Seminars and Healing Circles
Events hosted by Constellation Journeys are open to anyone. We work with the themes and issues that arise from what you bring as a participant. If you have a group of at least seven people who wish to experience the healing approach of Family Constellations, and you would like us to come to your location to facilitate a seminar, please send an email to: chuck@constellationjourneys.com to contact us.
Upcoming seminars:
Saturday
October 24th, 2026
Influences of Illness, Disease and Addiction In Your Family
Everyone has a right to belong to the family, regardless of their difficult fate or life circumstances. Was anyone in your family lineage excluded because of illness or addiction- especially mental illness? Prior to the 1970s mental illness carried significant stigma, and medical professionals often assumed the family was unable to care for or live with diagnosed family members. Those who carried illness were usually separated and isolated in institutions. No one saw their symptoms in terms of systems intelligence: as signals from the larger family soul that something remained unhealed, out of balance, and in need of attention. Families often carried shame and hid the afflicted member from their communities, cutting them off from ancestral connection when they needed it the most. Healing rituals are important to bring people like this back into the family to give them an honored place.
In Family Constellations we say, everyone is entitled to their own fate. Who attempted to carry the burden of an illness for another? Who tried to rescue another? Who may have lived from the child’s blind love and said, “Better me than you. Better I have this illness than you. I’ll follow you into this illness. I’ll have that too.”? It's helpful to look for multigenerational patterns. Who followed or imitated someone who carried the illness?
With addictions, there is often an impulse to alter consciousness in order to go looking in the other dimension for a family member who was lost, died too soon, was excluded, did not return from war, had a tragic death like an accident, etc. Alcohol is called ‘spirits.’ The one addicted is unconsciously dulling the senses of this world to open the doorway to the spirit world. Or the substance abused is taken to fill the void of who is missing. Remember, we chose at the soul level to be born into a family with these illness/disease ‘companions.’ What might we be able to learn from the companion?
A Family Constellation is a slow, respectful process that proceeds without judgement, and includes space for every family member and for everything that has happened. It creates an opportunity to take your inner image of your family and bring it into the room to explore the memory fields within it. Along with your DNA, you also inherited the values, beliefs, loves, strengths, losses, and unresolved difficult fates of your ancestors. You may find that out of love and loyalty, you have been unconcsiously trying to carry something painful that belonged to someone else- that was part of their fate, and not yours.
By looking at this material with the guidance and support of an experienced facilitator, you may be able to see that it's out of a child's pure, innocent love you've wanted to fix something that's not your responsibility, and is impossible to change anyway. This sacred practice can help you come to more understanding and more compassion for what your ancestors lived and struggled through while still having the strength to pass life on to another generation and ultimately to you.
[Whereas we are holding a theme for the seminar, we will work with you and any topic you bring that day.]
Please arrive by 9:15am in order to be settled and ready to begin on time.
Location: Be Nice House
511 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta GA 30312
Minimum 7 participants required for the seminar to run
Please bring:
- Lunch, so you can save the time it would take to go to a restaurant
- A drum or percussion instrument
- Your completed family questionnaire
- Your photo or sacred object for your introduction. We’ll use these to make an ancestral altar.
- A journal and pen for taking down new insights
Registration
Early registration prices through October 3rd are $145 for individuals, and $125 each for multiple participants from the same family.After October 3rd the prices change to $175 for individuals and $155 for multiple family members.
Cancellation policy as follows:
If there is a family or health emergency that prevents you from attending, you’ll receive full credit toward a future workshop that takes place in the next year following this date.
Payment options:
Venmo: chuck-cogliandro
Zelle: mkdrum@mindspring.com
If you use Venmo or Zelle I recommend you send a $5 test payment to confirm that the money goes to the right location. If you do, please send me an email to let me know you sent payment. When I receive it I’ll let you know and then you can send the balance.
If you don't have a Venmo or Zelle account, you can mail a check payable to "Kumandi Drums” to: 3281 Rockview Dr., Lithonia GA 30038
You can also call me at 404-966-5800 and give a credit card number.
Once you make payment you will receive a confirmation email and your spot will be reserved. The family questionnaire that will help with your preparation will be sent a week before the seminar.
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Family Constellations are transformative processes that help uncover the hidden dynamics you may be carrying that influence you. Participants take turns working with unresolved issues in their life. A seeker shares a bit about a challenge, and then with the facilitator’s guidance chooses others from the group to stand and represent key family members and energies related to the issue. This creates a living embodiment of the energy field of the family soul, which allows the facilitator to search for the origins of the issue and bring as much healing as possible to those who were most impacted. The seeker can sit and observe the process from a distance, rather than in the disharmony of the unresolved energies. All participants pledge to maintain confidentiality throughout the workshop and afterwards.
Participants will receive a family questionnaire upon registration. This questionnaire will help you explore what may remain unresolved for you in what you inherited from your family lineage. Healing through the day is experienced just by observing from the edge of the circle; by standing as a representative; and by setting up one’s own Constellation. While there may not be time for every participant to work through a full Constellation, every attempt is made to give participants at least a brief Constellation by the end of the day. Standing as a representative for another’s sibling, for example, can touch you deeply and bring insight to your own sibling relationship.
NOTE: Demonstration seminars offered by Constellation Journeys are not a substitute for professional consultation or therapy where indicated. They are designed as education programs only. When attending these seminars, you understand they may bring up issues of a highly personal nature that may cause you to experience emotional or physical responses that may be unexpected or unpleasant. By participating, you willingly agree to hold harmless and release from all liability the organizers, facilitators and participants in the seminar. You also agree to respect the confidentiality of the participants in the seminar, and will not discuss the details of anyone's life or personal process outside the meeting space.
Upcoming Events with Constellation Journeys
Online Ten-Week Family Constellations Study Group
Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm Eastern US time
- First Group September 17th
- Final Group November 19th
- Fee: Early Bird Pricing through August 28th, $525 per person
- After August 28th, $575 per person
- Limited to 12 participants
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Full Day Seminar
Saturday October 24th, 2026
- 9:15am-5pm
- Theme: Influences of Illness, Disease and Addiction In Your Family
- Location: Be Nice House
- 511 Edgewood Ave
- Atlanta, GA 30312
- Fee: Early Bird Pricing through October 3rd, $145 per person, or $125 per person for multiple people in same family
- After October 3rd, $175 per person, or $155 per person for multiple people in same family
- Limited to 15 participants
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