Leadership
Leadership
Leadership
J. Whittington
Seeing Client Relationships as Constellations
Because systems are so deeply interconnected and
interdependent, Systemic Coaching allows coach and
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In order to help facilitate the Systemic Coaching
process, Whittington commonly uses a practice called
“Systemic Constellations.” The literal translation of
Systemic Constellation is quite simply: a group of
objects that stand together to form a pattern. These
patterns, often referred to as living maps, are seen
in constellation workshops and one-to-one systemic
coaching. They provide an extremely practical
methodology for accessing and applying your own and
your client’s intuitive intelligence as well as providing
extraordinary levels of access to the collective
intelligence in the wider system.
For the coach just starting to explore Systemic
Coaching, John has recently completed his first
book Systemic Coaching and Constellations:
An Introduction to the Principles, Practices
and Applications. “While I was writing it, I had
a picture in my head of a coach with it tucked
under their arm, as a deep resource they could
refer to in multiple situations and contexts”
explains, Whittington.
This introductory book includes a substantial
number of exercises that the coach new to this
way of working can try themselves or, after
some experience, with clients. It describes
the underpinning principles, provides practical
exercises and describes multiple applications
from individual to team. It also includes case
studies from North America, Mexico, Australia,
the UK and Europe. It includes descriptions
and visuals designed to support the facilitation
of goal setting constellations and also for
systemic coaching facilitated over-the-phone.
With FAQ’s and many helpful photographs it’s a
comprehensive introduction.
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Research
“Systemic coaching is coaching that gives a place to
everything in all of the systems in which the client has
or still belongs,” says John. “We all come from systems.
Whether we like it or not we are all deeply connected
back into a vast web of interconnectedness through our
family, education and organizational systems.”
By focusing on the simple truth of what is without
the stories and judgments, Systemic Coaching is an
effective way of revealing a client’s true situation, their
truths, resources and obstacles. “Coaching in this way
allows all sorts of entanglements with the past and
the present to be illuminated and resolved, allowing
coachees to move into the future with clarity and real
freedom. This creates enduring resolutions.”
Systemic Coaching and Constellations: An
Introduction to the Principles, Practices,
and Applications By John Whittington
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For the past 10 years, John Whittington has specialized
in a methodology that focuses on identifying the
hidden dynamics that exist within these systems, with a
revolutionary field of coaching referred to as Systemic
Coaching. Systemic Coaching specializes in identifying
all of the relationships/systems an individual, team or
organization participates in, and identifying obstacles,
resources and solutions that lie within them.
coachee to see hidden connections, loyalties and
resources and identify what’s not being seen or said.
“Often clients – and their coaches – come in with
stories, judgments and ideas about the problem and
even the solution,” explains John. “Systemic Coaching
respectfully offers the coachee an opportunity to set the
stories and judgments aside and go a little deeper. And
it starts by simply illuminating what is.”
Benefits
e all participate in relationships.
Relationships with our jobs, relationships
with our clients, our families and friends, even
relationships with inanimate and abstract
objects such as houses or money. Every
day we all participate in multiple relationships
– or relationship systems – that have deep
emotional and psychological connections
that affect us in very significant, often
unconscious ways.
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