About the International Teaching Faculty
Our community of facilitators and trainers
In the years since the first training groups gathered in London UK, we have attracted and developed an outstanding community of trainers who guide participants on the learning journey of systemic coaching with constellations, from Fundamentals through to Practitioner. Each of them have completed every stage of our training programme and are immersed in this applied, embodied philosophy and method. Our in-person trainings are now offered regularly across the UK as well as in France, Romania, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Singapore, across Australasia and North America. All three levels of our ‘Fundamentals’ trainings are also offered online internationally and in several different time zones and languages. Meet the international teaching faculty here to discover more.
Eileen Moir
Eileen holds an MSc in Management and an Ashridge Masters in Leadership and is an Advanced Practitioner in Systemic Coaching and Facilitation having trained with Coaching Constellations on our Path to Mastery programme.
Eileen joined the teaching team in June 2019 and has been offering the Coaching Constellations’ trainings in Edinburgh since. She also teaches across the curriculum in London and internationally online.
For the Edinburgh training page please click HERE.
Adrian Hall
Adrian is a systemic coach, trainer and facilitator who works with individual clients, leadership teams and whole organisations.
He loves to blend systemic constellations with other coaching frameworks and methods including the Leadership Circle Profile, Nonviolent Communication, Transactional Analysis and Clean language to support clients in uncovering their own authentic ‘step to better’.
His 20 year professional background is in building, leading and consulting for teams and organisations who have something to do with the word ‘Agile’ and he still works in this space. He has held positions on senior leadership teams and works across industries from start-ups to large financial services organisations.
Adrian joined the teaching team in 2023 and delivers our Fundamentals trainings in-person in London and online internationally.
Oana Tanase
Oana is a systemic and executive coach supporting leaders and entrepreneurs to take themselves and their business to the next level.
She is a deeply experienced practitioner of systemic coaching and constellations, completing her training journey with Coaching Constellations at the ‘Path to Mastery’ level some years ago. She has co-facilitated with several other members of the team on several occasions.
Oana leads Coaching Constellations Romania, co-facilitates our regular online community practice workshops and also teaches in London and on our Practitioner programme in the UK.
In 2025 she facilitated a very succesful sequence of our online Fundamentals programme (I, II & III) for those coaches living in the North American timezone.
Becky Hall
Becky has an MSc in ‘Adult Education and Training’, is an EMCC Master Coach and a Fellow of CIPD and the RSA.
She has been working with leaders and teams across multiple sectors for over twenty years. Alongside her focus on whole system health Becky has specialisms in behavioural psychology; resilience; effective conversations and group dynamics.
She has a particular interest in what makes people and organisations thrive from the inside out – and her book, ‘The Art of Enough; 7 Ways to Build a Balanced Life and a Flourishing World’ was published in 2021.
Like all others in the teaching team Becky continues to train in systemic constellations as applied in both professional and personal contexts and facilitates across our Fundamentals programmes, as well on co-leading our northern hemisphere Practitioner training.
Piret Bristol
In 2017 she invited the Coaching Constellations trainings to Estonia and since then she has been training in and now teaching systemic coaching with constellations.
Piret is founder and lead tutor in the International Supervision and Coaching Institute, Estonia and visiting tutor in Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. She is an individual and team coach and board member of the Association of National Organisations for Supervision and Coaching in Europe.
Piret began to teach for Coaching Constellations in the summer of 2022 and now co-leads, with Sigrid our flourishing trainings there and across the Baltic and Nordic area.
For the Estonian training page please click HERE.
Corinne Devery
She is passionate about building bridges between personal and professional development and started her systemic journey in service of that over a decade ago, using constellations, process work and other learning tools in her professional assignments.
Corinne, who was a member of our first Practitioner training, has co-facilitated several of our ‘Fundamentals Part I, Part II and Part III‘ trainings alone and with other team members.
In October 2019 she led our first training in French, in PARIS and that began Coaching Constellations’ growing presence in France. This was further developed in 2023 with the publication of ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’ in French.
For the French trainings page please click HERE.
Patrizia Amanati
Patrizia works internationally and has over 25 years’ experience of business at senior leadership level. Fluent in three languages, she brings a breadth of knowledge and understanding into to her work with individuals, teams and whole organisations. She has an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change and integrates a wide range of psychological coaching approaches in her work. As a trainer she combines that with her deep knowledge of family and organisational systems.
Patrizia joined the Coaching Constellations team in 2011, first as a translator to support the work in Italy and later in France. As a trainer she now facilitates across our core curriculum throughout the year.
Patrizia also facilitates our annual ‘Fundamentals Part I: Mapping the Field’ training within the Henley Business School MSC in Coaching and Behavioural Change.
Sigrid Melts
Sigrid is an executive and team coach and coaching supervisor. She is a certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and facilitates mindfulness courses for teams and individuals. She is a teacher in an educational programme of supervisors and coaches in the Estonian International Supervision and Coaching Institute. She also has many years of experience in a senior management team.
She has been facilitating constellations and working systemically since 2009. In 2022 she graduated from Coaching Constellations Practitioner programme.
Presence based techniques of ‘Circling Coaching’ and embodiment practices contribute and strengthen Sigrid’s ability to trust the power of here and now and the flow of constellations.
Sigrid started to teach for Coaching Constellations in the summer of 2022 and now c-facilitates, with Piret, our growing community of practice across the Baltic and Nordic area.
For the Estonian training page please click HERE.
Maren Donata Urschel
Maren is an experienced systemic supervisor facilitator and coach based in Berlin, Germany. She works face-to-face and virtually with individuals and groups. Maren is fluent in English, German and Italian and has lived and worked in the UK and in Switzerland for 20 years.
She holds an MSc in Organisational Psychology from the London School of Economics and trained deeply in organisational constellations and systemic coaching.
Following several years of co-facilitating the London trainings Maren now leads the Coaching Constellations workshops and trainings in BERLIN and internationally online in German, Italian and English.
The Berlin workshops and trainings are designed for coaches, facilitators and organisational consultants who wish to integrate and apply a systemic perspective in their work.
For the Berlin page please click HERE.
Eileen Duggan
Eileen is lead tutor for the Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Coaching in University College Dublin (UCD) and designs and delivers bespoke leadership programmes in conjunction with UCD and International companies.
Eileen came across systemic coaching with constellations while studying at UCD. She was intrigued by the thinking and methodology and invited the Coaching Constellations trainings to Dublin in 2018.
Eileen pursued her interest and graduated as a Practitioner with Coaching Constellations in 2020. She was then invited to join the teaching team to offer our ‘Fundamentals’ programme in Ireland.
She is married with four children and lives in Dublin, Ireland.
For the Ireland trainings page please click HERE.
Astrid Judmaier
Astrid is an experienced systemic coach, facilitator and trainer with an international business background. Born in Austria and now living in France, she works internationally and speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently. The focus of her work is empowering individuals and teams to realize their vision, step into leadership and find ways of creating significant shifts on a personal, group and systemic level.
With an embodied approach to systemic coaching, she offers her clients clarity, depth, insight and support.
Astrid is part of the international Coaching Constellations team and offers in-person and online trainings, supervsion and practice groups in systemic coaching and constellations with Corinne in France and other members of the international team.
For the French trainings page please click HERE.
James Haigh
James is a leadership coach who places systemic coaching and constellations at the heart of his work with individuals and teams. He has extensive experience designing and facilitating programmes for executives and entrepreneurs across Europe and Latin America, and teaches leadership at EADA Business School in Barcelona.
His coaching practice is grounded in applied systemic philosophy, integrating embodied, experiential and nature-based methods to reveal underlying patterns and enable flow in human systems.
James lives in Barcelona and works in Spanish, Catalan, French and English. He has trained with Coaching Constellations, in French as well as in English to Practitioner level and was invited to join the teaching team in 2024. James has been working with translators since to translate ‘Systemic Coaching & Constellations’, and, from April 2026, facilitates our trainings in Spanish in Barcelona.
For the Spanish trainings page please click HERE.
Founder and faculty lead
Our founder John Whittington supports, resources and mentors every member of the teaching faculty in the design and delivery of the curriculum in-person and online.
John Whittington
John is the founder of Coaching Constellations. His book, ‘Systemic Coaching and Constellations’ was published in expanded 3rd Edition in September 2020 and has become essential reading for any coach looking to learn about the relational dynamics, deep patterns and resources found in human relationships.
He spent several years training in systemic constellations, starting in 2004 and after twenty years as a manager and then founder and business leader. He trained as a coach and in 2008 John started an informal learning circle in order to share the stance, principles and practices that underpin systemic coaching. Over time this grew into an accredited training and, in 2009, ‘Coaching Constellations’ was born. After 15 years of teaching John now mentors the facilitation team and develops the curriculum with them. All the trainings, together with workshops and professional practice and supervision days are listed on the diary page.
In 2011 John was invited to become a visiting tutor at the Henley Business School – facilitating and introduction to systemic coaching and constellations to students on Henley’s MSc in Coaching and Behavioural change programme at Henley Business School in the UK and also in Johannesburg. In 2023 Henley integrated the Coaching Constellations two-day ‘Fundamentals Part I’ training into their MSc in Coaching and that is now facilitated by Patrizia Amanati a member of the Coaching Constellations teaching team.
“There is such a generosity in the way that John shares this work and his experience, coupled with the permission to make it your own. He naturally creates a space of safety and fun which is not an easy combination. His way of being and teaching style is authentically unique and a lesson in itself.” Nicola R. Leadership Development Coach
John also writes – on subjects which his clients and students ask about – on his website ‘Life Love Leadership’. All his articles are available in an online community which he hosts in order to offer access to the growing body of knowledge about system dynamics. John offers subject-specific constellation workshops through that platform as well as sharing writings on many subjects. He is currently writing a new book on the subject of coaching founders and leaders of family businesses.
Following an invitation from Ingrid van der Aa John has been teaching the Coaching Constellations curriculum in Sydney since late 2023. Subsequent invitations, by Karen Tweedie in Melbourne and Patricia Bossons in Auckland, New Zealand have extended the reach of systemic coaching across Australasia.
John is also followed an invitation from Lily Seto and facilitated our Fundamentals programme in Vancouver Island, Canada, in September 2025. He began a one year teaching sabbatical in October 2025 in order to finish his second book about the application of the stance, principles and practices of systemic coaching when working with solopreneurs, founders and family businesses.
“John is a gifted communicator in his writing and his teaching. He artfully brings this seemingly mysterious yet hugely transformative field to life, with eloquence, wisdom and practical tips.”
Liz Hall
Editor, ‘Coaching at Work’
Our support teams
Several people are instrumental in the successful design, creation and administration of our trainings and workshops. Their passion, professionalism and dedication is key to the success of our trainings around the world.
Ruth Loughborough
Ruth joined the team in 2019 to lead all the administrative aspects of the business. She takes care of all the logistics and coordination involved in ensuring every participant of our trainings receives personal attention and guidance as they join, belong in and travel through the learning journey.
Ruth also takes care of our vibrant online learning and practice community, helping to ensure that each participant can connect with each other and the additional learning and reading materials available.
If you want to ask anything at all about Coaching Constellations, Ruth is the person to ask!
ruth(@)coachingconstellations.com
Daniel Watson
Daniel has been working alongside John and the growing team since 2013. A graphic and web designer, he has been responsible for the design and production of every piece of Coaching Constellations’ online and offline material.
Daniel designed and built this website and is also the designer and creator of all the physical resources used on the trainings.
He also designs and creates the social media graphics and all printed materials.
When not busy with Coaching Constellations Daniel creates and manages the visual and technical aspects of John’s personal development offer Life Love Leadership and it’s expression online and off.
Loretta Roy
Loretta has been working with John since the start because she established the business that pre-dates Coaching Constellations, The Riverbank Partnership with him in 2002.
This grew into a thriving coaching business that focussed on founders and leaders of creative businesses. Between them, Loretta and John worked with over 25 client businesses, coaching multiple individuals and teams.
As Coaching Constellations grew Loretta stepped back from coaching to support the curriculum development across all the trainings, bringing her 30 years of work as a professional teacher to bear.
Michelle Lofthouse
Michelle joined the team in 2019 to manage all the financial aspects of this international training company. She takes care of all the invoicing and tracking of payments so if you need to ask about any aspect of that feel free to connect.
Dealing with multiple individuals at any one time Michelle does a great job of keeping track of the money, the lifeblood of any business offering a service in the knowledge economy. Michelle works alongside our accountant Paul Craughwell and together they manage all aspects of our financial administration from contracting with venues to complex VAT questions in many different countries in which we offer trainings.
Teaching Team Alumni
Over the years a number of participants from our programmes have come alongside training groups as part of their professional development. Some have joined the teaching team for a while. Each made unique and valuable contributions which informed the way the curriculum was developed and expressed. Our thanks to each and all of you for all that you contributed whilst you were with us.
Grégoire Barrowcliff
Following a career in international business, Greg started coaching in 2002 and was a founding Partner of Praesta France. His practice took a new direction in 2009 after attending an introduction to systemic coaching facilitated by John Whittington at an international coaching conference. He was fascinated by a methodology and what it could reveal. He went on to train as a Practitioner himself, graduating in 2016.
Greg worked alongside Corinne Devery in support of our trainings in French in Paris until he stepped out of the team, at the end of 2024, to develop a series of workshops in personal and family constellations.
Katrina Ferguson
Kat is a coach and consultant and trained with Coaching Constellations for five years. She is passionate about Leadership Development, and developed the first ICAgile accredited Leadership Development Program.
Kat brings all these skills to bear as a coach, facilitator and enterprise agile coach with her private coaching clients.
Kat led Coaching Constellations trainings in Seattle until stepping out of the team in 2024 to pursue her work as a busy systemic organisational consultant.
Michael Cahill
Michael is a coach and experienced teacher who stepped out of our teaching team in September 2025 to create space for a return to full health.
Michael began training with us in 2017 and was invited to join the teaching team in 2020. He contributed many precious gifts to the curriculum and the way it is shared internationally.
He also facilitated across our Fundamentals trainings and co-designed and then facilitated our flagship Practitioner training for four years.
He is greatly missed and we wish him well for a full recovery.
Elaine Grix
Elaine is a team development coach and facilitator, who works with a portfolio of global corporates.
She is passionate about unlocking the hidden potential within individuals, teams and organisations and uses the systemic stance, principles and practices as a key enabler for her work.
Elaine facilitated across our Fundamentals and Practitioner programmes until she stepped out of the teaching team in the summer of 2022 to focus on her rapidly expanding international client work.
Doru Curteanu
Doru is a systemic coach, facilitator and trainer focused on the facilitation of flow and vitality in leaders, teams and organisations.
Doru has a PhD in Management and is an EMCC accredited Master Practitioner Coach. He is an experienced practitioner of systemic coaching and constellations, completing his training journey with Coaching Constellations and co-facilitated with John and Oana on several occasions.
Doru co-faciltated, with Oana, the Coaching Constellations Romania trainings until the end of 2024 when he stepped out of the teaching team to focus on his work with family constellations.
Special thanks
Two individuals deserve special thanks for catalysing significant step-changes in the way that our work was shared much more widely than it was before them.
Jo Howard
Jo Howard is both a leadership coach and executive search consultant in the publishing sector. She generously introduced John to Helen Kogan, founder of Kogan Page publishing who subsequently took the risk of publishing Systemic Coaching and Constellations in June of 2012 after four other publishers had declined.
Jo provided an invaluable sounding-board for John in both the structuring and flow of content but also through the pre-publication process itself.
After publication, sales slowly but steadily built and a second edition was commissioned and published in June 2016 in response to the increasing international interest. With a new chapter on ‘Belonging’, the book has now sold in 42 countries. In 2020 a 3rd edition was published with refreshed content and three new chapters and has became one of the publishers best selling coaching books.
The book is at the core of the Coaching Constellations offer, attracting people to the training and then resourcing them on their learning journey in systemic coaching with constellations. John has been invited to teach and facilitate across the world on the basis of the book which is now required reading on a number of coaching programmes.
The book is now published in it’s 3rd Edition in French, Korean, Romanian, Macedonian and Spanish.
Alison Hardingham
Alison met founder John Whittington at a constellation workshop facilitated by Jan Jacob Stam, in London, in the summer of 2010.
As a result she invited him to offer an introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations at The Henley Business School on the recently launched MSc in Coaching and Behavioral Change.
As the co-creator of the MSc Alison wanted to integrate the latest coaching philosophies and practices to ensure a rich mix of learning opportunities for the international participants.
As a result of the participants response the invitation has been extended every year since and also led to John working with Henley Business School in South Africa.
The relationship with Henley Business School has led to many connections being made and graduates of the MSc participating in the learning journey offered by Coaching Constellations.
One of those Henley alumni, Patrizia Amanati, is now facilitating our ‘Fundamentals Part I: Mapping The Field’ programme each year within the Henley MSc.
Building the foundations
Behind the scenes a great deal of work has been done to put the business processes in place that underpin our success today.
Steve Cantwell
Steve worked from 2011 to the summer of 2019 on every aspect of Coaching Constellations administration and finance. He is known to hundreds of Coaching Constellations alumni as the patient, thoughtful ‘voice’ behind the training bookings..
His financial management ensured that the business survived and grew through times of uncertainty and volatility and his steady hand kept the business moving forwards on limited resources.
Heartfelt thanks to Steve for the immense amount of work he achieved, for the firm foundations he laid and all the processes he created in the eight years of his time in the Coaching Constellations system.
Sue Cantwell
Sue worked with us from 2011 thgrough to 2019 on many of the unseen aspects of Coaching Constellations’ offer. She worked to find solutions for each and every one of the complex demands of a fast-growing training company and single-handedly researched and contracted all our training venues across the UK, Italy, France and Spain.
Sue also established and managed all aspects of our ‘MailChimp’ system so that we can stay in touch with all students through occasional newsletters, and enabled many other solutions to challenging issues including electronic, physical and printed materials. Sue carefully proof-read all 3 editions of John’s book.
Our heartfelt thanks to Sue for the immense amount of work she achieved in the eight years of her time in the Coaching Constellations system.