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.

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.

Your given name is the starting point for this constellation. 3 hours, online, 2000 hours NZ time, Sunday 30 November 2025. Book online

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

'...we can become more resilient and more capable in the face of their imminent death, move through it with more calm and acceptance...'

'Experience the deep exploration of a family/systemic constellation without leaving home. You need good connectivity and laptop or tablet'..

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

Intergenerational stress or trauma or joy or what we create by our own actions, or take on by interest or proximity has an effect. Karma.

'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

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

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