An online gathering to explore trauma-informed pathways for personal, ancestral, and collective healing.

October 12–18, 2025

Free Encore Oct 20-21

Welcome to the Collective Trauma Summit 2025

We’re happy to share a special Welcome Package that’s included with your free registration, featuring inspiring voices and practices from recent years, plus exclusive new content for 2025 to help you begin your journey before the Summit even starts. You can explore your Welcome Package below.

We recommend that you bookmark this page so you can easily access all of your Summit details, including your Welcome Package, speaker schedule, and more. 

Highlights

The Summit broadcast was from Oct. 12 – Oct. 18, but you can still watch these Summit highlights.

welcome package

Your free Welcome Package, featuring 6 video conversations with Expert Speakers, a guided meditation with Thomas, and more—is available here:

Summit Schedule

Explore the Summit’s upcoming offerings and daily speakers—click below to see the schedule overview.

our summit partners

This year’s Summit is co-created with a global network of visionary partners: organizations and non-profits who are pioneering new approaches to healing, social change, and collective care. Learn more about these mission-driven organizations by clicking below.

welcome package

Your free Welcome Package, featuring 6 video conversations with Expert Speakers, a guided meditation with Thomas, and more—is available here:

Summit Schedule

Explore the Summit’s upcoming offerings and daily speakers—click below to see the schedule overview.

Access Your Videos

Watch a Sneak Peek Preview of the Conference

Connected Healing for Complex Systems with Nora Bateson

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In this conversation, Nora Bateson and Thomas Hübl explore “Warm Data” as a way of approaching systems change and trauma healing. Together, they reflect on the interconnectedness of diverse systems, sciences, philosophies, and practices, reminding us of our inherent relationality and deep need for human connection.

The Alchemy of Stillness with Pico Iyer

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In this dialogue, Pico Iyer and Thomas Hübl explore creativity as a surrender to universal consciousness, where ideas and wisdom flow through us. They reflect on cultivating stillness and wonder amid the busyness of modern life, and how writing itself can become a meditative practice that opens hidden truths.

Safety, Connection, and Our Nervous System with Dr. Stephen Porges

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In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Porges and Thomas Hübl discuss how connection and co-regulation foster resilience and healing. They explore ways therapists and caregivers can regulate their own states, and how music and rhythm can calm the nervous system and open pathways for repair.

Spirit and Ceremony with Serene Thin Elk

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In this dialogue, Serene Thin Elk and Kosha Joubert reflect on how the presence of ancestors can guide healing, the role of ceremony and community in Indigenous life and medicine, and how we can meet internalized oppression with compassion to restore wholeness.
Download Your Excerpt and Meditation

First-Look Book Excerpt from Thomas Hübl and Dr. Richard Schwartz

Enjoy this introduction and chapter from their groundbreaking, forthcoming book, Releasing Our Burdens

Guided Meditation Audio with Thomas Hübl

A guided meditation that invites you to root deeply in yourself. Grounding helps us rest in our bodies with stability and presence. This practice supports both daily life and deeper spiritual work, helping you carry awareness and balance into each moment of your day.

Healing Historical Trauma with Dr. Ruby Gibson

An inspiring conversation with Dr. Ruby Gibson and Thomas as they discuss the healing power of building a spiritual connection to our earth, our histories, our communities, and ourselves through Somatic Archaeology©.

Dr. Gibson is also offering a workshop in the Conference – for more information click here.

Poetry Collection Videos

Watch a Sneak Peek Preview of the Conference

Creativity and Catharsis with Ada Limón

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In this dialogue, Ada Limón and Pádraig Ó Tuama explore our deep need for play and artistry, the cathartic release of creativity, and how fury itself can fuel innovation. They remind us to trust that art can hold hurt as well as healing, trauma as well as joy.

Poetry as a Gateway to Collective Healing with Marie Howe

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In this conversation, Marie Howe and Pádraig Ó Tuama share poems and reflections on how poetry becomes a gateway to healing. Together, they explore how poets’ voices can nurture empathy, deepen connection, and contribute to a more vital and compassionate culture.

Speaker talk clips

Watch clips of the Speaker Talks to preview what’s included in the All-Access Pass.

workshop recordings

Live workshop sun. oct 13

Live workshop Thurs. Oct. 10

Live workshop Mon. Oct. 7

Live workshop sat. oct. 5

Live workshop with dr gabor Mate Tues. oct. 1

Live workshop Mon. Sept. 30

Live workshop Sat. Sept. 28

Live workshop Wed. Sept. 25

Live workshop Sunday, Sept. 22

When you upgrade to an All-Access Pass, you’ll receive exclusive access to NINE workshop recordings with featured luminaries.

 

Bridging Generations: The Ancestral Healing Path with Thomas Hübl.

Explore the profound connections between personal, ancestral, and collective trauma, and how understanding these links can empower your healing journey. 

The Courage in Poetry: An Invitation to Solace, Companionship, and Courage with Poet, Philosopher, and Speaker, David Whyte. 

Discover the healing power of poetry and how it opens us to aspects of ourselves that we might otherwise push away. Learn how poetry creates a channel between our deep inner foundation and our actions in the everyday world.

Global Social Witnessing – An Embodied Introduction to Our Inner World Space with Kosha Joubert. Learn to mindfully attend to global events with embodied awareness, and shift from being a passive bystander to an active witness, responding from body, heart, and mind.

On Cultivating Care in Times of Loss, with Bayo Akomolafe, PhD. Explore a conversation critically examining traditional and historical notions of healing and how they sometimes get in the way of care.

On Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality with Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute. Explore how overwhelming experiences, cross-generational trauma, genetics, and epigenetic inheritance shape who we are and who we can become.

Join Merritt Juliano in an informal, open, respectful, confidential space to safely share thoughts, feelings and experiences of living in the planetary health crisis. 

Join Dr. Ruby Gibson, Developer of Somatic Archaeology©, International Healer, Speaker, and Educator, along with Calvin Terrell, Racial Literacy and Collaboration Specialist for a live experiential workshop on The Politics of Body and Earth.

encore!

The Conference broadcast was from Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, and now you can enjoy select Speaker Talks and all 8 of the Daily Insight Videos—completely free.

speaker talks

Each day from October 12-18, we’ll release new Speaker Talks, a new Daily Insight Video from Thomas, and a featured Integration Practice. The Speaker Talks are available to watch for free for 48 hours from their release.

replay of the Live opening ceremony

watch the Preview Event replay

Details for Our Free Live event on September 28

Collective Resilience

Healing Together in Our Changing World

A Collective Healing Meditation with Thomas Hübl

In this event, we gathered as a community to set our intentions and embark on an 8-day journey within the Conference. Enjoy a short talk from Thomas, and a collective meditation. The event included recorded music from Jami Sieber with live poetry readings from Kim Rosen.

Tuesday, Sept. 24
10:30am Los Angeles / 1:30pm New York / 7:30pm Berlin

Find the time in your area

In this event, we will gather as a community to set our intention and embark on an 8-day journey within the Conference. Enjoy a short talk from Thomas, and a collective meditation. The event will include recorded music from Jami Sieber with live poetry readings from Kim Rosen.

With Thomas Hübl

Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025

9am L.A. / 12pm N.Y. / 6pm Berlin

Find the time in your area

This special live gathering is an opportunity to step into the Summit field and experience what it means to practice healing in community. Thomas will share a short teaching and guide us in a collective healing meditation. 

9am L.A. / 12pm N.Y. / 6pm Berlin

Find the time in your area

Voices for Global Healing: Innovative Approaches to Collective Trauma Work

Featuring Thomas Hübl, Ruby Mendenhall, Matthew Green, Robin Alfred, and Kim Rosen. Your Conference hosts will share key takeaways on innovative approaches to healing, with a teaching from Thomas to start us off. 

You’ll receive the Zoom link in your inbox 24-hours prior to our live event.

our summit partners

This year’s Summit is co-created with a global network of visionary partners: organizations and non-profits who are pioneering new approaches to healing, social change, and collective care. Learn more about these mission-driven organizations by clicking below.

limited time offer: upgrade to the full summit package

Lifetime Access to 40+ Expert Speakers, Bonus Gifts & More!

Unlimited Access to 45+ Speaker Talk Recordings, 9 Live Interactive Workshops, Community Forum, Bonus Gifts & More!

Get the Complete Conference Package and 9 Workshops

Get the Complete Conference Package and Participate in Live Workshops

Want to go even deeper?
Check out our brand-new All-Access Pass

When you upgrade to an All-Access Pass, you’ll receive exclusive access to 9 workshops with these featured luminaries

You’re invited to elevate your experience. When you upgrade to an All-Access Pass, you’ll receive exclusive access to 9 LIVE interactive workshops with these featured luminaries

Plus enjoy access to all 45+ speakers talks as well as bonus gifts from the Collective Healing Conference!