Organisational system constellations

Find hidden patterns using a whole system approach to your organization

Course description

Constellations work from the epistemological basis that we are all part of an interconnected universe and thus can tap intuitively into an ‘informing’ or ‘knowing’ field using a level of knowledge beyond our rational or imaginative processes.

Constellating is an approach to whole systems working which looks at the issues and dynamics of an organisation system such as a family or community using people as live representatives to provide feedback on the system. Participants may investigate their own system and be active observers for others.

You choose the domain such as your community, team, family or peer relations and the topics, for example, health, workplaces, collaborations, to explore in depth. Issues related to your past, present and future histories are processed for the purpose of achieving understanding and vitality. Εxplore representations within a constellation approach as a dynamic method of communication in professional and personal relationships.

Constellation bears some similarities to Moreno’s psychodrama except that crucially it looks at consequences and works with hidden loyalties from the past to reveal dynamics in the present. It can also work with the future in the present and point to resolving energies as well as bring insights about underlying issues holding back a team or organization.

Methodology

This course builds on proven methods of systemic representations. Constellations are action-oriented approaches in that they point to new actions and behaviours that support change. A constellation starts with an interview identifying the burning issues that preoccupy the issue holder in a system, for example, in an organization. The constellator (facilitator), most importantly, listens to the issue without judgement. The interviewer is thinking relationally, of hidden patterns and of consequences over time.

A constellation is set up by the issue holder using representatives, often people who know very little about the organisation. It reveals the underlying dynamics that shape a system stripped of the details and points of view that lead to opinions and judgements. It reveals the hidden dynamics or the relationships between the things that make up the system. In this way, energy is released for new possibilities and new internal images of that system.

Workshop

Benefits

We sense where disconnections and exclusions have occurred in the history of a system and understand how certain relationships developed or ended. People seek to bring balance and stability to systems even subconsciously.

Participation in a constellation is a way of hosting conversations in the presence of intuition. This can lead to insights as to why things malfunction in our behavior or attitude. It’s an effective way to unfold hidden dynamics which allow us to release past entanglements in an attempt to pursue a better and more balanced life.

Τhe constellation generates powerful insights and participants can work through their own deep issues in a confidential setting. Participants becοme  aware of the importance of the three stages (before, during and after) of a constellation that can optimise the constellation in a transformational process.

Programme

This workshop is highly experiential and participatory

    • Opening and introduction
    • Increase our Energy – Positive core
    • Aligning individual and collective learning goals for the week
    • Learning and practicing Exploration questions and issues present:
    • Constellation Sessions
    • Communities of Practice an introduction

Local Evening – welcome reception

  • Invitation as a process
  • Learn the way take and define roles
  • See the difference
  • Communities of practice – learning teams
  • Participatory processes and tools in Constellations
  • Experiential work
  • Systemic consultations and representations
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Bring cases
  • Learn the way take and define roles
  • See the difference
  • Play – reflect – repeat – absorb
  • Revisioning support

● Methodologies and Practices-Overview of Core Methodologies
● Open Space Technology,
● From personal to organizational ecosystem
● From organizational to personal egosystem
● Story harvesting
● Communities of practice – learning teams

Excursion
● Co-learning from nature and other environments
● Practice
● Walking reflection

  • Case supervision
  • Collective Mind Map Making visible our thinking
  • Evaluations
  • Closing

Duration:     5 or 6 days

Dates:           Upon request

Locations:     Crete & Paros island, Greece

Designed for participants/groups

This workshop has a healing, experiential character designed for members of organisations and those who want to explore a deeper understanding of their systems communities, organizations and working teams.

This training is also designed for diverse multicultural teams and others addressing pressing challenges in their systems.

Instructors

Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.

Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.

Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.

Chrysoula Kazakidou’s first studies were on the theory of music and wind Instrumentation, music therapy and sound therapy. She is a Synthetic Mental Health Counselor (member of ASC-COSCA) and trained in Family Constellation – Systemic Therapy and Gestalt art therapy. She is also trained in ​​life coaching / leadership training in the Socratic Obstetrician Method. She studied craniosacral therapy, hypnosis, trauma therapy, color therapy, Ayurveda, therapeutic massage and meditation methods and body psychotherapy.  She is working on a holistic approach to self-knowledge and self-improvement for individuals and groups for professional and personal application.

Venue

Our programme takes place on the island of Crete in Greece in the pleasant seaside town of Platanias close to Chania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Porto Platanias Village Resort, located on the northwest coast of Crete, provides luxurious accommodations and fully serviced workshop facilities. Beaches, local eateries, shops and sites are within walking distance of Porto Platanias. This setting provides ample opportunity for participants to continue discussions outside of formal workshop hours in a relaxed atmosphere.
The closest international airports are Chania International Airport (24 km) and Heraklion International Airport (165 km).

It also takes place in the Island of Paros an island of the Cyclades in the heart of the Aegean Sea. Traditional architecture, nightlife, beaches, rural villages and historical monuments are within easy reach of the accommodations and workshop location.

There are regular and daily connections to Paros from Athens by ferry or air travel.

Participation Fee

The fee for this course is 1,300€ in a double room  (approx. depending on the period) (+200 single room).

It includes tuition fee and educational material, certificates of participation, welcome cocktail, gala dinner, half day excursion (optional) to idyllic with small boat and local delicacies to Koufonisia complex or Antiparos Blue Laggon caves.

Accommodation and half board are included. We can always manage decent prices for groups. Ask us about it!

Contact us

Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*

Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.

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