Freeing Up Our Future
A Field Guide to Systemic Intelligence, Leadership and Practice
Freeing Up Our Future introduces a new lens of systemic intelligence; a powerful, practical way to perceive and work with the hidden connections and dynamics of human systems.
Human beings already possess a deep intuitive systemic intelligence. In some this may be dormant or unconscious, whilst others thrive because they can sense dynamics, relationships, and patterns that others miss - even if they lack the language for it.
This book helps provide a shared vocabulary for this way of seeing the world and hopes to awaken and make conscious that intuitive sense that sits within us all. It explores this in the worlds of work, leadership and vocational practice.
Drawing on over 30 years of combined practice, 4,000 case studies and over 90 client stories, this is both a field guide and a learning companion. From laying out the key principles of a systemic approach to blending insights with hands-on application and inviatations for personal inquiry, this book is a resource for those invested in their leadership development or developing their systemic coaching with constellations practice.
This guide will help you develop a deeper, more interconnected view of the world and the systems you live and work within. It shows how revealing the hidden patterns beneath problems and attuning to the natural orders of living systems can restore energy, flow, coherence and strengthening movement. It explores the capabilities and ways of being that are needed to lead systemically, and offers practical tools for systemic partnering, to support transformation across individuals, teams, organizations and ecosystems.
Whether you are a leader, manager, coach, or simply curious, this inspiring and pragmatic book will help you co-create the conditions where healthier, more purposeful systems can flourish.
Celebratory Launch Event
Thu 15 Oct 2026 15:00 - 19:30
St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, EC2N 4AG
You are warmly invited to an intimate evening celebrating the launch of Freeing Up Our Future at the historic St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the heart of the City of London. We will be screening a new film on the beauty and impact of systemic constellations – created in partnership with infosyon – and there will be conversation, constellations and community.
This is an opportunity to meet the authors, Ed and Deborah, as well as some of the people featured in the film. Join us in celebrating the birth of this extraordinary book – a ‘labour of love and purpose’ which has been 20+ years in the making – together with alumni of systemic constellations and other guiding lights in this field of work.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Beyond the Book
The Working Souls Book Circle
Freeing up our Future will be the inaugural book for this new, community offer.
Every great book opens a door.
Beyond the Book -The Working Souls Book Circle, invites you to walk through it... into a gently held and structured space to join curious comrades, where ideas can be explored and reading can lead to insight and transformation.
We know that meaningful development doesn’t happen through information alone. It happens when we pause and ask better questions, when we hear perspectives different from our own, when we try something new - and when we're accompanied by others interested in exploring and learning together.
Beyond the Book - The Working Souls Book Circle, is about allowing a book to make its way more deeply into our life and work, to develop how we think, how we lead and coach, and ultimately play its part in shaping who we become.
If this captures your heart ,and you are looking for a place where books are catalysts, communing is the vehicle, and development is the purpose we would be delighted to welcome you.
To receive further information on Beyond the Book – The Working Souls Book Circle, and for specific details of this free, inaugural cycle where we will travel with “Freeing up our Future”, please join the waitlist.
Seeing Anew
From Reading to Seeing.
Experience Systemic Intelligence in Practice.
If Freeing Up Our Future has sparked your interest, Seeing Anew offers an opportunity to experience these ideas and practices for yourself.
These one-day experiential, in-person systemic labs introduce systemic intelligence and constellations as a practical approach to exploring the hidden dynamics that influence relationships, leadership, and organisational life.
Exploring your own live issue through guided exercises, demonstrations and reflection, you'll discover how systemic intelligence can help you see beyond presenting issues to what is really shaping the system and the issues you hold.
Whether you're a leader, coach, HR or OD professional, or simply curious about systemic practice, you'll leave with fresh perspectives, practical insights and a deeper appreciation of how developing systemic intelligence can open up new possibilities for resolution, collaboration and change.
Those already experienced in this work are also very welcome to join, share their wisdom and use this space to deepen into a current work or vocational issue they hold.
More information, dates and locations for the autumn and spring coming soon. Please sign up here to be notified.
About the authors
Deborah Haskew
Deborah Haskew is a Fellow of the Association for Coaching, an Occupational and Chartered Coaching Psychologist, supervisor and facilitator. Her life’s work has been accompanying professionals, senior leaders, their teams and systems through significant transitions and developmental change, helping them navigate the deeper movements at play in these pivotal times.
Into her psychological and organisational change foundations she integrates organisational and family constellations, Circles of Trust® and other intuitive and embodied approaches, enhancing her pragmatic, holistic, systemic and relational approach.
Based near Stroud with English and Irish roots, she draws personal inspiration and nourishment from family, nature, art and the human stories that shape us.
Edward Rowland
Edward Rowland is the Founder of The Whole Partnership and a leadership catalyst, senior executive coach, and team coach with over 25 years of experience helping leaders and organisations unfold their unique potential.
A leading Systemic Coach and Constellations practitioner, Ed co-pioneered this transformative approach in leadership contexts, learning from first-generation pioneers including Gunthard Weber and Judith Hemming.
With a background as a barrister and in creative industries, Ed brings a unique blend of rigour, creativity, and heart to his work. He co-founded the Centre for Systemic Constellations (CSC) and has worked with business schools and universities worldwide.
“Building on their previous work, Ed and Deborah take this further in Freeing Up Our Future, exploring how systemic intelligence and constellations work can help leaders navigate complexity, attune more fully to the living systems they are part of, and nurture regeneration. Their approach is timely, practical, and deeply needed in today’s volatile and complex world. I highly recommend this insightful and accessible approach for anyone seeking to lead with greater awisdom and responsiveness."
Giles Hutchins, author of Leading by Nature and Regenerative Leadership.
"Freeing Up Our Future is both timely and necessary. It is a compelling guide to accessing systemic intelligence, a capacity that feels increasingly vital in the face of today’s organisational, social, and ecological crises. At its heart is a profound shift in worldview, inviting us to see organisations not as machines, but to sense them as living systems shaped by hidden relational dynamics. It brings together conceptual clarity, personal reflection, and practical tools with warmth and humility. It highlights the interconnectedness of personal history, institutional life, and broader ecosystems, framing leadership not as control, but as attunement. For those seeking to lead regeneratively, this book offers not just insights, but invitations. It reminds us that purpose and wholeness are not decorative ideals, but the architecture of systems that thrive."
Sitna Quiroz Urla, PhD. Anthropologist, Assistant Professor, University of Durham.
“This is a well written and timely book for an era of rapid change, and the stories and case studies bring the theory alive. This is a must read for those involved in leadership roles or supporting change."
Professor Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organizational Psychology & Health, Alliance Manchester Business School & co-author of How to be the Line Manager you Never Had (Routledge, 2025)