Seeing the Whole: Systemic Leadership and Coaching with Constellations — Introduction to the Essentials

Purpose

Now in its 50th iteration, this three-day course introduces you to the essential principles, methods, and skills of Systemic Leadership and Coaching with Constellations. It is designed to help you begin integrating this profound systemic lens — and a set of powerful tools — into your existing practice of leading, coaching, or catalysing others through change.

Systemic Leadership Coaching with Constellations has emerged over the last twenty years as a powerful, awareness-based “whole self / whole systems” approach for seeing and transforming challenges in our personal and organisational lives. By creating maps of the whole system, constellations enable the invisible dynamics of even seemingly intractable situations to be revealed – and often resolved – quickly and effectively.

To help you apply this work in real-world settings, the course focuses on equipping you with simple yet potent tools you can use immediately: to diagnose issues, test solutions, and discover new pathways for generative action.

 

Benefits: Developing Your Capacity

This programme grounds you in the core perspectives and practices of systemic leadership and coaching, and the art of harnessing systemic intelligence — whether in 1-1, team, organisational, or wider systems contexts.

Specifically, you will develop or enhance your capacity to:

1. Understand the“3 Movements” of Systemic Leadership, and apply them to navigate personal, team, or organisational challenges.
2. Learn the key principles, origins, and sources of this work, and the CLEAR™ method — a step-by-step approach to Systemic Leadership Coaching and Constellations.
3. Use CLEAR and the constellating method in both 1-1 and team coaching contexts, as well as set up simple diagnostic constellations to gain a systemic overview of your own or your clients’ challenges.
4. Map issues and systems using a variety of methods — from table-top constellations and floor markers to human representatives — so you can work flexibly across settings.
5. Draw from all four ways of knowing: intuitive, emotional, embodied, and intellectual intelligence.
6. Understand, both experientially and conceptually, the“hidden orders” that shape human and organisational systems, and how they enable organisational change and wellbeing.
7. Find the most empowering place in relation to a wider system, and understand what this approach requires of the leader or facilitator in terms of stance, presence, and systemic capacity.
8. Integrate these practices to strengthen your ability to lead, coach, and support others with greater awareness and impact.

There will be many opportunities to explore your own personal and organisational systems through experiential exercises and live demonstrations. We will dive deep (but lightly), we will have fun and we will learn together!

 

Who is it for?

This programme is for:

• Executive coaches and change agents (internal or external)
• Leaders and managers in all sectors who are supporting others through transformation and want to bring a systemic lens to their work
• Coaches with prior systemic training (e.g. ORSC™) who want to deepen their constellating capacity and understanding of the underlying thought framework
• Facilitators and practitioners working in the fields of sustainability, regeneration, or social innovation

You’ll find this course especially valuable if:

• You’re feeling stuck or stressed by complex, systemic challenges
• You’re seeking a way of leading, coaching, or facilitating that draws more on your whole self — including your presence, embodiment, and intuition
• You want to explore approaches that more fully reflect the living systems you and your clients are part of

The course will also likely challenge and expand how you see yourself and your work as a leader, coach or change agent, while increasing your awareness of how organisations and people can flourish at a deeper level.

 

Certification     

This three-day Introduction to the Essentials is dual-certified:

• By the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 19.5 Continuing Coaching Education Units (CCEUs)
• By the Centre for Systemic Constellations (UK) — the UK’s largest and longest-standing training body in this field

Completion of this course qualifies you for the 12-day COLPI Practitioner Certification Programme in Systemic Leadership Coaching with Constellations, starting in 2026.

If you’re a leader or manager, you may also be interested in our shorter Systemic Leadership Circles (typically 4 days per year). Join our mailing list for updates on our courses.

 

Programme Details

Dates
Tuesday 11th – Thursday 13th November 2025

Times
Tuesday – 9.45am to 5.30pm
Wednesday – 9.30am to 5.30pm
Thursday – 9.30am to 5.30pm

Venue
Skylight Centre
49 Corsica St, London, N5 1JT

 

What People Say

“These programmes [Essentials and COLPI] provide much more than building skills in applying Systemic Coaching and Constellations in organisations, they opens doors and windows to unanticipated personal and professional vistas, achievements and breakthrough, led with skilful wisdom.”
Robin Burgess, Executive Coach & Consultant, NHS Scotland Leadership Programme

“Excellent, superb even.”
Jason Nickels, Business Psychologist and Scrum Master, Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

“Incredibly helpful…it’s a deeply insightful and revealing process, which you handle with great skill and sensitivity.”
Hugh Evans, Director of Executive Education, Henley Business School

“You hold a fabulous teaching space around this work, and create a really powerful container for experiential learning and transformation… deeply supportive and inspiring. The work is profound and your leadership and experience do it real justice.”
Joey Walters, Coach and Founder, Women at the Heart of Leadership

 

Programme Leader

Edward Rowland is Founder of The Whole Partnership and a leadership catalyst and senior executive and team coach. A leading Systemic Coach and Constellations practitioner for both personal and organisational systems, he has delighted in co-pioneering this way of working in a leadership and work context for the last fifteen years. He learned the work in the early 2000s from its 1st generation pioneers, notably Gunthard Weber and Judith Hemming (on the original COLPI programme). He then co-pioneered systemic work as part of the innovation consultancy nowhere group for 5 years.

 

Fees

£1,180 + VAT (Organisationally sponsored)
£890 + VAT (Organisationally sponsored – 3rd sector, education and small consultancies)
£590 + VAT (Self-sponsored – limited number of half-price bursaries available to under 30s)
£290 + VAT (CSC student)

 

Offers and discounts

Early Bird
An early bird discount of 10% is applied automatically to all purchases completed by on or before 12 September – book now!

Multi-person booking
Buy two or more places and get a 10% discount on the ticket price (excludes CSC students and under 30s).

Half-price places for under-30s
To help young people access the considerable resourcing this work can offer, we’re offering a limited number of bursaries to people under 30. Contact us if you are under 30 and want to book a place at just £295 + VAT – that’s a 50% discount on the self-sponsored fee!

Limited income practitioners
In these challenging times, bursaries may be available to people who want to attend but whose financial circumstances make this difficult or impossible. Contact us to enquire if this could be you.

For further information or to discuss whether the course may be right for you, please email Naomi Wilkinson or call her on +44 (0)7796 488 722

Book your place today via the ticketing options below. If you are an organisation based outside the UK and believe VAT may not apply, please contact us.