Alison Fornés

“To say that working with Alison is paradigm shifting would be an understatement: it’s paradigm exploding! This work opens realms of connection, healing and truth that I’ve never imagined I could access…”

I have been facilitating and/or teaching for nearly 30 years. I started in 1991 as an undergraduate peer-facilitator at the University of Michigan. In 2001, I began my career as a high school teacher in New York City. And in 2011, I was introduced to Family and Systemic Constellations. The process arrived in my life just as I was ready for a transition. Within a year of my first constellation workshop, by September 2012, I had transitioned from classroom teaching to begin training in Constellation work.

Constellation work has brought me to a wide range of groups and audiences. Since starting my practice, I have presented to alumni of the Harvard Kennedy Business School, and middle school teachers at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx. I am a regular guest at Vassar College, and am proposing a regular constellation circle for inmates at the Franklin County Jail in Greenfield MA. I have led retreats in Vermont at Knoll Farm, and with the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaborative in New York and California. I have worked with children at the Agile Learning Center in Manhattan, and teens at the NorthStar Learning Center in Sunderland MA.

To nourish this work in the world, I support myself through rich, body-centered and spiritual practices, and through creativity and play. My intention for myself and my service is to remain in contact with – and surrendered to – the Field of Love.

Now, as my third decade as a facilitator / educator comes to a close, I feel how each turn of the spiral informs the vision I bring forth now. As I enter this new, fourth phase I am eager to share what I have learned to support a new generation of facilitators – changemakers to discover their own applications of Expanded Knowing.