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.

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

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.

We are stardust!!

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.

Poor pay and conditions contribute so much to women’s stress and consequent poor physical, emotional, and mental health outcomes. Eighty percent of auto immune disease is in women...Maori and Pacific women fare measurably worst among women here in all spheres of life. Not paying women adequately for their work exacerbates all the structural problems...Women’s work matters to everyone.

'...three women and their somewhat chaotic lives with lovers and mothers and others, we find a Constellation practitioner working in an idyllic Turkish setting.'

How can we better know our parents, their parents and grandparents, and by extrapolation the ones who came before them? Who were they, the dearly loved elders?

Adolescence, the Netflix series, is loaded with trauma coming down the line, and out of the Andrew Tate poisoned air. And more. I'm picking up on just one aspect of family systems here. Belonging.

Stand on the land of your ancestors. Take it in. Feel the influence their place and time has on you now.

'...get to the root source of your unhelpful patterns - yes, even you, you wonderful accomplished person'...

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

‘When you throw a stone into a pond, the pond doesn’t know that it ripples.’

Our life events assume their proper teeny, tiny size in the cosmic scheme of things when we stand in front of our ancestors

.. constellations therapy .. links ..human kinship ..kinship with the land of our ancestors, and (their) impact on our lives + experiences

Family Constellations...a safe and effective way of connecting to the past, and recognising, voicing, and releasing our (accumulated) pain.

Next workshop Saturday 09 November 10-3 pm, one hour lunch, book online at manawafamilyconstellations.com limited places

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

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

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