Shadow Constellations Professional Training - Boulder, Colorado
5/29/25 - 6/2/25
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” C.G. Jung
The Shadow is the realm of the unconscious into which we put what we repress and deny, what we disown and can’t acknowledge. The Shadow is ‘born’ to the family we are born into and into the culture(s) we are brought up in.
Shadow Constellations combine the healing potential of both Family Constellations and Shadow Work, connecting Intergenerational Healing with Self-Parts Integration in novel ways.
Shadow Constellations offers a kind, compassionate and gentle, yet powerful approach to working with our own Shadows
This training module is for therapists, facilitators, teachers, practitioners and other professionals who work with people.
We will focus on experiential learning, giving you personal embodied experience of the work, in addition to the theory and the practice.
* You do not need to have experience or training in Shadow work and/or Family Constellations. All relevant instruction will be given.
You do need to have some training in Therapy/Coaching/Facilitation/Teaching and experience in working professionally with people.
In the Shadow Constellations Training Module, we will:
- Get in touch with many of our meaningful Shadows and reintegrate with them
- Expand the range of issues and clients we can work with
- Learn how to identify our Shadows and the Shadows of our clients
- Identify and change the effect the Shadow has on the professional relationships with our clients and our business success
- Experience Shadow Constellations, both in various personal structures and in group work
- Learn how to skillfully facilitate Shadow Constellations in both clinical and group settings
On the psychological level, Shadow Constellations allows us to identify and work with the underlying forces that affect and even manage the client-facilitator/therapist relationship.
These include Transference & Countertransference ,Projective identification and Projections in general. This enables therapists to avoid empathic failures and even to turn them into breakthroughs.
On a more general professional level, it allows us to develop greater empathy, powerful gentleness and the ability to work with a broader range of issues and people with compassion and kindness.
On an emotional level, Shadow Constellations allows us to better understand the hidden dynamics with clients; how to turn what triggers them and us in life, and in the clinic, into a healing and empowering journey of reintegration.
They allow our clients and ourselves to reintegrate and own difficult emotions, experiences and positive qualities.
On a body level, Shadow Constellations helps us to get in touch with our body, to move with kind awareness through layers and memories filled with shame, aversion and exclusion and through the traumas that are stored in our body, to finally regain wholeness.
On the intergenerational level, it allows us to identify, reconnect and heal the sometimes forgotten sources of the Shadow, the traumas of our ancestors, which are the cause of much of our clients’ suffering.
The Constellation Path Institute
This training is recognized as a part of the certification program in “The Constellation Path – International Institute for the Study of Systemic Constellations“.
In order to complete the full certification program, you will need to complete in a satisfactory way, five training modules facilitated by the institute Certified Trainers.
For a training module to be recognized for the certification program, you will need to have attended at least 80% of the training and participated in a satisfactory way.
A Personal touch
I am a teacher and a facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations, Embodied Shadow Work and Embodiment.
I travel the worls and teach both in person and online.
If you would like to know more about me and the way I teach, please read the About page.
You may also watch free recordings from conferences in the Video Resources page.
For a more direct experience, lets meet in Boulder
Our Relationships Shadows – an in person workshop open to all.
22nd May 2025, 6-9pm, Boulder, Colorado.
Register here
Course Content
You are welcome to join this professional training that will teach you how to skillfully bring the healing power of Shadow Constellations into your work.
We will cover the necessary theory and practice, so that you feel comfortable applying these useful tools and perspectives to the work you do with yourself and with your clients and students.
The topics in the training were selected from the core topics most relevant to any therapist or facilitator. The aim is to give you a wide range of practical tools and perspectives to enhance your personal wholeness, leading to enhanced therapeutic and facilitating skills and business growth.
Day plan:
Each day begins and ends with some movement and embodiment practices to support your grounding and integration.
After the morning movement/embodiment, There will be a sharing and questions circle, then the first lesson, a lunch break, the second lesson and finally the evening integration session.
Each lesson focuses on a specific topic and includes practical theory, an experiential practice, time for sharing and questions and either a Shadow Constellations group session or a demo followed by practicing in pairs and small groups.
The topics covered will include:
Day 1
♦ Foundations of Shadow Work
Introducing C.G. Jung, the “father” of modern Shadow Work, understanding the essence of the Shadow and how it affects all relaltionships and every meaningful aspect of our personal and professional lives. We will start our journey into the Shadow realms, identifying Shadows by their projection and understanding the main archetypes, background and contexts of Shadow Constellations.
♦ Foundations of Family Constellations and Ancestral Healing
Introducing Bert Hellinger, founder of Family Constellations, the Orders of Love, intergenerational healing, phenomenology and a systemic approach which form an important part of Shadow Constellations.
♦ Shadows in the clinic (A double lesson)
Whose Shadows affect our relationships with our clients and students? Both theirs and ours.
In this day we will learn a novel way of viewing and understanding client-practitioner relationships from a systemic & Shadow perspective.
We will learn at the 6 categories of Shadow triggering, a Shadow Constellations process to help us turn triggering into a deep healing Shadow integration, identify the many ways that Shadows show themselves and affect our delicate and multi-layered relationships with our clients and students.
Day 3
♦ Cultural and collective Shadows
These are Shadows that operate on the level of the collective and the culture. They lie below our individual and family Shadows, affecting us in ways are harder to identify from within the culture. We will learn to identify their presence and how to relate and work with our cultural history in order to gain clarity and distinction, without losing our sense of belonging to it.
♦ Golden Shadows & our business success
Golden Shadows what we consider good or even great that we have disconnected from.
They are related to admiration, envy and jealousy. They also play a major role in attraction, falling in love and in romantic/erotic transference and countertransference.
Understanding and integrating with our Golden Shadows makes us distinctly safer space holders at the same time as it makes us more whole, expansive and rich.
Day 4
♦ Shadows of helplessness and the Drama/Trauma triangle
Our Shadows of helplessness are what makes us fall over and over again into the Drama/Trauma Triangle – To repeatedly and unconsciously be captured by the Savior, Victim, Perpetrator (and also the silent accomplice) roles.
Our own disowned helplessness is what makes us give up on a client because we can’t help them when we actually can, or try to change them and take them out of their helplessness (to name just two of the common dynamics which eventually cause great damage).
In this lesson We will look at a variety of approaches and practical ways to address helplessness in ourselves and our clients.
♦ Shadows of aggression and vulnerability
Here we will learn to be more in touch with holding power and taking space, with balancing our vulnerability and aggression so that they become supports rather than a barrier to our development and realization in the world.
This work increases our tolerance for clients and dynamics which we feel are too vulnerable or too aggressive which is often much needed when working with traumatized clients and especially clients suffering from complex trauma.
Day 5
♦ Shadows of sexuality and safe work with sexual trauma in the field
In this lesson we will explore different ways of identifying various aspects of sexuality that went into the Shadow, personally and culturally. We will learn how to sense the presence of sexual trauma in the field and develop a higher sensitivity in working with it.
We will learn to integrate with our own Sexuality in the Shadow in order to enhance safety and to manage what may triggers us due to our personal and family sexual history.
In our final lesson we will look at one of the biggest Shadows of the western culture, how it affects not only our response to someone dying but to endings in general (romantic, professional and others).
We will learn to identify the signs of Death in the Shadow (or in the persona) of ourselves and clients.
Finally, we will go through a unique ceremony to expand our capacity to be in the presence of Death and our relationship with it.
A recorded free Webinar
Below is a recorded webinar from February 2021 including an experiential practice
You are welcome to watch it to receive a sense of the work.
Course registration and practical information
Time Frame: 5 full days – 29th May – 2nd June 2025
9:30am – 6:30pm.
If traveling from outside the Boulder / Denver area, please arrive by midday on Wednesday the 28th at the latest, and plan to stay through Monday June 2nd at least.
Lunch – We will have a one hour lunch break in addition to shorter breaks throughout the day.
Lunch is included in the cost of the training. Vegeterian, meat and Gluten free options will be offered.
Venue:
Colorado School of Energy Studies (CSES)
3800 Arapahoe Ave, Ste. 205, Boulder, CO 80303.
The classroom is located on the Boulder Creek Path on the corner of Arapahoe Ave and Marine St, above BMO Bank.
Group Size: Up to 20 participants.
Requirements:
* Participation in 80% of the training is required for the certification.
Training Organizer:
Adam Harvey is a soul guide, facilitator, and organizer who works with Family & Systemic Constellations, Sacred Sexuality, Plant Medicine, and in service of conscious life and death.
The Assisting team:
Kirstin Soares has spent many years fine tuning her ability to listen with her ears, heart and hands – as a nurse, homebirth midwife, biodynamic craniosacral therapist, pre and perinatal somatic therapist and family constellations facilitator.
Barbara Santos is devoted to moving into greater alignment with natural connection and the whole. She has been participating in various forms of constellation work and training for over ten years, as well as having been engaged in a number of energetic healing modalities for decades. She is a tutor, translator and editor by profession, and very much a student of life.
Nitsan E. Mesika has devoted her life to resurrecting the lost art of ‘Humaning’ from a Tribal perspective. She serves as a Wilderness Therapist, Workshop Facilitator, Certified Psychedelic Therapist, Shamanic Medicine woman, Shadow Constellation Facilitator and a high-level Relationship Coach.
Course Intention: Practical
In addition to relevant theory, we will have lots of personal structures and group sessions, Q&A and some supervision.
* Everybody will participate in some of the group constellations but not everybody will be the client of a group work.
Payment and Cancellation Policy
Pricing:
Deposit is $350, and may be paid either by card online here, or by transfer using Wise.
Balance due will depend on the date you’ve sent your deposit.
$1600 early bird (Deposit sent by April 16th),
$350 deposit + $1250 due by May 1st.
$1750 regular price (Anytime after April 16th),
$350 deposit + $1400 due by May 15th.
Pricing reflects balance paid via ACH transfer (US Residents) or by Wise (int’l attendees).
Credit card option available for an additional 3% processing fee.
Cancellation Policy:
In a case of a cancellation:
Until 2 weeks before the trainingFull refund minus the registration cost of 350$.
Until 2 days before the beginning of the training – 50% Refund.
After that time, there is no refund.
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29th May - 2nd June
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The next international Shadow Constellations training dates:
Sedona, Arizona – 2 days workshop: 10-11 May 2025.
Boulder, Colorado, USA, in-person training: 29th May – 2nd June.
Shadow Constellations Online Training – Weekly 10 weeks training, Mondays, Begining on the 15th Oct 2025.
Mumbai, India in-person training: 21st Nov – 25th Nov 2025.
The Shadow Strikes Back online Advanced Training – To be announced.