Advanced Course I
Deepening, sharpening and applying our wider ways of knowing for societal transformation
Next course dates (hosted in English): September 2026 –2027.
Location:
Waldhaus
Waldhaus 35
3432 Lützelflüh-Goldbach, Switzerland
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A year-long advanced training for practitioners ready to deepen their systemic and embodied practice in service of societal transformation.
Advanced Course I builds on the Foundation Training and is designed for individuals who have completed the Foundation or bring equivalent experience and prior learning. It is for leaders, practitioners, community builders, connectors, activists, and creatives who feel called to deepen their practice and expand their capacity to work skillfully with social challenges, complex dynamics, and systemic issues.
Across four immersive in-person modules, we deepen and integrate the practices introduced in the Foundation Training and extend them through regenerative, embodied, and systemic change approaches. The course supports participants in navigating complexity with greater sensitivity to context, relationship, and the subtle dynamics that shape collective processes.
Advanced Course I is particularly focused on strengthening the capacities needed to design and facilitate meaningful interventions and processes. Through an integrative approach and our wider ways of knowing, participants cultivate confidence, precision, and nuanced systemic awareness—supporting more coherent decisions, actions, and collaborations.
This is a space to refine your practice, strengthen perception, and bring the work into grounded, embodied application within your own field of action.
Learning objectives
Through experiential learning and reflective practice, participants will:
Deepen and expand perception and sensing capacities.
Apply systemic constellation and systems sensing methods across diverse contexts, building confidence in both facilitation and practical application.
Strengthen fluency in regenerative and embodied systems change, integrating diverse perspectives, criteria, and approaches with clarity.
Refine the ability to relate to land and place, listening to the inherent wisdom of living systems as an intentional guide for practice.
Cultivate grounded presence, trauma-sensitive awareness, and mindfulness as foundations for engaging complex and charged situations with stability and coherence.
Hone subtle capacities—inner and relational “muscles”—to navigate multilayered challenges with clarity, compassion, and courage.
Course content – practice, applied & theoretical
The course explores and integrates:
Advanced systemic constellation work for societal change and systems sensing.
Building coherence across diverse stakeholders and rights-holders.
Working with land, place, and place-based knowledge.
Deepening into regenerative and embodied systems change, wider ways of knowing and earth-based wisdom traditions
Working with kincentric practices, and relating to the natural and more-than-human worlds.
The art of scaling deep, scaling wide, and scaling up in transformational work.
Structure and dates
The advanced training unfolds over four modules of four days each, allowing time for integration between sessions. Between each module, we will have an online group call to reflect and advance the work.
We will form small practice-groups for peer-learning between the in-person modules. There is also the option for one-on-one sessions to support your individual learning journey.
Module Dates:
17—20th September 2026
4—7th February 2027
27—30th May 2027
Final training date to be confirmed very soon
Who its for
This course is open for leaders, activists, creatives and changemakers who are working at the forefront of societal transformation. It is especially relevant for those working in multistakeholder, cross-sector or cross-cultural contexts, where relational depth, process-sensitivity and systemic awareness are essential.
Our wider ways of knowing offer powerful tools for navigating the subtleties of complexity. Activating and applying these capacities are critical for the times we live in. Through the integration of systemic constellations, systems sensing, systems thinking, and regenerative, context-sensitive approaches, participants learn to move through intense dynamics with greater clarity, alignment, and ease, supporting interventions that strengthen relationships, health, and care across systems.
Participants must have completed the Foundation Training or bring equivalent experience in embodied systems change, systemic constellation or systems sensing practices.
Exploring the interrelationality of societal transformation
This advanced course offers a deeper exploration of our wider ways of knowing, engaging practices such as systems sensing, systemic constellations, and the role of land and place in addressing societal challenges and complexity. Participants work with essential concepts, methods, and practices for both individual and collective application.
The course supports the expansion, deepening, and differentiation of perception skills—enabling participants to craft meaningful interventions and processes that foster coherence within and across systems. Learning is grounded in practice, with a strong emphasis on experiential engagement through solo, small-group, and whole-group exercises.
Theory, contextual framing, and lived examples are woven throughout, alongside attention to nuance and place-based sensitivity. The curriculum is designed to meet diverse learning styles and to support the translation of this work into a wide range of professional, cultural, and societal contexts.
The practice of systems sensing refers to a range of somatic and perceptual approaches that expand our field of awareness to engage with a system’s inherent wisdom. Sensing a system can be understood as a visceral capacity—drawing on our innate human ability to be in relationship with, listen deeply to, and momentarily embody different elements of a system.
Systems sensing engages multiple and extended ways of knowing to understand and connect with a situation or context. These ways of knowing may be somatic, emotional, visual, visceral, relational, or spatial, and can be accessed both individually and collectively to deepen insight and inform wise action.
Read more here.
The practice of systemic constellations allows us to visualise a system's interaction patterns and interdependent relationships, making these patterns and relationships visible. By externalising these dynamics, we expand our understanding and gain a wider range of meaningful choices for how to respond.
Systemic constellations bring to the surface what is often unspoken, overlooked, or hidden beneath the surface—revealing root causes, tensions, and leverage points. This supports leaders, teams, and groups in navigating complexity with greater clarity, strengtheng collaboration, and cultivating coherence within complex and multi-layered systems.
Read more here.
The practice of working with land and place invites us to expand both felt and cognitive understandings of interrelatedness and interbeing. Land, place, and the subtle, more-than-human realms are essential dimensions of systemic work, holding layers of presence, memory, and history.
Especially when engaging with sensitive, intertwined, and multi-layered issues, this approach—deeply rooted in Indigenous ways of living and knowing across the globe—supports us in recognising land and place as kin. In doing so, we open to forms of wisdom that inform long-term, context-sensitive decisions and actions grounded in care, respect, and reciprocity.
See a full glossary of the language we use here.
Course Description
A detailed overview of each module will be available soon.
Prices
Course costs (course is spread aross in-person modules)
Course Fee: CHF 4500.-
Reduced fee: CHF 3900.- (For people with low income). If you are facing difficulties covering the course fees (even at a reduced rate) due to financial circumstances, please get in touch with Mira Majewski.
The course fees include four lunches, three dinners, and daily refreshments — lovingly prepared with vegan, organic meals by Beat Schenkel. There is the chance to add an optional breakfast for CHF 10 per day.
Accommodation costs - different options
CHF 80/night — Double bed for couples attending together
CHF 60/night — Single room (double bed)
CHF 40/night — Dormitory (8 beds, bedding included)
CHF 20/night — Camper or tent spot
For an overnight stay at the BnB (10 minutes walking distance), please contact Mira Majewski. This costs CHF 75/night for a single room for an individual (double bed with bathroom), or 110 CHF/night for couples.
As the Advanced Course I takes place through four different modules spread over four different weekends, the accommodation costs apply for each weekend and will be charged for each module.
Registration
Spaces for this course are limited. Please register via the form below. If you have any questions, please contact Mira Majewski.
You’ll receive a confirmation email and payment details upon registration. Participation is confirmed once the course fee is paid and received.
Course lead
Luea Ritter is a transformative process designer, systemic coach and action researcher. Through cross-sector and international engagements in a diverse medley of fields, she developed a high sensitivity for context-based cultural and social dynamics.
Her approach weaves together leadership and organizational development, awareness-based practices, healing arts and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster multi-sector collaboration towards socio-ecological transformation.
Luea is the co-founder of Collective Transitions, dedicated to building shared capacities for fostering and maintaining transformational shifts. She is a vital driver of the World Ethic Forum, an international organization committed to fostering a culture of care and kinship. There, she co-stewards the Firekeeper Circle process, its action research and the long-term intention. As co-founder and chair, she also serves the Nile Journeys, a platform for transboundary dialogue and regenerative collaboration in the Nile Basin. She works with a wide range of clients, especially societal change and multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Youth Negotiator Academy, World Future Council or the Global Ecovillage Network.
Inspired by her trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural journey, and respect for the (subtle) wisdom of systems, Luea is dedicated to cultivating the conditions for embracing our wider ways of knowing as key ingredients for building and maintaining coherence in social fields, which is also the focus of her PhD.
