Systemic Work with Figurines
Systemic Work with Figurines
Systemic work with figurines is a therapeutic and coaching method designed to uncover and transform hidden dynamics within personal, family, or organisational systems. By using small figurines to represent people, relationships, or concepts, this approach provides a visual and physical way to explore connections, resolve conflicts, and gain new insights. Whether you’re facing challenges in your personal life, seeking clarity in professional decisions, or working through family dynamics, systemic work can help you uncover patterns and create positive change.
What Systemic Work Can Offer You
Systemic work with figurines allows you to visualise and externalise complex dynamics, offering clarity and understanding. Key benefits include:
Understanding Hidden Dynamics: By arranging figurines to represent people or elements in your system, you can uncover unseen patterns, roles, and influences that may be shaping your situation.
Gaining New Perspectives: Seeing the system as a whole often reveals fresh insights that aren’t immediately obvious when thinking or talking about it. This can lead to breakthroughs in understanding and decision-making.
Resolving Emotional Blocks: Through this process, unresolved feelings or tensions can surface in a safe and non-confrontational way, allowing you to process and address them.
Core Principles of Systemic Work
Systemic work is rooted in several guiding principles that shape its effectiveness:
Everything is Connected: Every part of a system—whether a family, team, or relationship—affects and is affected by the whole. Systemic work aims to restore balance within the system by addressing its interconnections.
Representations as Insights: Figurines serve as representatives of the system’s elements, offering a visual and tangible way to understand dynamics and relationships.
Respect for the System: The process honours the system’s unique structure and seeks to work within it rather than impose external solutions.
How Systemic Work with Figurines Works and What to Expect
A systemic session typically involves the following steps:
Identifying the System: The facilitator helps you define the system you want to explore—this could be your family, workplace, or even an abstract concept like a decision or conflict.
Choosing Figurines: You select figurines to represent the key elements of the system (e.g., individuals, emotions, roles) and place them in a way that feels intuitively right.
Exploring Arrangements: The facilitator may guide you in adjusting the placement of figurines, asking questions to explore how these changes feel and what they reveal.
Finding Resolution: Through repositioning and dialogue, the session often highlights areas where balance can be restored or conflicts resolved.
How Systemic Work Can Benefit You
By engaging in systemic work with figurines, you may:
- Gain deeper clarity about the root causes of challenges in relationships or situations;
- Develop a sense of empowerment by seeing how small changes can shift the dynamics of an entire system;
- Resolve unresolved tensions by acknowledging hidden emotions or unspoken truths;
- Feel a sense of harmony as new perspectives lead to greater understanding and alignment.
Whether you’re navigating personal challenges or exploring professional dynamics, systemic work with figurines offers a creative, impactful way to uncover insights and move forward with confidence and balance.