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'Our unhelpful, intriguing and
troubling patterns are rooted in our earliest experiences. Family Constellations enable us to identify those emotional anchors and to untangle in a few embodied and transformative interventions.'
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Artist in residence at Chateau d'Orquevaux. Never far from systemic constellations!
In particular the air shimmers with the collective trauma women are noticing in this moment. The dinner conversations loop around Cornell, the waves of femicide in so many countries, and all of the ways in which we are not safe in our daily lives. We represent several decades. We're all feeling it.

Karen Sole
Oct 103 min read


Good people do good things. The Mamdani effect. Childhood trauma - how it shows up. Ways to let it out.
That groove may be littered with people who you picked to be in your life because with them you can faithfully replicate the agony of longing that characterised your early life, because they are like one of your parents or caregivers. Does that sound like your meet, get beaten - one way or another - rinse, repeat? Perhaps you’re ready to get out of there.

Karen Sole
Aug 133 min read


Coaching cart and therapy horse. How does that work?
Clear old patterns, relational issues and manage anxieties first to optimise benefits of coaching. Find out what's holding you back, then develop goals out of renewed self awareness and confidence.

Karen Sole
Mar 184 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


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


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


Israel Is the Macrocosmic Version of the Violent Family Living Next Door, AND The Abusive Relatives In Your Family System
Israel is the apparently unimpeachable former victim turned rampant perpetrator, blessed only with protectors, not stopped by flame facers, or only ones they murder.

Karen Sole
May 16, 20256 min read
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