Systemic organisational constellations are a younger sister or brother of family constellations developed by Bert Hellinger, German philosopher and therapist. For the past 20 years, the organisational constellations have been developing as a separate field of action, further developed and fine tuned by Jan Jacob Stam and his institute in the Netherlands.

Systemic constellation as a method creates a living map of the organisational dynamics, using the participants in the workshop to represent the important elements in the organisational system. For example, the represented elements could be an executive board, management team, department X, department Y, clients, workers, sales team, etc. but also some other more conceptual elements like: goals, strategy, success, risk, future, purpose, etc.

Please note that systemic constellations are NOT a role-play exercise or any kind of acting; they recreate the exact image of the system dynamics in the form of a living map. This ‘living map’ can help the leaders and team members better understand what is going on in their system and what are the possible ways to move forward.