GROUP PRACTICAL COURSE
Transgenerational Trauma Therapy
Recognizing and dealing with traumatic family stuff that got worse during the war.
GROUP PRACTICAL COURSE
Transgenerational Trauma Therapy
Recognizing and dealing with traumatic family stuff that got worse during the war.
3 months
For three months, we work in phases: restoration of historical facts → awareness of related scenarios → integration with one’s own “I.” Brief theoretical training, 70–80% of the time is devoted to practice.
3 hours per week
Classes are held once a week, on Fridays (6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Kyiv time). Additional groups may be available on Saturdays and/or Sundays. The schedule will be finalized after the groups are formed.
3 modules
1. Family history (reconstruction of events).
2. Family scenarios (loyalty, attachment style, “family mandate”).
3. Personal identity (separation from introjects).
Hello, my name is Tatiana Stanislavskaya, and I have created a course called “Transgenerational Trauma Psychotherapy.” It contains my knowledge, many years of experience as a trauma therapist, and a scientific approach (intergenerational trauma during war is the topic of my doctoral dissertation).
Transgenerational scenarios live “in the shadows” — in unlived losses, in the silencing of family secrets, in repeating scenarios and roles (“rescuer,” “guilty one,” “hope of the family”), in dramatic relationships, and in physical symptoms. Exploring these contours provides insight into where there is support in our personal history and where there are knots that need to be untangled.
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitudes and the rules we live by — so that we do not pass on to our children what we ourselves did not want to inherit.
As children, we did not always have a choice.
Now we do.
More about me
We start on February 6, 2026
6:00 p.m. (Kyiv)
Module 1.
6 hours
(2 sessions)
Family history
While the story remains unclear, the psyche remains tense: “something is wrong,” but it is unclear what. Taboo topics often manifest as anxiety, guilt, sabotage in relationships or work.
Restoring family history (facts, names, occupations, roles, events, relationships, traditions) and identifying blind spots — hidden losses, “skeletons in the closet,” recurring “family”/hereditary illnesses — allow us to see chains of interconnections and areas of tension.
At this stage, much becomes clear and manageable.
Module 2.
24 hours
(8 sessions)
Family scenarios
When you see systemic mechanisms (“dead mother,” “family mandate,” identification with parental trauma, etc.), it becomes clear that it’s not “something wrong with me,” but a pattern that you didn’t choose, but which can be rewritten with adult decisions.
Understanding attachment styles and the influence of narcissistic parental figures helps you build boundaries without guilt, negotiate intimacy, and not confuse love with self-sacrifice.
What family scenarios are we exploring?
– Family unconscious (Leo Tardi);
– First emotional experience and “family constellation” (Alfred Adler);
– Life script (Eric Berne);
– Family systems (Murray Bowen);
– Attachment styles (John Bowlby);
– “Dead mother” (Andre Green);
– “Maternal container” (Wilfred Bion);
– “Family mandate” and the influence of narcissistic parental figures (including on the formation of sexuality in adult life);
– Identification with family members and parental trauma.
Module 3.
6 hours
(2 sessions)
Own identity
Identity is not a rebellion against one’s family, but the right to live one’s own life. When you distinguish between “mine” and what has been introjected (“that’s how it’s done in our family”), you gain inner permission to choose differently, to rely on your own values and body rhythms.
This reduces the repetition of family patterns and frees up energy for relationships, career, and creativity.
What do we do in this module?
– Distinguish between “mine” and “not mine”; identify prohibitions/permissions;
– Transform family mandates into adult, ecological rules;
– Practice boundaries (the right to refuse/ask/desire);
– Form identity supports: values, body care, daily support rituals.
What will be the result of the course?
Oh, how I would love to write here that he will create a wonderful and brilliant reintegration of your family narrative, change your life, and bring you lots of money. He will give you the right to your own destiny, building on the best of what you have inherited…
But experience tells us that this process cannot be accomplished in two or three months. Family “treasures” that are deeply ingrained in our psyche (and some even in our DNA) cannot be changed so easily.
This is the truth, I’m telling it like it is.
But if you manage to at least understand the coordinate system in which you have lived your entire life. And what exactly gives you support in life’s trials, and what destroys you more than war — that will already be a victory.
This will be the beginning of a profound transformation.
Professional tools
The course is designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers who want to explore their own family history and its impact on their lives during wartime from an ecological perspective.
You will receive a portfolio of professional methods and techniques for further use in your own practice with clients:
QUESTIONNAIRES AND INTERVIEWS:
Questionnaires about childhood trauma/adverse events;
Transgenerational Scenario Questionnaire (TSQ): a tool for identifying the “family scenario”;
Family Resilience Inventory (FRI): assessment of intergenerational resilience factors;
Clinical Generational Interview (CGI) — for exploring intergenerational connections and patterns; Identification with a transgenerational object (A. Eigler)
GENOGRAM / GENOSOCIOGRAM: Structured mapping of 3–4 generations; “Ancestral Syndrome,” working with repetitions of dates/names/events of roles, losses, “loyalty knots”;
THERAPY OF VARIOUS MODALITIES:
Family systemic therapy: differentiation of the “I,” triangles, intergenerational transmission of patterns;
Schema therapy: early maladaptive schemas as carriers of intergenerational patterns;
Somatic experience: body-oriented regulation;
Contextual therapy: “Family justice,” “Family duty,” “Family mandate,” “Family legacy,” “Family word,” “Door to family history”;
Diary “What I now understand about myself”: after each session.
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES:
Re-authoring: rewriting the “life story” in cases of multiple trauma, as well as fragments of family history — with a focus on resources and choices;
Externalization: “the problem is not in me”;
Double listening: alongside the pain, we look for signs of resilience in the stories of our ancestors;
Letter to ancestors (not sent): acknowledging losses, gratitude for life, and setting boundaries for the burden of others that you are able to bear;
Map of script messages and adult permissions;
Identity document (manifesto);
Re-membering: list of “support team” (living/deceased/symbolic figures);
Self-support contract: 5 ‘permissions’ and 5 “limits.”
ART THERAPY:
Visual genogram collage (colors/symbols for events and roles);
Visual metaphors: “Family suitcase,” “My own tree,” “Safety in my family”;
Life line in drawings/pictograms;
Phototherapy: working with family photos (selection, captions, “story between the frames”);
Symbolic ‘container’ for difficult topics;
“Mine/Not Mine” collage: introjects vs. personal values.
Body map: where in the body do “my” and “other” voices live;
Choice ritual: creating a small artifact that reminds you of new decisions.
