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Espresso Constellation
15 minutes $49
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Book a 60 minute constellation within 30 days of your espresso and pay $190 (regular rate $230).
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Your trauma is real. Your survival strategies have kept you safe-ish. Bring all of you to an Espresso Constellation, an online morning short session of self care. Bring your caffeine fix!
We're so busy. We often don't have time for ourselves. A mini or espresso constellation fits nicely at the start of your day, before your mind is distracted by your strangely steady to-do list.
Make yourself a brew, silence your phone, and Zoom in with me for 15 minutes of focus on your 'stuff'. Don't put it off any longer. You've got this.

Karen Sole
4 days ago2 min read


The sublimation of the real story - the children and women who are the victims/survivors, AND the ones who didn’t make it. This is the story, refracted into a million parts by pretty words...
This is the story, refracted into a million parts by pretty words, analytical words, apologetic words, words of denial and buck passing -
'I wasn’t there' - we don’t believe you
'I didn’t go' - we don’t believe you
'I didn’t see' - we don’t believe you
'Nothing 'untoward' ever happened when I was there' - we don’t believe you.
We believe the children and the women. It is their story.

Karen Sole
Feb 245 min read


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 30, 20251 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


Joyous rage militant kindness medicine hat
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

Karen Sole
Sep 12, 20256 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 27, 20253 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


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


How you are at home is how you are at work
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.

Karen Sole
Jun 10, 20258 min read


our laughter has been honed 'til it gleams like an axe
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.

Karen Sole
May 25, 20256 min read


We Need To Talk About Jamie. And Eddie.
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.

Karen Sole
Apr 12, 20256 min read
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