Starting on 26 September 2025: Training in phenomenological constellation work, Life Integration Process (LIP according to Nelles) and counselling, basic level – in German language
for people who are interested in constellation work for themselves and would like to grow personally and professionally.
What you will gain
The basic level provides practical and self-experiential familiarisation with the basics of constellation work, both from a systemic and psychological perspective. It follows the personal and professional issues that arise for the participants. It provides lasting support for their personal and professional development. It can enable participants to apply certain elements of constellation work in their own professional field.
However, it does not qualify participants to practise constellation work professionally (possibly full-time). The advanced course is designed for this purpose.
Contents
Self-awareness through constellation work on your own issues and cases, systemic perspectives, psychological and spiritual background, phenomenological approach and methodology, practical exercises as required.
In cooperation with the Nelles Institute in Marmagen (Eifel). This training course is recognised as the basic level for the main level there and for my next main level.
What can be learned here? Thomas Gessner talks about the basic level
20 days in five course sections, totalling 150 teaching units. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the course is open to additional seminar participants to broaden the spectrum of self-awareness, perception and reflection. On Monday, the training group remains among themselves for reflection and theory development, for particularly personal concerns and cases, and for practical exercises under guidance. At the end of the course, all participants will receive a certificate of further training.
Participants are responsible for their own accommodation and meals.
Venue
Saltlabs Workspace & Coffee, Glaspalast in the courtyard of the ‘Koffij’,
Leipziger Straße 70, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany – in the pedestrian zone between the main railway station and the market square, city centre.
How to get there: 8 minutes’ walk from Halle main station. Parking is available within walking distance.
Dates
Basic course N° 10
26 September – 29 September 2025
21 November – 24 November 2025
23 January – 26 January 2026
20 March – 23 March 2026
29 May – 1 June 2026
Course times
Fridays 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. open seminar
Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. open seminar
Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. open seminar
Mondays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. reflection day for training participants only
You can join the course until the second module. If you are unable to attend, you can make up individual modules at no extra cost in the following Course XI:
Dates for follow-up course N° 11
31 July – 3 August 2026
25 September – 28 September 2026
20 November – 23 November 2026
9 April – 12 April 2027
11 June – 14 June 2027
Investment basic level
€2,600 as a one-off payment upon registration or
€2,700 payable in two instalments of €1,350, with the first instalment due upon registration and the second instalment due on 1 February 2026
A training place is reserved upon receipt of the first payment. Accommodation and main meals are not included in the price.
Enquiries
Registration
Topics / Curriculum
Orders and basic dynamics in families and other groups
– Bonding and belonging from the perspective of human levels of consciousness
– Balance and order according to time / function and mode of action of the conscience
– Family of origin and present family / attachment love, development and ‘entanglement’
– One’s own parents, sibling dynamics, twins
Basic features and perspectives of the consciousness model according to Wilfried Nelles
– Embryonic period (symbiotic unity consciousness)
– Childhood (we or group consciousness)
– Puberty (ego consciousness)
– Adulthood (self-consciousness)
– The Life Integration Process, practice and introduction to the theory
– Perspectives of the LIP for constellation work and beyond
Couple life and parenthood
– The couple level / being a man, being a woman / father’s daughter, mother’s son
– The parent level / being a father, being a mother / couple system, child system, family system
– Childlessness, miscarriage, abortion, adoption
– Guilt and innocence / being a victim – Being a perpetrator / abuse dynamics
Soul, illness and symptoms
– ‘I follow you.’ / ‘Better me than you.’ – On the spiritual function of illness
– Introduction to symptom constellations / symptoms as signposts
– The soul and its urge for wholeness
– Dealing with trauma in constellation work / the safe present
Work and career
– Systemic organisational dynamics and personal experience
– Career and vocation / money and success
– Self-employment, being an employee / bullying / “burnout”
– Constellation work in the context of one’s own professional field
Methodological foundations of constellation work
– Multi-layered communication in constellations
– Representative perception, role and representative
– Clarification of the task / transference and countertransference
– Now and then / primary and secondary feelings
– Adult and child perspectives / working with and on boundaries
The inner attitude in constellation work
– Phenomenology: love for the truth of the moment
– Self-perception, resonance (pacing) and trust
– Dealing with resistance in clients and in oneself
– The right place to help / the appropriate way not to help
Beginnings of your own constellation practice
Constellations under guidance with the following focus areas:
– Classic family constellations / movements of the soul
– Holding space / levels of perception
– ‘Leading’ a constellation: without intention, without fear, without childlike love
– ‘Solution’ sentences and other interventions / the illusion of solution
– System constellations in individual settings / working with floor anchors and figures
The order and weighting of the individual contents and topics will be determined by the ongoing process of the training group. Participants are welcome to make their own suggestions. Phenomenological constellation work means, even in the process of further training: I allow myself to engage with what is happening now. Change is part of this.
