We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Elizabeth Lynn Rohr a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Elizabeth Lynn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

I keep having defining moments in this work. The first defining moment was when I was participating in a constellation and brought in the question for myself of whether I should take a training in Family/Systemic Constellations-a constellation was set up with me, my current work, the training and I saw it was the way to go. Everything went away except me and Family/Systemic Constellations I trained in 2020 and organically began to attract clients…another defining moment-I got to begin practicing my craft immediately.
As i continue to receive training, I discovered that the founder of Family/Systemic Constellation work Bert Hellinger founded much of his work on Virginia Satir-when I was in college the only class I enjoyed was the one about Virginia Satir-it landed for me in my social work practice.
In 2022, I moved to the Bee Hugger Farm-I also received a training in working with horses in constellations. Guess what? I now get to facilitate Family/Systemic Constellations with horses!
Family/Systemic Constellation work is more than a healing modality-when you begin to practice, it impacts life-life is a constellation-weaving between the stars, planets, people, events- everything is accepted-everything is connected. Trust-take the next step and then the next.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I began life in service as a social worker-in health care…then branched into the business side of health care in marketing and sales-relationship building. In my forties, I began to explore the field of consciousness which led me to 20 years of plant medicine work-healing my own personal stuff and then moving on to healing the collective soul. I have always remained in service to humans, animals, the planet and that has evolved from serving from my wounds (you need me) to serving others by tending the space that they already have all the answers. I still hold that way of being-we all have a self healing ability and I vibrate that until you remember.
There is something happening right now on the planet-change-the old ways being recognized as not working in every area by more and more people-I am experiencing it and I am being real about how it impacts me. I love being able to be with others who recognize this and feel the wobbles of their own life and together we find harmony and center again.
Most of my clients are women between the ages of 35-65-raising families, changing careers, taking care of parents-I am comfortable (most of the time) letting go of something ( a pattern, a personality, a way of being, a lifestyle) and stepping into that space where nothing is present in the moment but trust…in the plant medicine world we call it the void…I tend that space until the next step, action is seen and a movement can be made. This is a safe space where people can remember who they are.
My practice brings in one on one sessions-using somatic listening and sometimes constellation work; group constellations at a space in Niwot I partner with called Una Vida; online work-either one on one or group work; and my favorite is bringing in my connection to the animal world and providing group constellation at the farm with the support of the horses and the donkey. This is a unique service as well- the animals feel what is happening and support us in the work.
Recently I have begun partnering with a colleague in Canada providing online Womb Surround work-having had the experience myself and feeling the importance of going back to the womb where we picked up ways of being from our mothers-our nervous systems are impacted deeply in the womb and we carry this until we see the origin and begin to make different choices.
I am also a huge fan of collaboration-to get the word out in the US about Family/Systemic Constellations-and so have created a group of local facilitators in the Boulder CO area who provide monthly Intro sessions as well as group workshops. We call ourselves the Colorado Constellation Collaborative. I am very proud of this group as it allows me to step into my leadership as well as bring a field together that does not usually collaborate. It is unique.
I continue to evolve in my work-on that you can be promised…by the time this article reaches the world-there will be something new happening.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

In 2009 after a year of intense plant medicine work, I lost my business, my home and was basically kicked out of the city I had lived in for most of my life. I filed bankruptcy and my home was foreclosed on-I felt very wobbly and as I look back I was probably not in my body-I had no idea what to do. A friend reached out and invited me to live with he and his family on a farm in Wisconsin-it was all I had so I said yes. I had never lived on a farm and so I received the whole experience-growing food, raising animals. working the land. This began 4 years of moving around the world, country-listening for the next invitation to land-not having a home base; not having much money; not having much energy to create anything new. I lived in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Mexico…
Ohio is where I came from and I received a message in 2011 that I had to return to pick up pieces of myself I had left behind in the initial big movement… I lived with a friend for many months in one bedroom apartment on the couch. And then I heard, you are done, you can go anywhere you want- I returned to Boulder Colorado where I had briefly visited and began to create a brand new life.
All this being done at 50 years old!

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

I believe the two most important things to have in this field is the ability to be real-to not put myself on a pedestal as knowing everything-to be willing to not know. This brings in curiosity and humility. And to continue to use the modality to do my own work.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.elizabethlynnrohr.com
• Other: www.facilitator-directory.com

Image Credits
LJ Werner-Bee Hugger Farm