The Diary

“This is unequivocally the best training I have participated in in the past twenty years.”

Sheena Bailey, ICF (PCC) registered Coach Supervisor and Mentor Coach

“An excellent way to immerse yourself in systemic coaching and emerge with some practical tools and a solid grounding in the underlying principles.”

Mark Smith, Business Coach

“Fundamentals far exceeded my expectations. Well worth travelling across the globe for this.”

Sandy May, Coach and consultant. Australia

“The program was rich, beautiful and very useful and has shifted my view on working with teams and individual clients.”

Madalina Cobaleanu – Culture Coach, Microsoft 

“I highly recommend this to any coach who is struggling to facilitate complex organisational dynamics.”

Morag McLaren Leadership Development and OD consultant

“Coaching constellations is a way of being that facilitates system level change in you and in your clients.”

Hilary J Oliver. (PCC)

“In Part II the penny drops and gives you a much greater depth of understanding.”

Mike Price, Executive coach and facilitator

“The hidden rules of healthy relationship systems came alive in this wonderful experiential training.”

Cristian Nicolae. Coach, Bucharest.

“My first experience of facilitating a constellation was wonderful and unforgettable.”

Monica Georgescu, Learning Specialist, Romania

“This training is a must for anyone wanting to learn stimulating facilitation skills which support a system revealing itself.”

Georgina Woudstra, Executive team coach and coach trainer

“I had heard that these were the best people to go to for Constellations training, and I was not disappointed.”

Aidan Tod, Executive and team coach

“As Morpheus says to Neo: ‘You take the blue pill, the story ends. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.’ This training takes you deep..”

John Sutherland, consultant and facilitator

“The most impactful training I have attended in the past twenty years. Thank you.”

Maggie Rose, Executive coach

“This is an enlightening programme, excellently facilitated.”

Hilary Oliver, (PCC) Executive and leadership coach

“Not only do you discover something of the entanglements and deep resources in your own systems, but you develop your ability to be of real use to others.”

Alastair Wyllie, Coach and Supervisor

“This is a clear process to work with complex issues.”

Alison Hogan. Leadership coach, board & team dynamics.

“This has given me confidence to embed the systemic approach.”

Ori Wiener.

“I can honestly say my expectations were exceeded.”

Sandra H, Executive and team coach

“Simply superb! It enabled real experiential learning and generated insights that I believe will be transformative in my coaching practice.”

Claudia Danser, Executive coach

“The training was a revelation. I thoroughly recommend it.”

Rachel Donath, Coach and Head of Learning and Development

“This truly systemic approach to coaching takes one far beyond the boundaries of ‘training’ and into ‘transformation’. John’s extensive knowledge combined with his calming and respectful presence is highly effective.”

Sheena Bailey, ICF (PCC) registered Coach Supervisor and Mentor Coach

“Highly recommended for both personal and professional development.”

Anne Shiels, Executive coach, OD Consultant

“Thank you for an inspiring insight into a whole new way to coach.”

Sharon Collier, Coach and OD specialist

“In addition to several profound insights I learnt exercises which I use in my daily practice; telephone coaching, self-supervision, team exercises.”

Roman Chudoba, Executive Coach

“Unbelievably powerful. Your coaching will be much richer for this insight into a systemic stance”

Steve Ridgley. The John Lewis Partnership

“A powerful way to get ‘out of your head’ and experience the issue at a deeper level.”

Kate Horne, Organisation and Leadership Development Consultant

“Extremely powerful personal and professional development.”

Alison Grace, Leadership coach

“This training has enriched my coaching and I can use it for one-to-one or for team coaching.”

Florence Granse, Coach and Trainer

“I was looking for someone new to learn from and I soon knew I’d made the right decision.”

Claire Pedrick, Executive Coach & supervisor

“The quality of facilitation and teaching is very high and deeply respectful. Inspiring!”

Orianne Corman, Coach and constellations facilitator

“An insightful inspiring experience which has developed me professionally and personally, in the service of my clients.”

Anne McMurray, Leadership and Team Development

“The Fundamentals I training left me feeling enriched and curious.”

Sabine Stritch, Leadership Development coach

| The learning journey begins with our two-day Fundamentals Part I: Mapping the Field and is open to coaches and organisational consultants looking to include a more systemic approach and practice. In-person and online.

| The second stage of the journey, Fundamentals Part II: The Intelligence of the Field, explores the underlying philosophy and further ways of applying it in a very practical way and will resource you when working with individuals or teams. In-person and online.

| Our Fundamentals Part III: The Language of the Field completes this comprehensive grounding in systemic coaching and constellations by bringing the language of systems to life in a powerful and applicable way. Online.

Our 10-day Practitioner training: ‘Walking in the Field‘ offers an opportunity to go deeper and broader and travel with a learning group that meets over three modules, the first of which is residential.

Please scroll down to explore.

March 2023

Thursday and Friday March 23rd-24th, 2023

Fundamentals Part III – ‘The Language of the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
| In Part III, a three-day training in two modules, participants move deeper into the resonant fields of systems and learn to identify and articulate the language of the field. This includes resonant sentences and questions to offer within systemic coaching. This Part III training is made up of two days of training, a paired practice session with another group member in your own time, and then another half day of teaching and practice with the whole group (Monday April 17th 2023, A.M).

(Offered within the UK/GMT time zone)

Monday and Tuesday March 27th-28th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Illuminating the hidden dynamics in founder-led and family business
Affligem, BELGIUM
This three-day experiential training (one day online, followed by two days in-person in Belgium) offers an in-depth learning journey for those who work with founders, in founder-led organisations or with family business systems.

Thursday March 30th, 2023

Community Workshop | Community Practice Session | Online
A complimentary 3-hour workshop for members of our online alumni community who are looking for a supportive space to deepen their embodied understanding of the systemic stance, principles and practices and feel more resourced to bring an integration of these into their coaching practice.

Thursday and Friday March 30th-31st, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
London, UK
(Open to Barefoot Coaching Alumni only)
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. This particular ‘Part I’ training is for Barefoot Coaching alumni only.

Systemic Coaching & Constellations

The 3rd Edition

April 2023

Thursday April 13th to Saturday April 15th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’
Laulasmaa Spa, ESTONIA
| Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three consecutive days of training in-person. With John, Piret and Sigrid.

Monday and Tuesday April 24th-25th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching.

(Offered within the UK/BST time zone)

Monday April 24th to Thursday April 27th, 2023

(Arrivals Sunday 23rd early evening. Depart after lunch, Thursday)
‘Practitioner 2023’ (module 1 of 3) ‘Walking in the Field’
Norfolk, UK
|The residential module of our Practitioner Training in Systemic Coaching. Applications are welcome from those who have completed our Fundamentals Part I, II and III trainings. This first module is residential at the unique and beautiful West Lexham. The second module is two days online and the third module three days in central LONDON, UK.

Module 2:  Online, May 24th-25th.
Module 3:  London, June 22nd-24th.

Tuesday and Wednesday April 25th-26th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Edinburgh, UK
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. Facilitated by Eileen Moir.

Friday April 28th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Explore and Settle your Relationship with your Father | ONLINE
If you struggle to be in relationship with your father, it will affect your relationship with life, with intimate relationships and with leadership. This workshop is designed to support those who long to be in better contact with their father, whether he is still present or not. With John Whittington.

Our trainings are available online from anywhere and in-person in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Romania, Germany, Australia Estonia and North America. And by invitation worldwide.

Our trainings are available online from anywhere and in-person in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Romania, Germany, Australia Estonia and North America. And by invitation worldwide.

May 2023

Wednesday and Thursday May 3rd-4th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Illuminating the hidden dynamics in founder-led and family business
Paris, FRANCE
This two-day experiential training offers an introduction to the systemic framework and how to apply it for those who work as a coach with founders, in founder-led organisations or with family business systems. In English and French. Facilitated in English by John Whittington with translation as required into French with Corinne Deverey and Grégoire Barrowcliff.

Thursday and Friday May 4th-5th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’ [first 1.5-day module]
Online, INTERNATIONAL
Fundamentals Part II is designed to deepen the embodied stance and offer you fresh insights into the hidden dynamics in relationship systems. You will benefit from supervised practice opportunities, combined with fresh teaching and exercises to use with individual and team clients. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. This online Part II training is made up of two 1.5-day modules, with the second session on May 25th-26th.

(Offered within the UK/BST time zone)

Donnerstag 4. und Freitag 5. Mai 2023

Fundamentals Teil I
Online, DACH/INTERNATIONAL auf Deutsch
|Unsere zweitägige Einführung in systemisches Coaching und Aufstellungen. Dieses Training dient als Grundlage für alle weiteren Training Level und beinhaltet eine strukturierte, praxisorientierte Einführung in die innere Haltung, Prinzipien und Praktiken dieses Ansatzes im Einzel- und Teamcoaching. Auf Deutsch moderiert von Maren Donata Urschel.

Eine Beschreibung aller Training Level finden Sie auf unserer Trainings Seite.

Tuesday and Wednesday May 9th-10th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II [first half]
Online, NORTH AMERICA
Fundamentals Part II is designed to deepen the embodied stance and offer you fresh insights into the hidden dynamics in relationship systems. You will benefit from supervised practice opportunities, combined with fresh teaching and exercises to use with individual and team clients. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. This online Part II training is made up of two 1.5-day sessions with Kat Ferguson and John Whittington, with the second session on June 1st-2nd 2023. (Offered within the Pacific Standard time zone) 

Wednesday May 24th to Friday May 26th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’

Edinburgh, UK
Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three consecutive days of training in-person. Facilitated by Eileen Moir.

Coaching Constellations in writing

Coaching Constellations online

June 2023

Thursday and Friday June 1st-2nd, 2023

Fundamentals Part II [second half]
Online, NORTH AMERICA
Fundamentals Part II is designed to deepen the embodied stance and offer you fresh insights into the hidden dynamics in relationship systems. You will benefit from supervised practice opportunities, combined with fresh teaching and exercises to use with individual and team clients. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. This online Part II training is made up of two 1.5-day sessions with Kat Ferguson and John Whittington, with the first session on May 9th-10th 2023. (Offered within the Pacific Standard time zone) 

Wednesday and Thursday June 7th-8th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Dublin, IRELAND
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching.

Vineri 9, Sâmbătă 10 și Duminică 11 Iunie 2023

Fundamente Partea II – ‘Inteligența câmpurilor relaționale
București, ROMANIA
| ‘Fundamente’ Partea a II-a (trei zile) – Inteligența câmpurilor relaționale –  înțelegerea în profunzime a principiilor organizatoare ale sistemelor umane și a aplicațiilor practice în sesiuni unu-la-unu, de echipă și grupuri. Acest modul este dedicat celor ce au parcurs ‘Fundamente’ Partea I. Cu Oana și Doru.

Tuesday and Wednesday June 13th-14th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
London, UK
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. This training takes place in the same week as our ‘Part II’ training, providing an opportunity to take part in both trainings consecutively. Please see the entry below.

Thursday June 15th to Saturday June 17th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’
London, UK
Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three consecutive days of training in-person.

Friday June 16th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Explore and Settle your Sibling Relationship | ONLINE
This workshop is designed to support those with a disruption between themselves and their sibling(s) to see it in a fresh light and start to find more ease where that has been difficult. With John Whittington.

Tuesday and Wednesday June 27th-28th, 2023

Fundamentals Part III – ‘The Language of the Field’
London, UK
| In Part III, a three-day training in two modules, participants move deeper into the resonant fields of systems and learn to identify and articulate the language of the field. This includes resonant sentences and questions to offer within systemic coaching. This Part III training is made up of two days of training in-person, a paired practice session with another group member in your own time, and then another half day of teaching and practice with the whole group online (Tuesday July 18th 2023, A.M). This training will be co-facilitated by Michael Cahill and Becky Hall.

Wednesday June 28th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Walking your Parents Home | ONLINE
One of the most challenging journeys we can navigate is the one where we accompany our parents as they travel through their final years. This workshop is designed to resource participants and support clarity about the most appropriate relative place from which to support from on this part of the journey through life.

“I feel very reassured that the principles behind systemic coaching hold true online.”

Anne T

“I like the way we used representatives onscreen."

Roger B

“Thank you for this platform, so that we can all be on the journey.”

Ricarda C

“Online constellations are just as tangible as face-to-face and maybe even more so!”

Anne T

“Very practical and very useful with excellent facilitators!”

Gary J

“An interesting, useful and enjoyable investment in my online coaching"

Alastair W

Online community of learning and practice

July 2023

Thursday and Friday July 13th-14th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
London, UK
(Open to Barefoot Coaching Alumni)
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. This particular ‘Part I’ training is for Barefoot Coaching alumni only.

Thursday and Friday July 20th-21st 2023

Life Love Leadership | Enneagram
London, UK
Two days of Enneagram and Constellations designed to reconnect participants to themselves, their essence or true nature. In-person in central London, UK with Michael Cahill and John Whittington.

The Practitioner
learning journey

September 2023

Wednesday and Thursday September 13th-14th, 2023

Fundamentals Part III – ‘The Language of the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
| In Part III, a three-day training in two modules, participants move deeper into the resonant fields of systems and learn to identify and articulate the language of the field. This includes resonant sentences and questions to offer within systemic coaching. This Part III training is made up of two days of training, a paired practice session with another group member in your own time, and then another half day of teaching and practice with the whole group (Tuesday October 17th 2023, A.M).

(Offered within the UK/BST time zone)

Monday and Tuesday September 18th-19th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Edinburgh, UK
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. Facilitated by Eileen Moir.

Wednesday and Thursday September 27th-28th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching.

(Offered within the UK/BST time zone)

Our trainings are available online from anywhere and in-person in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Romania, Germany, Australia Estonia and North America. And by invitation worldwide.

Our trainings are available online from anywhere and in-person in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Romania, Germany, Australia Estonia and North America. And by invitation worldwide.

October 2023

Tuesday October 3rd to Thursday October 5th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’
Dublin, IRELAND
| Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three days of training in-person, with Michael Cahill and Eileen Duggan.

Wednesday and Thursday October 11th-12th, 2023

Fundamentals Part III – ‘The Language of the Field’
London, UK
| In Part III, a three-day training in two modules, participants move deeper into the resonant fields of systems and learn to identify and articulate the language of the field. This includes resonant sentences and questions to offer within systemic coaching. This Part III training is made up of two days of training in-person, a paired practice session with another group member in your own time, and then another half day of teaching and practice with the whole group online (Wednesday November 15th 2023, A.M). This training will be co-facilitated by Michael Cahill and Becky Hall.

Jeudi et vendredi 12 et 13 octobre, 2023

Les Fondamentaux, Module I
Paris, FRANCE
|Ce module de deux jours est une introduction à la méthodologie du coaching systémique, et des constellations, dans son application aussi bien en coaching individuel qu’avec des équipes.

Friday October 20th, 2023

Life Love Leadership | Explore and Settle your Relationship with your Food | ONLINE
Food is much more than just something we nourish our physical bodies with, it is something with which we try and feed all kinds of other hungers. It’s deeply connected with our sense of belonging and safety as well as our sense of self and our existence. This workshop offers a safe and embodied way to illuminate your relationship with food in a way that is designed to clarify and resource.

Sâmbătă 21 și Duminică 22 Octombrie 2023

Fundamente Partea III – ‘Limbajul sistemelor’ (limba romania)
București, ROMANIA
| ‘Fundamente’ Partea a III-a (două zile) – Limbajul sistemelor –  aprofundarea limbajului sistemic rezonant care catalizează schimbări durabile la nivel somatic și facilitează dezvoltarea personală profesională, individuală și colectivă. Acest modul este dedicat celor ce au parcurs ‘Fundamente’ Partea I si II. Cu Oana și Doru.

Read the book, but nothing can prepare you for the magic and power of constellations until you have experienced them first hand. This training opened a door to a whole new dimension of coaching that adds incredible depth to my practice as a coach.

Noel Warnell, ICAgile and team Coach

November 2023

Monday November 6th to Wednesday November 8th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’

Edinburgh, UK
Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three consecutive days of training in-person. Facilitated by Eileen Moir.

Monday and Tuesday November 20th-21st, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. Facilitated by John Whittington.

Tuesday and Wednesday November 21st-22nd, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
London, UK
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching. This training takes place in the same week as our ‘Part II’ training, providing an opportunity to take part in both trainings consecutively in London.

Thursday November 23rd to Saturday November 25th, 2023

Fundamentals Part II – ‘The Intelligence of the Field’
London, UK
Fundamentals Part II is designed to both consolidate your learning and practice to date and add new levels of understanding and insight. The mix of fresh teaching, practical exercise and discussion is designed to resource you, then deepen and expand your professional practice. As a result Part II expands capacity to apply the methodology with individuals, teams and groups in multiple settings. Open to all those who have completed our Part I training, this Part II training is made up of three consecutive days of training in-person.

This far exceeded my expectations. Well worth travelling across the globe for this experience.

Sandy May, Coach and consultant. Australia

December 2023

Monday and Tuesday December 4th-5th, 2023

Fundamentals Part I – ‘Mapping the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
|Our two-day introduction to Systemic Coaching and Constellations. This training forms the foundations for all that follows and offers a compelling introduction to the stance, principles and practices of this approach in 1-2-1 and team coaching.

(Offered within the UK/GMT time zone)

Mercredi, jeudi et vendredi 6, 7 et 8 décembre, 2023

Les Fondamentaux, Module II
Paris, FRANCE
| Ce Module s’adresse aux coachs, professionnels RH et consultants qui ont suivi « Les Fondamentaux, Module I » et qui souhaitent développer la mise en pratique dans des contextes individuels, d’équipe et de groupe.

Thursday and Friday December 7th-8th, 2023

Fundamentals Part III – ‘The Language of the Field’
Online, INTERNATIONAL
| In Part III, a three-day training in two modules, participants move deeper into the resonant fields of systems and learn to identify and articulate the language of the field. This includes resonant sentences and questions to offer within systemic coaching. This Part III training is made up of two days of training, a paired practice session with another group member in your own time, and then another half day of teaching and practice with the whole group (Thursday January 11th 2024, A.M).

(Offered within the UK/GMT time zone)