Training in Systemic Therapy and Interventions – Cycle 4
Year 4 — Clinical integration and supervision
The fourth year is the integration stage of the cycle: the one where the learning of the previous years comes together in a more coherent, more personal and more autonomous practice, always under supervision.
After the foundations, the clinical deepening and the in-depth intervention, this final year leads you towards framed autonomy. It is no longer only about learning models or adjusting strategies, but about integrating them into a way of practising that is legible, responsible and professionally sustainable.
The work focuses on conducting systemic therapies and interventions, perfecting the strategic resolutive method, opening up to narrative, experiential and multi-generational practices, as well as on practice evaluation, ethics, professional conduct and the therapist's responsibility.
This year also opens a freer space for formalising the final project. It can take the form of a clinical dissertation, but also of an article, a video published online, or a more creative contribution to the systemic field, as long as the project meets the training's pedagogical and professional requirements.
The hybrid format keeps its pedagogical function here. In-person time supports the intensity of supervision, practice analysis, experiential work, the elaboration of one's professional positioning and preparation for certification. Remote time enables the continuity of guidance, supervision, intervision and the final project.
Year 4 is the most integrative of the journey. It aims to consolidate a coherent systemic practice, to formalise your clinical work or your contribution to the field, and to prepare professional recognition based on explicit standards.
Monthly payment possible • Institutional funding possible
Because in systemics, professional maturity is not measured only by what you know, but by how you integrate, evaluate, transmit and sustain your practice
This year aims to connect models, tools, clinical stance, ethics and experience into a more unified practice.
You work on recognising your limits, evaluating your practice, adjusting your indications and referring when necessary, within a more explicit deontological frame.
The final project, supervision and practice analysis support a clarification of your intervention style, as well as a capacity to transmit, publish or contribute to the systemic field in a relevant form.
What you will develop in the fourth year
- Conduct systemic therapies and interventions autonomously under supervision.
- Integrate different systemic models into a coherent, flexible and legible practice.
- Evaluate your professional practice and adjust your clinical choices in an argued way.
- Recognise your limits, set an attuned frame and refer when necessary.
- Perfect the conduct of the therapeutic process and the strategic resolutive method.
- Mobilise narrative, experiential and multi-generational practices in a relevant way.
- Strengthen an ethical, deontological and responsible stance.
- Formalise a final project that may take the form of a clinical dissertation, an article, a video or a contribution to the systemic field.
In person for clinical integration. Remote for the continuity of the final project and supervision.
In Year 4, the hybrid format supports a logic of professional integration: maintaining a high level of clinical rigour while allowing the continuity a long-term project requires.
- In-person time supports intensive supervision, practice analysis, experiential work, fine adjustments of stance and preparation for certification.
- Remote time facilitates the follow-up of the final project, regular supervision, intervision, guidance in clinical or creative formalisation and the continuity of the journey.
A year focused on integration, supervision, ethics and the formalisation of the final project
Conducting therapies and strategic refinement
- Conducting systemic therapies
- Perfecting the strategic resolutive method
- Refining the therapeutic process
- Adjusting indications and intervention sequences
Narrative, experiential and multi-generational practices
- Deepening narrative practices
- Experiential tools in systemic therapy
- Multi-generational work
- Integrating several models into a coherent practice
Institutions and group dynamics – advanced level
- A systemic reading of institutions
- Complex group dynamics
- Regulations, tensions and places in professional systems
- Systemic intervention in institutional contexts
Practice evaluation, ethics and professional conduct
- Evaluation of professional practices
- Ethics, professional conduct and the therapist's responsibility
- Recognising limits and referring
- Reflection on the frame and clinical responsibility
Supervision, intervision and work on belongings
- Individual and group clinical supervision
- Intervision and professional practice analysis
- Work on oneself and on systems of belonging
- Integrating clinical experience into the professional stance
Final project, certification and defence
- Guidance in designing and formalising the final project
- Clinical dissertation, article, video published online or another contribution to the systemic field
- Preparation for certification
- Defence of the final project
Teaching methods
- Advanced theoretical and methodological courses
- Case studies, practice analyses and clinical deep dives
- Experiential workshops and integration work
- Structured guidance in designing and completing the final project
Clinical guidance
- Individual and group supervision
- Intervision and professional practice analysis
- Supervised placement or clinical practice at an advanced level
- Ongoing work on stance, frame and professional limits
Validation
- Progressive validation of the skills worked on in Year 4
- Written work, clinical analyses and self-assessments
- Final project and defence before a multidisciplinary jury
- The final project may take a clinical, written, audiovisual or contributive form depending on its relevance and the pedagogical frame
For which professionals
This fourth year is aimed at professionals in the mental-health, social, medico-social or corporate fields who wish to consolidate an integrated, professionalised systemic practice supported by supervision.
The culmination of the journey
- 4th year of a progressive 1400-hour certifying cycle over 4 years.
- Prerequisites: Year 3 validated or equivalent grounding in the systemic approach.
- It extends the in-depth intervention of Year 3 and leads to framed, recognised autonomy.
- It articulates clinical practice, supervision, ethics, the final project and certification.
- The final project can take the form of a clinical dissertation or a more creative, transmissible contribution to the systemic field.
- 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 fourth 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 particularly attuned to the challenges of clinical integration, professionalisation and final formalisation specific to this last year.
Integrating your practice, assuming your stance, formalising your contribution
This fourth year is designed for those who want to stabilise a coherent, in-depth and responsible systemic practice, within a demanding supervision framework leading to certification and the defence of a final project that can take several forms depending on the project. The training is delivered in French.
