Training in Systemic Therapy and Interventions – Cycle 3
Year 3 — In-depth systemic intervention
The third year brings you into a more engaged level of practice, where it is no longer only about analysing complexity, but about conducting systemic interventions with greater precision, attunement and responsibility.
After the foundations of Year 1 and the clinical deepening of Year 2, this stage leads you to intervene in more sensitive, more shifting and sometimes riskier contexts, always under supervision.
The work here focuses on genuinely adapting therapeutic strategies to contexts: children, adolescents, siblings, couples, trauma-related suffering, situations of distress, violence, workplace contexts and systems of belonging.
The hybrid format keeps all its pedagogical coherence. In-person time supports intensive clinical training, simulations, work on stance, the group experience and experiential sequences. Remote time enables the continuity of supervision, regular analysis of situations and progressive integration of contemporary intervention models.
Year 3 is a decisive stage: it consolidates the systemic practitioner's stance, deepens the capacity for intervention and prepares for the framed autonomy of the fourth year.
Monthly payment possible • Institutional funding possible
Because in systemics, truly intervening means articulating strategy, responsibility and clinical presence
This year takes you from an in-depth reading of situations to a more concrete ability to conduct systemic interventions under supervision.
Strategies are no longer conceived in general terms, but attuned to specific contexts: age, relational configuration, level of risk, suffering, temporality and system of belonging.
You work on making explicit your way of being a therapist or practitioner, recognising your anchor points, your limits and the ethical requirements linked to the situations encountered.
What you will develop in the third year
- Conduct systemic interventions under supervision in varied clinical contexts.
- Adapt your strategies to complex situations and to the different human systems encountered.
- Intervene responsibly in contexts of vulnerability, distress or risk.
- Work clinically with children, adolescents, siblings and couples.
- Deepen a systemic reading of psycho-trauma and its relational effects.
- Develop clinical thinking on issues related to work and organisations.
- Make explicit, adjust and refine your clinical stance.
- Strengthen the articulation between practice, ethics, supervision and work on oneself.
In person for clinical training. Remote for reflective continuity.
In Year 3, the hybrid format supports a rise in clinical intensity without losing the regularity indispensable for integration.
- In-person time allows advanced simulations, more demanding role-playing, work on stance, experiential learning and fine live analysis of interactions.
- Remote time facilitates continuity of supervision, review of situations encountered on placement, targeted theoretical input and progressive elaboration of practice.
A year focused on in-depth intervention, strategic attunement and clinical responsibility
Contemporary models of systemic intervention
- Deepening of contemporary models
- Choosing and articulating intervention strategies
- Adjusting hypotheses during the process
- Finer reading of interactional loops
Clinical work with children, adolescents and siblings
- Clinical settings with children
- A systemic reading of adolescence
- The place of siblings in family dynamics
- Adjusting the frame to age and context
Systemic couple therapy
- An interactional reading of the conjugal bond
- Conflicts, loyalties, deadlocks and regulations
- The interview frame with the couple
- Refining therapeutic strategies
Distress, violence and at-risk situations
- Interventions in contexts of distress
- A systemic reading of situations of violence
- Recognising limits, the frame and necessary referrals
- Clinical responsibility in sensitive contexts
Psycho-trauma and the workplace context
- A systemic reading of psycho-trauma
- Relational effects of traumatic experiences
- Issues related to work and organisations
- Suffering, loyalties and tensions in professional systems
Clinical stance, ethics and systems of belonging
- Clinical stance and ethical practices
- Work on oneself and on systems of belonging
- Supervision, intervision and practice analysis
- Clinical placement and elaboration of experience
Teaching methods
- Advanced theoretical and clinical courses
- Case studies, simulations and complex scenarios
- Experiential workshops and work on stance
- Continuous articulation between models, strategy and practice
Clinical guidance
- Conducting interventions under supervision
- Individual and group supervision
- Intervision and professional practice analysis
- Supervised placement or clinical practice with in-depth feedback
Validation
- Progressive validation of the skills worked on in Year 3
- Written work, clinical analyses and self-assessments
- Continuous assessment of learning and of the clinical stance
- Active attendance expected throughout the journey
For which professionals
This third year is aimed at professionals in the mental-health, social, medico-social or corporate fields who wish to deepen their capacity for systemic intervention in complex, sensitive or relationally high-stakes contexts.
The level where practice truly densifies
- 3rd year of a progressive 1400-hour certifying cycle over 4 years.
- Prerequisites: Year 2 validated or equivalent grounding in the systemic approach.
- It extends the clinical deepening of Year 2 and prepares the framed autonomy of Year 4.
- It strengthens the articulation between clinical strategy, ethics, supervision and work on oneself.
- 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 third 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 closely attuned to the more advanced clinical challenges specific to this third year.
Deepening systemic practice to the heart of intervention
This third year is designed for those who want to turn an in-depth understanding of human systems into a more precise, more engaged and more responsible capacity for intervention, always within a supervised frame. The training is delivered in French.
