An introduction to Systemic Constellations: A one-day experiential workshop

Come join us for a hands-on workshop to learn about Systemic Constellations and experience it firsthand with Katie Despres & Jamie Colston

Welcome to An introduction to Systemic Constellations: An experiential workshop! Join us at Subud hall for a transformative event where you will dive into the world of Systemic Constellations. This interactive workshop will provide you with a hands-on experience to explore the dynamics of family systems and relationships. Discover how hidden dynamics impact your life and gain insights to create positive changes. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of systemic constellations in a supportive environment. Reserve your spot now!

An Introduction to Systemic Constellations: A One-Day Experiential Workshop

Dates:
Friday 13th June | Saturday 27th September | Friday 28th November

A new way of understanding what shapes your life

Some challenges are difficult to think your way out of. Patterns repeat. Emotions linger. Decisions feel fogged. Despite your insight, something deeper seems to be at play.

Systemic Constellations offer a different kind of perspective. One that looks not only at your individual experience, but also at the wider systems you’re part of: family, work, culture, inheritance. This is a way of listening to what hasn’t yet been seen or acknowledged, through a mix of experiential exercises, embodiment, and intuitive insight.

These one-day workshops are designed to offer a practical, grounded introduction to systemic work, with time to explore, reflect and experience the method firsthand.

Who this is for

These workshops are for everyone who is curious about what lies beneath the surface of complex issues, in life, relationships, or work. You might be:

• Noticing repeating patterns and wondering if they began somewhere earlier

• Holding roles or responsibilities that feel heavy, unclear or misaligned

• Wanting to explore new ways of looking at entangled systems, personal, professional, cultural

• A therapist, coach, facilitator or manager looking to broaden your understanding of relational dynamics

• Have heard of constellations work but are slightly terrified of coming. This is a softer introduction

• You are a professional who wants to see how this work adds understanding to dynamics in the work place.

No previous experience is needed. Whether you come with a personal question, or simply want to witness and take part, you’ll be supported throughout.

What you’ll experience

• An introduction to the theory and practice of systemic constellations

• Core principles including the Orders of Love, systemic perception, and embodied knowing

• Group exercises to map hidden patterns and dynamics

• Live constellations facilitated by Katie and Jamie

• A reflective space to make sense of what emerges

These workshops are practical, embodied and participatory. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of how systemic dynamics show up in your own life and work, and how to begin responding to them with more clarity and compassion.

Facilitators

Katie Despres is a Systemic Constellations Facilitator with a rich professional background spanning executive recruitment, entrepreneurship, and personal development. After studying Psychology, she began her career in London working for entrepreneur James Caan, CBE, before founding her own international recruitment firm and property business in Bristol. Alongside this, she trained as a Transpersonal Coach, and later as a Senior Yoga Teacher.

Katie now brings over a decade of experience in systemic and embodied approaches to change. Her facilitation is rooted in both corporate pragmatism and deep intuitive presence, creating safe and grounded spaces for transformation. She trained with the Centre for Systemic Constellations (CSC) under Gaye Donaldson and Chris Williams and now offers 1:1 and Couples sessions and monthly Constellation workshops in Bristol.

As someone who has navigated the demands of business, parenting, and personal growth, Katie is particularly passionate about making systemic work accessible to professionals seeking fresh insight into the deeper roots of complex patterns in their lives, work, or relationships.

You can find out more about Katie at www.katiedespres.com

Jamie Colston is a facilitator, trainer & artist who has been immersed in systemic constellations since 2010. He has completed extensive training, including COLPI in 2012 with Judith Hemming (a year-long organisational constellations training) and both Foundation and Applied levels of Family Constellation training with the Centre of Systemic Constellations.

He teaches an introduction to constellations to first-year counselling and psychotherapy students at Weston College and has been running Systemic Constellations workshops for a couple of years. Jamie’s broader work explores ancestral storytelling through the *Motherlode* project, a book of collective wisdom drawn from 100 conversations around the world. Alongside this, he is a parent to two amazing teenagers, a community gatherer, and a guide in ritual and rites of passage work.

You can find out more about Jamie at www.jamiecolston.com

Investment:

We will run 3 x 1 day workshops:

Friday 13th June | Saturday 27th September | Friday 28th November

For the June workshop we are offering an introductory rate of £95 per person. Thereafter the workshops will be at its full price of £195 (Organisational rate) £150 ( Individual rate )

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

— Bert Hellinger

Join Us

Come with curiosity and an open heart. Leave with new perspectives, embodied experience, and a deeper understanding of the interconnected forces shaping your life.

Family Constellation Workshop with Katie Despres & Laura Singer

Date: Saturday 14th June 2025

Time: 10am -5pm

Location: Subud hall, Clifton Bristol

Join us for an enlightening Family Constellation Workshop with the talented duo, Katie Despres and Laura Singer. Dive deep into your family dynamics and uncover hidden truths that may be affecting your life. This in-person event will take place at the Subud hall, providing a safe and welcoming space for exploration. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights and healing in a supportive environment. Reserve your spot now!

Do you feel stuck, lacking motivation or unsure why your efforts to change don’t seem to have much impact?

Do you wonder why unhelpful, even unconscious, patterns or limiting beliefs keep showing up in your life, affecting your relationships, career, health, or creativity?

If so, Family Constellations can help!

What is Family Constellations?

Family or Systemic Constellations, is a transformative healing practice based on systemic thinking and ancestral healing developed by the German psychotherapist and philosopher Bert Hellinger. It helps us uncover new insights into our personal challenges and how they are connected to our wider family system as well as unresolved traumas inherited from previous generations.

Constellations are particularly powerful when used In a group setting where we can use people as ‘representatives’ to map out the ‘issue holder’ or ‘seekers’ family system to discover hidden loyalties and dynamics and start to restore clarity, balance and flow.

Unlike traditional talk-based approaches, Family Constellations is an embodied practice that focuses on somatic awareness and seeing relationships with a fresh gaze, rather than intellectual analysis.

Family Constellations can support us to make difficult decisions, resolve personal struggles or understand dynamics in our relationships. Just as in nature, balance and flow are essential; this work seeks to identify disruptions in the natural order and restore harmony. Changes made within the constellation impact the entire system, with effects that continue to unfold in the days and weeks following a session.

You are very welcome to join us, whether you are new to Constellations or not. The best way to understand this work is to experience it first hand.

In this workshop you may want to bring your own issue to explore, to take part as a representative or simply witness. Each role offers a powerful experience, often leading to profound insights and emotional shifts.

As Representative you may be asked to represent a person such as a family member of the ‘issue holder’ or an essence or archetype, such as Love, Nature or Money. You can make a choice about whether to take up this representation. Facilitated by Katie and Laura you will be supported to report back what you’re experiencing in your body, and how this might change as the Constellation progresses. Everyone will have a chance to experience this during the morning exercises.

Family Constellations can support you to:

• Unravel family and relationship challenges

• Identify repetitive patterns in your work

• Manage stress, anxiety and health concerns

• Address financial limitations or worries

• Gain clarity on life direction and purpose

• Release inherited emotional burdens

Outline of the Day:

• Opening Circle including agreements about confidentiality

• Meditation and Check In

• Introduction to Constellations

• Small group exercise - a chance for everyone to experience representing

• Short break

• First Constellation

• Lunch

• Check in Circle

• Two Constellations

• Check Out Circle and Goodbyes

If Constellations are new to you you might like to watch ‘Another Self’, a Netflix drama where the characters use constellations to look at their life issues: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81380432There is also a video of a Constellation available on the Goop channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJGqN0MGCWw

Your Facilitators:

Katie Despres is a Systemic Constellations Facilitator, Yoga Teacher and Transpersonal Coach, known for her down-to-earth, intuitive approach. She has been supporting individuals and groups through transformational work for over a decade.

After an early career in recruitment and entrepreneurship, Katie gradually moved into the world of wellbeing, inspired by her own journey through burnout, family complexity and a longing for deeper connection.

Her training spans yoga (1,500+ hours), embodiment and advanced study with the Centre for Systemic Constellations, including work with couples and intimate systems.

Katie’s work is shaped by a deep interest in human relationships - how we carry what is unresolved, and how we can gently return to what does not belong. She brings warmth, clarity and compassion to her facilitation, creating safe spaces to explore the hidden dynamics that shape our lives.

She offers workshops, courses and 1:1 sessions in Bristol and online, weaving together embodied practices, systemic thinking and grounded presence to support healing and reconnection.

"It's a fascinating process and Katie held the space with warmth, clarity, intuition and care. I found it intriguing how we can each open to an emotional intelligence that comes from somewhere beyond our own egos and learned ideas, and … be part of creating healing and change... Katie makes it feel simple and easeful, yet profound… The issue holders looked quite transformed - lighter, happier, ten years younger" Emma Burleigh

Laura Singer

After experiencing her first Family Constellation in 2015 when exploring stuckness in her life and ancestral trauma in her family system Laura was ‘hooked’ and went to to attend workshops with many different teachers in person and online.

She studied with Tanja Meyburgh from African Constellations in South Africa, graduating as a facilitator in 2023. As well as Family Constellations Laura is particularly interested in Nature and Land Constellations, working with unconventional organisations (co-operatives, land based projects, community groups) and including queerness.

Along with her Constellations experience Laura brings over three decades of work in community development, coaching, activism, conflict transformation, group facilitation, women’s circles, nature connection practices and a special interest in mental health and wellbeing, inclusion and accessibility.

As well as offering Constellations workshops in Bristol, South Wales and online Laura works in community-based theatre for change using theatre, clowning and play to help people discover new things about themselves and our society while in community with others.