If everything is changing so radically and so quickly, and so much effort is poured in to making a difference:
- How do the same patterns persist?
- How can organizations and communities be better designed and led so that people and initiatives thrive?
- What forces may be preventing them from thriving?
Controversial, leading-edge work is revealing the presence and power of hidden influences - deep systemic forces which have their own order and which strongly influence organizational and social life. Systems need to be aligned with certain natural forces to be successful. They show stress and potential for failure when these forces are not acknowledged.
In mission-critical areas such as leadership, conflict resolution, innovation management, culture change, organizational restructuring, building partnerships, community development and others, success or failure often depends on the issues that are "below the radar" of awareness and are not amenable to conventional approaches.
Andy Stuck's use of Constellations in business consulting is different because the process is systemic.
Rather than artificially freeze-framing issues, the constellating process draws on what might be called "the embedded intelligence" of a situation. It shows ways in which issues are inter-related and reveals the underlying dynamics of a situation in ways that bring fresh and profound perspectives - and breakthrough results.