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These 11 select talks are available for a limited time Encore. Also available during the Encore: Poet conversations, Musical Performances, and three Event Replays
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Wound as a Portal Into a New World
V (Formerly Eve Ensler)
Author, Playwright, Activist, and Performer
Read BioWarning: this important conversation includes the topic of sexual abuse. 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:
- Why ‘City of Joy’ elevates collective healing above individual therapy, and how it supports the rising of women into community leaders
- Envisioning a new and enchanting culture that we want to live into rather than reacting against the narrative of patriarchy
- The vital need for collective apology in order to liberate nations from past harms and create lasting change
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“I got a group of women together in my living room which I think is where all revolutions begin.” – V
V (Formally Eve Ensler)
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony award-winning playwright and author of the theatrical phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues. She is the author of books including The Apology and In the Body of the World, as well as The New York Times best-seller I am an Emotional Creature. She helped create the play That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words presented by BAM. She’s the founder of V-Day, a global activist movement that has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against all women (cisgender and transgender,) those who hold fluid identities, nonbinary people, girls, and the planet—and the founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of City of Joy. She writes regularly for The Guardian.
Learn more about Eve and her work at eveensler.org.
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Strengthening Our Global Immune System by Healing Collective Trauma
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- The misunderstood intelligence of our trauma responses
- Relating as a high art form in our healing process
- Activating a global immune response through systemic resourcing in crisis areas
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“The more we heal trauma, we feel that we are connected to and part of nature, and of society. We feel again part of life, instead of alienated from life. This doesn’t mean that everybody has to contribute to everything, but everyone can contribute to something. It doesn’t matter how small it is, it’s about the act itself.” – Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl is a teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has been leading large-scale events and courses that focus on the healing and integration of trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans. Over the last decade, he has facilitated dialogue with thousands of people around healing the collective traumas of racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocides in the U.S., Israel, Germany, Spain, and Argentina. He has been teaching workshops and presenting trainings for Harvard Medical School since 2019. Hübl received a PhD in Wisdom Studies from Ubiquity University in 2022.
His non-profit organization, the Pocket Project, works to support the healing of collective trauma throughout the world. He is the author of the book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. Learn more online at thomashuebl.com.
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The Story Being Told Through Our Collective Body
Prentis Hemphill
Host of Finding Our Way, Writer, and Embodiment Teacher/Facilitator
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Choosing belonging through a universal source over comfort within a human-created story
- The potential of ritual to sync our nervous systems for collective resilience building
- How do we meet in a field of presence when the past has such a strong hold on us?
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“How do we expand our field and feeling so that we can be aware of the web of relationship that we’re already embedded in?” – Prentis Hemphill
Bonus: How We Heal Together
A lesson from The Embodiment Institute’s Self-Guided Embodiment Basics Course; presenting elements of collective healing for social transformation.
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Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way. For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership and generative somatics with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network from 2016 to 2019. Their work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, and the Huffington Post. They are a contributor to You Are Your Best Thing, edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, Holding Change by Adrienne Maree Brown, and The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines. They live in North Carolina on a small farm with their partner, child, two dogs, and two chickens while working on an upcoming book on healing justice.
Learn more at prentishemphill.com.
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The Undeniable Link of Illness and Wellbeing to Our Collective Ecosystem
Dr. Gabor Maté
Physician and Author of The Myth of Normal
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Why our views of ‘normal’ in society are a myth, while our responses to a traumatizing culture are very natural
- The potential of following your authenticity and creative expression even if it contradicts social expectations from within an unhealthy culture
- How manifestation of collective trauma shows up in our physiology and reveals the connection between individual health and our collective environment
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Human beings are born as expectations… for what? Unconditional loving acceptance.” – Gabor Maté
Bonus: 6 Key Questions About Addiction
Excerpts From The Award-Winning book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”
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A renowned speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, and has coauthored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in nearly thirty languages.
Learn more at drgabormate.com.
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Filling Our Wells of Resilience: Contemplative Solutions to Eco-Anxiety and Climate Crisis
Dekila Chungyalpa
Founder and Director, Loka Initiative
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Healing from the natural response of eco-anxiety through community action, contemplative practice, and reconnecting with nature
- Engaging religions as allies that can infuse the sacred into science and activate collective power
- How neoliberalism’s model of scarcity has created massive inequity and ‘othering’ within a consumptive culture, and why this contradicts the earth’s philosophy of abundance
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“If everything is interdependent, that issue that you pick up and delve into means that you are in some sense positively influencing all the other issues.” – Dekila Chungyalpa
Bonus: A Guided Tonglen Meditation to Help With Eco-Anxiety
An audio meditation the listener can follow to address eco-anxiety and climate distress.
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Dekila Chungyalpa is the founder and director of the Loka Initiative, a capacity-building and outreach platform at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions who work on environmental and climate issues. Its mission is to support faith-led environmental and climate action efforts, locally and around the world, through collaborations on project design and management, capacity-building, training, media, and public outreach. Dekila began her career in 2001 working on community-based conservation in the Himalayas and went on to work on climate adaptation and free-flowing rivers in the Mekong region for the World Wildlife Fund in 2004.
In 2008, she helped establish Khoryug, an association of over 50 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries implementing environmental projects across the Himalayas. In 2009, Dekila founded and led WWF Sacred Earth, a 5-year pilot program that built partnerships with faith leaders and religious institutions towards conservation and climate results in the Amazon, East Africa, Himalayas, Mekong, and the United States. She received the prestigious Yale McCluskey Award in 2014 for her innovative work with faith leaders and moved to the Yale School of Environmental Studies as an associate research scientist, where she researched, lectured, and designed the prototype for what is now the Loka Initiative.
Dekila is originally from the Himalayan state of Sikkim in northeast India and is of Bhutia origin. She is the daughter of the late Tsunma Dechen Zangmo, a Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher. She speaks five languages: Sikkimese, Tibetan, Nepali, Hindi, and English.
Learn more about Dekila and her work at centerhealthyminds.org/programs/loka-initiative.
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Disrupting Conventional Approaches to Healing and Justice
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD
Author, Teacher, and Trans-public Intellectual
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How the Yoruba approach to healing decenters the subject of trauma in order to lean into community
- Using the idea of the slave ship to explore the wounds of modern society
- When practices and concepts around trauma reinforce the very structures that created the wounds
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“We are not pure categories of being interacting with other pure categories of being. Instead, we are networks of becoming.” – Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD
Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life partner to Ije, son, and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books,) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo is the visionary founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online post-activist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains.”
Learn more at www.emergencenetwork.org and www.bayoakomolafe.net
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Collective Action, Youth Movements, and Anti-Colonial Activism in the Fight Against Climate Change
Xiye Bastida
Co-Founder, Re-Earth Initiative
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How patriarchy, individualism, and racism contribute to climate change
- The necessity of collective action to affect climate change
- The ability of the youth to influence those in power and inspire other youth
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Young people can run faster, and adults know the way.” – Xiye Bastida
Xiye Bastida
Xiye Bastida is a climate justice activist who advocates for the centering of frontline communities in climate policy. She is an organizer for Fridays For Future NYC and during the 2019 climate strikes, she helped mobilize up to 300,000 people. In 2020, she co-founded Re-Earth Initiative, a youth-led climate justice education organization. As a public speaker and writer, she advocates for youth and Indigenous rights, and highlights the intersectionality of the climate crisis. She currently attends the University of Pennsylvania where she is pursuing a BA in Environmental Studies with a concentration in policy.
Learn more about Xiye and her work at xiyebeara.com.
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Integrated Approaches to Healing Collective Wounding
Andrea Pennington, MD, C.Ac. and Fleet Maull, PhD
– Andrea Pennington, MD, C.Ac.: Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Facilitator, Creator of The Cornerstone Process and the Attunement Meditation
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– Fleet Maull, PhD: Dharma Teacher, Founder of Heart Mind Institute & Prison Mindfulness Institute, and Author of Radical ResponsibilityHighlights from this session:
- Exploring models of healing such as The Cornerstone Process, Radical Responsibility Model, and Bearing Witness
- How engaging in group work surfaces collective shadow and conflict and also mirrors our basic goodness
- Going outside traditional modes of healing to move past guilt and shame and into self-compassion, inspired action, and wisdom
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Every bit of work I do is clearing out and cleaning out these karmic imprints and is helping us collectively move forward.” – Andrea Pennington
“What’s the most creative way I can respond to this—perhaps very unjust circumstance—in order to move forward in my life? Because that’s the only place I have any real personal power, the only place I have any agency.” – Fleet Maull
Bonus: 3 Keys to Become the Hero of Your Life and Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness e-Book
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Fleet Maull’s 26-page ebook supports you to optimize mindfulness meditation practices for self-healing and awakening.
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Dr. Andrea Pennington is an integrative physician, acupuncturist, and bestselling author. She is the founder of the online holistic health platform, In8Vitality, which integrates ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience and conscious media. With over two decades of medical practice specializing in trauma recovery, addiction medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and acupuncture, Dr. Andrea has provided medical services, workshops, and retreats to help thousands of people build resilience, reclaim vitality after burnout, recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences and nurture real self-love in order to thrive in all areas of life.
After years of running a successful Intensive Outpatient Program for binge eating disorder, Dr. Andrea developed The Cornerstone Process, a proven bio-psycho-social-spiritual model for healing trauma and facilitating conscious evolution. This 5-step holistic framework, which has been taught all around the world, provides a process for self-guided or group-led recovery from developmental and intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences. It serves as the foundation for building resilience and integrating insights gleaned from sacred ceremonies, psychotherapy, and personal development work.
The Cornerstone Process is used in Dr. Andrea’s Psychedelic Assisted Therapy preparation and integration programs, which she offers in person and online in the HERO Collective, along with her signature LifeWriting program which empowers you to heal your inner child, reprogram your subconscious mind, transform from victim to hero, and rewrite your life story.
As a sought-after media personality for over twenty years, Dr. Andrea has shared her empowering wellness advice on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr. Oz Show, iTV This Morning, CNN, the Today Show, LUXE-TV, Thrive Global, and as a news anchor for Discovery Health Channel.
Dr. Andrea’s most recent TEDx explores the winding path she took to escape depression and arrive at unconditional self-acceptance, featuring her performance of an original song, “I Love You, Me”.
Learn more at in8vitality.com and andreapennington.com
Fleet Maull, PhD is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur, and peacemaker who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation. He founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence, from 1985 to 1999.
He also founded the transformational education platform Heart Mind Institute and co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute where he trains trauma-informed mindfulness teachers who work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and marginalization. He has served on the leadership team for the annual Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat for more than 20 years. He co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat and has trained genocide survivors as volunteer trauma para-counselors working in villages throughout Rwanda.
He is a Roshi (Zen master/senior teacher) in the Zen Peacemaker Community, a senior Dharma teacher in the Shambhala-Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and leads meditation retreats worldwide. He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness or (NSM)®, a deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma-informed approach to mindfulness & awareness meditation practice that facilitates self-healing, self-regulation, and awakening. He founded both the Global Resilience Summit and the Global First Responder Resilience Summit and co-founded The Best Year of Your Life, SummitPalooza, and The Self-Care Summit.
Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good; Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull, and The Resilient C.O.: Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals.
Learn more at www.fleetmaull.com and www.heartmindinstitute.co.
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Humane Technology Sourced From an Integrated Society
Tristan Harris
Co-Founder and President, Center for Humane Technology
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How social media directs our attention towards the fault lines of society and inflames polarization
- The downward spiral of technology that is rooted in toxic business models and the wounds of its creators
- Steps we can take towards creating technology that is in a healing relationship to humanity
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“We need to liberate humanity from the perverse funhouse mirrors of social media, and liberate social media from the perverse business models that have made it other than what it could be.” – Tristan Harris
Tristan Harris
Tristan Harris has spent his career studying how today’s major technology platforms have increasingly become the social fabric by which we live and think, wielding dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world. Named to the TIME 100 “Next Leaders Shaping the Future” and Rolling Stone Magazine’s “25 People Shaping the World,” Tristan is Co-Founder & President of the Center for Humane Technology, which is catalyzing a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that operates for the common good, strengthening our capacity to tackle our biggest global challenges. He is the Co-Host of “Your Undivided Attention,” consistently among the top ten technology podcasts on Apple Podcasts, which explores how social media’s race for attention is destabilizing society and the vital insights we need to envision solutions. Tristan was also the primary subject of the acclaimed Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” which unveiled the hidden machinations behind social media and has reached an estimated 100 million people worldwide, streaming in 190 countries in 30 languages. He has briefed heads of state, technology company CEOs, and members of the US Congress, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world through mainstream media campaigns.
From his childhood as a magician, to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and later as a Design Ethicist at Google, Tristan has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors and beliefs. Following his 2013 viral internal presentation at Google, “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention,” which sounded the alarm on the harms posed by the attention economy, Tristan began to surface these issues in public conversation via 60 Minutes and a TED Talk in 2017. The deep resonance of the ideas led to the Time Well Spent movement, which sparked product changes at Facebook, Apple, and Google, and laid the groundwork for the launch of the Center for Humane Technology as an independent nonprofit in 2018. Learn more at www.humanetech.com/.
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The Roots Project: Lessons From the Conflict Trauma of South Sudan
Anyieth M. D’Awol, LLM
Founder and Director of the Roots Project and Faculty at the Centre for Mind Body Medicine
Read BioWarning: this important conversation includes the topics of suicide and rape. 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 the Roots Project supports women to heal divisions caused by conflict trauma
- The importance of creating a safe space where people feel comfortable sharing
- Using mind-body techniques to help the South Sudanese people survive ongoing trauma
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Peace building is not going to happen if we do not put healing at the same level as everything else.” – Anyieth M. D’Awol, LLM
Anyieth M. D’Awol, LLM
Anyieth D’Awol is a human rights lawyer from South Sudan. She worked with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan as a Human Rights officer and a Policy Officer on Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform with a donor consortium between 2005-2009. In 2009, she founded the Roots Project, a women’s non-profit with three missions; income generation for women through the preservation of traditional beadwork to foster peaceful relations amongst South Sudanese tribal groups. The organization continues to support 120 women from 22 ethnic groups. In 2014, Anyieth joined a coalition of women’s rights activists and is a founding member of the ‘Every Woman Treaty’ advocating for a treaty on violence against women. Anyieth is the co-founder and Director of Trauma Healing with the ‘Remembering the Ones We Lost’ (ROWL) initiative that documents the names of victims of South Sudan’s conflicts since 1955 in an online database. She is a Faculty Member with the CMBM. Through CMBM, she has trained groups and individuals on self-awareness and trauma reduction in Central Asia, Kenya, South Sudan, Mozambique, Ukraine, and the US.
Learn more at rootsofsouthsudan.org.
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Creating Environments of Safety and Trust Through Polyvagal Theory
Stephen Porges, PhD
Distinguished University Scientist, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium Founding Director, and Professor of Psychiatry
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Listening to the needs of the body to allow health and creativity
- How co-regulation can support families, stressed communities, and collective healing
- Application of Polyvagal Theory in education, media, and the medical industry
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Every loving person gets that our connectedness with others is a portal towards healing.” – Stephen Porges, PhD
Dr. Stephen Porges
Dr. Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines and holds several patents involved in monitoring and regulating autonomic state. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences.
He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2017), and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by more than 1,500 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.
Learn more about Stephen and his work at www.stephenporges.com/.
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Collective Trauma Summit Hosts
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Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
Read BioThomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl is a teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has been leading large-scale events and courses that focus on the healing and integration of trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans. Over the last decade, he has facilitated dialogue with thousands of people around healing the collective traumas of racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocides in the U.S., Israel, Germany, Spain, and Argentina. He has been teaching workshops and presenting trainings for Harvard Medical School since 2019. Hübl received a PhD in Wisdom Studies from Ubiquity University in 2022.
His non-profit organization, the Pocket Project, works to support the healing of collective trauma throughout the world. He is the author of the book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. Learn more online at thomashuebl.com
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Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca
Host, Psychotherapist, Cultural Analyst, and Collective Healing Researcher
Read BioDr. 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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Robin Alfred
Host, Executive Coach, Facilitator of Transformation Fields, and Purpose Consultant
Read BioRobin Alfred
Robin Alfred has been studying with Thomas for over 14 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 three 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 27 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.
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Ruby Mendenhall
Host, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation
Read BioRuby 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”. Website: https://afro.illinois.edu/
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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.
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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. Learn more at www.drangelacosta.com
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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 third year as the Collective Trauma Summit Poetry Curator.
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Matthew Green
Host, Journalist, and Author of Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace
Read BioMatthew Green
Matthew is a journalist and author of Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace, a book documenting how military veterans and their families are exploring new ways to heal from PTSD. He has reported from across Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and is now focused on understanding the relationship between climate change and collective trauma. Matthew is a student in the Timeless Wisdom Training with Thomas Hübl. He writes a weekly newsletter on healing collective trauma called Resonant World.
The Pocket Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to healing collective trauma and reducing its effects on our global culture.
