My Approach

“Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge.” Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Earth is a living system. We call it Gaia.

Gaian systems are relational, non-linear and self-organising. They work in patterns that repeat across scales. They seek equilibrium.

My work supports changemakers to engage with that process, and to let go of loyalties that fight against it.

My approach is grounded in the methodology of systemic constellations, although extending beyond. 

I seek out the signals within the noise.

I notice what is missing. Excluded. 

I tune in at a deep level and understand how the parts of a system truly inter-relate.

I stay curious, constantly asking ‘what if’, as I guide systems to harmony.

Through the creation of ‘living maps’, using representatives, the systemic constellation approach allows a soft focus on the larger picture.

As facilitators, we cannot control the outcome of a constellation. We can only guide the process, first to surface the blockers or blindspots, and then to find that point of equilibrium where the system relaxes - often with “but, of course” admissions from participants.

We experiment by adding representatives for different elements of the system to see how the others react. We offer sentences for them to test. And, crucially, if a representative rejects a sentence we don’t argue. We trust the field. We let go of our hypothesis. We re-attune repeatedly to offer alternatives until we find resonance.

Until we find equilibrium for the system as a whole.

I run constellation workshops, and one-to-one coaching sessions, to facilitate systemic change. If you’d like to know more about how this work could benefit you, drop me a line.

Further information:

A constellation is typically run in a workshop setting although the methodology can also be applied by creating paper-based maps, using floor markers or objects to map out a system, and through virtual sessions.

The methodology was originally developed by German psychotherapist, Bert Hellinger, as a way of working with personal issues, and was found to be particularly powerful in helping people to identify and release patterns that repeat through the generations within families. More recently it has been adapted for working with organisational change issues and is also increasingly being used for working with wider societal challenges.

More about the healing potential of systemic constellations is outlined in this May 2025 article featured in The Independent.

For those curious about the theory behind the effectiveness of this methodology you may like to read Dan Cohen’s paper Family Constellation therapy: A nascent approach for working with non-local consciousness in a therapeutic container (Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, January 2024).