participants. This is a great time for budding facilitators to try something new. Open Space is organized on-site, but we would love to hear about your offerings in advance.
Certificate of Attendance
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued to all participants as part of their Intensive fees. It is the responsibility of each participant to limit the application of this approach to those clients and situations for which he or she has the appropriate qualifications. This Intensive does not qualify participants to practice psychotherapy or constitute a certification to practice Constellations.
Continuing Education Credit (CEUs)
Regrettably, due to stringent California CEU certification policies, we are unable to offer them at this time. If that changes, we will inform you. If you are interested in CEUs, please let us know!
2023 Intensive Workshop Descriptions
The First Constellation
Led by Suzi Tucker
In the womb we learn all there is to know about what our tasks will be when we arrive, the position that is open. We know our mother’s sadness and anger and joy. We know her relationship to our father and others. If we are second or third children (whether or not everyone lived), we inhabit a womb that has already been inhabited. All of this information comes to us as part of our sustenance. Constellations, both as lens and as experience, can help support a delayed movement out of the womb, the umbilical cord finding its connection to the deeper heartbeat wherein everyone is included, supported, loved — and the task is to meet the future rather than fulfill the past. Together, we will explore the first constellation, the one that is within everything, and begin to find our permission to arrive again.
What is Your Wisdom Lineage?
Led by Leslie Nipps
Our Intensive theme is “Old Wisdom for the New Day.” This workshop will explore the sources of wisdom from our ancestral lineages. Anciently, “wisdom” was considered a divine gift, which is acquired by placing oneself before the Divine and asking. It was also considered a by-product of experience, age and maturity. Our ancestors have walked before us in that divine light, and also have so much of the life experience and perspective that might be most helpful to us as we face life’s challenges, “while looking through a mirror darkly.” Let’s allow our ancestors to share with us their generations’ wisdom, so we can live powerfully and in respect today.
Working with Split Parts
Led by Dragos Riti
This workshop is based on Franz Ruppert’s approach to working with split parts. When encountering a traumatic event, our Self splits into three main parts: the Survivor, the Traumatized part, and the Healthy part. In order to survive the aftermath of the event, the Survivor part takes the lead and does not allow us to connect with the Traumatized part, which is captive in a frozen place in a time loop when the event has happened, nor with the Healthy part, which does not have the resources to reconnect in a good way to life. In the case of powerful traumatic events, healing the trauma might be a long and complicated process. For instance, outbursts of shame and/or rage can overcome us in daily life. If we try to explore the main victim-perpetrator dynamic directly, it can be too painful. So, a different approach is required to move forward. This workshop will look at reconciling our internal parts so they can reconnect, in order to regain a healthy adult place to support our process of healing.