In this introductory chapter, I offer a summary account of my writing approach, namely, autoethnography. I made this choice to unapologetically ground the philosophical orientation of the volume in my own lived experience. This narrative includes my formative experiences as a Black / Global Majority Heritage (GMH) individual of multi-heritage background, raised within a white family and cultural context in a coastal–rural region of the UK, in the 1960s and 1970s. I aim throughout the volume to illustrate the phenomenological impact of being racialised and / or marginalised by a Euro-American political economy that has as its basis the fifteenth-century European projects of colonialism, conquest and empire, primarily within what is now constituted as the Global South. This might seem far away from systemic constellations practice (SCP) as a modality of psychotherapeutic intervention that is itself only c. 40 years old. However, the relevance of this autoethnographic, decolonial framing is that it provides a wider systemic lens through which to view the emergence of SCP as a reflection of the European (Global North) predilection of annexation, colonisation, occupation, epistemicide, appropriation and extraction of indigenous knowledge systems and natural resources for profit. My belief is that this volume will make a compelling, incisive and robust account of this potentially contested history and offer a generative, hopeful and inspiring vision for a more palpably decolonial orientation for the SCP profession going forward. A pathway that honours its roots within an indigenous—Zulu—South African cultural context recognises the ways in which these roots have been obscured by a neocolonial current throughout the professions development and embraces a more equitable, diverse and genuinely inclusive shift, in the ways in which the profession develops and trains future practitioners. SCP is far too potent and valuable a resource to be left as the preserve of a white-dominant cognoscenti in the Global North.