In the first of a series on systemic coaching, John Whittington sets the scene and shares some key principles, as he looks through a constellations lens Clients dealing with inertia or who are repeating patterns of limiting behaviour that seem beyond conventional intervention, may have issues rooted in the system. It makes sense, then, that a systems-orientated perspective, stance and methodology may help. Relationship systems are full of vast fields of interdependent patterns, hidden truths and unspoken loyalties. They create sources of entanglement and limit, or support, the flow of leadership....