THE TRAINING CONTENT

This training is practical, deep, and a little bit brave — just like the work it prepares you for.

This training is built around a series of learning modules. Each module includes bite-sized assessments so learners can take the wheel and steer their own progress. The modules weave together four strands of learning:

  1. Theory (yes, the brainy stuff)
  2. Memory tasks (flex those mental muscles)
  3. Personal Insight (learning through your own life)
  4. Skills development (doing the thing, not just talking about it)

The goal? To help learners think clearly, relationally, and intuitively about mindful representation work. Not just floating in abstract theory, but grounded in real-life, relational experience.

THEORY : CORE CONTENT AREAS

  • Systemic theory, especially influential family therapy thinkers such as Minuchin, Satir, and Bowen.
  • Constellation pioneers like Hellinger, Beaumont, Weber, Schneider, Ulsamer, Franke, Franke-Gricksch, and Mason Boring.
  • Mindfulness teachings and contemplative perspectives from Kabat-Zinn, Williams, Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Suzuki, and Trungpa.
  • Original content integratingmindfulness and systemic thinking together iin practical and reflective ways.

MEMORY TASKS

When we step into a mindful representation, we often find ourselves entering a subtle and emotionally charged relational atmosphere. Practitioners often feel like they’re caught in a family storm — one minute clear, the next foggy with confusion or dissociation.

To navigate this, two trusty tools help:

  1. A well-tuned mindfulness practice — your inner lighthouse.
  2. Memorised principles — like a map to steer by when the emotional fog rolls in.

These principles are the scaffolding that support clarity and connection when the going gets murky.

PERSONAL INSIGHT

This part is all about using yourself as your main tool. Your life experience, family dynamics, emotional habits, and relational patterns all become part of the learning process. Think of it like a dancer mastering their body: it’s about learning how to work with your strengths and compensate for your blind spots.

PRACTICAL SKILLS

We’ll highlight key facilitation skills, then get hands-on with experiential exercises to build them. Students will also use self-assessment templates to track their strengths and growing edges. These same templates help trainers assess progress.

By the end of:

  • Basic Training – you’ll be competent in the fundamentals, with some fluency.
  • Integrated Practice – you’ll be able to work with more complex situations and integrate other therapeutic approaches.
  • Advanced Training – you’ll deepen your skills further and learn to run your own workshops, from recruiting to facilitating.

Many students become interested in thoughtfully adapting aspects of this work within individual therapeutic settings. We encourage careful integration and provide supervision to support this process.

MODULE SNAPSHOT

These modules are not strictly sequential but they all have core skills to be mastered.

MINDFULNESS MODULES

Module 1: Establishing a Practice – The basics of steadying the  mind

Module 2: Developing the Inner Witness – Training your attention, managing mindful transitions  opening to choiceless awareness

Module 3: Cultivating Resilience – Humility, creativity, integration of being and doing modes, and skilful directing of mindfulness

REPRESENTATION MODULES

Module 1: Systemic Principles – Learn how flow, structure, and connection play out in real life and in representations.

Module 2: Therapeutic Stance – Grounded, open, and curious

Module 3: Solution Focus – Supporting reflective movement and meaningful shifts to unfold within the process

Module 4: Mindful Interview

Module 5: Mindful Emotions – Meeting feelings without drowning in them

Module 6: Embodied Systemic Work – Developing embodied awareness and sensitivity to relational signals as you work. Body awareness is important throughout the entire training process, though it is emphasised particularly strongly here because of its role in emotional processing and regulation.

Module 7: Facilitating Representations – Applying mindfulness, tracking shifts in emotional tone, relational dynamics, and embodied responses within the process, honouring facts, and working one-on-one

Module 8: Skills Review – Integration and refinement, for those already facilitating

Sub-levels include:

  • Level 1: Connection
  • Level 2: Interventions
  • Level 3: Supporting Resolution and Integration
  • Level 4: Advanced application

Module 9: Trauma – Navigating deep waters with care

PRACTICE MODULE

Organising Workshops – From flyers to follow-through, learn the nuts and bolts of running your own group work