Upcoming
Group Events

The Money Workshop

Sunday March 22

12pm–4.30pm (Montreal, New York)
9am–1.30pm (Vancouver)
17.00–21.30 (Amsterdam, Paris, Rome)


Location:
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Over the past few years, individual works dominated in my Family and Systemic Constellations practice. Meanwhile, I have been asked about group sessions perhaps more often than anything else. The thematic workshops done in 2024 have led me to think that it might be worthwhile to resume doing Constellations in groups.

So, I have decided to continue the group sessions.

About the Method

Family and Systemic Constellations focus on finding sources to a variety of specific problems and difficulties. From health issues to business needs or situations occurring in relationships.

In the core concept of Family Constellations lies the idea that some of the problems manifesting themselves today may be rooted in past events of an individual’s biography, or the biography of a family or group (culture, country). Sessions help to highlight the possible source and often to begin to move towards resolving situations caused by what may have taken place years or decades ago.

Bert Hellinger, the author of the approach, often used the expression of “the flow of love” between generations within one system, e.g. in a family. In Constellations we are looking for areas or elements affected both on personal and systemic levels. We try to find a step that will constitute the necessary movement. To alleviate a problematic situation or a pattern in the system and in a Client’s life.

The approach was originally proposed as a group method. It is in a group that many of its strengths emerge.

It is possible to join the event as a client or as a group participant

Participation as a Client

Client is the one for whom the Constellation work is done. Facilitator manages the group session in a way that the issue that the Client has brought as a request for work moves towards some new state: sometimes a solution, sometimes a change, sometimes a new perspective.

Price: CA$235 (tx incl)

Participation as a Group Member: a Representative or an Observer

Those who join the group can be invited to represent a certain figure that is a part of the whole picture seen in a Constellation being done for a client. Being a respectful observer is the second option.

Many participants have noticed that a Constellation session can unfold as an in-depth emotional experience for them as well, even if a session is facilitated in response to someone else’s request. Those who represent or even observe the Constellation often leave the room after the session with a set of insights, or a feeling of an inner change.

Price: CA$40 (tx incl)– early registration, includes 10CA$ security deposit

CA$50 (tx incl) – late registration less than 3 days prior to the meeting or at the door

Language 

Group workshops will be facilitated in English

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Date and Time:

Saturday 12 Oct 2024. 11.30am – 4.45pm 

Venue:

Centre des Musiciens du Monde, studio 201
5043, rue Saint-Dominique,
Montreal, Quebec  H2T 1V1

Pricing:

• 175CAD early bird,
• 200CAD after Sept 27th Oct 1st,
• 215CAD on the day of the event. 

To secure the price you can pay in parts – the non-returnable deposit of 25CA$ (included in total price) is the minimum that has to be paid to secure the actual price and your spot.

Do I need to actually be in a relationship to join? Do I necessarily have to work on my actual relationship?

During the workshop, you can focus on any specific and meaningful relationship, or even different ones. Whether it’s family, romantic relationships, work partnerships, or relationships with people you spend your leisure time with. The work can also focus on healing wounds from past relationships or building future ones.

Will it be necessary to disclose any details about myself?

What to tell about yourself and your situation is a matter of choice for each participant. Systemic and Family Constellations allow us to work with the problem even blindly, when only general points or almost nothing at all is mentioned. Meanwhile, it often seems right to voice the problem at least in general terms and give the other participants an opportunity to be more emotionally involved. It is up to the individual to decide what to say and what not to say.

What kind of environment does the workshop offer?

To work with sensitive topics we need to approach the tasks with compassion, presence and in a state of acceptance. A certain quality of space that allows the processes of the participants to unfold. 

Do we talk or do we actually practice during the workshop?

Constellations involve working with space and inner change. Dialogues and discussions are of a subordinate nature, and may help to understand what is happening, to clarify specific impressions or perceptions, but do not constitute the essence of the work.

Who can benefit?

Anyone who interacts with others can benefit from participating in the workshop.

Is this work transformative?

Systemic and Family Constellations can definitely change how we experience our relationships.

I have a problematic relationship pattern that repeats in almost any romantic relationship that I start. Is it possible to address it?

The workshop will likely help you see this pattern from a different angle, and maybe prepare a soil for change that may create shifts even if you bring somewhat stubborn, repetitive case. However, please don’t expect a miracle: this work provides environment and tools, whether we accept the new or stick to the old ways, depends on us. 

Are there requirements to join?

We will ask you to write to us in case you are feeling unstable. This is not necessarily a firm ’no’ to participation, but we, the workshop team, would rather discuss it with you in advance.  Overall, the workshop is built in a manner that is friendly and compassionate, but as we all know, in an unstable state even a minor contact with a triggering context can cause a strong reaction. 

My French is better than English. Can I participate?

The workshop will be facilitated in English. If your preferred language is French, you can still join and we will do our best to accommodate your needs: in group exercises we search for an option to be with the participants who are bilingual, so that you won’t feel excluded from the joint work. Also, the workshop is experiential, it virtually does not matter in which language you are working within each exercise, however at least some knowledge of English will be needed to understand the instructions.

Accessibility

The workshop space is not wheelchair accessible. 

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I also see how the well-established contact may create confidence that allows to look deeper into the heavy contexts within ourselves, the contexts where we wouldn’t like to approach with a person that we cannot fully trust. This subtle matter of deeper confidence helps change the communication from purely professional service somewhere closer to more individual presence and empathy.

The line of work may include sessions of Systemic and Family Constellations, CranioSacral Therapy and Integrative Bodywork, other Body-oriented Methods. Tools that belong to the approaches oriented on work with Stress Regulation and Resolution of Trauma are also in use. The palette of methods is wide, and solutions within each session may vary, though they all follow one common logic.

Like building a new home for an individual soul, in harmony and trust within. While dealing with manifestations of stress, we seek for the ways to regulate the nervous system back to the optimum and to learn to calm down the unpleasant responses. When working with trauma, we approach our own individual experiences, and also we make steps to reprocess the outcomes of transgenerational trauma: traces of the events of our parents lives or the lives of our earlier ancestors.

The sessions are done online or in-person in the studio in Mile End in Montreal.

Read more about the continuous work here

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Integrative Bodywork and Craniosacral Therapy

Due to the situation with COVID-19, the studio routine is more calm than in previous months, though you can still book a CranioSacral Therapy Session, or a session of Integrative Bodywork. We need support especially in the context of actual limitations and restrictions. Considering the circumstances our bodies do require more resources for balance and restoration. 

Weekly bodywork sessions are available as well. 

Systemic Constellations

You may receive a Constellation in the office in an individual setting, though also please consider an online work. 

Online:

Systemic Constellations and Resource-Oriented work

I provide therapeutic sessions online. Whatever is the request: the stress-related problem, seemingly post-traumatic effect, physical symptom or an issue manifested in relations with other people, the available internal resources of the client is the key component of the work. We work to widen the access to resources, restore the presence in the moment, develop autonomy and balance of everyday life. 

Please don’t hesitate to write to me directly if anything needs being clarified. Wishing you safe and healthy November!

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Craniosacral Therapy, Integrative Bodywork and Systemic/Family Constellations are all available in one-on-one setting.

Stress and self-regulation sessions, as well as Systemic /Family Constellations are still available online, as well.

I will be glad to see you soon.

Retour au travail en tête-à-tête dans le studio situé dans le Mile-End

J’ai le plaisir de vous informer que je retourne travailler en personne, dans mon studio. Veuillez m’écrire un message ou appeler pour clarifier les limites et les opportunités associées aux caractéristiques du travail en ce moment.

La thérapie craniosacrale, la thérapie corporelle intégrative et les constellations systémiques / familiales sont toutes disponibles en configuration individuelle.

Les séances de stress et d’autorégulation et les constellations systémiques / familiales sont également disponibles en ligne.

Je serai ravi de vous revoir.

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Event Page

Between therapy and Ritual: Working With Sound and Voice in Studio D325 in Mile End on February 1st. It’s unlikely to experience such immediate contact with the deeper layers of the own self, as it happens when working with the voice in group setting. This workshop inherits the insights of Working With Sound and Voice held in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 and 2019, as well as the Mediums of The Soul event, that took place in Montreal in the summer of 2019.

Event Page

Systemic and Family Constellations workshop is scheduled February 15th, same location. Requests for this type of work vary from physical or mental symptoms to rather minor but for some reason significant issues, such as attitudes to people or situations that otherwise would not have reasonable explanation. Constellation allows to take a fresh look at the familiar, well-established picture of the conflict or symptom, it gives access to an opportunity to see a movement interrupted in the past, to create a space for the free flow of life.

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