Creating Clarity.
Robert Rowland Smith
Family Business Advisory
Robert's speciality is family businesses. He combines the practical experience of having advised corporates over many years, with an ability to handle family dynamics sensitively. He offers tailored support.
Individual &
Group Coaching
Robert offers executive and personal coaching, online and face to face. Off-the-shelf coaching packages as well as bespoke programmes are available.
Leadership & Boards
Robert designs and delivers leadership and board programmes. These are always aimed at benefitting both the individual and the business.
Constellations
Constellations underpins all Robert does. Be the focus on personal or organisational issues, he works systemically to remove hidden blockages.
Who Am I?
A 7 day online 'retreat' in Self-Knowledge
5th-12th January 2025
Introduction
The purpose of this course is to help people understand themselves better. The better that people understand themselves, the less likely they are to repeat unhelpful patterns or to behave in ways that might be damaging. To increase self-knowledge is to shine a light on one’s blind spots, and so reduce the power of the unconscious in controlling our lives.
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The course is made up of six videos plus an accompanying exercise book. (Please note that you will need a YouTube account to view the videos.) Each video consists of a series of slides with a voiceover to explain them. It takes a particular theme such as ‘Types and Archetypes’ and goes into the psychology involved. At certain points during the video, you will be invited to press pause, turn to the exercise book, and complete the relevant exercise before returning to the video. The final exercise asks you to reflect on the course as a whole.
Who the course is for?
The course has been designed for people who are ready to go a little deeper into their own psychology, and find out what makes them tick. You may have filled out personality questionnaires, read up on astrology, delved into the Tarot, or read self-help books, but now you would like to take the next step, and get to know yourself in a profounder way.
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The course will be of especial interest to those who are curious about psychological theory, though the emphasis throughout is on turning self-reflection into practice, so that life can be lived more fully.
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Whilst the course is equally applicable to people of all ages and identities, it is not appropriate for under eighteens.
The benefits of this course
The chief benefit of this course is that it provides a structured step up to a new level of self-awareness. Greater self-awareness is valuable because it helps us to notice when we are hurting other people, and even when we are subverting ourselves. To develop self-knowledge is to be able to act more consciously, to make better choices, and to become free from aspects of our past that have been holding us back.
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The structure of the course
The course consists of six modules:
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1. Know Thyself
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The origins of the idea of knowing yourself
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The difference between what you are and who you are
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The real you: in different situations and at different ages
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What your self is made up of
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How you see yourself versus how others see you
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2. Through a Glass Darkly
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Why seeing yourself isn’t always easy
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Self-knowledge v others’ knowledge of you
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Feedback and how to ask for it
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Inner knowledge
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The unconscious and how it works
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Dream interpretation
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3. Types and Archetypes
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Everyday types and dating types
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The pros and cons of using types
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The Zodiac, Jung and the Tarot
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Tarot as self-development
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
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Chess archetypes
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Ethical versus political types
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4. Love, Relationships and Sex
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Love, like, desire
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Self-love
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Choice of partner: reversing or repeating the past
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Leaving versus left
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Love languages
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Balance of power
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Sex profile
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5. Work and Money
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Power, achievement, relationships; Authority, presence, impact
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Belbin: team roles
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Money, work and happiness
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Work to live v live to work
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Spending, saving and freedom
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Want v need
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The value and meaning of money
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6. The Family System
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Defining the family system
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Strong and weak connections
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How close I am to family members
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Most and least affinity; Most and least spoken of
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My role in the family
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Family constellation
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The effect of my position on others
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Ex-partners: who belongs?
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My genealogical and semi-genealogical roles
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My legacy
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Each day you will be sent a video to accompany the workbook, which you can complete in your own time.
We will be videos as private Youtube video so do make sure you have an account.
For enquiries about the course, email robert@robertrowlandsmith.com
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Events coming up...
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Monday 16th December 1800 GMT
Online Group Constellations
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Sunday 15th December
Free online webinar "Who am I?"
Introducing our course in self-knowledge
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Monday 13th January 1800 GMT
Online Group Constellations
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Sunday 5th - Sunday 12th January
Online 'retreat'
Who am I? A discovery in self-knowledge
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​Friday 7 February, London
The Board Game:
Immersive boardroom training
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Robert
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Smith
About
An award-winning author and Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Robert Rowland Smith went on to become a partner in a London advisory firm. He has worked with the executive teams and boards of numerous organisations from global blue chips to start ups.
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It is this combination of the philosophical and the practical that makes him unique.
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Robert has subsequently built a reputation as a leading practitioner of systemic constellations.
Robert is the author of seven books, including bestsellers ‘Breakfast with Socrates’ and ‘The Reality Test’. He has been a columnist for the Sunday Times Magazine, writing on moral dilemmas. He is a regular speaker at public and private events.
Contact: robert@robertrowlandsmith.com
Online course
Systemic Sentences
Learn how to use systemic sentences and the theory behind them. These can be incorporated directly into your practice as a constellator, coach, communications expert or consultant. They will be particularly helpful for guiding difficult conversations.
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300 sentences for use in Constellations, coaching, and consulting
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23 videos explaining how to use them
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A workbook based around scenarios to practise using the sentences
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A optional private session with Robert to discuss any questions you might have
Talks, panels, corporate events
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
Most recently, Robert was invited by a London investment bank to give a talk on the philosophy of money.
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Money has no value in itself. It is purely ‘fungible’.
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Therefore we can invest any meaning in money that we want.
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For some, money equals safety. For some, freedom. For others, success. And so on.
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So money is a means to an end. Can you achieve the same end with a different means?
Robert is a popular speaker at public and private events, addressing a wide range of topics that include philosophy, psychology, politics, and business strategy.
"I have had the pleasure of hearing Robert speak at many corporate events on a wide range of topics. He offers fresh perspectives on important issues, and always does so with great clarity and good humour. He is a first call for new insights on complex issues. I would recommend him without reservation."
David Blanc
Trade Adviser for the French Republic
Cofounder of Vestra
Online 1:1
Constellations
Robert has developed one to one, online Constellations especially for clients who can't be seen in person.