ABSTRACT

The potential of constellations According to Wade (2004: 194), structural constellations “provide powerful and creative ways to clarifying and resolving complex, possibly intractable issues associated with organisations”, systems or social actors. By means of using systemic constellation, the pattern of relationships, structures, interaction, implicit knowledge and hidden or underlying dynamics and influences within a system can made obvious by a way of representing. It is also a way of focusing a mass of information and data, details and opinions and pointing aspects within a new dimension. Wade (2004: 194) also highlights that, “apart from bringing clarity, constellations give opportunities to experiment with possible options in a safe environment to aid decision-making”. Systemic constellations are able to represent and picture spatially patterns, relations, structures and relationships within a system, and thus they can be used for manifold issues (Kopp, 2013). Rosselet (2013: 16) recommends using systemic structural constellations whenever the following circumstances obtain:

• Wealth of information: There are several and diverse conceptualisation of problems and solutions.