Organizational Constellations and Systemic Interventions in Teams and Organizations

Introduction

Teams (and organizations) are like living beings with a will of their own and often a very good memory. Sometimes they move in exactly the opposite direction as the members of the team. Who should we address then? The members of the team or the whole entity called ‘team’?

By the way, for ‘team’ you can also read ‘organisation’, ’department’, ‘startup’, ‘association’ or ‘family business’.

Background

In the systemic approach we look at teams and organizations as living systems.

The systemic view or systemic lens is a great addition to organizational-, managerial- and change paradigms. The eye-openers and insights coming from the systemic approach on organizational issues often gives new perspectives, new solutions, liberating solution-space and enable stuck-situations to turn into flow again.

Systemic tools are hands-on tools to be used in any team or organization (without using constellations).

What will we do and what will you learn?

In these three days, you will learn how to apply some tried-and-tested systemic interventions in teams. While some of these may be spatial, they are far from being constellations in the classic sense of the word.

• You will get a compact overview of the systemic phenomenologic theory an presuppositions.
• What is systemic intelligence and how to connect to the systemic intelligence present in organizations.
• You will learn what essentially systemic interventions are, and how to create the conditions that they can land.
• You will learn the distinction between first order, second order and third order interventions.
• You will learn to ask second order questions which you can use in any form of systemic coaching.
• You will learn the difference between official function and systemic function.
• You will learn to explore with a team which team roles are necessary in order to function well
• You will learn 11 conditions fro teams to flourish.
• We will cover some often seen patterns in organizations: what are they; how do they show and what are their symptoms; and what could be interventions.
• You will explore the question from which inner place or systemic role you do the interventions and what effect this has on the outcome.
• We will explain the ‘orders of interventions’, giving you a deeper sense of: ‘What needs to be done and what could be the first step?’
• You will be able to explore how your own patterns play into the intervention and your work in the team, and how to use these patterns instead of being counterproductive.
• We will introduce and practice at least five or six different interventions, in a way that will enable you to carry them out yourself afterwards.
• Cases of participants are very welcome. We will work with some of them and use these at the same to learn.

In short: there is a lot to learn here, from hands-on work to developing your capacity as an ’intervener’