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.

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.

'...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.

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

'...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.’

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

'[(despite) resilience]...the trauma does not just float away. We hold it. We carry it. We embody it. We just may not know it.'

'...change your approach. Family Constellations is a way... without intellectualising, in a supportive and safe environment...'

'...unacknowledged, shamed and secret members of the family system reverbrate through generations, affecting later members...

Our human messiness is inevitable. We do not necessarily notice ... some compassionate intervention would be useful.

replace old, buried, forgotten, unruly hitches in your family system, get fresh perspectives and peace

Therapy can help individuals with the disruption... that occurs in families/whanau and households consisting of first and third generations