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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 301 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 265 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 92 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 155 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 63 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 12 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 273 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 273 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 294 min read


We are stardust
We are stardust!!

Karen Sole
Jul 171 min read


Complex and Often Conflicting Emotions When Someone We Love Is Dying
'...we can become more resilient and more capable in the face of their imminent death, move through it with more calm and acceptance...'

Karen Sole
Mar 177 min read


Your Ancestors, Their Hangout, and You.
'There are inextricable links between human kinship, our kinship with the land (hangout) of our ancestors, and ...our lives and experiences'

Karen Sole
Jan 285 min read


You Didn't Get Here By Yourself
Our life events assume their proper teeny, tiny size in the cosmic scheme of things when we stand in front of our ancestors

Karen Sole
Jan 272 min read


Taking Constellations to the Community
I'm excited about the series of weekday mid-morning workshops that allow women to do their school drop-offs, maybe have a leisurely...

Karen Sole
Oct 14, 20241 min read


The Healing Trifecta: Inter-generational Kinship, Land, Connection
.. constellations therapy .. links ..human kinship ..kinship with the land of our ancestors, and (their) impact on our lives + experiences

Karen Sole
Sep 19, 20244 min read


What's Going On At manawa family constellations?
Next workshop Saturday 09 November 10-3 pm, one hour lunch, book online at manawafamilyconstellations.com limited places

Karen Sole
Sep 14, 20241 min read


09 November In Person Workshop
wouldn't you like to feel relaxed and relationally competent and grown up in those situations that ususally make you totally five years old?

Karen Sole
Sep 5, 20244 min read


Manawa Family Constellations and Life Coaching Package
the healing power of constellation work + personalised coaching (for) clarity, to overcome obstacles and achieve your personalised goals

Karen Sole
Aug 31, 20242 min read


About Curiosity
'...greater understanding fuels compassion for past and present generations. When we break the cycle, we become the change..'

Karen Sole
Aug 19, 20241 min read


Another Self - Zeytin Agaci
watch ...Another Self, the Turkish Netflix series. It's a drama about three friends who find a Family Constellations facilitator, Mr Zaman

Karen Sole
Aug 15, 20243 min read
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