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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Healing Trifecta: Inter-generational Kinship, Land, Connection
.. constellations therapy .. links ..human kinship ..kinship with the land of our ancestors, and (their) impact on our lives + experiences

Karen Sole
Sep 19, 20244 min read
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Starting At The Beginning: Our Earliest Experiences
Family Constellations...a safe and effective way of connecting to the past, and recognising, voicing, and releasing our (accumulated) pain.

Karen Sole
Sep 16, 20244 min read
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Collective Trauma Shows Up and Shapes Us
'[(despite) resilience]...the trauma does not just float away. We hold it. We carry it. We embody it. We just may not know it.'

Karen Sole
Aug 7, 20244 min read
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Saturday 13 July & 17 August, 10-3; Tuesday 16 July & 20 August, 19-21 Workshops
Family constellations gets at old, buried, forgotten, unrecognised hitches in your family system...

Karen Sole
Jul 1, 20241 min read
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