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Systemic coach · Systemic facilitator · Head Trainer

Simon Maebe

Bring the knot. We will find where it is tied. Systemic and family constellations to work with what is hard to reach through words alone. Systemic coaching to work towards your goals. Online across time zones, in English or Dutch, or in person in Brussels.

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Simon Maebe

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At a glance

Individual session
€155 constellation work or coaching, online or in Brussels
Discovery call
Free 30 minutes, online
Languages
English · Dutch online and in person in Brussels
In the field
Since 2014 first constellations workshop in 2007

How booking works

  1. 1Choose a session below.
  2. 2Book, or ask me anything first.
  3. 3We meet online or in Brussels.

Open for new clients now; the first call is free.

Sessions with Simon

Free cancellation up to 48 hours before the paid session; after that the full fee applies. Payment is settled ahead of the session, not at booking.

Who I help

I work best with people who want to get somewhere, or who feel seriously stuck where they are. You might have a clear goal, be going in circles, or be too close to a complex situation to see the whole of it clearly.


That might mean shifting something deeply personal, navigating change or a difficult relationship, building something, or leading people or an organisation. You do not need to have it figured out before you come.

Who you are working with

I am a systemic facilitator, coach and trainer. I have worked across systemic therapy, psychology, organisations and startups, which means I can meet a question in the context it actually lives in. A business problem can stay a business problem.


What I care about most is making complex things clear without pretending they are simple. Expect warmth and patience, and now and then a question you were not expecting.

Ways of working

Two ways we can work

A systemic constellation is built around one thing: a question, a topic, a goal you want to move. We set it up and follow it as far as it is useful, which can be a single session or several: the interview, the constellation, and the integration afterwards. A constellations allows you to feel and understand at the same time. You put the parts of the question outside yourself, see how they sit together, and get a sense of what a different arrangement would be like, rather than only the idea that it could be different.

Systemic coaching is the longer shape. It is built around something you want to work towards, and we follow it over time: where you are, what has moved, what matters most now, what is in the way. Constellation work can be part of that, alongside conversation, exercises, mapping the systems you are in, and whatever else the process asks for.

Almost anything can come to either one. A decision, a relationship, grief, a block at work, a business that will not move, something you cannot name yet. I work systemically, which means we do not assume that what you bring begins and ends with you: we can look at you, a relationship, the family you come from, a team, an organisation, or the wider social and economic world you are part of. The level that matters depends on what you bring, and I adapt the approach to your needs.

Simon Maebe outdoors in a park, in a blue jacket and open-collared shirt

Working together

How we work

You bring an issue or a question you want to explore, and a goal to work towards. Neither has to be polished. We start by getting clear on what you want to move towards: what that would mean, what would be different, and how you would know something had changed.

From there we explore. We might talk it through, use an exercise, or set up a constellation and work with what happens in it. We follow where your experience takes us rather than deciding in advance where the answer should be. You might arrive certain the difficulty is your manager and find that what moves is something much older.

A constellation gives us another way in. You can put the situation outside you, see how it fits together, and work with what you feel as well as what you understand. It lets a session get past knowing that something could be different, to a sense of what different would actually be like. You can do that with a relationship without the other person present, and it still moves.

Some things are easier to place in a room than to put into a sentence.

You set the direction. I bring the questions, the connections I notice, and other ways of looking at it, and you decide what to do with them. We close with time to settle before you go back into your day.

The method I bring to your session is the one I teach to the people who facilitate it elsewhere. I co-founded the institute that trains them, and it runs on a curriculum we wrote ourselves.

Longer story

Where this work came from

  1. 1

    First workshop, 2007

    A first family constellations workshop, at sixteen.

  2. 2

    Philology, English and German

    At FUSL in Brussels.

  3. 3

    Training begins, 2012

    Began training in earnest.

  4. 4

    ISPAB, and others

    Trained and certified in Munich.

  5. 5

    M.Sc. Management

    At KU Leuven.

  6. 6

    Translating Workshops

    For several facilitators, a front row seat.

  7. 7

    M.A. International Relations and European Studies

    At Maastricht University.

  8. 8

    Startups

    At a micro VC firm, consulting on startups. The same reading of systems, applied to founders and the companies they build.

  9. 9

    Working with Cecilia, from 2014

    In the field alongside her, on the side at first.

  10. 10

    Writing the curriculum

    Started work on the curriculum the training is built on.

  11. 11

    EISEC

    Co-founded the institute, and moved to the practice full time.

  12. 12

    Head teacher of the training

    Leading the training at the institute.

Simon Maebe teaching a group

As a trainer

I train the people who facilitate constellations

I co-founded EISEC, the European Institute for Systemic Education and Coaching, and I am its head trainer. I train the facilitators, help write the curriculum the training runs on, and run the workshops and the annual intensive alongside Cecilia Altieri.

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About Simon

And away from the practice

I was born in Belgium, where I live with Cecilia and our young son. Away from the practice I play music, and I love long walks with the dog, running in nature, and reading. I get creative in the kitchen, and I am usually exploring some new idea.

Simon Maebe outdoors in front of a climbing rose

Notes

Read your way in

Short, plain notes on constellations, and on the questions people ask before they book.

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Not sure yet?

You do not have to decide from a page

Tell me a little about what brings you, and I will reply honestly about whether this is the right approach for you. If it is not, I will point you to where you might look instead.

What brings you?

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I read these myself, and I reply personally.

Looking for a different path?

Meet the whole team Five practitioners, one approach · find the right fit for you. Try a workshop first A lower-threshold way in · in a group, on a set date. I lead these myself. Listening therapy The Safe and Sound Protocol, a listening programme for the nervous system.
Meet the whole team Five practitioners, one approach · find the right fit for you. Try a workshop first A lower-threshold way in · in a group, on a set date. I lead these myself. Listening therapy The Safe and Sound Protocol, a listening programme for the nervous system.

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Scope and safety

The right support at the right time

Sessions support change in how you live, relate and decide. They sit alongside medical and psychological care, and they do not replace it.

If you are in crisis right now, or you are having thoughts of harming yourself, please turn first to your doctor, to a crisis line where you live, or to the emergency services. If you are being treated for a psychiatric condition, or you have questions about medication, that care belongs with your prescriber, and our sessions can run alongside it.

If you are unsure where to start, ask us. We will tell you honestly whether this is the right support for you now.

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