Dan’s Take on Psychic Skills at the Heart of Our Work
By Emily Blefeld, LICSW & Dan Cohen, PhD
A Journey Rooted in Peace
Decades ago, I walked to Bethlehem in Palestine as a Jewish peacemaker.
After arriving on Christmas Eve with the Bethlehem Peace Pilgrims, four friends and I were invited to stay by Elias Hanania, whose family traced its roots there to Biblical times. We lived upstairs from Elias in a small flat for the next four months until Passover called me home to my family. Then, as now, my intention was to be a catalyst for peace, so that all who call that land their home could coexist peacefully.
Searching for the Missing Tool
In the 1990s, when the last hope for a peaceful settlement was killed, I resigned from my job to search for the missing tool in the peacemaker’s toolkit. I found it with Bert Hellinger and Family Constellations.
Hellinger grasped the human and cosmic forces that pursue war. As a child, he grew up with the Nazi regime. As a young adult, he fought in the German Army. As an adult, he lived for 16 years as a Catholic missionary and educator in Apartheid South Africa. He understood how violence, malevolence, and destruction were powerful motivators of power seekers. He and I recognized each other as fellow alchemists, and for several years grew close as we sought to spark movements towards peace in the soul.
A War That Touches the Whole World
Last week, on the first day of the emerging war, Emily and I traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina for the North American Systemic Constellations Conference (NASC). This is the war that I have devoted so much of my life’s attention to preventing. And now it’s here.
Unlike any past war in history, what is being destroyed in Israel, Iran, and throughout the region is reverberating everywhere on the planet because the global infrastructure is fully interconnected. The explosions reach everywhere.
While I am profoundly dismayed by the onset of war and fearful for what awaits, I am more inspired than ever that our collective humanity is evolving towards the embodied interconnectivity of all planetary life. We are not there yet, but we are closer than we have ever been.
A New Understanding of Consciousness
It will take a new understanding of consciousness to change humanity’s relationship with war. Imagine a world in which, on the first morning of war when a girls’ school is bombed, people everywhere will feel the hearts of the mothers of those girls, their brothers and sisters, their fathers, their grandparents. When, en masse, we can connect with them and their little girls through consciousness, the thirst to gain for ourselves by hurting others will subside.
The work of constellations lives precisely in this territory. It gives us a way to experience interconnection directly rather than merely speaking about it as an idea. In the constellation field, the boundaries between individual stories and collective history begin to soften. We start to perceive how personal suffering, ancestral trauma, and global conflicts are woven together within the same living web of consciousness.
Learning to Feel Each Other
When we learn to connect to each other through the heart, we will not be so quick to traumatize other people. We will feel what everyone feels, and this will create new possibilities for our global human community.
These times are calling us to face war and injustice by contributing to the next step in human consciousness evolution. Our work continues because even small gestures can move larger systems. As I wrote after a workshop with Elias Jabbour, founder of the House of Hope International Peace Center at the 2007 Constellations Conference:
“When a hand pushes the ocean, the entire ocean moves.”
Expanding Perception Through the Constellation Field
Standing in the constellation field expands the capacity to sense subtle impressions – emotions, behaviors, and relationships that are ordinarily invisible. As representatives, we cast our awareness into the past and future, and connect with the consciousness of others both living and dead. The ability to access information from beyond our brain is not supernatural. It is fundamentally human and can be developed through guidance and practice.
This is why learning to work with the constellation field is not simply a professional skill, but also a rigorous training in one’s ability to perceive. It asks us to slow down, to listen with more than the thinking mind, and to cultivate the quiet sensitivity that allows deeper patterns to reveal themselves. With practice, this way of sensing becomes less mysterious and more natural, opening the door to a form of awareness that can serve healing, insight, and meaningful change.
An Invitation to Walk This Path
For those ready to explore this way of perceiving more deeply, we offer a dedicated path for learning and practice. Our next Alchemical Constellations Training (ACT) and Facilitator Certification begins April 15 – just less than a month away.
We’ve refined and polished this year’s ACT curriculum to reflect the overarching needs that we see in our world. For one, you will be able to take the ACT training online, or in-person (or a mix of both) to accommodate any discomfort that might arise around traveling to the United States.
We have also added much focus on teachings of the oracle way, to help participants understand, practice and embody the skill of tuning into the unseen field where we are all connected. This is at the heart of our work and so, we’re kicking it up a notch with the confidence of knowing that connecting to the multidimensional wisdom available to us is not reserved for a gifted few. Instead, it’s a capacity that grows through guidance, attention, trust, and practice.
The more we engage this relationship, the more the unseen field begins to speak back. And when that channel becomes familiar, it changes the way we move through the world…
If you feel the pull to deepen this relationship and move from occasional glimpses of the unseen into a grounded, embodied practice of constellation work, ACT is the place where we can walk that path together.
What ACT Offers
ACT is 12-months of:
… communing with the elements, the ancestors and all the powerful forces in the unseen realm that support your life’s trajectory.
… learning about and tapping into quantum-level change for profound and lasting transformations.
… marinating in the magic of your gifts, the joy of your desires, the eros of your creativity, and the heart of your humanity.
… reclaiming your voice, trusting your timing, and aligning with the deeper current that’s always been guiding you.
… awakening your inner wilderness, untangling the threads of generational trauma and turning your curiosities into communion.
… jaw-dropping moments, awe-striking rituals, and wonderfilled revelations amidst a global community of like minded seekers, transforming into seers.
… seeing with your heart, perceiving the unseen, hearing the unspoken, and holding the sacred threads of what was, what is, and what wants to become.
A Defining Chapter of Human History
We are living through a defining chapter of human history.
The economic, technological, and cultural systems are at a breaking point. The very tools that promised connection and progress now threaten our collective future. Our climate is unraveling. Our attention is for sale. Our communities are splintered.
But if we are the ones who shaped these conditions, then we are also the ones capable of reimagining what comes next. Staying awake while the world numbs out is a quiet act of revolution. Choosing joy, freedom, and love over fear and resignation is how we rise. It is how we link arms with the unseen and take our place on the front lines of change.
Your Healing Is Political
This is the moment to break free from the outdated stories that bind you.
To release unconscious loyalties to systems that no longer serve.
To become the kind of leader the future is calling for.
We owe it to ourselves, the future generations, and to our ancestors to awaken the medicine we were born to carry.
We Are the Movement. We Are The Movement. We Are The Medicine.
Program Components and Structure
This training is structured to honor both depth and real-life logistics. You may attend either in person or virtually. While live attendance is recommended, virtual participation is intentionally supported through professional, multi-camera filming and high-quality audio.
If you attend virtually, we ask that you participate in one in-person retreat with us between 2026–2027. Please book a FREE discovery call for a list of retreat locations and dates, or to ask any questions about these attendance options.
Check out all that makes up this amazing year long training below, including themed workshops by incredible facilitators…
- Two 5 Day Live Training Retreats at Menla Resort & Spa in the Catskill Mountains of New York (Streamed Virtually for Those Attending via the Hybrid Choice)
- April 15-19, 2026
- October 15-19, 2026
- One Optional 5 Day Live Training Retreat at Alton L. Collins Retreat Center in Portland, Oregon
- April 6-11, 2027
- Weekly Virtual Circles for Teaching, Experiential Exercises, and Systemic Constellations on Tuesdays from 12-2:30 PM Eastern or 7:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern
- 3 Private Systemic Constellation Sessions with Dan Cohen, PhD and Emily Blefeld, LICSW (2 with Dan, 1 with Emily)
- Desire Catalyst Session and Training on Facilitating Systemic Erotic Liberation with Elise Bish (Elise’s teaching will take place during our regular Tuesday virtual gathering and at the live retreats)
- Vision, Craft, and Enliven Your Online Presence (a training in a training) with Kit Mejia
- Private Online Forum for Group Connection, Ongoing Discussion, and Community Support Throughout the Program and Beyond Facilitator Certification
- Free access throughout the training to use of the Ceci Tool, Founded by Cecilio Fernandez Regojo, an online environment to facilitate virtual constellations and get surprising insights. Click here to learn more about the Ceci Tool
- Graduates receive a Certification as a Seeing with Your Heart Alchemical Constellations Facilitator. We are approved for certification under the auspices of Constellators International.
- Upon Completion of the ACT Certification, you will gain access to the alumni private online forum for all generations of graduates to connect, collaborate, share insights, and receive ongoing community support
- Autographed Copy of Dan Cohen’s Book, I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison
Let’s tune in to see if this Program is right for you. Book your free discovery call and explore what’s possible when you’re truly supported!
Warmly,
Emily & Dan
