From Seeing the System to Moving the System - a two-part Intensive Journey in Organisational Constellations

For experienced coaches and OD practitioners working with organisations under pressure, Organisational Constellations offers a profound way to see beneath the surface of leadership and team dynamics, culture, and systemic entanglement. This two-part residential immersion experience offers a rigorous and embodied pathway into applied Organisational and Coaching Constellations practice. Held as two 5-day retreats, this journey moves from developing the capacity to see and read systemic dynamics with precision… to standing as a practitioner capable of moving systems with authority and depth.

This is not a conventional training programme. It is a practitioner formation experience.

Across the two carefully sequenced residential intensives, you will cultivate systemic perception, embodied facilitation skill, and the grounded authority required to work systemically in complex organisational environments. Transmitted with clarity and depth, yet grounded in the realities of contemporary organisational life, this is a high-touch, closely supervised pathway for professionals ready to integrate Systemic Constellations into their coaching, consulting and OD work with confidence, ethics, and impact.

The Journey:

Many experienced practitioners reach a point where conventional tools are no longer enough. They sense deeper dynamics at play — inherited patterns, unseen loyalties, systemic entanglements — yet lack a structured way to work with them. The first retreat cultivates the capacity to see systemic dynamics clearly, understand the technique of a constellation and cultivate your stance (which is different to that of a coach). The second develops the authority to intervene responsibly in complex client situations. Together, they mark a shift from competence to grounded practitioner presence.

Part 1: Seeing the System

The first immersion is an initiation into systemic practice and develops your capacity to perceive systemic fields with clarity and nuance. Here, the focus is on deepening your systemic literacy — learning to read beneath surface narratives and map the invisible dynamics shaping organisational life. Through experiential learning, demonstrations, and supervised practice, you will cultivate the embodied stance of the constellations facilitator. This immersion lays the foundations of practitioner authority - not through formulae, but through disciplined perception and direct experience. Key areas of exploration include:

• Systemic thinking, systemic mapping and systemic sensing
• The Orders of Love and principles of organisational health
• The Theory of Consciences: belonging and entanglement at work
• Developing systemic hypotheses in coaching and consulting contexts
• Systemic symptoms and how to work with them
• The embodied intelligence and inner posture of the facilitator
• Basic Structural Constellations forms
• Demonstrations of whole-group organisational constellations
• Paired and small-group practice

Part 2: Moving the System

The second immersion experience 6 months later brings you into the heart of systemic intervention. Here, the emphasis shifts from seeing to moving - from perception to facilitation. Participants work intensively with the language, timing and subtlety required to restore movement and coherence in complex systems. This retreat marks the threshold from learning interventions… to standing as a practitioner. Themes include:

• The Orders of Helping
• The Interrupted Reaching Out Movement (IROM)
• Sentences that move systems
• Working with primary, secondary, systemic and meta emotions
• Systemic team dynamics
• Working with cultural trauma, legacy dynamics and systemic complexity
• Constellating without the constellation
• Advanced Structural Constellations forms
• Ethical stance and professional boundaries in high-stakes environments
• Small-group constellation facilitation practice
• Whole-group constellation demonstrations
• Practitioner refinement and structured feedback

Before / between the intensive retreats

Reading Section 1 of Ty's book, 'Mapping the Invisible - Exploring Constellations-Informed Coaching & Consulting' is a requirement before the first Intensive Retreat.

Reading Section 2 of Ty's book is a requirement for the second Intensive Retreat.

Participants are encouraged to apply the work in real organisational contexts between immersions. We will focus on developing a real 'community of practice' on each cohort. Optional integration and supervision calls support translation into practice and help consolidate learning.

Practitioners are also strongly advised to set up their own family of origin between retreats, with a reputable family systems practitioner. 

What makes this programme distinctive?

This is Constellations work transmitted with depth, but grounded in the realities of complex organisational life.

• Led by a first-generation UK Constellator with 30 years of international facilitation and teaching experience
• A coherent development pathway from foundations to advanced facilitation over10 days
• Deep experiential learning and real case-based practice
• Small group, high-touch, closely supervised experience
• Integration with mainstream OD, coaching and consulting approaches
• Practical tools for working systemically even when setting up a formal constellation is not possible
• Optional evening reflection circles
• Tested in global organisational practice in commercial and public sector systems
• Held in a carefully curated residential setting
• High quality peer learning community - limited to 12 participants

This is not simply about learning a method. It is about becoming the kind of practitioner who can stand in complexity — and move what needs to move.

The programme promise…

By the end of this intensive learning pathway, you will:

• Understand the systemic forces shaping organisational culture
• Develop an embodied capacity to sense and read organisational fields
• Refine your own distinctive signature style
• Build ethical and practical competence in Constellations facilitation
• Place systemic sentences in client conversations
• Expand systemic awareness and translate it into client impact
• Understand what creates connection, belonging and aliveness for leaders and teams
• Practice both whole-group and small-group constellations formats
• Learn to 'constellate without the constellation' when context requires it
• Leave with a grounded pathway toward Master Practitioner development
• Develop your own 'signature style' of integrating Constellations work into your existing coaching and OD practices

This programme is designed for…

• Internal and external coaches
• OD facilitators and consultants
• Leadership development practitioners
• Experienced professionals working with organisational culture and complexity

Participants should already be working in organisational settings and ready to deepen their systemic craft. If you are ready to move from interest… to embodied practice… to practitioner authority, this two-part intensive immersion experience offers a serious and spacious path.

This development pathway is not designed for those seeking a quick or purely technique-based training. It is for experienced practitioners who are ready to deepen their systemic capacity, refine their facilitation stance, and work responsibly with complexity in organisational life.

Price & refund policy

Practitioners can choose your point of entry: apply for either retreat individually, or for the complete two-part practitioner journey.

• Seeing the System - 5-day residential immersion, £4,500 ex VAT
• Moving the System - 5-day residential immersion, £4,850 ex VAT (Eligibility: Completion of 'Seeing the System' or equivalent prior Constellations training / experience)
• Both Retreats - £8,900 (preferential rate) + VAT

For those wishing to book both retreats, staged payments are possible - please reach out to Ty directly on ty.francis@meus.co.uk

To keep prices affordable, we do not offer refunds on cancelled places. We are happy to transfer your place to another person you nominate, or we will offer you an equivalent place on another Meus programme within 12 months of your original booking.

Because of the nature of this workshop, a small number of bursary places are available for those who cannot afford the full fee. Please contact Ty directly if you wish to explore this possibility.

Costs will cover facilitation and venue use, as well as meals and overnight accommodation.

Leading the Accelerated Pathway

This 2 x 5-day Accelerated Intensive in Organisational Constellations will be led by Ty Francis PhD, an experienced organisational practitioner with a longstanding commitment to systemic approaches, organisational constellations, and the development of reflective communities of practice. The author of 'Mapping the Invisible - Exploring Constellations-Informed Coaching & Consulting', Ty has been running Constellations workshops and teaching this systemic method of enquiry for nearly 30 years. A successful Gestalt-trained coach, supervisor and consultant specialising in Cultural Transformation, Ty works in the space between Change Management, Communications and Leadership & Team Development with some of the world’s leading corporations and Public Sector organisations.