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manawa family constellations
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holiday hours
January 04, 05, 24 unavailable.
January 06 - 23
sessions available
0700 - 0900 &
1900 - 2200
New Zealand Time
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From Whangamomona Aotearoa-New Zealand: last call to Sunday 18 January workshop and constellation circle
We'll start with exploration of your given name, how you got it, the story behind it - ...Then there'll be time for 2-3 constellations working with issues arising in the exploration...Everyone present benefits from the process - no minute wasted, no one left out. We imagine that experiences that have affected us are unique to us, but they are universally resonant. Kick your year off with a relational refresher that lightens your life!

Karen Sole
Jan 142 min read


Your name, your ancestry, your patterns - New Year online workshop and constellation: Sunday 18 January
Jack or Jill, Ahmed or Aysegul, Francesco or Claudia, love it or hate it, your name contains big intergenerational stories, in just a few letters or characters. Let's have a look into it.

Karen Sole
Dec 23, 20253 min read


Last call to register. Sunday 30 November your name, your ancestry, your patterns - 3 hour online workshop and constellations. Book here now!
Last call to register. Sunday 30 November your name, your ancestry, your patterns - 3 hour online workshop and constellations. Book here now!

Karen Sole
Nov 30, 20251 min read


Ghosts haunt us. Ancestors walk beside us. Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama talk about their fathers. My jury service. And some tea from Maya Angelou
I needed to check in with something, someone(s) beyond my thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. As I sat in the jury box, I summoned the support of my ancestors through Dad and Lola and Maraea and way, way beyond. That was a moment. And there have been many more since...And that’s it, isn’t it. You are not alone. You are never alone. Your ancestors who dreamed of you are all around. Always.

Karen Sole
Nov 26, 20255 min read


Take a walk on the easy side of therapy. Brief interventions that work, not years of talking!
Take a walk on the easy side of therapy. Brief interventions that work, not years of talking! Not intellectual, but gentle, embodied trauma and resilience informed brief interventions. In person and online sessions to suit your schedule, wherever you are in the world, where ever you are in your life.

Karen Sole
Nov 10, 20251 min read


Places available for the online and in person 'your name your ancestors your patterns' sessions. All welcome to join!
Places available for the 30 November online and 07 December in person 'your name your ancestors your patterns' sessions. All welcome to join!

Karen Sole
Nov 9, 20252 min read


Online constellation working with issues arising from exploration of your given name
Your given name is the starting point for this constellation. 3 hours, online, 2000 hours NZ time, Sunday 30 November 2025. Book online

Karen Sole
Oct 28, 20251 min read


Your name your ancestry your patterns - workshop
Exploration, expression and insight via a whole day of discussion, painting and constellation circles. No experience necessary. Just arrive, with your lunch, your water bottle a sun hat and warm layer, and of course, your name. Your given name is a portal into your family history, dynamics, and possibly, secrets. We take it as the starting point for a day of exploration, expression and insight after establishing a container for our shared vulnerability.

Karen Sole
Oct 25, 20251 min read


What's in your name? Just your whole world. How on earth did you get it?
Jack or Jill, Ahmed or Aysegul, Francesco or Claudia, love it or hate it, your name contains big intergenerational stories, in just a few letters or characters. Let's have a look into it.

Karen Sole
Oct 15, 20255 min read


Let's give a glittering new dress to the Cinderella of health care
Let’s talk about it, normalise it, de-mystify it, try to understand it, accept its pervasiveness, develop compassion toward our friends, family members and acquaintances who encounter it. Lets recognise it as a systemic issue and not an individual issue. Let’s fully accept that ‘mental illness’ is as blameless as cancer or a broken arm, or toothache. Let’s work towards breaking down the often astounding difficulties involved in getting help within the health and welfare syste

Karen Sole
Oct 6, 20253 min read


A message to the New Zealand governing coalition: not in my name.
But it is not a peace plan. The whole world saw that in a nano second. It is merely the coda to Netanyahu’s forever stated determination to smash and decimate Palestine in Gaza and take over the territory fully. Humanity cannot bear the personal and collective consequences of the evil enacted in this genocide. For generations we will feel the trauma it has created.

Karen Sole
Oct 1, 20252 min read


Joyous rage militant kindness medicine hat
The much flaunted ‘it is what it is’ or ‘the world is like that’ hit me as spiritual bypasses. Being urged to cheer up when you’re in deep grief. No, we have to allow our grief, our anger, our disappointment, our rage and frustration and then call on all the resources we have within ourselves, and by connection with friends and family, and political action, being in community, loving relentlessly, with gratitude for goodness, and pushing through with militant kindness. This i

Karen Sole
Sep 12, 20256 min read


Gimme shelter. Some causes of homelessness and my childhood safe place
Money can’t buy love - a few seconds ... conjure the relational misery of some of the world’s filthiest rich people - Bezos, Reinhardt, Murdoch, Maxwell, for example. But for everyone, from the richest to the poorest, money buys the necessities of life. As the filthy rich get filthier rich, the poor get poorer, until the poorest and least advantaged fall off the cliff. In the developed world this phenomenon is ... represented by people who have no home, no permanent shelter,

Karen Sole
Aug 28, 20258 min read


Later the same day...online Constellation 8-11pm New Zealand Time
We are all in need of some deep connection to ourselves and others in this awful time in the world in which our small personal issues are submerged by the accumulation of grief we are in. We cannot fix the world, but we can work with the personal.Are you
choosing the same partner?
in messy relationship(s) with parent, child or sibling?
struggling with the effects of abuse?Constellations works with these issues. ..and many more.

Karen Sole
Aug 27, 20253 min read


In Person Constellation: same day, new time Sunday 14 September 1-5pm
These are pieces of information about unfinished business that I need to work with to fully release subtle trauma my body is still holding onto decades later. I know, without the slightest doubt that going into constellation with another facilitator will enable that to happen. Either something works or it doesn't. My experience is that constellations work, every time. The field does not lie, ever.

Karen Sole
Aug 27, 20253 min read


Wishes for Aladdin's genie. What would you wish for? And what is happiness?
Systemic constellations provide a pragmatic/phenomenological way of working with the generationally collected and currently collective traumas we carry, by recognising what is, opening up our natural resilience which is a resource we take for granted, or perhaps we don’t even acknowledge it. We have it, though, otherwise we would not have made it to this moment, in whatever shape we are in.

Karen Sole
Aug 9, 20256 min read


Never again has become shut the fuck up
In the same way each of us does, the world accumulates grief and trauma. The most recent is never over before the next crashes over us. That is clear, as we see the horrors of the Holocaust still rippling through generations of the perpetrators and the victims in equal measure and power. So too, the effects of the Nakba(s). And now, the tsunami that Israel created in 2023 is insistent, thrashing every shore. There is no way to avoid it.

Karen Sole
Jul 29, 20254 min read


We are stardust
We are stardust!!

Karen Sole
Jul 17, 20251 min read


All the trauma lived out loud, all the kindness, all the love, all the current geopolitics, and all the billionaires and white American dream left out
...every time things seem to be sorting out, something else comes along to mess it up again, because that’s how life is, particularly for vulnerable people of all kinds ...

Karen Sole
Jun 17, 20253 min read


How you are at home is how you are at work
Managers are often not naturally imbued with skills and attributes required for working well and effectively with people they are charged with managing. It becomes an awkward hit and miss affair punctuated by dodgems, deceit, delusions, and ending with anxiety and stress.

Karen Sole
Jun 10, 20258 min read
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