375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
August 13 - 17, 2025
About this Retreat
Since 2000, Dan Cohen, PhD has been a leading voice for incorporating personal, ancestral and spirit consciousness into therapeutic practices. He specializes in helping individuals, couples and families heal the effects of inherited trauma and fulfill their desires for having more love and deeper impact in their lives. Combining a near-encyclopedic knowledge of world history, mythology and culture with an uncanny psychic awareness, Dan offers clients profound and transformative healing.
Prior to training with Bert Hellinger as a Constellations facilitator, Dan was internationally known for his work as a violence prevention and conflict resolution facilitator. A former Strategic Planning consultant for the Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he pivoted away from weapons’ research to become a founding member of the City of Cambridge Peace Commission and a leader of Children of War. He guides clients and students to dive deep into the sources of their violent and hostile urges and emerge initiated into the wisdom of universal consciousness.
Dan Cohen holds a PhD in psychology from Saybrook University and an MBA from Boston University. He is author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Dan has led Seeing with Your Heart workshops and training courses in 19 countries in Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, South America and throughout the United States.
Emily Blefeld, LICSW is internationally known as a trainer, Systemic Family Constellations facilitator, and psychotherapist. She specializes in supporting change-agents, visionaries and entrepreneurs to dismantle the old paradigms, outdated narratives, and ancient codes that hold them back and open to the full expression of their life’s purpose and soul’s path. Her intuitive gift of sight and knowledge of the hidden pathways of energy, consciousness, and vibration help clients trace inherited family and soul trauma through multiple generations or incarnations to release the burdens and blocks that interfere with living their truth, expressing their love, and embodying their passion.
Drawing from two decades of experience and training, she combines expert psychotherapy, coaching and mentoring with Constellations, Energy Medicine, and Sound Healing to help free clients from the traps of limiting beliefs, patterns and habits. Emily holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is certified in multiple therapeutic modalities including Systemic Family Constellations, Core Energetics, Energy Medicine, Yoga and the Synergy of Sound Healing, Compassionate Spirit Release, ADHD treatment, and Women’s Mystery Traditions. She has presented at the Omega Institute, Kripalu, the North American Systemic Constellations Conference and served on the faculty of the North American Constellation Intensive. In addition to her private practice, she regularly travels throughout the US and internationally, including presenting training and workshops in Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, Hungary, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Bali.
Details of this retreat
Emily Blefeld and Dan Cohen’s Seeing with Your Heart Alchemical Constellations Training and Facilitator Certification is designed for individuals ready to untie the tangled threads of past generational sorrows, free themselves to live into the possibilities of spontaneous creation, and expand their lives, healing practice, and work with Systemic Family Constellations.
Everything you desire to create in life, whether in your family, relationships, career, community, or the greater issues facing the planet, begins and ends with your own emotions, mind, body, heart, and consciousness. Our advanced tools are designed to teach you how to harmonize these with the lifeforce that comes from the earth beneath our feet, the cells of our bodies and the greater cosmos. Seeing with Your Heart means accessing your body’s evolutionary capacity to perceive and integrate the ordinary, ancestral, and spiritual dimensions of consciousness that are at the core of what it means to be human. The training introduces a rhythmic approach to facilitate Constellations and artfully grow a private practice, while transmuting the effects of inherited family trauma, disempowering cultural fractals, and collective suffering.
Magic becomes ours when we tap into our full capacities as human beings. We hold within us the desire to live free amidst oppression, stay awake among the sleepwalkers and remain vibrant within a discordant environment. Now is the time to shed old loyalties, recast outdated stories, and manifest the life we are here to live both individually and collectively.
The newest discoveries in human consciousness reveal that we can uncover and clear the multi-generational roots of dark disempowering beliefs and paralyzing fears. This opens new and unimagined pathways to passion, pleasure, and purpose. Our grieving planet needs us to cease being defined by our problems and instead contribute to reversing the tides. Participants in the Alchemical Constellations Training and Facilitator Certification step to their edge and beyond — and live there brilliantly.
The training includes both online and in-person elements, which combine advanced teaching and process modules with the epic live experience of Seeing with Your Heart group Constellations among the Catskill mountains of New York.
To learn more visit https://seeingwithyourheart.com/act-certification/
Schedule
Wednesday, August 13
3 - 6 pm Arrival and Check-in
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 pm Welcome Circle (Nalanda Conference Center)
9:30 - 10 pm 5Rhythms (Nalanda Conference Center) Optional
Thursday, August 14, 2025
7 - 7:40 am 5Rhythms (Nalanda Conference Center) Optional
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
1 - 1:45 pm Hearthtending (Devi Room) Optional
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
6:30 - 7:15 pm Open Space Offerings Optional
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 9 pm Evening Program
9 - 10 pm 5Rhythms (Nalanda Conference Center) Optional
Friday, August 15, 2025
7 - 7:40 am 5Rhythms (Nalanda Conference Center) Optional
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
1 - 1:45 pm Hearthtending (Devi Room) Optional
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
6:30 - 7:15 pm Open Space Offerings Optional
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 9 pm Evening Program
9 - 10 pm 5Rhythms (Nalanda Conference Center) Optional
Saturday, August 16, 2025
7 - 7:40 am 5Rhythms (Naranda Conference Center) Optional
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
1 - 1:45 pm Hearthtending (Devi Room) Optional
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
6:30 - 7:15 pm Open Space Offerings Optional
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 10 pm Closing Session & Party
Sunday, August 17, 2025
7 - 7:40am 5Rhythms (Naranda Conference Center) Optional
7 - 8 am Pack Up/Check-Out of Rooms
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Pack Up/Check-Out of Rooms
9:30 am - 11:30 am Closing Program
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Gather Items, Photos, Goodbyes
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Departure
*Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
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