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.

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.

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

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

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