2025 IFSCTraining

I love Constellation work. I live in Edmonton, Canada. Did I say, I love constellation work?

I am of Finnish and Saami ancestry. This ancestry serves me well as a facilitator. I am an educator. I worked with children for many years as a teacher. I farmed the land of my grandfathers who had settled in Western Canada in the early 1900s. I grew up on Treaty Seven Territory and acknowledge the First Nations whose ancestral lands we took through colonialism. I now live in Treaty Six Territory and acknowledge all whose ancestral lands these were. Here, I think of Cree, Blackfeet, Dene, and many who lived on these lands for millennia.

I have spent decades learning and searching for tools to work with childhood sexual abuse survivors to help them find their capacity to live peaceful and love-based lives.
I have worked with this delicate, intimate, vulnerable, and emotional topic since 1999. In constellations, working with adult survivors of childhood sexual trauma has been my focus since I began facilitating in 2008. I will continue to provide training based on my own expertise.

In 1999, I had begun spiritual support groups for child sexual abuse survivors. I knew I could offer more. In 2004 - 2005, I was doing graduate work in spirituality and counselling, looking for tools. Then, in 2006, I discovered constellations. I was immediately drawn to this modality and soon was registered to study with Bert Hellinger. In 2007-2008, I studied with he and Sophie. I learned from many and am grateful to each one who has taught me.
The depth of my work is supported by a spiritual journey that brought me to oneness well before I encountered constellations.

My personal history is one of traumatic childhood sexual abuse. This gives me deep personal insight into this perpetrator-victim dynamic. The experience is familiar to me. I never have had a loss of my own gravity or of being centred, nor have I been shocked by any trauma story. I have the gift of great weight from my own personal history. And, I have a depth of empathy coming from my heart for working with the dynamics of child sexual abuse. "I hear you and I see you," may often be first heard by a client in a constellation.

My experience of working with clients on this topic is vast. I am honoured to be able to share some of my expertise with you. I offer you insights and tools that apply particularly to this dynamic. I work online both individually and in groups. My work is always done in a landscape of love. It is where we are rooted in the work you experience with me.

Love to you all.