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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 101 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


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 96 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


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


Ready to Try A Different Therapy?
'...change your approach. Family Constellations is a way... without intellectualising, in a supportive and safe environment...'

Karen Sole
Aug 5, 20242 min read


How Is It That We Need Therapy?
Our human messiness is inevitable. We do not necessarily notice ... some compassionate intervention would be useful.

Karen Sole
Jul 28, 20242 min read


Here's The Skinny On Manawa Family Constellations Appointments
replace old, buried, forgotten, unruly hitches in your family system, get fresh perspectives and peace

Karen Sole
Jul 21, 20241 min read


Way More Grandparents Bringing Up Grandchildren
Therapy can help individuals with the disruption... that occurs in families/whanau and households consisting of first and third generations

Karen Sole
Jul 20, 20243 min read


Life Is Too Short To Be Cut Off From People We Love
At heart of Family Constellations are belonging, order, and balance. ... cut offs disrupt..causing big emotions ...hard to come back from

Karen Sole
Jul 12, 20242 min read


Here I am. There You Are. Let's talk.
where I'm from, how I came to be a Constellations Facilitator, ...we are ...inevitably 'ready for therapy' and how Constellations work...

Karen Sole
Jul 4, 20243 min read


When We Feel Enduring Shame For Our Own Actions
...shame do(es) not go away with time. ...in a safe context we need to speak of it, for someone to hear and hold space... without judgement.

Karen Sole
Jun 29, 20243 min read


Cut Off Genes and Other Fabrications
Some time or other...you're going to feel the stinging bewilderment and frustration of being cut off from someone important to you...'

Karen Sole
Jun 5, 20243 min read
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