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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


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


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


Later the same day...online Constellation 8-11pm New Zealand Time
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.

Karen Sole
Aug 273 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


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


Never again has become shut the fuck up
In the same way each of us does, the world accumulates grief and trauma. The most recent is never over before the next crashes over us. That is clear, as we see the horrors of the Holocaust still rippling through generations of the perpetrators and the victims in equal measure and power. So too, the effects of the Nakba(s). And now, the tsunami that Israel created in 2023 is insistent, thrashing every shore. There is no way to avoid it.

Karen Sole
Jul 294 min read


We are stardust
We are stardust!!

Karen Sole
Jul 171 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 173 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 108 min read


Israel Is the Macrocosmic Version of the Violent Family Living Next Door, AND The Abusive Relatives In Your Family System
Israel is the apparently unimpeachable former victim turned rampant perpetrator, blessed only with protectors, not stopped by flame facers, or only ones they murder.

Karen Sole
May 166 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


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 126 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


Complex and Often Conflicting Emotions When Someone We Love Is Dying
'...we can become more resilient and more capable in the face of their imminent death, move through it with more calm and acceptance...'

Karen Sole
Mar 177 min read


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

Karen Sole
Mar 71 min read


Doing Is Believing: The Skinny On Getting Constellated
'...get to the root source of your unhelpful patterns - yes, even you, you wonderful accomplished person'...

Karen Sole
Mar 75 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
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