Your name, your ancestry, your patterns - New Year online workshop and constellation: Sunday 18 January

With deep regret I had to postpone the previously advertised online workshop and constellation for personal resasons. I am now offering it on this new date, 18 January 2026, at 2000-2300 New Zealand time.

We don't imagine that our given name is filled with family stories, but on exploration, there is always a story, maybe some mystery and often enough secrets are revealed...

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.

See link below to secure your place.

Here is an interrogation of (a) name that I posted in a previous blog, What's in your name? Just your whole world. How on earth did you get it?

If you explored how you got your name, what would you discover? What story do you already know that you have attached no significance to? What were the influences on the choice? What tribe, or culture or language had to be included or excluded? Who had traditional rights to name you? Was the choice left to your parents or grandparents or other relatives? Was there a political event or famous person whose name was imported through you, into your family? Did your parents argue, and did one of them prevail? Who would you have been if the other parent had had their way? Why was the argument important to them? Are you named after a parent or grandparent? Are you carrying the same name as a sibling or cousin who died young? Were you adopted and did you have a name before the one you have lived your life with? Does anyone in your family system refuse to call you by your name? Has your name been anglicised or francofied (?) to make it easy for the people you live among? Are you nervous about insisting on correct pronunciation of your name, in whatever language, within whatever culture and language environment? Would you like to change your name because of its associations? Have you informally or formally changed your name? Have you changed your name to align with your trans-gender? Do you have a stage or art name or nom de plume?

There are many more questions and issues which may arise as a consequence of your exploration. The constellations will process two or three intentions which arise in the discussion.

I'm going to be away on the other side of the North Island of New Zealand, at a little place called Whangamomona on the Forgotten Highway, in the provinceof Taranak. I warmly invite you to join me there, on Zoom. All welcome.

Register at the link below. I look forward to meeting you.

Sunday 18 Jan, 2000-2300 NZ time

FromNZ$40.00

3h

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Karen Sole is a member of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, and of the International Systemic Constellations Association (isca-network.org), and a former member of ANZCI, the Aotearoa New Zealand Constellation Incorporated. She took her first training from Yildiz Sethi yildizsethi.com of familyconstellations.com.au. Karen's profile can be found on the above organisational sites. She participates in monthly professional supervision, facilitator member constellations of ANZCI, ISCA, and informal international groups of experienced credentialed facilitators. From 01 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 she is a member of CI Connect, ‘a safe space to connect to self and others through compassionate sexf-inquiryand the exploration of our shared humanity in today’s world’ with Dr Gabor Mate and Sat Dharam Kaur ND and CI Facilitators.