Organizational Constellations Online Course Syllabus
Facilitated by Dr. Jane Peterson

Organizational Constellations for Family Constellation Facilitators
Learn how to use the spatial, somatic, and relational cues, and basic principles from family constellation work to understand the dynamics in corporations, organizations, and businesses.

If you are a family constellation facilitator and would like to work effectively and respectfully with clients who bring organizational issues or to be able to work with organizations, this program is for you. And, you can learn this art online without leaving home! This course is designed to build on your background in family constellation work and your knowledge of how to facilitate.

This five module online training covers what you need to begin working effectively with businesses, business people, and organizations. This course combines
• selected readings and short MP3 demonstrations and lectures
• Interactive discussion sessions with the trainer
• online discussion forums & demos of actual cases from your practice
• limited size so your questions will receive attention
• well structured course materials that make learning easy and effective.

Topics will include:
• Businesses and organizations from a systemic constellation perspective
• Key differences between family and organizational perspectives
• Working within an organization vs. consulting; coaching vs. therapy
• Entering other worlds – language to successfully navigate the unique life worlds of various professions
• Creating the agreement, obtaining and maintaining permission
• How to interview and facilitate in an organizational context
• Incorporating the constellation approach into consulting frameworks

Course Module Topics:
1: Ways of Thinking About Organizations & Orders of Relationships
2: Language to Introduce Systemic-Somatic Wisdom to Organizations
3: Power Dynamics within Organizations
4: Roles & Relationships
5: Class & Culture in Organizations
6: Family Owned Business
7: Family stuff in business & organizations
8: Capstone cases (cases you prepare and present)

We are accepting applications for this program now. Please contact Jane Peterson at humansystems@comcast.net if you are interested joining this ground-breaking program.

The course is organize around four major content areas:

1. Principles – lecture, discussion and experiential exercises ground the participants in the underlying philosophical principles of the systemic constellation work. You will apply these principles flexibly to the situations you will encounter in practice. As Bert likes to say, the constellation work is “applied philosophy.”

2. Practices – artistry requires a solid set of skills. You will be introduced to the basic practices and skills you need to facilitate constellations well. We provide you with a firm foundation for their continuing development after you leave the program.

3. Self-awareness – brings to surface your own perceptual and cognitive filters and familial tendencies, things that could obscure you ability to cleanly facilitate constellations for your clients. We call this portion of the training “cleaning the instrument of self.”

4. Feedback – as part of “closing the learning loop” during the program, you will receive constructive and supportive feedback on their progress in several ways, including, process questions for each public workshop day, on-line discussion questions, supervision sessions with the instructor present, personal constellation days for you to explore your own issues, self-assessment questionnaires, and coaching conversations with the trainer.

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

This is a learning program with the option of certification. Completing the following list of activities means you are eligible to be certified through the Institute and listed as certified on the Institute’s website. Of course, you may also take to incorporate what you learn from this program into your current profession without being certified. Those who do the coursework, however, seem to gain the most from the training.

To be eligible for certification, you must:

• Complete the application, letter of commitment and self-assessment questionnaire prior to the beginning of the training program and complete all payments on time.

• Attend four of the five interactive training sessions offered for this course.

• Complete 90% of the learning activities provided in the online forum, including the capstone case.

• Complete all required reading online.

• Participate in any online wiki assignments (group assignments)

• Read one text, preferrably either Horn & Brick, Invisible Dynamics (Carl-Auer) or Stam, Fields of Connections (Carl-Auer).

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