Training for therapists — Individual practice (THE)

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Course content

Course presentation
- Training pathway guide for therapists (THE)
- Charter of the practitioner in private practice
- References
Part 1 — Clinical systemic foundations
- Module 1.1 — Systemic thinking in a clinical context 10 xp
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- Module 1.2 — The orders of love in clinical reading 10 xp
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- Module 1.3 — The professional’s resonance and the notion of the field in the practice room 10 xp
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- Module 1.4 — Combining constellations and the clinical framework 10 xp
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Part 2 — Tools for the individual practice room
- Module 2.1 — Figurines — setting up, reading and interventions 10 xp
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- Module 2.2 — Floor anchors — complete protocols 10 xp
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- Module 2.3 — Guided visualisation and the systemic empty chair 10 xp
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- Module 2.4 — Active genogram and systemic drawing 10 xp
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Part 3 — Relationship themes in individual work
- Module 3.1 — Parent-child relationships in individual work 10 xp
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- Module 3.2 — Couple and separation in individual work 10 xp
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- Module 3.3 — Grief and loss in individual work 10 xp
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- Module 3.4 — Transgenerational issues and secrets in individual work 10 xp
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Part 4 — Health, body and symptoms
- Module 4.1 — The symptom in systemic reading: possibilities and limits 10 xp
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- Module 4.2 — Chronic illness and pain 10 xp
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- Module 4.3 — Addictions and eating disorders 10 xp
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- Module 4.4 — Fertility, perinatal grief and relationship to the body 10 xp
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Part 5 — Complex situations and safety
- Module 5.1 — Trauma and PTSD in the practice room 10 xp
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- Module 5.2 — Fragile clients 10 xp
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- Module 5.3 — Abuse and violence: safety, referral and limits 10 xp
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- Module 5.4 — Therapeutic integration 10 xp
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Part 6 — Professionalisation and practitioner ethics
- Module 6.1 — Articulated ethical framework 10 xp
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- Module 6.2 — The professional relationship: transference, countertransference and resonance 10 xp
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- Module 6.3 — Clinical documentation and consent 10 xp
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- Module 6.4 — Supervision, peer supervision and continuing development 10 xp
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Glossary
- Global glossary — Training for therapists (THE)
Course resources
- Learner tools hub — pathways and resources
- Internal certification /20 — arrangements
- Bibliography — systemic constellations in individual practice
- Model session sheet — to be duplicated for each session
- Clinical or ethical incident form
- End-of-support form (client dropping out)
Model case studies
- Case study 1 — Couple in crisis (infidelity, grief for the plan of a child)
- Case study 2 — Complex childhood trauma (EMDR co-care)
- Case study 3 — Anniversary syndrome and invisible loyalty
- Case study 4 — Decompensation after a constellation: the failings to avoid
Bank of practical exercises
- Exercises — Part 1 — Clinical systemic foundations
- Exercises — Part 2 — Tools for the individual practice room
- Exercises — Part 3 — Relationship themes in individual work
- Exercises — Part 5 — Therapeutic integration (module 5.4)
- Exercises — Part 6 — Professionalisation and ethics
Library of individual protocols (PI-001 to PI-100)
- Index of individual protocols and review status
Protocols — A — Therapeutic framework and set-up
- PI-001 — Informed consent specific to systemic work in the practice room
- PI-002 — Initial systemic assessment of the client
- PI-003 — Systemic anamnesis in the practice room
- PI-004 — Formulating the systemic therapeutic intention
- PI-005 — Arranging the practice room for systemic work
- PI-006 — First systemic session — introduction protocol
- PI-007 — Managing the time frame (one-off vs. long-term follow-up)
- PI-008 — Closing and post-session integration
Protocols — B — Figurines — Fundamental protocols
- PI-009 — Basic family constellation with figurines
- PI-010 — Constellation of the family of origin (figurines)
- PI-011 — Constellation of those excluded from the system (figurines)
- PI-012 — Constellation of the place in the siblings (figurines)
- PI-013 — Constellation of the parent-child dynamic (figurines)
- PI-014 — Constellation of invisible loyalties (figurines)
- PI-015 — Constellation of entanglement — untangling (figurines)
- PI-016 — Constellation of the ancestral resource (figurines)
- PI-017 — Constellation of the systemic drama triangle (figurines)
- PI-018 — Constellation of polarities (figurines)
- PI-019 — Structural constellation in the practice room (Sparrer & Varga von Kibéd)
- PI-020 — Multi-generational constellation (figurines, 3–4 generations)
Protocols — C — Floor anchors — Protocols in movement
- PI-021 — Floor anchors — Basic protocol
- PI-022 — Systemic walk in the family system
- PI-023 — Reconciliation with a parent (floor anchors)
- PI-024 — Symbolic return — putting back in place (anchors)
- PI-025 — Farewell ritual in movement (floor anchors)
- PI-026 — Ritual of including an excluded person (floor anchors)
- PI-027 — Anchors and resolution sentences — combined protocol
- PI-028 — Floor anchors and integrated body work
- PI-029 — Double constellation — anchors + figurines
- PI-030 — Life-line constellation (floor anchors)
Protocols — D — Visualisation and systemic empty chair
- PI-031 — Guided systemic visualisation — basic protocol
- PI-032 — Systemic empty chair — dialogue with a parent
- PI-033 — Systemic empty chair — dialogue with an ancestor
- PI-034 — Empty chair — dialogue with a lost child
- PI-035 — Visualisation of the maternal line
- PI-036 — Visualisation of the paternal line
- PI-037 — Visualisation of the inner systemic resource
- PI-038 — Guided systemic meditation — return to one’s place
Protocols — E — Active genogram and systemic drawing
- PI-039 — Active genogram — interactive construction in session
- PI-040 — Genogram of exclusions and secrets
- PI-041 — Genogram of repetitive patterns
- PI-042 — Genogram of family illnesses and symptoms
- PI-043 — Free systemic drawing — non-verbal exploration
- PI-044 — Drawing of the inner family
- PI-045 — From genogram to constellation — transition protocol
- PI-046 — Genogram compared before and after a constellation
Protocols — F — Parent-child and family relationships
- PI-047 — Reconciliation with the mother (complete protocol)
- PI-048 — Reconciliation with the father (complete protocol)
- PI-049 — Parentification — restoring the child’s place
- PI-050 — Absent or abandoning parent — giving a place
- PI-051 — Adoption and double belonging in individual work
- PI-052 — Place among siblings and rivalry
- PI-053 — The inner child in systemic reading
- PI-054 — Parental separation seen from the child’s perspective
- PI-055 — Blended family — finding the order
- PI-056 — Toxic relationship with a parent — setting systemic boundaries
- PI-057 — Parent-child emotional inheritance — return protocol
- PI-058 — Parental blessing — receiving and giving
Protocols — G — Couple and separation
- PI-059 — Couple dynamic — balance of giving and receiving
- PI-060 — Ex-partners and loyalties — freeing the place
- PI-061 — Repetitive relationship patterns — genogram + figurines
- PI-062 — Conscious separation — farewell ritual in individual work
- PI-063 — Codependency and fusion — finding one’s place again
- PI-064 — Infidelity and betrayal — systemic reading
- PI-065 — Blended family from the couple’s perspective
- PI-066 — Domestic violence — work from the victim’s perspective
- PI-067 — Couple without children — systemic pressure and loyalties
- PI-068 — Constellation of the couple’s project
Protocols — H — Health, body and symptoms
- PI-069 — Constellation of a physical symptom in the practice room (figurines)
- PI-070 — Body and blocked emotion — release in individual work
- PI-071 — Chronic illness and transgenerational entanglements
- PI-072 — Constellation of the diseased organ (figurines)
- PI-073 — Chronic pain and fibromyalgia — practice-room protocol
- PI-074 — Addictions — constellation of the substance (figurines)
- PI-075 — Eating disorders — anorexia and bulimia in systemic reading
- PI-076 — Fertility and the desire for a child — systemic dimension
- PI-077 — Perinatal grief and the lost child — figurines protocol
- PI-078 — Depression and invisible loyalties
- PI-079 — Autoimmune diseases — when the body turns on itself
- PI-080 — Relationship to the body and body image — integrative protocol
Protocols — I — Trauma and complex situations
- PI-081 — Individual trauma vs. systemic trauma — assessment
- PI-082 — Safe remote constellation (distant figurines)
- PI-083 — Ancestral resources — activation in the practice room
- PI-084 — Borderline client — adaptations of the systemic framework
- PI-085 — Dissociation — figurines-only protocol (no anchors)
- PI-086 — Sexual abuse — progressive 5-step protocol
- PI-087 — Incest — ultra-safe protocol in individual work
- PI-088 — Family violence — work from the victim’s perspective
- PI-089 — Complex grief and suicide in the system
- PI-090 — Collective trauma — war, genocide, migration
Protocols — J — Integration and professionalisation
- PI-091 — CBT + constellations — cognitive schemas as systemic loyalties
- PI-092 — Gestalt + constellations — enriched empty chair and continuum
- PI-093 — Psychoanalysis + constellations — family unconscious and repetition
- PI-094 — EMDR + constellations — integrated systemic trauma protocol
- PI-095 — IFS + constellations — inner parts and the family system
- PI-096 — Therapist’s self-constellation — systemic hygiene
- PI-097 — Systemic supervision — constellating one’s relationship with a client
- PI-098 — Clinical documentation — recording systemic interventions
- PI-099 — Systemic practice journal — methodology
- PI-100 — Continuing professional development plan for the systemic therapist
Final exam
- Final exam — Training for therapists (THE) (70% pass mark)

References

Module 0 • References
Texts and studies cited in the pathway

Status of statements. [Established] documented fact or recognised clinical practice; [Tradition] what the constellation movement reports; [Hypothesis] proposed explanation, not demonstrated. The effectiveness of constellations has not been demonstrated (see FAC module 5.3).

The references below must be checked at the source before any citation; legal texts change.

Studies on effectiveness

Weinhold et al., 2013, Journal of Counseling Psychology 60(4): randomised controlled trial on family constellation seminars.
Konkolÿ Thege et al., 2021: review of studies, with a moderate estimated effect but weak evidence.

Legal texts (France)

Penal Code: Article 223-1-2 (incitement to abandon medical care; law no. 2024-420 of 10 May 2024), Article 223-6 (failure to assist), Article 226-13 (professional secrecy), Article 434-3 (ill-treatment of a minor or vulnerable person).
Protected titles: psychologist and psychotherapist. The code of ethics specific to your profession applies.

Helplines and support numbers (France)

3114 (suicide prevention), 119 (children in danger), 3919 (domestic violence), 0 800 08 11 11 (abortion), Drogues Info Service 0 800 23 13 13, Alcool Info Service 0 980 980 930.

To be checked locally

For Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg or another country: your professional body and the data protection authority.