Supervision constellations
Supervision constellations are designed to help you quickly gain a clear picture of your role in specific professional challenges and to identify any changes you may need to make in order to be more relaxed and effective. These challenges may relate to management tasks, therapeutic, counselling or pastoral cases, or medical, nursing or educational contexts.
In supervision constellations, the focus is not on the conversation, but on the spatial unfolding of the situation and one’s own role in it. This quickly and accurately reveals which personal or systemic issues arise in current professional challenges or problems. It also reveals which attitude would be more appropriate to deal with them, and which development steps might need to be taken.
Supervision constellations work like this: The person who brings up the issue presents their concern and I make a suggestion as to what should be done. Then they choose representatives for the key aspects or participants in the situation and for themselves. In the case of management tasks, this could be the team concerned, the task itself, the department, the board of directors, the founder of the company, etc. In counselling, therapy and pastoral care, challenging cases are often used to clarify one’s own options for action. In the medical field, it is often patients who are perceived as problematic, along with their symptoms, perhaps their colleagues, and the practice or clinic itself.
Supervision constellations open your eyes to the systemic influences in current difficulties. They also confront you with your own unconscious complicity, i.e. the function of the current difficulties for your own growth. They reveal the point of unconscious inner connection and help you to repeatedly find an appropriate attitude, to deal mindfully with your own limits and to really use your resources. They help us to act from a place of greatest strength. Like all constellation formats, supervision constellations can also work well in a one-to-one setting.
Find out more about the possibilities of supervision constellations here.
