Training in Systemic Therapy and Interventions – Cycle 2
Sessions
13–15 January 2027
4–5 February 2027
In person, 1–5 March 2027
8–9 April 2027
13–14 May 2027
In person, 7–11 June 2027
1–2 July 2027
8–10 September 2027
6–8 October 2027
In person, 15–19 November 2027 (colloquium on the 19th)
15–17 December 2027
Year 2 — Complexity and diversity of human systems
The second year takes you from the systemic foundations to a denser, more nuanced and more contextualised clinical reading of human situations.
After a first year focused on the basics, this stage leads you to work on the articulation between systemic models, developmental trajectories, attachment, psychopathology, crises, grief, couples, institutions and group dynamics.
The challenge is no longer only to understand systemics as a theoretical framework, but to use it to analyse complex, situated clinical situations, crossed by several levels of reality at once: individual, family, institutional, social and cultural.
The hybrid format retains all its relevance here. In-person time supports the intensity of the workshops, simulations, work on oneself and living clinical practice. Remote time enables the continuity of case analyses, supervision, methodological input and the start of the dissertation.
Year 2 is a pivotal year. It refines clinical judgement, strengthens the ability to formulate more robust systemic hypotheses and prepares you to take part in interventions with greater precision and responsibility under supervision.
Monthly payment possible • Institutional funding possible
Because in systemics, complexity is not an obstacle: it is the very place of clinical work
This year teaches you to relate systemic models, development, attachment, psychopathology and life contexts, rather than treating them as separate blocks.
Symptoms, relational deadlocks and crises are read in their context of emergence, maintenance and transformation, with heightened attention to interactions and systems of belonging.
You no longer simply identify landmarks: you begin to take part in interventions under supervision, with a more constructed stance and better-attuned clinical hypotheses.
What you will develop in the second year
- Articulate systemic models with developmental and psychopathological issues.
- Analyse complex clinical situations in their family, institutional, social and cultural contexts.
- Refine the construction of more elaborate systemic hypotheses.
- Identify the logics of change, maintenance and blockage in human systems.
- Take part in systemic interventions under supervision.
- Read couple, crisis, grief and vulnerability situations with greater clinical precision.
- Deepen reflective work on oneself and one's family of origin.
- Begin a research process and lay the first foundations of the clinical dissertation.
In person for clinical intensity. Remote for analysis and integration.
In Year 2, the hybrid format takes on an even more precise function: supporting the rise in complexity without fragmenting the learning.
- In-person time allows experiential work, more demanding simulations, exploration of the clinical stance, interview simulations and learning related to sensitive contexts.
- Remote time facilitates the continuity of supervision, regular case analysis, progressive integration of theoretical input and methodological support for the dissertation.
A year focused on clinical complexity, the diversity of human systems and contextualisation
Theory of change and clinical strategy
- Theory of change
- Logics of maintenance, blockage and transformation
- Deepening of the strategic resolutive method
- Refinement of intervention strategies
Development, attachment and relational trajectories
- Developmental theories
- Attachment and systemic reading
- Individual – family – context articulation
- Effects of life stages on relational balances
Psychopathology and mental health in a systemic reading
- A systemic reading of mental-health disorders
- Symptom, relational function and context
- Building complex clinical hypotheses
- Identifying vulnerabilities and resources
Particular family configurations, grief and critical transitions
- Families with particular configurations
- Normal and pathological grief
- Ruptures, blended families and life passages
- Supporting sensitive transitions
Couple, sexuality and crisis situations
- Systemic models of the couple relationship
- Sexuality and relational dynamics
- Interventions in crisis situations
- Adjusting the clinical stance in acute contexts
Institutions, groups, research and professional maturation
- Institutions and group dynamics
- Research methodology and start of the dissertation
- Work on oneself and one's family of origin (advanced level)
- Clinical placement, supervision and intervision
Teaching methods
- Theoretical and methodological courses
- Case studies and in-depth clinical analyses
- Experiential workshops and complex simulations
- Reading, writing and first methodological landmarks for the dissertation
Clinical guidance
- Participation in interventions under supervision
- Individual and group supervision
- Intervision and practice analysis
- Supervised placement or clinical practice with field feedback
Validation
- Progressive validation of the skills worked on in Year 2
- Written work and analyses of clinical situations
- First steps of the dissertation process
- Continuous assessment of learning and active attendance expected throughout
For which professionals
This second year is aimed at professionals in the mental-health, social, medico-social or corporate fields who wish to deepen their systemic practice and develop a finer reading of complex situations.
A rise in clinical responsibility
- 2nd year of a progressive 1400-hour certifying cycle over 4 years.
- Prerequisites: Year 1 validated or equivalent grounding in the systemic approach.
- It extends the foundations of Year 1 and prepares the in-depth systemic intervention of Year 3.
- It maintains the constant articulation between theory, practice, supervision, intervision and placement.
- Double certification in collaboration with Le Lien Systémique.
- Training aligned with EFTA and SFTF standards, registered within AEP frameworks, with an international dimension and possible institutional funding.
A second year carried by a solid clinical team
The cycle's main trainers are Yara Doumit Naufal, Julien Besse and Gisèle Abi Chahine.
The training is part of a wider teaching environment that also includes leading guest trainers, among them Robert Neuburger, Jacques Pluymaekers, Ivy Daure, Bernard Filleul, Damien Légère, Marie-Jeanne Schon, Cinthe Lemmens, Stessie Fougeroux, Marie-Christine Cabié-Jacquemin and Lola Pernot.
With the group limited to 15 participants, the guidance can remain demanding, in-depth and personalised, including in the more complex clinical work specific to this second year.
Deepening systemics in contact with real complexity
This second year is designed for those who want to go beyond acquiring the basics and enter a deeper, more contextualised and more responsible clinical reading of human systems. The training is delivered in French.
