My name is Matt Sage.
I am a trained Family and Systemic Constellator, a musician and a creative practitioner, and have been holding healing spaces for over 30 years. Having first encountered Family Constellations in 2011, I have been deeply immersed in this profoundly transformational work ever since.
From its inception in 1994, until 2026, I ran The Catweazle Club in Oxford: an unplugged weekly performance space for musicians, songwriters, poets, magicians and performers of every imaginable hue. To me, working with systemic and family constellations is a natural maturation of the role I held for 30 years at Catweazle, where I created a safe and nurturing space in which people of every level and ability could share their creativity.
In addition to being a musician, I also spent 10 deeply meaningful years offering songwriting workshops in a wide variety of different groups and community settings, encouraging people to share their stories through song writing. This ranged from primary school children, through to elders in residential care, taking in homeless people, drug and alcohol users, and serving prisoners along the way.
It often occurred to me that these seemingly disparate groups had more in common with one another than not: and that they had all been profoundly shaped by the fate of their family of origin.
This led to my first experience of Family Constellations, in 2011, which was immediately and profoundly life-changing and I determined to learn more about this extraordinary healing modality.
In 2018, I began a two-year training with Nicola Dunn at the Constellations Academy in London, and more recently completed a course in Applied Constellations, with Sheila McCarthy-Dodd & Gaye Donaldson at The Centre for Systemic Constellations, in Bristol and London.
I am both from - and am also a parent in - a blended family, giving rise to some wonderfully complex family dynamics. My wife, (Somatic Movement teacher, Jessica Howie), and I have five children between us, and in 2014 we created the first of what are now a group of 3 small, independent health food shops in Oxford - Wild Honey.
In 2023, we moved to Bristol and I am currently offering Family & Systemic Constellation workshops in Bristol & Oxford, as well as one-to-one sessions online.
Get in touch if you would like to book for a Constellations workshop or a one-to-one session, or simply want to find out more about this profoundly transformational work.
