Facilitator Training: Systemic Constellation for Societal Change

A practice to deepen our sensing capacities leading to wiser and more aligned actions

Join us for a facilitator’s training to Systemic Constellations, a 8-part training series. This course is open for leaders, activists, and change-makers who are working at the forefront of societal transformation. Systemic Constellations is a powerful tool for navigating complexity and helping teams move through intense dynamics with greater ease, efficiency and alignment.

In this experiential course, we deepen what Systemic Constellations for Societal Change work offers and requires from the role of the facilitator. We explore theory and frameworks of facilitating systemic constellations as well as tools needed to navigate complex fields during the process. The course prioritizes practice and experiential learning using methods of both online facilitation with human representatives and table top formats. Prerequisites include Intro to Systemic Constellations for Social Change Training or similar training. 

What is Systemic Constellations?

System Constellations is a process of creating a model of a particular system in order to reveal and transform its hidden patterns. Developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist, and strongly informed by his experience with the Zulu people of Southern Africa, this methodology originally focused on family systems. It was used to probe the deeper forces and patterns that influence an individual’s thoughts, behaviors, and emotional experiences, many of which are influenced by forces acting through multiple generations.

The practice of Systemic Constellations allows us to visualize the patterns of interaction and interdependent relationships of a system. By making these dynamics visible, we widen our understanding and obtain a greater variety of choices in how we respond. By revealing what often goes unsaid or challenges that may lie hidden, Systemic Constellations can support leadership to identify leverage points for greater collaboration, as well as create and maintain greater coherence within complex systems.

Over time this approach has been applied to other human systems, including organizations,  communities, and the world. We believe this is an essential practice for navigating complexity and creating conditions for healing.

In creating a constellation, we learn to more fully use our bodies more as instruments of perception. Through this practice, we tap into our inherent capacities as human beings to pick up signals as information from the field. In this way, the practice offers a bridge between our capacity to sense and feel and our storytelling mind. 

Read Understanding the Practice of Systemic Constellations for more details.

Course Description

There are eight sessions. Each will be 3 hours with a break according to the group’s needs. We encourage you to save at least 30 minutes for integration time after each course.

Each session includes content and theoretical input, practice in small groups or as a whole circle, reflection and Q&A, and a closing. Our main focus is mutual learning and widening our individual and collective capacities of understanding, experiencing, and working with our wider ways of knowing.

Between each session, we offer lecture content in an online format, additional reading, and proposed exercises in small groups. All information and respective links will be on an online course syllabus. 

Each participant will be able to be a case giver for a group constellation, and each participant will have the opportunity to facilitate a systemic constellation and receive valuable feedback and peer support.

Content 

The facilitator training series contains the following:

• Cultivating an inner attitude and aptitude as a facilitator

• Being aware of one’s power 

• Personal practice

• Knowing one’s limits and calling upon support

• Creating the preconditions and the preparation work with the case giver and all participants, including:

• Setting the context 

• Establishing a relationship with the case giver

• Deepening the inquiry process and understanding the dynamics at work
  Crafting the guiding question and selecting the respective elements with the case giver

• Letting the constellation work with us before the actual constellation

• Applying Systemic Constellation – forms and methods:

• Core Principles for societal change topics, organisations and communities working within complexity

• Matching the question or issue with the type of resources and support required and available

• Being sensitive to and respecting different environments and context-related considerations 

• Facilitating the systemic constellation – essential elements:

• Opening a constellation

• Possible yet unnamed elements that want to show up

• Pacing and rhythm - dancing with the system

• Scope and depth of focus 

• Repairing, restorative and balancing movements

• Completing, consciously closing the constellation and derolling

• Reflecting and integrating after the constellation: 

• Context and elements to keep in mind for this phase 

• General group questions 

• Case giver reflections 

• Collective sense-making

• Understanding dynamics and patterns that can show up:

• Trauma-informed patterns and dynamics

• The liminal space

• Stillpoint

• Introducing the following topics:

• The knowing field

• Diverse ways of knowing

• Field of perception

• Activating and widening our sensory organs

• Case practice, feedback and peer-support

Hosted by Luea Ritter

Luea Ritter has more than 15 years of experience as a Systemic Constellations practitioner. She has facilitated Systemic Constellations within organisations, teams, conferences, practitioner gatherings, colleges, retreats and healing workshops. As a member of a large international network of Systemic Constellations practitioners, she explores and develops new edges of this practice and its applications in different contexts. Read more.

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Thank you!

We look forward to learning and practicing together. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out here.