John Whittington is an individual and team coach with a broad portfolio of clients that includes entrepreneurs, executive leaders and public figures. He facilitates regular systemic workshop interventions in corporate environments and leads a small teaching team who share the systemic coaching and constellations approach with other professional coaches internationally. He is also a guest tutor at Henley Business School for students of the Msc in Coaching and Behavioural change in the UK and South Africa.
"I was lucky enough to be coached by John Whittington at two
critical times in my career. Helping me understand and find my
place in the constellations around me from both an organizational
and personal perspective allowed me to make critical decisions. As
a result, I felt able to move forward with confidence, in a
different direction to one I might have taken had I been loyal to
old patterns. If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend
you take up the invitation in this book to map your own system.
John's clarity on the importance of respectful endings also has
particular romance and I have used the learnings several times
myself and with others, with resolving, positive impact. This is an
invaluable book that is both a piece of thought leadership and a
very practical guide."
*Helen Hyde, Former Personnel Director, Waitrose, and Board
Director, The John Lewis Partnership*
"The fact that this book is now in its third edition is a testament
to its value to coaches interested in systemic and embodied
enquiry. John Whittington communicates with incisive simplicity the
theory, methods and core practices of constellations, and helps
make this powerful approach accessible and inviting . He also
locates constellations within the broader panoply of systemic
approaches to organizational coaching. I particularly welcome, in
this edition, his greater focus on the centrality of belonging; of
the origins of many patterns of relating taht come up at work, in
our own family systems; and of the imperative of coaches doing our
own inner work on 'self-as-instrument' of client outcomes. As an
enriching companion-piece to support and explain experiential work
with constellations, I highly recommend this book."
*Ty Francis, PhD Coach, facilitator, filmmaker and author*
"What I find particularly useful about this book is John
Whittington's focus on the cycle of joining, belonging and leaving
organizational systems. We spend so much energy as leaders, as
members of organizational systems and as other kinds of
professionals on the start. The recruitment, the incentives and the
whole 'hoopla' of moving towards and into an organization. In fact,
as John points out, it is attending respectfully to endings and
leavings where both the dignity of the individual and the integrity
of the field of the organizational system can be built and
maintained. Since first working with this methodology some years
ago I've continued to find the combination of the philosophy behind
constellations and the very practical application of them in my
development and the teams I lead very clarifying."
*Sarah Weir, Chief Executive, Design Council, UK*
"Working with constellations has impacted all aspects of my life.
The process is visual and immediately actionable. Leading a
creative business is about making things, being productive,
constructive. For me this comes down to priorities, alignment of
the system and allocation of time and energy - these are finite -
and I have not experienced a more effective way to orient myself
than this approach. The way I and my co-founders planned the
business, went to market, talked with people, the way we executed.
Everything became clearer and more aligned. Things changed at the
level of the system. Ten years later and on another continent, the
methodology described in this book is one that has resourced and
clarified me, not just as a leader of an international business but
as a human being."
*Ben Wolstenholme, Founder and CEO, Madefire, San Francisco*
"The simple, practical application of systemic constellations
described in this book belies their hidden depths. They are
immediately accessible while repaying much study and reflection;
they are based on universal observable truths yet express the
uniqueness of every human soul. With his gentle provocativeness,
John Whittington engages us int his world of paradoxes, guides us
through the jungle of uncertainty and delivers us safely into
understanding. The genius of this book lies in John's ability to
invite coaches and leaders from multiple contexts to see things
differently. This third edition of a much-loved book charts the
further development of John's thinking, confidence and voice. He is
a thought-leader who is a delight to listen to and a joy to
read."
*Alison Hardingham, Coach, trainer, author and business
psychologist*
"I've recommended the previous editions of this book to many
coaches I train because it's full of practical ways of working with
the unspoken. This edition also goes further into the underlying
thinking behind constellations which has some of its root in TA:
acknowledging and working 'what is', transgenerational messages and
loyalties, and co-created exchange systems with their
out-of-awareness dynamics. I recommend this edition because it
freshly emphasizes the importance of working with phenomenology,
the human need to belong and organizational leaders' responsibility
to take a systemic stance. It will be a benefit to all coaches who
are curious about what clients will reveal to themselves when they
are willing to work in the field of invisible dynamics, deeper than
the social level of the coaching conversation."
*Rosemary Napper, Coach, Training and Supervising Transactional
Analyst*
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