Constellations and all that...

What if seeing your parents differently could change the way you see your whole family?

In this episode, Tracy is joined by Dragos Riti, a Systemic Constellations Facilitator, for a thoughtful conversation about family relationships, personal transformation, and the patterns we carry.

Dragos shares how discovering Family Constellations changed his relationship with his father and helped him see his parents, his children, and his family in a different light. He reflects on the importance of understanding the experiences behind people's behaviours, approaching relationships with greater compassion, and recognizing that we don't have to fix everyone.

They also explore the role of horses in systemic work, what it takes to become a facilitator, and why this work is an ongoing process of self-awareness, responsibility, and learning to meet others where they are.

Dragos has been working as a Systemic Constellations Facilitator for over 15 years. He is the founder of the Center for Systemic Education and also incorporates horses into his systemic work.

To learn more about Dragos and his work, visit: dragosriti.blogspot.com

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

What can water reveal about the hidden patterns shaping our lives?

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright speaks with Patricia Yiu, a Water Constellations Facilitator and Teacher and creator of The Water Dance Method™. Patricia shares her journey into family and water constellations, including the personal experiences that led her to develop her own approach to this work.

Together, they explore family patterns, ancestral loyalties, intuition, and the wisdom of the water field. Patricia also shares what it means to trust the process, allow space for the unexpected, and find the courage to share your work with others.

In this episode, we explore:

• Patricia's journey into water constellations
• The Water Dance Method™ and how it developed
• Family patterns, ancestral loyalties, and inner wisdom
• Intuition, embodiment, and trusting the unknown

Patricia has spent more than 10 years on her healing journey and has guided clients and trained students around the world. Through The Water Dance Method™, she helps people explore unseen family dynamics and connect with the deeper wisdom within their systems.

Learn more about Patricia's work and The Water Dance Method™ at www.patriciayiu.com

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright speaks with Trin Tambo about Family Constellations and how this work can help us explore the patterns we carry in our families, relationships, and lives.

Trin shares her own healing journey, how Family Constellations have shaped her relationships, and what it means to trust your heart, find your voice, and allow yourself to be seen. 

Together, they explore belonging, family connections, birth trauma, and the ways we can begin to understand our place within the bigger story of our lives.

About Trin Tambo

Trin Tambo is a Holistic Counsellor and Family Constellation Facilitator based on the beautiful Sapphire Coast in southern New South Wales, Australia. With around 20 years of experience exploring Family Constellations, alongside counselling, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches, she supports individuals and groups to explore deeper patterns within their lives, relationships, and family systems.

Her work includes facilitating workshops, one-on-one sessions, and supporting mothers, couples, and families through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period.

At the heart of Trin’s work are connection, belonging, and community — helping people honour where they come from while finding their own place within the bigger picture.

Learn more about Trin at trintambo.com

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracey Cartwright sits down with Linda Conyard, trauma therapist, Family Constellations facilitator, and author of Unnecessary Trauma, for a thoughtful conversation about trauma, healing, and the wisdom of listening.

Linda shares how her personal experiences shaped her path into therapeutic work and her mission to change how we understand and respond to trauma across individuals, families, and society.

Together, they explore Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), the unexpected insights that can emerge through Family Constellations, and why allowing space and silence can sometimes reveal more than trying to control the process. Linda also shares moving experiences involving grief, family systems, and her evolving understanding of our connection to the land.

The conversation also touches on Linda’s vision for A Safe Place, an app designed to support people between therapy sessions, and her hope to bring trauma-sensitive approaches into wider communities and institutions.

Connect with Linda:

Website: https://www.lindaconyard.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeybackhomewithlinda
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaconyard/

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

What if the real essence of Family Constellations is about more than the technique itself?

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright speaks with Ursula Maria Bell, a Family Constellations facilitator, trainer and author whose work is deeply rooted in love, reconciliation, responsibility and inner wisdom.

Ursula shares how her own painful experiences with her mother and sister led her to Family Constellations and how she eventually came to understand that constellations are not simply a technique, but an inner posture and a way of living.

Her book, In the Spirit of Love and Reconciliation: More Than Constellations, reflects this journey and explores what can happen when we move from rejection and judgment towards acknowledgement, acceptance and reconciliation.

In this conversation, Ursula and Tracy explore:

• Why Ursula believes we need to stop working so hard on ourselves
• Moving from rejection and judgment towards acknowledgement and acceptance
• The importance of reconciling with our past, our family and eventually ourselves
• How Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and the search for meaning influence Ursula’s work
• The orders of love and the orders of helping
• Why “helping” can sometimes get in the way of truly being with someone
• The difference between empathy and becoming entangled in another person’s emotions
• What it means to trust someone’s own process rather than assuming we know what they need
• How Family Constellations transformed Ursula’s relationship with her family and saved her marriage
• Her experience of reconciling with her mother before her mother’s death
• The wisdom that can emerge when we stop constantly searching for more information
• Her work with the Life Integration Process
• Why she believes we are never too old to follow a dream
• And what may be emerging for Ursula as she looks beyond constellations and towards her next chapter

One of the central messages throughout the conversation is that sometimes we don't need to fix ourselves, fix others or even “help” in the way we think we do.

Sometimes, it is enough to be there, listen, acknowledge and trust the process.

Connect with Ursula Maria Bell

🌐 Website: ursulamariabell.com

📖 Book: In the Spirit of Love and Reconciliation: More Than Constellations
Available in hardcover, softcover and e-book, including a German edition.

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

What happens when the animals become part of the constellation?

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright chats with Anthea Myburgh from South Africa, an animal communicator and constellation facilitator whose journey into constellation work was guided by the animals themselves.

Anthea shares how her own healing journey led her to Family Constellations, how she works with horses as representatives, and what she has discovered about the relationship between animals, people and the wider field.

They explore animal behaviour, the Orders of Love, belonging, ancestral patterns, the role of the environment, and the surprising ways animals can reveal what may be happening beneath the surface.

A warm and fascinating conversation about listening differently, trusting what emerges, and recognising that perhaps we're not the only ones doing the work.

Learn more about Anthea's work: ubuntuhealing.com

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

Born and bred in Johannesburg, Bubbles was the second of four children and grew up in a multicultural and multilingual family. Her mother travelled with her to Belgium when she was just six months old, so French was her mother tongue. It seems fitting that her professional life followed a similarly diverse path.

Bubbles trained in psychoanalysis, studying the work of British psychoanalysts including Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Douglas Fairbairn, Marion Milner and Ronnie Laing. She later trained in Gestalt therapy in America, Tomatis Music Therapy in Paris, and Constellation Therapy in Germany.

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy sits down with Bubbles to explore the many paths that have shaped her life and work, her move to New Zealand at 82, and what has kept her curious, engaged and continuing to work with people throughout her life.

They also talk about relationships, expectations, and the deeper meaning behind I take you as you are” — allowing ourselves and others to be who we truly are, without needing them to be different for us.

This conversation also connects beautifully with Bubbles’ upcoming two-part online exploration, Liberation: “I Take You As You Are”, taking place on 14 & 21 October 2026, 7–9 pm NZT. She'll explore expectations, needs and projections in relationships, taking responsibility for our own needs, and how acceptance can create greater freedom. Both sessions will be recorded.

Find out more about Bubbles and the upcoming workshop:
www.tracycartwright.co.nz/liberation

Website: www.beulahlevinson.weebly.com

A warm, honest and inspiring conversation about curiosity, experience, connection and continuing to explore life at every age.

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright sits down with Andrea Lehmann to explore her journey into Family Constellations. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, Andrea grew up with a deep connection to nature and the outdoors before travelling and eventually making New Zealand her home. Her grounded, nature-connected approach continues to influence the way she works.

Andrea shares her deeply intuitive approach to Family Constellations and why she doesn't see the work as something that needs to be rigidly planned. They talk about what it means to slow down, listen to the body, notice what is present, and allow the process to unfold.

The conversation also explores the importance of community and belonging, the surprising ways nature and animals have become part of Andrea's constellation work, and why she believes we heal in community rather than isolation.

Tracy and Andrea also talk about one of the biggest lessons in facilitation: it's not our job to fix people. Sometimes the work is about seeing something differently, finding resources, and taking only the next step that is ready to be taken.

A warm, honest and sometimes wonderfully funny conversation about intuition, community, nature, resourcing, learning and trusting the field.

Learn more about Andrea's work:

Facebook: Kiwi Homesteaders

Instagram: @kiwihomesteaders

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

What happens when we begin to listen not only to our minds, but to our bodies, our hearts and the stories carried through our lineages?

In this beautiful conversation, Tracy Cartwright chats with Aleksandra Shymina, who has been practising Family Constellations personally and professionally since 2013. Her work has expanded through classical constellations, Systemic Ritual, shamanic work and transpersonal psychotherapy, with a deepening focus on our relationship with ancestors and the wisdom held within our lineages.

Aleksandra shares how her own journey into ancestral healing led her to Family Constellations, what the work taught her about trusting the intelligence of the body, and why she sees healing as something that can ripple through generations.

They explore ancestral pain and wisdom, belonging and exclusion, resourcing before intervention, heart wisdom, meditation, relationships, giving and receiving, and the possibility of becoming more conscious of how we influence those who come after us.

A thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation about tending to what has been forgotten, listening more deeply, reconnecting with our bodies and ancestors, and considering what becomes possible when we attend to ourselves and our lineages.

Learn more about John's work:

Website: asconstellations.co.uk

Instagram: @as_livingtheflow

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events

In this episode of Constellations and All That, Tracy Cartwright sits down with family constellations facilitator and spiritual coach John Harold Moore for a wide-ranging conversation about family patterns, inherited stories, the knowing field, and the possibility of seeing our lives differently.

John shares how he first discovered family constellations in 2012 and how an experience in his very first constellation changed the direction of his life.

John also shares a deeply personal story about his grandmother and the shame he felt he had inherited, as well as a powerful constellation experience involving his father that helped him reconnect with a different memory and a different possibility around being fully himself.

The conversation also moves into the mysterious experience of the knowing field, trusting what unfolds rather than trying to control it, and learning to release our attachment to how we think things should happen.

And then there's John's wonderfully unexpected story about his seven years performing at Walt Disney World and how that experience helped a painfully shy person become comfortable standing in front of hundreds of people.

At the heart of the conversation is a beautiful question:

What if we could tell a different story about what happened to us and move forward from a different place?

A warm, honest and sometimes funny conversation about family, belonging, memory, healing, trust and the stories we choose to carry.

Listen in and see what resonates for you.

Learn more about John's work:

JohnHaroldMoore.com
@johnharoldmoore

I’d love to hear what resonates with you—drop me a message on Instagram @tracy.cartwright  and for more insights visit my website at tracycartwright.co.nz

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🎙️ If you'd like to explore Family Constellations further, I'd love to welcome you to one of my upcoming events. 

You can find all the details here: https://www.tracycartwright.co.nz/events