Systemic Coaching and Constellations

The Principles, Practices and Application for Individuals, Teams and Groups

John Whittington

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781789662849
• eBook ISBN: 9781789662856
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Systemic Coaching and Constellations offers a refreshingly uncomplicated path into a potentially complex subject, demonstrating how to understand and manage intricate relationship systems as part of a powerful coaching agenda.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles that sustain systems, how to map and explore them through constellations, as well as a step-by-step guide to integrating these principles and practices into coaching. Featuring a variety of case studies from around the world to illustrate different facilitation styles and approaches, it also contains practical exercises which can be used in a variety of contexts, including one-to-one coaching, group coaching, leadership development coaching and managing conflict in teams.

This updated third edition of Systemic Coaching and Constellations contains a new chapter on systemic supervision, new material on team coaching, systemic questions and resourcing constellations as well as new and refreshed case studies and updates to wider research and thinking. Whether used in an initial selection meeting or to underpin all coaching conversations and interventions, it remains an indispensable resource for coaches of all levels of experience and in all remits looking to transform their practice, as well as for those studying coaching as part of a degree or coaching qualification.

Index

Note: Numbers in headings are filed as spelt out and acronyms are filed as presented. Locators in italics denote photographs; roman numerals denote information within the preliminary pages.

abstract representatives 15, 16, 126, 190, 218, 243–44

acknowledgement 4, 85–87, 119, 153, 324–27, 329

exchange principle 102–03

leaving organizations 55, 107, 172–73, 176, 194–96, 216, 334

in organizational systems 108, 115, 116–17

place principle 94–97, 216–17, 287, 296, 326–28

team working 216–17, 230

time principle 88–94, 227, 253, 287

see also sentences of acknowledgement; ‘what is’

Acknowledging What Is (Hellinger & Hövel) 301

acquisitions 92–93, 98, 159, 337

action at a distance 12

action learning sets 154–56

affirming feedback 179

agenda setting 97, 115–16, 170–71

agreeing to vs agreeing with 322

Alford, Fred 69

authenticity 45, 106, 117, 219, 242, 252, 273

authority 67, 152, 154–56, 169, 272–73, 283

and family systems 76, 77, 283, 285–86, 293–95

leadership 88, 89, 95, 209, 239–42, 285–86, 293–95

role 112, 232, 311

see also burdened positions

behaviour (behaviour change) 49, 57–58, 103, 110, 168–69, 183, 225, 275, 311–12, 335

see also guilt; innocence

beliefs 61, 62

belonging 4–6, 12, 24, 49–56, 96, 270–71

and family system 280–83, 285, 291–92, 297

leaders 77

team exercises 216–17

Berne, Eric 273

‘better place’ 129, 137–38, 144, 199, 212, 230, 241

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Table of contents

• Cover Story
• Systemic Coaching and Constellations
• Endorsement
• Systemic Coaching and Constellations
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Outside in, inside out
• 01 Outside in
• 02 Ingredients
• 03 Inside out
• on An invitation
• Principles
• 04 Belonging
• 05 Conscience, guilt and innocence
• 06 The universal language of systems
• 07 The time is now
• Practices
• 08 Map making
• 09 Living maps
• Tabletop to workshop
• 10 One to one
• on An invitation
• 11 One to many
• 12 Sticky moments
• 13 Extending your practice
• 14 Systemic supervision
• Familiar themes
• 15 Human being
• 16 The F word
• PP Appendix
• pt Postscript
• Qs FAQs: Answers to frequently asked questions
• Index