Ending and Beginnings, 1 day workshop, Castlereagh Hotel Sydney

Welcome to this personal growth workshop!

Come join Couple and Family Therapists Gabriela Salabert and Simon d'Orsogna for a day of self-discovery and growth in CBD Sydney (bio's below). This event is all about becoming more present, and welcoming the future at the change of the year. Here we bring our focus to releasing stuckness and heaviness, and evoking our clarity and presence.

Event Details

Date: Sunday 18th January 2026

Time: 9:30AM to 5.30PM

Location: Castlereagh Hotel,169 Castlereagh Street Sydney 2000 NSW

Workshop Cost: AUD $245/person (plus ticketing fee) includes tea/coffee and snacks. BYO or buy locally your lunch.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded people, and gain valuable insights into your life journey.

Explore what holds you back in the present, and release what is no longer helpful. Here we look into loosening entanglements through resolving unfinished bonding, grief and early conflict. Acknowledging our excluded emotions, we can take in what is valuable in our family and inter-generational inheritances. We invite your greater clarity using experiential group-work [Hellinger's Family and Systemic Constellations, and Internal Family Systems (IFS)].

This workshop will speak especially to those who love learning and self-discovery. This is an experiential workshop, and is not a training in Constellations or IFS. Although the facilitators are trained and accreditted therapists, this has no affiliation with Hellinger Sciencia or the IFS Institute.

WHEN

From 9:30AM - 530PM Sunday 18th January 2026

Workshop will run from 930am to 5:30pm with breaks for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Morning tea and afternoon tea are provided. Lunch at the many local cafes or BYO.

PARTICIPANTS

Limited to 18 people, plus the training team.

FEE

$245 per person, with lunch, morning and afternoon teas.

Note ~$13 Eventbrite ticketing fee is additional.

Payment in full must be made prior to attendance, or the place may be offered to late enrollees. Payment plans available on request and attract 5% fee.

Places are confirmed only on full payment.

CATERING

Fee includes tea/coffee and snacks. BYO or buy your lunch locally.

PRE-READING

Some short pre-reading/pre-viewing is down this page for more context. Basic materials will be sent ahead of time explaining key concepts, however the learning happens in the room without book knowledge. Experience is not necessary, simply being a human is required.

Additional Constellations material can be viewed at the Hellinger Sciencia (Germany) and Constellations Institute (US and Nederlands), Real Academy (SA), The Knowing Field (online magazine), and the Facebook page Constellations according to Hellinger. IFS and Constellation material can be found freely available in online sites.

Gabriela Salabert

Gabriela is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and supervisor with over thirty years of professional clinical experience in the public health sector of Sydney and private practice. She has worked extensively around complex trauma with different populations, using diverse treatment models and family interventions. Her integrative approach incorporates a holistic framework of evidence and practice-based psychotherapies: EMDR, Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Dance Movement, ACT, CBT, Grief Therapy, and Couples and Family Therapy. She has conducted ongoing clinical training in Systemic Family Therapy and Systemic Family Constellation Workshops since 2004, following studying in Buenos Aires with Bert Hellinger and other senior teachers. Gabriela was a member of the first Australian group who met regularly in Sydney from the early 2000's.

Gabriela worked as a Senior Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychologist Consultant at NSW Health and, since 2018, as the Clinical Lead for Grief and Bereavement at HammondCare. She is an accredited supervisor with APHRA, providing individual and group supervision, and a member of the APS Clinical Psychologist College and the APS Sydney Committee.

Simon d'Orsogna

Simon is a psychotherapist, clinical trainer/facilitator, and systems-oriented coach based in Melbourne, with individual and couples clients. He completed a Clinical Masters of Systemic Family Therapy at the Bouverie Centre, and provides psychotherapy, process consultancy and adult developmental coaching. Based in Melbourne, Simon is a certified Kegan-Lahey Immunity to Change coach, process consultant and integrative therapist, and an Associate Instructor with the US Coherence Psychology Institute teaching Memory Reconsolidation since 2011.

Simon facilitates experiential learning workshops in Australia, including through 2014-17 offered a training series introducing Internal Family Systems to Australia, and since 2017 brought the first IFS official trainings from Dr Richard Schwartz's US-based IFS Institute. He is IFSI's International Partner in Australia and New Zealand, and is a Level 3 IFS practitioner with training specializations working with couples and working with survivors of trauma. Simon has facilitated and arranged more than 450 days of Internal Family Systems trainings and workshops since 2014. He has organised and led trainings of Coherence Therapy, Dreamwork in Groups, Systemic Family and Group Constellations, Person Centred Experiential Therapies, and Polyvagal informed Clinical Practice in the region, and has presented at the US annual IFS Conference as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, and across Australia and New Zealand. Simon runs an online practice, offering supervision and training for individuals and organisations.

In 2019 Simon founded the Mind Beyond Institute - see the website for more trainings & workshops in Australia and NZ to run in 2026.

"A wonderful workshop. Really amazing and inspiring."

"Releasing blocks holding us back in life, achieved with the support and love of the group, guidance of facilitators, wisdom of the body and having conversations with our ancestors. Transpersonal experience that travels in space and time and touches other family loved ones. It can't be described in words and must be experienced!"

"This workshop expanded my view to myself and people around me to the extend that it allowed the space for missing puzzles to come together."

"A fascinating dive into family constellation ideas and how they work in practice. Interesting group and lovely sense of connection."

"Wow ! the energies of the group allowed the emergence of a gentle, contained, yet at times, confronting experiences akin to those found in deep meditative states."

"I will be forever grateful for attending Simon and Gabriela's workshop. I feel that I achieved what I could not in years of therapy. I since uncovered other family secrets and learnt more about my family ancestry. My family is talking more and my relationship with my husband deepened. I feel the love of my ancestors and I am so greatfull to be here. Thank you so much!"

"The workshop was so needed and was right for me. I also felt that participants also brought their self energy, openness, depth of wisdom and curiosity. I felt that the workshop provided a great place for them to meet and connect not only horizontally and very very vertically (through generations of love and life). I also realised the interplay between us, the venue, the staff at the centre, and the nature is so real and I appreciate that. Thank you, Simon and Gabriela!"

Confidentiality and safety will be discussed, and the expectation of self-care, responsibility, and support is key. You are the responsible adult in your life. If you are in therapy or have a mental health diagnosis, please consult your practitioner if you are unsure if this workshop is suitable for you at this time.

Bring curiosity, willingness to try things out ("Yes, and..."), a sense of humour, and a heart-oriented openness to the multiplicity of self. Preparedness to do your own work - "if you are feeling it, it's probably yours".

See the link at the bottom of the brief bio to the right .

Tickets are not transferable, in accordance with the refund policy. Please advise if you do wish to withdraw or exchange tickets so we can update details. Eventbrites ticketing fees and any banking costs are not refundable.

Due to the limited size of each course, a refund can only be issued if cancellation notification in writing is received 30 days prior to the workshop date - less a $75.00 administration fee per person for the full course.

Existing registrants will be sent the refund, and should return any materials sent. We cannot reimburse any expenses or losses you may have incurred. Courses must be pre-paid. We do not take money at the door.

We reserve the right to cancel due to insufficient registrations, or other reasons beyond our control at our discretion. Workshop fees will be reimbursed in full should cancellation be necessary.

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"The practitioners and the all the other participants experienced another consciousness, far beyond the relationships of ‘I’ and ‘You’. The ‘I’ that wanted something was carried along by an ‘We’, which meant it ceased being an ‘I’ in the usual sense, an ‘I’ that included ideas about good and bad, better and worse, even healthy and sick. These new ‘We’ constellations enthralled everybody present: everyone was drawn into the constellation in an individual way and learnt to take. Participants were reminded to take personal responsibility for their own actions and the consequences of those actions. The duality in our relationships: of helper and client, of knowledgeable and ignorant, was swept away by an all-embracing ‘We’. Everyone was able to, and had to, fit into a greater whole, but with a sense of self-responsibility intact. This was also true across the dimensions of our own health and illness, our happiness or misery.

Family constellations revealed that everyone is always present with several other people. Everyone lives different lives and in several places. Everyone is simultaneously taken into service for many others. By whom or what? By an all-embracing movement that decides over our welfare in a comprehensive way. Can anyone come between us and this movement? Are we not all taken in by the same creative power and guided on the path that serves our fate as has been decreed for us? This present time is also just one among many that we must live in and through, in order to become whole, increasingly freed and purified by this power."

"When I was working on the stone tablets, I became aware of the fateful links between me and my ancestors. I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

It is difficult to determine whether these questions are more of a personal or more of a general (collective) nature. It seems to me that the latter is the case. A collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a personal problem, and in individual cases may give the impression that something is out of order in the realm of the personal psyche. The personal sphere is indeed disturbed, but such disturbances need not be primary; they may well be secondary, the consequence of an insupportable change in the social atmosphere. The cause of disturbance is, therefore, not to be sought in the personal surroundings, but rather in the collective situation.Psychotherapy has hitherto taken this matter far too little into account."

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