Intro to Systemic (Family) Constellations: Online Experiential Workshop with Katie Despres

What We Inherit, What We Carry

An Experiential Introduction to Systemic Constellations

Systemic Constellations, which includes family constellations, is an experiential approach to understanding human experience through the lens of systems. A system might be a family, but it can also be a relationship, a workplace, a community, a culture, or a collective history. Systemic work looks at the whole rather than the individual alone, and explores how patterns arise when something or someone has been excluded, forgotten, or is out of place.

At the heart of this work is a simple question: what is needed for a system to come back into balance? Often this involves seeing what has been missing, acknowledging what has been left out, or recognising how love and loyalty can bind us to experiences that are not originally ours.

You may have heard of intergenerational or ancestral trauma, and perhaps the growing research around epigenetics, the idea that experiences can be carried across generations. Systemic constellation work explores these themes experientially, including not only trauma, but also the strengths, resources, and gifts that are inherited through our systems.

Rather than talking about these ideas, this session invites you to experience them.

Through embodied representation and shared exploration, participants step into a relational field where information can emerge in unexpected ways. People often find themselves sensing or knowing things without consciously knowing how, through the body, through relationship, and through what is often called the collective or knowing field. This work is phenomenological in nature, meeting experience as it arises, without interpretation or analysis.

In this live online workshop, you will be guided through experiential exercises, reflective breakout spaces, and a facilitated demonstration. You may be invited to represent elements such as a person, a quality, or an aspect of a system, noticing what it is like to stand in someone else’s place, or in the space between.

Some people arrive with a recurring pattern or question in mind. Others come simply curious. Participation is always optional; you are welcome to take part, witness, or observe.

This session often resonates with those interested in psychedelic experience and integration, as it offers another way of exploring non-ordinary states of perception, insight, and interconnectedness, without substances.

What to expect

• Embodied, experiential exercises you can do from home
• Optional opportunities to represent and be represented
• Small breakout groups for reflection and integration
• Witnessing a live constellation-style process
• Space for questions and shared inquiry

No previous experience is needed.

This is a confidential space and WON'T be recorded. 

About Katie Despres

Katie Despres is a Systemic Constellations Facilitator and senior yoga teacher based in Bristol, UK. Her work is grounded in systemic and embodied approaches, supporting individuals and groups to explore inherited patterns, relational dynamics, and the wider systems shaping their lives.

With over a decade of experience in yoga, embodiment, and systemic practice, Katie brings a calm, relational, and experiential approach to her work. She facilitates constellation workshops both in person and online, and is particularly interested in the overlap between systemic constellations, altered states, and non-ordinary ways of knowing.

https://www.katiedespres.com/

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