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  • Collective Healing Through Activism

    Ayọ Tometi

    Human Rights Leader, Co-Founder, #BlackLivesMatter, and Founder, Diaspora Rising

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    Warning: this important conversation includes the topics of racist violence and police shootings. Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.

    Highlights from this session:
    • Ayo’s personal story leading up to the co-founding of Black Lives Matter
    • The courage inherent in addressing our own wounds to end cycles of harm
    • The power of activism in acknowledging shared pain and healing collective trauma
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    “The opportunity for transformation occurs and lives in that space of sincere, deep listening.”

    Ayọ Tometi

    Ayọ (fka Opal) Tometi is one of the most influential human rights leaders of the century according to TIME magazine. As one of the three women co-founders of the Black Lives Matter digital platform and chapter-based network, her name is etched in history. Hailed as a feminist freedom fighter, Ayọ is respected for her track record of uniting communities, and for her thought leadership on race, immigration, and gender. In 2019 she completed nearly a decade of service as the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the first immigrant rights organization for people of African descent in the United States.

    Ayọ is a trusted advisor and serves on the board of  Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and the International Living Futures Institute. She has graced the cover of magazines because of her achievements and received numerous recognitions including an honorary PhD, being named Most Influential Women of the Century by USA Today, TIME Magazine, and Most Influential People by Forbes, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan magazines. Ayọ was also honored by the City University of New York (CUNY) with a scholarship in her name to support immigrant students pursuing law degrees. In 2019 she also received the Coretta Scott King Center Award and Douglass 200 Award and is currently featured in a video installation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African History and Culture for her contributions to thought leadership for the betterment of the diaspora.

    As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Ayọ has set her movement sights on an even bigger struggle: uplifting Black lives worldwide. In 2020 she founded Diaspora Rising, a new media and advocacy hub dedicated to strengthening the bonds amongst members of the global Black family. Additionally, she’s focused on other social enterprises. With nearly two decades as a human rights champion, she still feels her work has only just begun.

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  • Freedom From Gender Norms

    Alok Vaid-Menon

    Artist

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    Highlights from this session:
    • The colonial structure of the gender binary, how it harms us all, and how it limits our conception of love
    • Transphobia and the history of scapegoating as a way of unfairly outsourcing grief to strangers
    • How community, vulnerability, and mutual aid contribute to healing and make life worth living
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    “Hatred is a shield that prevents people from reckoning with their own pain.”

    Alok Vaid-Menon

    ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist, their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017,) Beyond the Gender Binary (2020,) and Your Wound/My Garden (2021,) and the creator of #DeGenderFashion: an initiative to degender fashion and beauty industries. In recognition of their work, they have been honored as the inaugural LGBTQ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and awarded a GLAAD Media Award and Stonewall Foundation Visionary Award. 

    Over the past decade, they have toured in more than 40 countries, most recently selling out their runs at the Soho Theatre in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center. Their show has been described as “Provocative and powerful,” “A potent combination of comedy and poetry,” and “A Jaw-dropping celestial event.” On screen, they will make their feature film debut in Absolute Dominion opposite Patton Oswalt and next can be seen in Emmie Lichtenberg’s film Complicated Order opposite Midori Francis. On television, they have appeared on Hulu’s Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne, ABC’s PRIDE: To Be Seen – A Soul of A Nation, Netflix’s Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, and The Trans List.

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  • Emergent Strategy

    adrienne maree brown

    Emergent Strategist, Pleasure Activist, Visionary Fiction Author, Podcaster, Facilitator and Mediator

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    Highlights from this session:
    • The role of ritual in creative expression, social movements, and healing work
    • Embracing a spirit of playfulness and how that helps us to be more present, handle grief, and live richer lives
    • The spiritual impact and radically transformative power of art and fiction
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    “I think we end up with a wildly different world in a scenario where we’re actually allowed to be our whole complex selves.”

    adrienne maree brown

    adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, which includes short and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks, and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing, and an upcoming immersive musical ritual; and her podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables, and The Emergent Strategy Podcast, adrienne has nurtured emergent strategy, pleasure activism, radical imagination, and transformative justice as ideas, frameworks, networks, and practices for transformation.

    Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula.

    She is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017), Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019), Grievers (2021,) and Maroons (2023) the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy.

    After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC.

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  • Climate Anxiety

    Britt Wray, PhD

    Author and Researcher at the Forefront of Climate Change and Mental Health

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    Highlights from this session:
    • Turning climate anxiety into climate activism
    • Giving communities the tools to navigate the effects of climate change
    • How practicing mindfulness and feeling our interconnectedness can inspire action
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    “Better futures will be entirely missed if we get stuck in fear and dread.”

    Bonus: Generation Dread

    The introductory chapter of Britt’s book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.

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    Britt Wray, PhD

    Britt Wray, PhD is the Director of the Chair’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. She is the author of 2 books, the most recent being Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid the climate emergency, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.

    Britt has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, among other publications. She holds a Climate Psychology Certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Fellow in the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship offered by Harvard C-Change. She is the Founder of the weekly Gen Dread newsletter (gendread.substack.com), which shares insights and expert advice for coping with climate distress and taking climate action. 

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  • Journey of Empowerment

    Alanis Morissette

    Wholeness Advocate, Thought Leader, and Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter

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    Highlights from this session:
    • How to adhere to your values while passionately pursuing your life’s purpose
    • Understanding interdependence as adults and parents, and how to pass that knowledge on
    • The importance of art and music to the collective healing movement
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    “We are united and interconnected and the micro is the macro. What’s happening in my living room is happening between nations.”

    Alanis Morissette

    Alanis Morissette is one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians/artists in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise, 14 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammy® Awards (with an additional 14 nominations), two Golden Globe nominations, a BRIT Award and sales of over 75 million albums worldwide. Her debut album JAGGED LITTLE PILL, was followed by nine more eclectic and critically acclaimed albums, all of which continue to influence and inspire fans and fellow artists alike. Alanis has acted on the big and small screens both comedically and dramatically with roles in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Dogma,” among many others. She is currently starring in Fox’s sitcom, “The Great North”. 

    Alanis’ influence can be felt not only in music as she is also a dedicated supporter and student of spiritual, psychological, and physical wholeness which includes addiction and trauma recovery, female empowerment, and the advancement of a more “whole” approach to children’s education. In 2016, she launched “Conversation with Alanis Morissette,” a podcast that features conversations with a variety of revered authors, doctors, educators, and therapists, covering a wide range of psychosocial topics extending from spirituality to developmentalism to art. 

    Facilitating her message through performances, writing, interviews, teachings and public speaking, Alanis has shared the stage with some of today’s great thinkers and change agents. She has contributed her writing to a variety of forums, including a weekly column in The Guardian, Time Magazine, and The New York Times.

     

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  • The Neuroscience of Connection

    Dr. Dan Siegel

    Executive Director, Mindsight Institute

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    Highlights from this session:
    • How defining the “self” as merely an individual perpetuates oppression, and how redefining the self as an intra-connected part of a larger whole can benefit humanity
    • Awe and compassion as pathways to understanding ourselves and reality
    • Reframing threats as challenges in order to escape the bind of reactivity
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    “We can get helpful when we feel helpless and we can do this dancing together and take on those challenges not as enemies, but as partners in a dance.”

    Dr. Dan Siegel

    Dr. Dan Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, which focuses on the development of mindsight and teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families, and communities.

    Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. He has five New York Times bestsellers, including Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence and Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human. He has also collaborated with others in his field on multiple other publications. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which currently contains over eighty textbooks.

    Learn more at drdansiegel.com and mindsightinstitute.com

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  • Embracing Earth’s Wisdom

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse

    Host of First Voices Radio National/International

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    Highlights from this session:
    • Working towards peace with the earth and seeking forgiveness from the earth
    • How our consciousness and intelligence arise from nature
    • Rooting our intellectual capacities in our emotional and spiritual experiences
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    “I’m always thinking about peace with earth rather than peace on earth because one is held in domination and one is held in relationship.”

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse

    Tiokasin Ghosthorse is an educator, musician, and international speaker on peace. He is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host, and Executive Producer of First Voices Radio for the last 31 years in New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington.

    In 2016, he received a Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Other recent recognitions include Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellowship in Music (2016), National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Nominee (2017), Indigenous Music Award Nominee for Best Instrumental Album (2019), and National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee (2018, 2019). He was also recently nominated for the 2020 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities.

    Tiokasin is a master musician of the Lakota cedar flute(s) where stories and cultural knowledge are conveyed through music. We must stop with the idea of creating peace on Earth and begin creating peace with Earth. Tiokasin is a “perfectly flawed human being.”

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  • Becoming Cult Literate

    Sarah Edmondson

    Actor, Podcast Host, Author and Speaker

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    Warning: this important conversation includes the topics of branding, sexual exploitation, and cults. Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.

    Highlights from this session:
    • How cults weaponize therapy tactics to manipulate their members into accepting discomfort
    • Recovering from deep moral injury
    • Creating healthy, connected community in a post-cult existence
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    “It’s a human thing to want to seek, but you have to know how to protect yourself”

    Bonus: Scarred

    An excerpt from Sarah’s book detailing the true story of how she escaped the NXIVM cult

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    Sarah Edmondson

    Sarah Edmondson is a Canadian actress and voice-over artist who has starred in multiple TV series and more than a dozen films. Her whistleblower story following her departure from personal and professional development company NXIVM is told in her memoir, Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life, the CBC podcast “Uncover: Escaping NXIVM,” and critically acclaimed HBO documentary series on NXIVM, The Vow.

    Co-hosted by her husband and fellow NXIVM whistleblower Anthony “Nippy” Ames, her podcast, “A Little Bit Culty,” explores the fads, beliefs, and trends that blur the line between devotion and dysfunction to help people understand, heal from, and avoid abusive situations. Besides her work as an actor and podcaster, Sarah attends conferences and events as a speaker, host, and cult-recovery advocate.

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  • Holistic Economic Healing

    Dr. Julia Kim

    Consultant, Wellbeing and Wellbeing Economics

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    Highlights from this session:
    • Alternative economic systems that prioritize the well-being of individuals, communities, and the environment
    • How to place yourself in the present and disconnect your ego from quick fixes and short-term solutions
    • Measuring the well-being of a country via “Gross National Happiness”
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    “If the government cannot create happiness for the people, the government has no reason to exist.”

    Bonus: Bhutan and Beyond

    Julia’s chapter, “Bhutan and beyond: The emergence of Wellbeing Economies,” from the recently published, Limits and Beyond: 50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, What Did We Learn and What’s Next?

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    Dr. Julia Kim

    Julia Kim is an explorer of the terrain connecting inner transformation and systems change. She draws on her past career as a physician and public health researcher in Africa and Asia, Senior Policy Advisor at the United Nations (UNDP and UNICEF,) and Program Director at the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre in Bhutan. She integrates global experience in the fields of leadership development, contemplative practice, program facilitation, research, and policy in the fields of well-being, well-being economics, global health, and sustainable development. Julia is an associate of the Presencing Institute and an Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome. She holds degrees from Cornell University, the University of Manitoba, Tufts University, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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  • Building Humane Technology

    Randima Fernando

    Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

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    Highlights from this session:
    • How technology hijacks our dopamine response and reinforces trauma symptoms
    • The downstream consequences of the “Attention Economy”
    • How social media and the ‘like’ button have created a division of reality
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    “Be clear about what you want for your life so that you can be discerning.”

    Randima Fernando

    Randima works at the intersection of technology, mindfulness, and social impact. He is a Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology, which has helped over 100 million people globally understand the harms of extractive technology through the documentary film “The Social Dilemma,” the podcast Your Undivided Attention, and many other projects. Randima previously served for seven years as founding Executive Director at Mindful Schools, a nonprofit that has taught mindfulness to millions of kids and over 50,000 educators worldwide. Before that, Randima led many award-winning projects and authored three #1-ranked books on 3D graphics over seven years at NVIDIA. He also serves on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

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  • Healing Through Connection

    Peter A. Levine, PhD

    Founder, Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and Somatic Experiencing International

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    Warning: this important conversation includes the topics of school shootings and animal experimentation (mice). Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.

    Highlights from this session:
    • How our unresolved traumas affect our families and communities
    • Understanding intergenerational trauma and how it relates to systemic trauma
    • Serving communities traumatized by war
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    “Connection tunes the part of our nervous system that gives us the greatest resilience. “

    Bonus: Somatic Experiencing

    An article detailing the historical context, theory, techniques, and processes of the Somatic Experiencing therapy modality.

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    Peter A Levine, PhD

    Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. 

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Collective Trauma Summit Hosts

  • Thomas Hübl

    Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science

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    Thomas Hübl 

    Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.  Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans, and facilitated healing and dialogue around racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocide.

    He is the author of the books, Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

     

     

  • Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca

    Host, Psychotherapist, Cultural Analyst, and Collective Healing Researcher

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    Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca

    Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca is a psychotherapist, cultural analyst, author and educator. She has a passion for supporting people, individually and as part of a community, to live life to the fullest, and does so through her psychotherapeutic and counselling work with individuals, couples and groups over the last 14 years. She also provides professional training, educational material, research and has offered presentations on various national media in Mexico and Canada. Besides degrees in Literature and Linguistics (BAHons), Discourse Analysis (MA) and Social, Community and Organizational Studies, (PhD, Chaos and complexity theories applied to social healing) Laura holds diplomas as Narrative Therapist (from the Latin American Institute of Family Studies, Mexico City), Anger Management Specialist (with Moose Anger Management in Vancouver, Canada) and Intuitive Integral Psychotherapist and Trainer from the Masters Center for Transformation (Ashland, Oregon). She studies with Thomas Hübl since 2016, graduated from the first Pocket Project training, has participated in the last three Collective Trauma Summits as a panelist and then a host, facilitated the Latin-American, Mexican and Colombia Collective Trauma Exploration Labs, and hosts BIPOC spaces in courses offered by Thomas. Beside her PhD thesis, a written psychotherapeutic prototype session for Mexico, she edited a pioneering book on Collective healing with Maurizio Andolfi (The Oaxaca Book, Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, Roma: 2008), and has been active in the field of collective healing since 2004.

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  • Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Distinguished Irish Poet, Theologian and Mediator, and Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound

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    Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Pádraig Ó Tuama is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound — a podcast that has gained over 10 million downloads since its start in 2020 — and also the author of Poetry Unbound; 50 Poems to Open Your Life. Profiled by The New Yorker, and published in Poetry Ireland, the Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, and many others, he brings interests in conflict, language, religion, and power to his work. His most recent collection is Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022).

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  • Kosha Joubert

    Host, CEO of the Pocket Project, Former CEO of the Global Ecovillage Network

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    Kosha Joubert

    Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and integrating ancestral and collective trauma. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, community engagement and intercultural collaboration. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to the healing of divides and transformational edge-work ever since. She has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2018) for her work in building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. Learn more here.

  • Matthew Green

    Host, Climate Journalist, and Author of the Resonant World newsletter on Healing Collective Trauma.

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    Matthew Green

    Matthew is a climate journalist and author of the Resonant World newsletter serving the global movement to heal collective trauma. His book Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace documents how military veterans and their families are exploring new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a student in Thomas Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom Training and an active participant in the Pocket Project.

  • Ruby Mendenhall

    Host, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation

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    Ruby Mendenhall

    Ruby Mendenhall is the Lee Dallenbauch Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ruby is an Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. She is the founder of the Designing Resiliency and Well-being Maker Lab Node at the college of medicine. She is the co-developer of Designing Spaces of Hope: Interiors and Exteriors and the Community Healing and Resistance through Storytelling frameworks. Her research examines Black mothers’ resiliency and spirituality, and how living in racially segregated neighborhoods with high levels of violence affects their mental and physical health. She is currently directing the STEM Illinois Nobel Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, which provides unprecedented access to computer science and the training of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Citizen/Community Scientists (CSs). Recent grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will also support work around training CHWs and CSs. She is the co-creator of the Wellness Store, which seeks to create a culture of health. Ruby discusses her vision for healing in her TEDxUIUC talk entitled DREAMing and Designing Spaces of Hope in a “Hidden America”.

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  • Robin Alfred

    Host, Executive Coach, Facilitator of Transformation Fields, and Purpose Consultant

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    Robin Alfred

    Robin Alfred has been studying with Thomas for over 15 years. He is a Senior Student and has had the honour and delight of serving as a mentor on many of Thomas’s online courses and of being one of the co-hosts of each of the four previous Online Trauma Summits. Robin’s passion is to support individual and collective awakening through the embodiment of the timeless, and yet contemporary, mystical teachings that Thomas offers. He practices this in his work as an executive coach, leadership trainer, event facilitator and organisational consultant, all of which have a global reach. He describes his purpose as ‘the facilitation of transformational and healing fields’ – be this in individuals, groups or organisations. Born into a Jewish family, with refugee grandparents who suffered the trauma of persecution in Russia and Poland, Robin has now lived for 28 years in the Findhorn ecovillage and spiritual community in Scotland and studied with a Sufi master for 6 years before meeting Thomas. Robin is a lover of silence, poetry, nature and all things sustainable.

  • Dr. Angel Acosta

    Host and Principal Consultant at Acosta Consulting

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    Dr. Angel Acosta

    For the last decade, Dr. Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice, and mindfulness. With a doctorate degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Acosta has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explored healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.

    After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, Dr. Acosta began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development with conversations about inequality and healing, to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto, Japan. He continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others. Over the last couple of years, he has designed the Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Experience–a contemplative journey to understand structural inequality. He’s a proud member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project, based at the New School.

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  • Anna Molitor

    Poetry Curator and Host, Somatic Healing Practitioner and Group Facilitator

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    Anna Molitor

    Anna is a somatic healing practitioner, group facilitator, and a lover of poetry and movement arts that open a path toward what is most essential. She has a deep passion for the mystery and precision of individual and collective trauma healing and restoration. Anna’s work is deeply informed by 10 years of study and work with Thomas Hübl, her immersion as an assistant facilitator in Bloodline Healing (an ancestral healing modality), and her study of Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing. She bows to the poets, myth-tellers, musicians, healers, teachers, dancers, artists and wild creatures who have blessed her path and woven their magic into who she has become. Anna is a senior student of Thomas Hübl and an assistant and mentor for the current Timeless Wisdom Training. She is delighted to serve for the fifth year as the Collective Trauma Summit Poetry Curator.

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