Conflict Transformation: A Systemic Approach – Applied Practice Circles (Online)

Join our online closed group,
developing your ability to apply Conflict Transformation tools and theory
with a Systemic Constellations lens
in your area of work and your life.

Milly, Ben, and The Whole Partnership provided a great service and experience for those like me, who are aiming to improve upon our paths of addressing (and confronting) conflicts, and then working to transform them. This is a valuable process that was expertly facilitated, and I am grateful to have participated.

Joe Culhane – Systems & Ecology Consultant

Transforming conflict is a core leadership competency that requires a combination of courage and vulnerability.

We need to spend time with conflict. If we are resourced to listen to the wider system within which conflict has arisen – widening our perspective to include more – we enable deeper truths and resolving movements to bring gifts to us and our systems. Our organisations need leaders who are resourced to face into the difficulties of our complex world; those who can find ways to work with and through them.

As part of our Conflict Transformation Circles, you’ll participate in a resourcing and regenerative community. You’ll be alongside other leaders and change makers and, guided by international specialists in this field, will discover the power a systemic constellations lens brings you through your organisational, professional and vocational challenges.

The circles will introduce the principles and practices of this approach and take you on a 5-month journey of applying them to your own live conflict issues. (If you want to read more on Transforming Conflict we recommend Jean Paul Lederach’s article on Conflict Transformation)

We will work with where you are – and the live challenges that you bring – using a mix of short conceptual inputs, inquiries, embodied exercises and whole (or half) group constellations.

Purpose of the Systemic Conflict Transformation programme

• Deepening your understanding of Conflict Transformation on a personal and practitioner level.
• Equipping and resourcing you to apply the tools of Systemic Conflict Transformation (SCT) in your practice.
• Developing a SCT community of learning and practice.

What to expect

The online training combines five days of teaching/practice in a closed group of no more than 12 participants spread over five months. The closed group enables you to benefit from the depth of psychological safety that is possible when people commit to travel together for a length of time alongside fellow co-inquirers.

You need to commit to the whole cycle to join the Circle.

Each day in the full group is split into:

• Presencing/visualisation
• Check in
• Theory section
• Resourcing and a pair enquiry
• Practice in small groups
• Conflict constellation
• Plenary

Additionally, you’ll receive two 1:1 coaching sessions with either Ben or Milly, who’ll support your professional and personal enquiry into your conflict.

You’ll also be invited to join an optional small learning hub to meet and practice between sessions.

Who is it for?

These circles are for you if you are interested in deepening your understanding of Conflict Transformation and practicing using the theory and tools in your work and life.

These circles are for you if you have some prior experience of working with systemic leadership with constellations lens and if your work encompasses any of the following:

• You’re a leader, entrepreneur, change maker, OD/HR professional, or if you’re a coach to people in such roles.
• You have either worked with Ben and Milly in their foundational Conflict Transformation: A Systemic Approach training, or are working professionally in Conflict Transformation and Mediation and want to understand and embody the systemic approach.
• You’re working across diverse groups with diverse opinions such as social change agents/community organisers.
• You’re a practitioner of systemic constellations and are looking to refresh, renew and resource yourself by experiencing the application of the work in the field of conflict transformation.
• You want to be resourced by the Systemic Leadership Coaching with Constellations approach in an ongoing way.

How will you benefit?

• You will be deeply resourced and have more capacity to transform the conflicts you face, on a personal, organisational, and societal level.
• You will deepen your understanding of Conflict Transformation frameworks and find practical, human centred strategies in the face of live conflicts and challenges.
• You will have chances to practice Conflict Transformation techniques in small groups working with live conflicts.
• You will learn from the collective intelligence of the group and from leaders facing similar (or different) challenges.
• You’ll form resourcing connections with your peers that can support your learning throughout and beyond the course itself.

Dates & times

When working online we allow a spacious timing format to give us good breaks from our screens. Below are dates and times (UK times, please check your local time zone where relevant):

• Circle 1: Monday 16 March 2026, 10.00-13.00 & 15.00-18.00 GMT (London time)
• Circle 2: Monday 20 April 2026, 10.00-13.00 & 15.00-18.00 BST (London time)
• Circle 3: Monday 18 May 2026, 10.00-13.00 & 15.00-18.00 BST (London time)
• Circle 4: Monday 15 June 2026, 10.00-13.00 & 15.00-18.00 BST (London time)
• Circle 5: Monday 20 July 2026, 10.00-13.00 & 15.00-18.00 BST (London time)

Faculty

Ben Yeger is Founder/Co-Director of Moving Conflicts and UK representative of Combatants for Peace (CfP). After serving in the Israeli Army (83-86), Ben left Israel promising himself that he would never carry a weapon again. Ben has 25 years’ experience of group facilitation and training, working with people from a variety of backgrounds and ages in conflict transformation. He is a Systemic Practitioner, Drama Therapist, Action Learning Facilitator and a Movement Medicine Teacher/Facilitator. He creates innovative, nonviolent, and collaborative interventions which transform conflict from barriers to relationship into opportunities for change. See Ben’s TED Talk on Conflict Transformation.

Milly Sinclair is Co-Director of Moving Conflicts and Director of Milly Sinclair Associates. Milly has 25+ years’ experience in facilitating processes involving leadership, conflict transformation and change. Her conflict transformation work with organisations includes the University of Oxford, Mitsubishi, Unicredit Bank and Amnesty International as well as her interfaith, intercultural and peace work in Israel/Palestine, and through the development of community cohesion projects. With a psychotherapeutic and theatre background, she has been a systemic practitioner and coach for over 15 years. In all her work she brings up-to-date psychological and business theory to life with an original and creative approach.

Ben Yeger and Milly Sinclair, the co-directors of Moving Conflicts, are running this programme in partnership with The Whole Partnership.

What people say

Profound learning – all the exercises and the sense of narrative and evolution of the process as a whole. The constellation work was very powerful for me, and well resourced by everything that came before.
Sholeh Johnstone – Facilitator, Mediator and Coach

10/10 for the experience! Witnessing the alchemy of live constellations, even on Zoom, I love the magic and insights that arise. Ben and Milly’s leadership of each constellation was so intuitive. They are almost forensic in getting it right. I loved the willingness of everybody to share some quite intimate conflicts. The trust between people was amazing. The generosity, presence, love and kindness modelled Ben and Milly and already present in the system.
Katie Lloyd-Nunn – Education Curator, Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking

A wonderful balance of systemic theory and practice with lots of helpful discussion with colleagues going through similar challenges.
Andrew Gregory – Senior Chaplain at Oxford University

Fees

Fee for the whole course, including 5 days of teaching/group work plus two 1-1 coaching sessions, is as follows:

£1,900 + VAT (Organisationally sponsored)
£1,450 + VAT (Organisationally sponsored – 3rd sector and education)
£950 + VAT (Self-sponsored)
£712.50 + VAT (COLPI students and alumni)*

*The alumni discounted rate is available to current COLPI students (all modules) and those who have completed a COLPI training.

Book and pay in full by 1 February to enjoy a 10% early bird discount!