FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS: Healing and change through identifying and working with intergenerational family patterns. (Sydney)

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Faculty

Lizzie Spencer, Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations. Related seminars and products

Elizabeth Spencer

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Lizzie Spencer is a highly experienced psychotherapist, coach and academic teacher, based in the Bowral, South of Sydney, Australia.  

She taught in Steiner Schools for many years and is also a Social Ecologist, looking to nature for helpful and supportive life systems, and brings active hope to the world.

She is a founding member of the Community of Calm whose aim is to train practitioners in Trauma Awareness and to create a Trauma Resource Centre.

Family Constellations and Process Oriented Psychology are at the heart of her understanding and trauma-informed practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lizzie Spencer maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with the Australian College of Applied Psychology and the University of New England. receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lizzie Spencer is the co-founder of Community of Calm and Arts for Wellness and is accredited by the Australian Counseling Association.

Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

1. To gain an understanding of Bert Hellinger history and life’s work.
2. To gain an understanding the basic principles of Family Constellations.
3. To identify and work with intergenerational family patterns e.g. trauma, addiction, talents.
4. To gain a new understanding and way of working with guilt and innocence.
5. To understand and work with the Orders of Love. They help indicate where to work with clients.  Examples of these orders are; belonging, balancing giving and taking, social order and place, every member has the right to belong, wrongs must be redressed, respecting the people who entered the system first.
6. Learn how to form ‘healing statements’ with clients. These are short powerful statements that get to the heart of what the client is experiencing.
7. To gain a foundational understanding in how Family Constellations is used in organizational contexts; Systemic Constellations.

“Family Constellations is taking off all around the world: if you are the least bit curious, treat yourself and find out about it."  Lizzie Spencer

How will you benefit from attending this training?

• Gain a foundational understanding of Family Constellations.
• Have a new swag of tools and skills to use with clients.
• Work more effectively with intergenerational trauma

Outline

Morning Session (includes a short break)

• Welcome, introduce myself, trauma informed guidelines for adult learning/personal and group safety, Online etiquette and self-care.
• Intro to Bert Hellinger’s (BH’s)  life and work.
• Visualisation/inner work ‘The Empty Centre’ (designed by BH).
• Intro to foundational principles in FC; how they work, field theory and genograms, Experiential; making your own genogram, reflect to see FC principles and concepts.
• Demonstration from me and 3 others of a small constellation.
• Debrief; correlating foundational principles with the experiential.
• Q and A.
• Check out; Gathering and anchoring of learning so far.

Afternoon Session (includes a short break)

• Another demonstration of a constellation and debrief.
• The Orders of Love explained.
• Exercise for the Orders, debrief.
• Healing Statements explained.
• Practice forming healing statements.
• Gathering and anchoring of what has been learnt so far and Q and A.
• Brainstorming in small groups re how to apply new learnings to your work.
• Wrap up.

Target Audience

This seminar has been designed to extend the clinical knowledge and applied skill of Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Social Workers and Psychiatrists who work with individuals and couples who are experiencing distress about their relationship.

Webcast Schedule

Morning Session
  9:00am - 12:45pm
  Includes a 15 minutes break at 10:45am

Lunch Break
  12:45pm - 1:45pm

Afternoon Session
  1:45pm - 5:00pm
  Includes a 15 minutes break at 3:15pm

Venue information

COVID-19 AND YOUR SAFETY
Our venue is registered with Service NSW as a 'Covid Safe' venue. 
You will be required to checkin via our QR code and to abide by the safety  measures current at the time and in line with public health orders. These will be advised in your pre-event reminder/information emails.
In the interest of everone's safety, PDP reserves the right to deny entry to any participant who chooses not to follow the current COVID safety plans. 

ACCESSIBILITY
This venue offers wheelchair access from the Brown Street entrance.  

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
4 minute walk from Chatswood train/metro/bus interchange

PARKING
Links to reasonable early-bird parking close to the venue:
https://www.secureparking.com.au/en-au/car-parks/australia/new-south-wales/sydney/lower-north-shore-and-northern-beaches/zenith-centre-car-park

https://www.secureparking.com.au/en-au/car-parks/australia/new-south-wales/sydney/lower-north-shore-and-northern-beaches/12-help-street-car-park

NOURISHMENT 
All day tea, coffee and chilled water are provided.
If you have not ordered lunch with your registration, we have a fridge and two microwave ovens should you wish to bring your own food. 
The venue has a cafe on the ground floor and is surrounded by cafes and restaurants including an extensive food hall above the Chatswood Interchange.

ACCOMODATION
Mantra Hotel is next door to the venue: website here
Meriton Suites is a 4 minute walk from the venue: website here

Location

Level 1, 10 Help Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067, Australia
+61 1300 887 622
www.pdpseminars.com