Launch Special: EUR 3,200 (Save 33% by joining our inaugural cohort).
Become a Licensed Functional Fluency Systemic Team Developer
A team is far more than a collection of individuals.
It is a living system in which purpose, relationships, behaviour, unspoken dynamics, stakeholder expectations and influences from the wider organisation are continually interacting.
Working systemically with a team therefore takes the work to an entirely different level. A team developer needs to be able to see the team in its wider context, understand what is happening beneath the surface and recognise how behaviour is supporting—or getting in the way of—the value the team needs to create.
At the same time, team developers need to understand how they themselves influence the process. Their presence, assumptions, responses and interventions all become part of the work.
The Functional Fluency Systemic Team Developer Program is a practice-based, eight-to-nine-month development journey for professionals who want to deepen or extend their systemic work with teams.
The program integrates four areas of learning:
The program combines:
An essential part of the program is working with a real team.
Ideally, you will bring a team you already work with or identify a team that would welcome the opportunity to take part. If you do not currently have access to a suitable team, we can explore with you how one might be found.
Throughout the program, you will apply your learning with this team—from the initial intake and Team Reality Assessment to the FF TeamScan©, systemic sense-making, focused interventions and the evaluation of progress.
Wherever possible, participants will work in pairs with their practice team. This creates opportunities for co-facilitation, shared reflection, mutual learning and feedforward. It also enables participants to experience Functional Fluency as a way of working effectively together, as well as a methodology for team development.
By the time you complete the program, you will have gained substantial, supervised experience of applying the methodology in practice.
The program is designed for:
| What you will gain as a practitioner | What teams and organisations will gain |
| A coherent methodology for seeing and working with the complexity of team life. |
A clearer, shared understanding of how behaviour, team dynamics and the wider system are affecting effectiveness and stakeholder value. |
| Practical experience gained by applying your learning with a real team throughout the program. | A development process grounded in the team’s reality and integrated into its daily work. |
| Greater confidence in recognising and making sense of behavioural and systemic patterns. | Previously unspoken patterns and undercurrents can be brought into the open, understood and addressed together |
| Increased awareness of how your presence, assumptions and interventions influence the process. | Development that supports the team’s agency and ownership rather than creating dependence on the practitioner. |
| Practical tools for assessing reality, identifying meaningful leverage points and tracking development. | A structured way to establish priorities, review progress and support sustainable change over time. |
Following successful completion, you will become a Licensed Functional Fluency Systemic Team Developer.
| Module | Focus: The work and working with the team | Self as an Instrument: The Developer |
| 1: Foundations | Understanding teams in context, creating value for stakeholders and working with the Six Dimensions of Team Life. | Understanding teams in context, creating value for stakeholders and working with the Six Dimensions of Team Life. |
| 2: Observation and Reality Assessment | Seeing more clearly through the Reality Assessment, based on the Six Dimensions of Team Life. | Distinguishing observation from interpretation and becoming more aware of bias. |
| 3: The FF TeamScan© | Understanding and applying the behavioural information provided by the FF TeamScan©. | Remaining curious rather than becoming certain too quickly and recognising the possibility of projection. |
| 4: Intake & Contracting | Facilitating the intake process and working with five levels of contracting. | Balancing structure and flexibility and recognising your own responses to uncertainty. |
| 5: Systemic Sense-making | Exploring behavioural and systemic patterns, the Team Iceberg and the invitations operating within the team and its wider context. | Managing the impulse to fix or rescue, noticing emerging parallel processes and remaining present when the work becomes uncomfortable. |
| 6: Focus & Direction | Identifying meaningful leverage points and agreeing development priorities with the team. | Recognising how your preferences may influence what receives attention while supporting the team to retain ownership. |
| 7: Intervention | Supporting behavioural change, working with resistance and integrating development into the team’s daily work. | Adjusting your behaviour in real time and responding intentionally rather than reacting automatically. |
| 8: Sustaining change and licensing | Reviewing progress, sustaining development, influencing the wider system and completing the licensing process. | Using your presence deliberately, working with power and continuing your development as a systemic practitioner. |
Duration: Eight to nine months.
Start: October 2026.
Final dates: To be agreed with the inaugural cohort.
Fee:
These figures show the euro reference fees. The corresponding fee for your country and currency will appear when you make your selection. To support international accessibility, fees for other regions are adapted to reflect purchasing power.
Following successful completion, annual membership is required to maintain your licence and continued access to the professional methodology, tools and practitioner support. Please see “Extra information” below.
The special inaugural-cohort fees can be paid in three instalments:
The instalment amounts will be calculated according to the fee that applies to you and your country of residence.
This first cohort offers an opportunity to deepen your systemic work with teams, apply your learning immediately and help shape the experience with us—while making a substantial saving on the fee for future cohorts.
Ready to join? Complete the registration form below.
If you would like to explore whether the program is right for you before registering, contact us to arrange an informal conversation.
I did the TPLT because I wanted to be able to use an assessment tool founded in TA theory. The course has improved my confidence in talking about Functional Fluency and broader TA theory in coaching, educational and organisational settings. The buddy group gave great opportunities to practise, share ideas and gain mutual support. The supervision provided was invaluable throughout the process.
If you want to work with behaviours with your clients, the TIFF tool has great rigour and research behind it. Clients ‘get’ the Functional Fluency model and can access its value to their development immediately. It’s visually engaging and stimulates good dialogue. The language is easy to transfer into any setting, especially the workplace. The Functional Fluency International community is also passionate and engaging.
I particularly appreciated the attentiveness and commitment of the trainers and the supervision was invaluable. The course has helped me look at my own behaviour – when I act effectively and when I lose my energy. I have gained a valuable tool to work with professionally.
The program is delivered online, enabling professionals from different parts of the world to participate.
Because participants may be joining from several countries and time zones, the dates and times of the live sessions will be agreed with the inaugural cohort. We will seek a schedule that works as well as possible for the group.
Working with a real team is an essential part of the program.
Participants are expected to identify a suitable practice team, ideally one they already work with or one that would welcome the opportunity to take part. If you do not currently have access to a suitable team, we can support you in exploring possible options.
Wherever possible, two participants will work together with one practice team, creating opportunities for co-facilitation, shared reflection, mutual learning and feedforward.
Following successful completion of the program, you will become a Licensed Functional Fluency Systemic Team Developer.
To maintain your active licence, an annual professional membership is required. The standard Team Developer membership is €595 excluding VAT.
For professionals who also hold other FFI licences or certifications, reduced combined membership fees apply:
Annual membership
Functional Fluency Systemic Team Developer: €595
Team Developer and certified GOTM© Facilitator: €695
Team Developer and licensed TIFF© Provider: €725
Team Developer, TIFF© Provider and GOTM© Facilitator: €795
All fees exclude VAT. Purchasing-power adjustments are available for eligible countries.
Your Team Developer membership includes:
Combined memberships also include the resources, credits and professional benefits associated with your other active FFI licences and certifications.
Your annual Team Developer membership includes one FF TeamScan© for one team of up to 12 members.
Additional FF TeamScan© assessments can be purchased for €395 excluding VAT per team of up to 12 members. Purchasing-power adjustments are available for eligible countries.
For teams of more than 12 members, please contact us to discuss the most appropriate arrangement.
The FF TeamScan© is intended to be used as part of a wider team-development process rather than as a standalone assessment.
Tailored organisational licensing is available for organisations that want to maintain licences for several internally certified practitioners.
The licensing arrangement will reflect the organisation’s particular requirements, including:
Please contact Functional Fluency International to discuss a tailored organisational licensing arrangement.