Meet Adam Harvey | Constellation Facilitator & End-of-Life Doula

We had the good fortune of connecting with Adam Harvey and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Adam, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
Through Awakening Ancestry, I’m honored to help people through their deep, and sometimes difficult transitions in life – whether it’s helping them resolve long-standing intergenerational (ancestral) trauma patterns, supporting clients in moments that feel like (and sometimes are) matters of life and death, or helping parents clear their own emotional material so they don’t pass them on to their children.

My Family & Systemic Constellation practice serves people in releasing some of the stuck patterns that have been holding them back – often the unseen dynamics within family systems, which imprints deeply in us in a way that shapes how our other meaningful relationships unfold in our lives.

I also serve as an end-of-life doula, and have been on staff with TRU Hospice since 2021.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
Awakening Ancestry is a Family & Systemic Constellation practice, and end-of-life doula service based in Boulder, CO. While I worked in the corporate tech world, I didn’t imagine that I’d have a business that supports people through some of their deepest transitions in life – despite often working to develop & commercialize medical devices that served to bring people back from the edge of life & death, I didn’t imagine that I would set out to build a practice that is more soul-oriented, more spiritual in nature than my previous career.

For the most part, this practice has unfolded with relative grace. I wouldn’t call it easy, and this contrasts with my prior belief about work feeling difficult all the time. That being said, the difficult things I’ve overcome in my own life – the trauma healing I’ve done, the chronic diseases I’ve been fortunate to heal – provided the basis for my own understanding of deeply transformative work, and that was often challenging. In addition, this type of work necessitates a high degree of presence and attunement, and can take a substantial amount of energy to hold, so while it’s not easy, I feel fortunate that things seem to have unfolded in a way where it seems like exactly what I need, shows up at just the right time, and where I have just about as much work as my schedule can hold.

As I started Awakening Ancestry, I knew that there were times where I’d need to put in real effort, and that things would get challenging. The nature of this work, being deeply personal, and requiring a high degree of trust and courage, on behalf of the client and practitioner, meant that I didn’t want to feel like I was “forcing” anything to happen. My first clients came to me often through referrals and personal connections, and after a previous career in marketing, it was nice to feel the pull of people who wanted to work with me. So from that perspective, many things have come into place easily, and the basis of that comes trust and working closely with my intuition.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Instead, let’s say I have a client coming to Boulder for a private retreat with me! Here’s what I have planned for the next one of these, coming up in January:

First, on Thursday night, I’ll help my client get settled into her accommodations, in the mountains just West of Boulder in a pine forest and with a gorgeous view. We’ll have dinner at Just Be Kitchen, as this is some of the healthiest, and tastiest food I can find made for me. We’ll go the Boulder location, although I was a regular in their Denver location before they opened up here. That night, we’ll drop into a meditation where she’s staying, and then talk about her intentions for her retreat with me.

On Friday, we’ll start with some movement & embodiment, and time in nature if the weather permits. Hopefully, we’ll get Lauren Lewis from YogaPod to do a private yoga session for us.

After that, we’ll hold a transformative breathwork journey, a private session with a friend and colleague who also facilitates psychedelic therapy work. This first full day is a way to ease into the transformation process, so this will be a sober (but deep) event. I’ll cook a healthy lunch, and give her space to relax for a few hours.

Later in the day, we’ll debrief what came up for her in the session, and how it relates to her overall intentions for the weekend and her life, as well as preparing for the Group Family Constellation coming up the following day.

On Saturday, we’ll orient around a Family Constellation, where she’ll be the focal client with a group of 10-15 others who have come to support her, as well as to receive their own experience that connects to their ancestral patterns and resolution of intergenerational trauma patterns. This will take 3-4 hours in total, and may be a big experience for her. She’s noticed some patterns that older generations in her family held, that seem to have come through to her children, and she’s wanting to recognize her part in the process, to heal and resolve what she can both for her own life, and for her kids.

In this Family Constellation, she’ll have the opportunity to meet members of my community, and other clients of mine, who know the power of coming together to heal together, and who have received similar kinds of support in previous constellations. While there are many things we can do on our own to grow and heal, there is no substitute for having a supportive and welcoming group in a deep experience. Our culture has held important values around independence and self-sufficiency, and especially in healing work, I’m encouraged by the ways we can show up for each other in mutual support.

After the constellation. we might order food from Busaba Thai, and have the opportunity for a hike around Boulder – maybe the Anne U. White trail, or starting from Centennial Trailhead.

Sunday will hold an integration medicine journey for this client. We’ll work again with the psychedelic therapist who facilitated her breathwork journey, who will have participated in her Constellation the previous day. Under the auspices of the recently implemented Natural Medicine Health Act (Proposition 122), we’ll support her in a journey that will help her integrate the material that came up in the Family Constellation, as well as to connect her to her intuition and spiritual experience. We’ll do some movement and meditation before and after the journey, perhaps finish with a peaceful cup of tea, and the day will be spacious with no other distractions around.

On Monday, we’ll debrief the entire weekend, and finish with some movement and meditation, and then perhaps some tacos from Tierra y Fuego in North Boulder. I’ll give her some recommendations for my other favorite YogaPod teachers around (Tunde Borrego and Matt Kapenis for Flow 2 classes, Lara Christine for a Yin class, or Cree Lawrence for a PodFit, more intense workout)

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I’d like to dedicate this shoutout first, to my teachers & mentors in the Constellation world – Jack Blackwell, Karin Dremel, Elmar Dornberger, Elizabeth Lynn Rohr (all whom I met in Boulder), and Stephen Hausner. And second, I’d like to dedicate this to my clients – those who courageously show up, and meet themselves in a deep way that empowers them to shift their lives in ways they might not have imagined. Those who have done enough personal growth work to know and love themselves, who can see better ways of being in the world, and better ways to create our world. For the people that know their work is bigger than themselves, and who are becoming the Ancestors of the world they wish to see.

Website: https://AwakeningAncestry.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyharvey/

Twitter: https://x.com/taharveyconsult

Image Credits
Thomas Prehn (red shirt picture)
Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder (dolphin pic)