Healing the Hidden Wounds of Adoption
A Two-Day Systemic Family Constellations Workshop
Sunshine Coast, Qld, 2025
Proudly funded by Jigsaw Qld
Bringing hidden stories to light, restoring connection and reclaiming belonging.
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Healing the Hidden Wounds of Adoption is a 2-day Systemic & Family Constellations workshop that creates a safe and compassionate space to explore the lasting impacts of adoption. Whether you are an adoptee, a birth parent or part of an adoptive family, adoption often carries unseen layers of grief, disconnection and longing.
Through the powerful lens of Systemic & Family Constellations, this workshop offers a way to gently uncover hidden dynamics, honour unspoken stories and open pathways toward healing. Together, we will explore how adoption shapes identity, belonging and relationships—and how acknowledging what has been lost can make space for greater wholeness and connection.
This program is generously funded by Jigsaw Qld, making it accessible to those who seek healing, understanding and restoration within the adoption story.
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Do you carry hidden grief from adoption?
Has adoption left you questioning your belonging?
Are you ready to begin healing old wounds?
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THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
This workshop offers a safe, guided space to uncover hidden adoption dynamics, honour unspoken stories and open pathways to healing and belonging.
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INTRODUCING
Systemic & Family Constellations
Systemic and Family Constellations is a powerful therapeutic approach that reveals hidden dynamics and patterns within families and systems. By bringing unseen influences into view, it helps participants understand how past experiences—including adoption—affect relationships, identity and belonging.
In this workshop, you will experience guided exercises that illuminate these patterns, honour unspoken stories and create space for healing, understanding and reconnection. No prior experience is needed—just openness to the process and a willingness to witness and be witnessed.
This Workshop Offers:
Guided Constellation Practices
Experience hands-on Systemic & Family Constellations to uncover hidden family dynamics and systemic patterns that influence your life and relationships.
Honouring Unspoken Stories
Explore and acknowledge the grief, loss and longing carried by adoption, creating space for what has been unseen to be recognised and held.
Healing and Connection
Engage in a safe, supportive group environment to open pathways toward personal healing, deeper understanding and a renewed sense of belonging.
Workshop Overview
DAY ONE - 15 November
Revealing Hidden Dynamics
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The first day introduces participants to the principles of Systemic & Family Constellations and creates a safe, nurturing environment for exploration. Through guided exercises, we will gently uncover hidden patterns and dynamics that influence adoption experiences, family relationships and personal identity. Participants will be invited to witness and engage in constellations, helping to illuminate unspoken stories and reveal connections that may have been previously unseen. Reflection, journaling and group discussion support integration of insights throughout the day.
DAY TWO - 16 November
Healing and Reconnection
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The second day focuses on healing, acknowledgement and reconnection. Building on the insights from Day 1, participants will continue with constellation work designed to honour unspoken grief, recognise losses and open pathways toward belonging. We will explore ways to create healthier connections within ourselves and with our families, integrating experiential, somatic and reflective practices to embody new understanding. The workshop concludes with a closing circle, consolidating experiences and insights and offering space for participants to leave with a sense of closure, renewed connection and empowerment in their adoption journey.
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"Monique lives and breathes her depth expertise in sandplay therapy. Her workshops invite you into this knowing, via a learning process that is accessible, experiential and curated to support deepening understanding and capacity across the course modules.
Sand-based experiential explorations bring theory and literature to life. As you personally engage with the therapeutic process, both as an inquirer and companion, thoughts transition to felt knowing.
Paced workshops, and an immediacy of Monique's presence during the skills development sessions provide an evolving context in which emergent experiences can be understood. One of the most significant learning moments arises when you experience the deep connection to Self that occurs as you move into engagement with sand and symbols. The shift is physical as much as it is emotional, or psychological. The knowing that something has occurred. Then, the opportunity to witness this process as it unfolds for others.
Monique provides a beautifully designed and facilitated program of study that invites your own experience as part of your learning and readies you to share the rich therapeutic process with others".
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Dr Trudy Flynn, Program Coordinator, Master of Counselling, University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld
"I found this training invaluable, both personally and professionally. I enjoyed the content on trauma, the time spent in the sand, the group dynamic and the opportunity to watch change and growth in all participants. Monique has the remarkable ability to hold the group with clear boundaries to create a beautiful sense of safety so everyone could learn. Monique's style and ability is world class. She creates an opening for deep learning and a desire to learn more. Thank you Monique for so openly sharing this modality and creating a warm, safe learning environment. I feel so appreciative and thankful".
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Jane Ashton, Equine Assisted Therapist
How It Works.
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Systemic & Family Constellations is a guided process that helps reveal hidden dynamics and patterns within families and systems. During the workshop:
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Setting the Scene – You may share a question, concern or area of your life you want to explore.
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Representation – Participants may stand in as representatives for family members, adoptees or other elements of your system.
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Observation & Insight – Through the movement, placement and interactions of representatives, hidden patterns and unresolved dynamics become visible.
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Resolution & Healing – Facilitators guide gentle interventions to acknowledge, honour and re-balance these dynamics, creating space for understanding, healing and connection.
No prior experience is required. You can participate as a representative, or simply observe and witness, knowing your presence contributes to the process.
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Hi! I'm Margarete.
YOURÂ WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
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Margarete Koenning is a Social Worker, Senior Gestalt Psychotherapist and highly experienced Systemic & Family Constellations facilitator and trainer. She has dedicated four decades to supporting individuals, families and communities to navigate complex relational and systemic challenges.
Margarete’s approach combines clinical knowledge, experiential therapy and the transformative power of constellations to gently uncover hidden patterns, reconcile unresolved dynamics and promote healing. Known for her sensitivity, depth, humour and warmth, she creates safe spaces where participants can explore difficult stories, witness each other’s experiences and open pathways toward restoration, connection and belonging.
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Hi! I'm Monique.
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Monique Pangari is a therapist, somatic practitioner and group facilitator specialising in adoption trauma, attachment and somatic healing. With extensive experience supporting individuals and families impacted by early separation, loss and adoption, Monique integrates somatic practices, expressive therapies and nature-based approaches to create safe, transformative spaces for healing.
Her work is informed by over a decade of experience in trauma-sensitive facilitation and she is known for her compassionate, insightful and grounding presence. Monique’s approach blends professional expertise with lived understanding of adoption, helping participants explore hidden dynamics, honour unspoken stories and cultivate a deeper sense of belonging and connection.
Register Your Interest TodayThis workshop offers a rare opportunity to gently uncover hidden adoption dynamics, honour unspoken stories and experience deep healing in safe, supportive space—something many adoptees, birth parents and adoptive families have been longing for but rarely find in one place.
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Testimonials
2 MONTHS FROM NOW THIS COULD BE YOU
"This training was so worth the investment. I have walked away with many valuable tools for working with my clients and for myself. I learned new knowledge and developed new hope for resolving trauma. I found the concept of trusting the process most useful. I am now kinder to myself and more able to allow the client to do their own work in the sand. Monique is safe, curious, accepting, informative, vulnerable, grounded, kind and knowledgable. This was the most enjoyable and informative training I have ever experienced. I felt safe in the experience, knowledge and passion Monique brings to this training and work. Monique, I am grateful that you offer your knowledge so generously and safely. You have the ability to hold a group of very different personalities so safely and enjoyably. It has felt connected and has changed me".
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- Neisha Cass, Counsellor & Equine Assisted Therapist
"This training was whole-hearted, full-bodied and abundant. The highlight was the way Monique held each person with open hearted integrity. She delivered her knowledge with pure passion and reverence. I loved it all, especially the highly attuned observation skills. I now hold myself with so much more compassion. Monique it has truly been a privilege to be held within your gentle authenticity. This training was life and breath giving, a magnificent creation of work. Thank you for sharing your harvest, I go out with honour and plant seeds."
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- Kellie Ermer McDonald, Child & Family Counsellor
This could be you!
Are you ready to uncover hidden patterns, honour your story and take the first step toward healing and belonging?
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Screening & Suitability
We'll connect with you to ensure the workshop is a good fit for your needs.
Confirm Your Spot
Once approved, secure your place and prepare to engage in a safe, supportive space for healing.
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What You'll Gain.
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Clarity and Insight: Understand hidden family dynamics and how adoption has shaped identity, relationships and belonging.
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Healing and Integration: Honour unspoken stories and grief, creating space for emotional integration and reconciliation.
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Connection and Support: Experience a safe, supportive group environment where you can witness and be witnessed.
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Empowerment and Belonging: Take steps toward reclaiming your story, fostering a renewed sense of self and connection to others.
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Workshop Practicalities
Sunshine Coast, Qld
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When: Friday 15 & Saturday 16 November, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM each day
Lunch: Healthy vegetarian lunch provided
The workshop will be held in Diddillibah in a nurturing studio overlooking rainforest, with air conditioning, free on-street parking, bathroom amenities and a fully equipped kitchen including fridge, microwave, cutlery and crockery. Tea, coffee and filtered water will also be supplied. Venue details will be provided once your spot is confirmed, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for all participants.
Spaces are limited. Register your interest today.
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