Systemic Constellations & Systems Sensing
Navigating leadership and societal change with clarity and depth
Leadership and transformation work often brings us face-to-face with complexity, uncertainty, and deeply rooted dynamics. When you’re called to lead through these moments, whether in your organization, team, or broader ecosystem, how you approach the challenge becomes just as important as what you’re trying to achieve.
Systemic Constellations and Systems Sensing offers a way to slow down, listen deeply, and see the larger whole. Through this practice, hidden dynamics become visible, tensions can release, and new pathways forward emerge with clarity and integrity.
Leadership requires us to refine HOW we do WHAT we do.
Benefits of systemic constellation work
Systemic constellations work can support you in:
Initial analysis of an issue or a system
Clarifying project design and direction from inception
Understanding and navigating conflicts, tensions and stuck dynamics
Working consciously with historical patterns and collective trauma
Deepening leadership presence and intuition
Revealing the hidden architecture of systems and relationships
How our process works
Each systemic constellation unfolds in three core phases as a minimum:
Discovery and Design (1 – 1.5 hours): A one-to-one session with the Collective Transitions team to clarify your issue, understand the focus of the systemic constellation and clarify the questions at play.
Systemic Constellation Practice (2 – 2.5 hours): A facilitated session, either privately or in our practice space community, where the dynamics of your system are explored and mapped through a living, embodied process.
Reflection and Integration (1 – 1.5 hours): A dedicated follow-up to distill key insights, integrate learnings, and identify meaningful next steps for aligned action.
Engagement options
Private sessions
Work with senior practitioners in customized, private sessions. A written reflection or report can be provided upon request.
Team workshop
Bring your team together with our senior practitioners for a facilitated constellation process and receive optional coaching support to embed insights into daily work.
Community of practice
Participate in a constellation hosted within our practice community, contributing to our ongoing action research and shared learning.
About Systemic Constellations
Systemic constellations is a facilitated and collective approach that reveals the unseen forces shaping behavior, relationships, and current patterns within a system..
It serves as a powerful tool for navigating complexity by helping individuals and teams get to the root of an issue, including the mindsets, bias and assumptions underlying actions and behavior.
By engaging somatic awareness and collective sensing, participants co-create a living map that surfaces both challenges and possibilities, inviting a deeper, more connected understanding of a whole organization, project or issue.
This process builds the foundation for wiser, more inclusive decisions and actions that are attuned to the larger field, leading to awareness-based inclusive actions and decisions.
Who Systemic Constellations work is for
Our systemic constellation work is designed for:
Leaders navigating complex change or societal impact work
Teams and organizations seeking greater coherence and collaboration
Facilitators and practitioners working with transformation, healing, and innovation
Communities and initiatives exploring systemic roots of social or ecological challenges
Learn more about Systemic Constellations & Systems Sensing
Read our book
Foundations of Systems Sensing
Foundations of Systems Sensing is your guide to decoding complexity through the art of Sensing Journeys, a powerful method to spark meaningful insights, nurture connection, and foster bold, impactful change.
Read our blog post about Systemic Constellations
Read our study and case example on Systems Sensing and Systemic Constellation for organizational transformation
Building Collective Capacity for Navigating Complexity
This paper examines how a systems sensing—or felt-sense—approach and orientation to inquiry and systemic constellations practice might help social change organizations cultivate capacities to better navigate complexity, both in their outer-facing work and internal dynamics as teams and as individuals. We present a pilot study of systemic constellation practice, sharing the experience of participants during and after the practice, as well as our own reflexive process.
Ready to begin?
If you’re seeking a deeper way of seeing, understanding, and acting, we invite you to connect with us.
FAQ
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Social change often involves situations where leaders try to tackle big, interconnected issues—think improving schools, healthcare, or addressing climate change—that involve many people and organisations.
Unlike simple projects, these challenges cross different departments, cultures and even entire sectors, so that every decision ripples through the system. To succeed, leaders must move thoughtfully, one step at a time, paying attention to all viewpoints and hidden tensions. Above all, they need to stay true to their values and act with integrity, guiding everyone toward a shared, lasting solution.
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Confidentiality is an essential aspect in our work. Everything that gets shared in our sessions is treated with the utmost care and respect. Any recordings will be used only for internal use and, of course, shared with you.
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Collective Transitions has four main guiding principles.
Belonging and rooting in community
Courage and curiosity
Commitment and care
Ancestral and wisdom lineages
Fore more information on guiding principles see here.