FAMILY SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATION
CAFE CIRCLES
Parent, Carer, Therapist and Teacher Support
Family Systemic Constellation Cafe Circles
for anyone who cares
Parents, Caregivers, Therapists or Teachers
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2025 - Cafe Circles
Facilitator: Karena J Coller
When: Wednesday mornings monthly in-person and online.
Dates & to register: Contact Karena by SMS or email. Register at 'workshop registration' tab.
Maximum: 4 places available each session.
Location: Warragul Natural Health, 83 Victoria St, Warragul, 3820, Victoria, Australia
Time: 10am - 12.45pm
Exchange: $80.00
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1. Online Zoom​​​
Wednesday morning 10am - 12.45pm
4 places available
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7 & 21 May
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4 & 18 June
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no circles in July
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August - tbc
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September - tbc
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October-tbc
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November-tbc
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2. Location: Warragul Natural Health, Warragul​​​
Wednesday morning 10am - 12.45pm
4 places available
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14 & 28 May
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11 & 25 June
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no circles in July
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August, September, October, November, December - tbc
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Combining principles of Occupational Therapy and Family Systemic Constellations experiential practice, Karena guides you through a therapeutic process that will empower you and the children in your care. In a compassionate inquiry and therapeutic process of Family Systemic Constellations we consider our current issues and situation that may be affecting us from showing up as our true self in our lives. We look at how best to walk beside a child as their parent, caregiver, therapist, or teacher.
The Latin word, educare, means to 'bring up' or 'to nourish'. To nurture or to nourish a child or ourselves is to provide an environment, knowledge, guidance or emotional support for all a child needs. To do this we also need to nourish ourselves.
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When we become aware of our needs and nourish ourselves, we can better develop an ability to be observant and aware of our child's needs. When we are able to manage our own stressors and attune to children as parents, carers, therapists, teachers or learning support, we can be present with a child within their and our systems of family or community. We can create a place of belonging, honour a child's expression, care for their needs, guide their efforts and encourage their potential.
How do we engage effectively with a child who is struggling? How do remain present to ourselves, so that we can connect with our children when we are going through challenging times?
Family Systemic Constellations Cafe Circles offer a place to feel supported and to look at an issue that is currently affecting your connection with your child or with a child in your care. Karena will facilitate Cafe Circles as a mentoring session where together we will compassionately look at our challenging issues and struggles. It begins with a check-in, a meditation and then each person will have 30 minutes of time. In their 30 minutes we will look with a Family Systemic Constellation lens to uncover the root of the issue and aim to comprehend our struggles to gain a new perspective that will help us to go forward. ​
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Parents and Caregivers
Teachers and Learning Support
Therapists
It is a privilege to love, guide and care for our young ones. Children belong firstly in their family system and are sometimes cared for by others. How do we communicate respect for the family system, stay connected, and enable interdependence in our world, within a community of care?
Teachers and children coexist and learn together during a school day. How do we communicate respect for both differences and similarities of an educational system and a child's family system, maintain a safe and joyful space and promote unity of purpose for learning and growth?
Therapists are invited into a child's and family life for a time. How do we relate well and work inclusively with a child, their family members and carers and acknowledge their unique family system and individual strengths. How do we keep perspective, focus on our areas of scope and communicate well within a care team?
About Marianne Franke-Griksch & Systemic Pedagogy
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In a Family Systemic Constellation Work we put away our laptop and pen and paper and bring our whole selves and your heartfelt issue to the table. Together, we can explore what is going on, where to find reconciliation in the situation with this issue and what is your role in this situation?
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Each issue and situation is unique, because we are all each unique. Our family and school systems have their own rules, hierarchy, expectations, patterns and dynamics. Courageously looking at how a child, parent, carer, teacher or aide may experience an issue, often will show us just how creative and loving a child really is, how much they want to belong, to learn and to be a part of their home or classroom. This can unfold into a sense of ease, respect and joy for both child and teacher.
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Marianne Franke-Griksch, a teacher and psychotherapist who also trained in Family Systemic Constellations pioneered bringing the principles of family systemic constellations to the classroom. She experienced greater success in children's learning and observing less bullying amongst students and a greater capacity for restorative practice. Also, she herself experienced an increased ability to maintain her own sense of calling to be a teacher, with less frustration, stress and burnout. When children can be children, when their parents are acknowledged as their primary caregivers and when teachers can teach, there is more peace. She called this Systemic Pedagogy. With this applied perspective family and school systems relaxed. There was capacity for learning and socialising inclusively and peacefully.
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This work can be experienced in individual sessions or small group workshops for your school, residential care or support care team.
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I am the mother of four adult children. I have worked closely with children with disabilities and their teachers in mainstream classrooms for over 15 years and have seen the effects of struggles, learning difficulties and responses to stress for child and adult. I believe there is another way to understand our roles so that all can belong to their family and school systems with more ease. Since working in learning support, I have trained in occupational therapy and family systemic constellation work and I have personally experienced healing, peace and joy of transformation in relational dynamics and interactions through this phenomenological approach.
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I feel joy to bring this peaceful, gentle and respectful way of understanding ourselves in order to clear obstacles and enhance flow in our lives and our work and in the lives of children in our care.
Karena J Coller
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