Systemic Coaching and Constellations
by Whittington, John; Clutterbuck, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-06-28
Publisher(s): Kogan Page Ltd
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Summary
A constellation is a facilitated process which creates a pattern of an issue or developmental challenge. It's a process that provides a unique opportunity to illuminate and then realign elements within an individual, team or whole organizational system, giving each a place. The book will cover what systemic coaching is and how it can be useful, how to integrate systemic coaching and constellations into your existing executive coaching practice and an overview of the common leadership and organizational system dynamics. it's highly practical with real world examples and exercises to provide practice and that enhance the readers own relationship with their coaching offer and work throughout.
Author Biography
John Whittington is an individual and team coach with a broad portfolio of clients that includes entrepreneurs, executive leaders and public figures. He facilitates regular constellation workshops in corporate environments and leads a small teaching team who share the systemic coaching and constellations approach with other professional coaches internationally. You can find out more about John and his work by visiting: www.CoachingConstellations.com
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vi |
| Foreword | p. viii |
| Case study credits | p. ix |
| Orientation | p. 1 |
| Principles | p. 3 |
| The universal language of systems | p. 5 |
| The order of things | p. 6 |
| From individual and team to system | p. 8 |
| Organizational health | p. 9 |
| System leadership | p. 12 |
| The principle of acknowledgement | p. 13 |
| The hidden forces in systems | p. 16 |
| The organizing principles in action | p. 28 |
| Walking in the field | p. 30 |
| Back to the start: Origins and definitions | p. 33 |
| Systems and the forces that sustain them | p. 33 |
| Constellations | p. 34 |
| Systemic coaching | p. 35 |
| The origins of this approach | p. 36 |
| The workshop experience | p. 36 |
| Coaching constellations | p. 38 |
| The time is now | p. 43 |
| When to apply this approach and the benefits of doing so | p. 43 |
| Messages from the system | p. 45 |
| Contraindications | p. 50 |
| Constellation time | p. 50 |
| Inside out | p. 53 |
| Coaching with the system in mind | p. 53 |
| The inner orientation of the coach | p. 53 |
| Practices | p. 61 |
| An invitation: An experiential exercise | p. 63 |
| Mapping your own system | p. 63 |
| Map making | p. 67 |
| Getting started | p. 67 |
| Getting permission to work | p. 67 |
| Moving into the first stage | p. 68 |
| From mapping to constellating | p. 73 |
| Core processes | p. 74 |
| Living maps | p. 87 |
| Seeing patterns | p. 87 |
| Illuminating dynamics | p. 88 |
| Facilitating solutions | p. 89 |
| Coaching in three dimensions | p. 89 |
| FAQs (A): Answers to frequently asked questions | p. 93 |
| Photos | p. 109 |
| Application | p. 121 |
| From tabletop to workshop: Principles and practices in action | p. 123 |
| One-to-one application | p. 123 |
| Creating chemistry | p. 123 |
| Agenda setting | p. 125 |
| Joining and leaving | p. 127 |
| Application in leadership development coaching | p. 133 |
| Delegation | p. 133 |
| feedback | p. 133 |
| Goal-setting | p. 135 |
| Difficult conversations | p. 138 |
| Application in coaching sessions with two people | p. 139 |
| Application in three-way sessions | p. 142 |
| Resourcing clients in one-to-one coaching | p. 143 |
| Integrating alongside your existing approach and methods | p. 148 |
| Phone and VOIP coaching | p. 150 |
| Team application | p. 151 |
| Get out of your head | p. 152 |
| Who came first | p. 153 |
| Aligning with team purpose | p. 154 |
| Finding place | p. 155 |
| Teams and conflict | p. 156 |
| Illuminating team conflict | p. 157 |
| Workshop application | p. 158 |
| Open workshops | p. 159 |
| Closed workshops | p. 162 |
| Multi-team, large-group workshops | p. 166 |
| Sticky moments | p. 173 |
| Strategies to release stuckness | p. 173 |
| Extending your practice: Further practices and applications | p. 177 |
| Floor markers | p. 177 |
| The cataleptic hand | p. 178 |
| A note about representatives | p. 182 |
| Application in coaching supervision | p. 184 |
| Outside in | p. 189 |
| The experience of systemic coaching | p. 189 |
| Beyond constellations | p. 192 |
| FAQs (B) | p. 195 |
| The F word: Familiar patterns | p. 207 |
| Exploring the resource available in the family of origin | p. 207 |
| Fill your own cup first | p. 208 |
| Your clients' family system | p. 215 |
| Resourcing clients through their family of origin | p. 216 |
| An invitation | p. 222 |
| Appendix: Resources and further reading recommendations | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 227 |
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