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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


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


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 126 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


Another Self. Another Story. Meet Mr Zaman!
'...three women and their somewhat chaotic lives with lovers and mothers and others, we find a Constellation practitioner working in an idyllic Turkish setting.'

Karen Sole
May 65 min read


Nobody Said It Was Easy. Nobody Said It Would Be So Hard.
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?

Karen Sole
Apr 217 min read


Your Timeless Story: A Meditation To Connect You With Your Ancestors On Their Land
Stand on the land of your ancestors. Take it in. Feel the influence their place and time has on you now.

Karen Sole
Apr 82 min read


Karma Is Not A Spiritual Commodity
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.

Karen Sole
Feb 105 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


Celebrating Albrecht Mahr's Telling of Systemic Constellation
...watch Albrecht Mahr telling his sense + experience of systemic/family constellations. It's soft, precise, sensitive, elegant ...

Karen Sole
Sep 24, 20241 min read
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