Training in systemic coaching
and constellations
Our in-person trainings are available worldwide.
‘This is what’s present in the system.’
Our online trainings are available worldwide.
‘Welcome to Coaching Constellations online.’
A Field of Learning
Our Fundamentals Training Journey
You are an experienced coach; it’s your calling. You’ve applied trusted coaching tools and techniques, yet you sense there is something missing, something deeper, just beyond your current view. You yearn to illuminate what’s not visible, see and soften the deep patterns that limit, catalyse transformation in individuals and teams, whilst restoring dignity and agency to everyone. Perhaps you know you like to be helpful, yet also know you can get entangled and want to clarify the inner place you’re coming from when coaching.
Systemic coaching with constellations is an applied, embodied philosophy, deeply informed by systemic therapy as developed by Bert Hellinger and other wisdom traditions, offering rich insights into the human condition. It is applicable with the self, with another, as well as with teams, groups and the whole system.
So, if you’d like to know more about how to create the conditions for flow and coherence in relational systems of all kinds, and do this whilst learning a practical yet profound methodology, you will find what we offer below of real value. It is a learning journey in three parts that we call ‘The Fundamentals of Systemic Coaching and Constellations.’ At each stage, you will learn something potent that you can apply straight away, in your professional practice as a coach as well as, often, your life. After seeing the impact through applying what you’ve learnt, you will be welcome to come back for the next deep dive. Soon you will inhabit the systemic stance, principles and practices and experience how they can form a trusted foundation for all else you already trust and apply. You’ll never see things the same way again.
All three parts of the Fundamentals learning journey are available in-person and online, worldwide. Each part is nourished by reading ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’. Each is facilitated by a member of the international teaching faculty.
We limit the size of our training groups to maximise learning.
They are often full long in advance, so please note that we work on a ‘first come first served’ basis.
A description of each step on the journey is offered below.
Fundamentals Part I
Mapping the Field
Our two-day introductory training explores the practical application of constellations in personal, professional and team-development coaching. After completing this experiential training, participants will have developed a systemic awareness and will be equipped to start applying that in their coaching.
The curriculum includes:
- Mapping – building representational maps that surface the unconscious of the client and the systems they occupy.
- An introduction to the organising principles that sustain and limit systems
- Application and practice in one-to-one coaching settings
- Two exercises to use in team coaching
- Embodied experience of small and whole group constellations
The learning is shared through a mix of systemic exercises, constellations and teaching. There are opportunities to practise application in one-to-one coaching, as this is often the most effective place to build understanding and confidence before progressing to application with teams or groups. Many participants have identified this mix of teaching and facilitated experiential learning through constellations as very powerful.
This course is open to practising professional coaches. Participants are required to have read at least the first three chapters of ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’ (3rd edition) before attending.
“Part I is an enlightening programme, excellently facilitated.”
Hilary Oliver, Leadership coach
Fundamentals Part II
The Intelligence of the Field
The Fundamentals Part II training explores the rules of belonging in systems and how those rules are in turn influenced by the larger systemic organising forces. Participants deepen their understanding of the stance, principles and practices of systemic coaching and develop their application in one-to-one, team and group settings.
The curriculum includes:
- Deeper connection with your own system of embodied intelligence: head, heart and gut
- Exploring the unwritten rules of belonging in organisational systems and how to work with that information
- Further guided practice in one-to-one systemic coaching
- Deeper understanding of team dynamics from a systemic perspective and more exercises for use when coaching teams
- Insights into personal and systemic conscience, boundaries and the hidden loyalties that emerge from these
- Embodied exploration into what recruits and seduces you when working with clients and how to resource yourself so you are less entangled
The training offers a journey into the application of this applied philosophy and has proved to be a turning point for many coaches as they learn to hone their systemic awareness and then embody and apply the principles and practices underpinning this profound and yet very practical methodology.
Fundamentals Part II is for those coaches who have completed our Part I training and read the first three chapters of ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’ before attending. Prior to attending Part II you are required to read two further chapters of your choice.
“In Fundamentals Part II the penny drops and gives you a much greater depth of understanding.”
Mike Price, Executive coach
Fundamentals Part III
The Language of the Field
This three-day training focuses on the practice and application of resonant systemic language that catalyses lasting embodied change in coaching along with personal and professional development. This level supports greater fluency in finding and then expressing the voice of the field in the client and the wider system.
The curriculum includes:
- The hidden language within the cycle of joining, belonging and leaving
- Facilitating constellations with a focus on language and resonant sentences
- Where systemic language comes from and how to articulate it
- Systemic questions and when to use them
- Resonant systemic ‘sentences’ and how to surface them from the field
- The role of systemic language in the movement from secondary to primary
The training offers the chance to explore and co-create ‘resonant systemic sentences’ with the group and offers opportunities for participants to facilitate constellations, in pairs or small groups, with a particular focus on the use of language. This builds understanding and supports coaches to co-create language which touches the depths of the issues that clients bring.
Fundamentals Part III is for those who have completed the Fundamentals Part II training. Participants are required to read more of ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’ (3rd edition) before attending – in particular the sections on the use of resonant language, systemic questions and ‘systemic sentences’.
“Unbelievably powerful. Your coaching will be much richer for this insight into a systemic stance”
Steve Ridgely, Leadership & team Coach, and former Head of Coaching for The John Lewis Partnership.
Practitioner
Walking in the Field
All somatic practices that work at depth take time. Our 10-day Practitioner training journey is for those who wish to integrate this approach more deeply into their work and life. After completing this experiential and partly residential training, participants will be able to bring together all of their learning to really embody the stance, principles and practice of systemic constellations with fluency.
The learning journey begins with a module in a residential retreat and includes a refresh of the learning to date plus a mix of practice, illumination of issues and addressing questions that arise in the group. Then the journey deepens and widens to expand your systemic awareness and intelligence and broaden your ability to apply it in multiple contexts.
The training is often described by participants as a personal as much as a professional development learning experience. Exploring your own systemic resources and entanglements is key to building the inner stance of this approach, and is included throughout. The integration of the learning in this way goes on to form the essential underpinning of the inner stance towards systemic dynamics that is so central to their application in coaching. Please review the dedicated Practitioner page in the link below for more details.
Participants must have completed all three levels of our Fundamentals training and are required to read ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’ in the 3rd edition before attending the Practitioner training. This significantly enhances the learning and ability to apply it in practice.
Flowing with the Field
Life and work in flow
This learning path offers an opportunity to resource yourself, your work and your life, through a deepening connection to and trust in the field. The field in you as a human being, as a facilitator or coach and then in the fields of belonging in others. It is for those who would like to learn more about how to create the conditions for flow and coherence in systems of all kinds. For, when we can support those conditions to emerge, we can catalyse a deep and lasting impact within the systems we come alongside, create, lead or inhabit.
Whether you would like to learn more about how to facilitate classical constellations to enrich your existing systemic practice, in your context, or simply immerse yourself again in the larger fields we are all held in, you’ll be welcome. This programme, only available for alumni of our Practitioner programme will offer you a fresh opportunity to expand your understanding, deepen your systemic awareness and strengthen your connection with the intelligence, entanglements and resources held in all fields. The programme, facilitated by founder John Whittington, is offered every few years and the next will be in 2028. It is held in Andalusia, Spain in the venue shown in this short film.