CERTIFICATION
TRAINING - 2026
This training program is built on our complete model: Elevate Leadership and Enhance Collaboration, and is designed for coaches, therapists, psychologists, and team facilitators who wish to work with a language that is playful, body-oriented, and firmly grounded in professional practice.
Archetypes are not personality labels, but living patterns of behavior and energy that make change possible.
Why Archetypes?
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You will learn to work with metaphors, stories, and the bus model, allowing insights to land more quickly and reducing resistance.
Why this training?
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For whom?
Ideal for individual coaching paths, career guidance, therapy, team development, and leadership.
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What will you get?
Includes the archetype box, the manual, practical tools, insights, playful formats, ... you can immediately apply in your own practice.
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From Survival Strategy to Conscious Archetypal Leadership
This certification training is a transformational program for coaches, facilitators, psychologists and therapists who want to work with leadership, collaboration and team development at a deeper, more human level.
It combines three powerful lenses into one coherent, science-aligned framework:
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archetypal survival strategies
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team dynamics as a living system
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and tension navigation.
Instead of reducing people to “types,” this framework helps professionals see how individuals and teams adapt, protect, contract and evolve under real-world pressure.
This training gives you the language, tools and embodied practice to guide clients from automatic patterns toward conscious, flexible, integrated leadership.
Why Archetypes?
Most leadership frameworks focus on behavior. This model goes deeper.
It reveals the architecture underneath behavior: the inner parts, voices and archetypal energies that take over when things get stressful, uncertain or relationally complex.
And it maps how these individual patterns scale into team bodies that can either move in flow, or get stuck in chronic tension.
Our model brings together developmental psychology, attachment theory, parts work, somatic awareness and systemic thinking in a way that is intuitive, practical and immediately usable.
It is not an assessment and not a typology.
It is a development and navigation system.
Pillars
Dominant Archetype = Survival Strategy
Every person carries a set of archetypal strategies shaped by early experience, attachment patterns and learned ways of staying connected, safe and valued.
Instead of asking “Who are you?” Our question is:
“Which archetypal strategies are protecting you right now?”
You are not your archetype, you are the whole inner system that learned to rely on certain patterns when it mattered most. By understanding these protective energies, clients gain compassion for themselves and clarity about how to expand beyond automatic roles.
The Team-Body: Five functions in one living System
Teams are not collections of individuals. They are organisms with essential functions:
action + persuasion + cohesion + structure + sense-making
A healthy team has balance.
The Development Path: From identification to integration
The framework maps a clear developmental arc for individuals and teams:
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Identification
“This is who I am / this is who we are.”
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Awareness
Recognizing patterns, stories, embodied signals.
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De-identification
“I have these strategies, but I am not fused with them.”
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Flexible Choice
Access to multiple archetypal energies based on context.
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Collective Integration
A team that can coordinate diverse strategies and hold tension creatively.
This path is the backbone of the certification.
Participants learn to guide leaders and teams along these stages, from rigidity to fluidity, from survival to presence.
What professionals gain from certification
You learn to…
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read archetypal dynamics beneath behavior
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sense and shift tension in individuals and groups
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deepen leadership presence through archetypal flexibility
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intervene at the level where change is truly possible: the survival strategy level
You gain…
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a complete framework with language, models, visuals and protocols
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a repertoire of archetype-informed coaching interventions
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somatic tools for tension regulation
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system-aware team development methodology
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an integrated perspective you can combine with any modality you already use
You will be able to…
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facilitate deeper change without pathologizing
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guide leaders toward conscious archetypal choice
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transform stuckness in teams into creative tension
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work with complexity in a grounded, embodied way
A training that is both deep and playful
Archetype work is serious work, but it’s taught with lightness, metaphor, humor and embodied exploration. The tone is “playful with gravity”, professional, grounded, but deeply human.
If you want a framework that is deep, embodied, evidence-aligned, intuitive, practical and transformational. This is made for you.
You don’t learn to classify people. You learn to navigate human systems with clarity, compassion and creative intelligence.
Practical
The price is for the full 4 days, including all materials (full archetype box and booklet):
€ 1,640 excl. VAT and catering.
Location: To be announced.
Training dates: 9/1 – 6/2 – 3/4 - 24/4
Can’t attend one of the days? You will receive all materials plus a joint catch-up session, so you can easily stay fully aligned with the group.