WooBiz Ep11 - Overcoming Ancestral Family Trauma for Business Success with Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld

Show Summary

This week WooBiz guests Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld explore how to overcome ancestral trauma using a modality called System Family Constellation work. It can help clear blocks in your business (and personal life) that cause unwanted results or disruptions to success.

In an exercise, they help Andy work through a business block he has struggled with and that is in the way of his success.

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Dan and Emily help Andy see and realign what they saw in his lineage to remove the unwanted block that stems from trauma from a previous generations.

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Episode Detail

In this powerful episode of WooBiz, host Andy Walker dives deep into the unseen forces that may be quietly shaping our professional lives: ancestral trauma. Joined by systemic constellation pioneers Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld, co-founders of Seeing With Your Heart, the conversation explores how inherited family wounds can silently block growth, leadership, and success — and how uncovering these patterns can unlock profound breakthroughs in business and life.

Dan, a psychologist trained by constellation founder Bert Hellinger, explains the method’s roots in family systems therapy, indigenous wisdom, and phenomenology. Emily, a seasoned psychotherapist and entrepreneur, shares how discovering this work revolutionized her practice after seeing clients repeat the same struggles despite years of coaching. Systemic constellation work reveals how personal challenges—like difficulty with money, leadership, or collaboration—can mirror unresolved traumas from generations past. By bringing these hidden dynamics to light, people often experience rapid shifts, freeing themselves to lead with greater clarity, creativity, and purpose.

Throughout the episode, Dan and Emily share transformative client stories, including a triple board-certified physician who overcame chronic nightmares, left behind dependency on psychiatric medications, and is now creating a holistic healing center, and a sound healer who, after uncovering Holocaust-era trauma in her lineage, healed her chronic pain and conceived a long-desired child. These stories illustrate how ancestral blocks can manifest as physical pain, emotional patterns, or professional plateaus—and how releasing them can create extraordinary transformation.

Listeners are invited to try a live on-air constellation exercise alongside Andy, who courageously explores his own fear of public failure and financial limitation. Using simple objects as stand-ins, Dan and Emily guide him through a process of tuning into the “systemic field,” tracing blocks back through his lineage, and revealing hidden loyalties to ancestors who experienced loss and humiliation.

The episode closes with Dan and Emily offering ways to work with them through their courses, such as Generational Alchemy and Science, Myth and Magic, and inviting listeners to step beyond the limits of inherited trauma to fully embody their own success.

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Dan and Emily guide a hands-on systemic constellation. Using simple objects to represent family members, Andy traces a fear of public failure to his maternal line and an unknown wartime grandfather. Emily voices how unhealed dynamics can recruit a child into filling a parent’s void; Dan emphasizes releasing false family narratives. A closing meditation returns the “block” to the lineage, reconnects Andy to ancestral gifts of success and abundance, and moves him toward visible leadership. Listeners are encouraged to replicate the exercise and explore Seeing With Your Heart’s courses.About Our Guests

Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld are internationally recognized as leading voices in the evolution of Systemic Constellation Work. Their approach integrates non-ordinary states of consciousness, expanding constellations beyond family lineage into multidimensional layers of healing, while remaining grounded in the essential truths of German psychoanalyst Bert Hellinger (the founder of Constellation work) original teachings.

Dan and Emily’s links

Their website: SeeingWithYourHeart.com

Course with Emily: seeingwithyourheart.com/generational-alchemy/

Course with Dan: https://seeingwithyourheart.com/masterclass/ 

Train with Emily & Dan: seeingwithyourheart.com/act-certification/

Dan’s brilliant paper called: Family Constellation therapy: A nascent approach for working with non-local consciousness in a therapeutic container

Dan Cohen bio

Dan Cohen, PhD, trained directly with Bert Hellinger after earning his PhD in psychology and quickly emerged as a leading innovator in the field of Systemic Constellation Work. He was among the first to recognize representative perception as a profound doorway into ancestral consciousness. Blending a near-encyclopedic knowledge of world history, mythology, and culture with an uncanny psychic awareness, Dan specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families heal the effects of inherited trauma and fulfill their deepest longings for love, connection, and meaningful impact. Dan is the author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison, along with numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Emily Blefeld bio

Emily Blefeld, LICSW, brings over two decades of experience as a psychotherapist and Systemic Family Constellations trainer and facilitator. She specializes in supporting change-makers, healers, and entrepreneurs to dismantle outdated paradigms, narratives, and ancient codes that limit their growth. Known for her extraordinary intuitive gifts, and ability to commune with the ancestral realm, Emily skillfully attunes to the subtle dimensions of consciousness to help individuals release intergenerational trauma and live with greater authenticity, express their love more fully, and align with their life’s purpose. She holds a Master’s of Social Work and is certified in a wide range of therapeutic modalities.Together, Dan and Emily have expanded Seeing with Your Heart from a small private practice into a globally respected training organization. Their work has been offered live in 19 countries through workshops, retreats, and immersive training programs.