Highlights from this session:

• How the system of capitalism and those who benefit from it have contributed to the climate crisis
• The need to embrace our connectedness and accept our mortality
• How healing trauma and returning to community can help combat climate change

Dr. Peter Kalmus, who speaks on his own behalf, is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. With degrees from Harvard and Columbia, his research focuses on various aspects of climate. Peter is also a climate activist. He engages in climate civil disobedience and is co-founder of the Climate Ad Project and the climate app Earth Hero. He is the author of the activist handbook, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.

Highlights from this session:

• How trauma shapes us, and how strategies for living with trauma can ultimately harm us
• The importance of addressing privilege in our efforts to combat racism
• How doing inner work and growing to love yourself allows you to be more available for others

Chelsea Handler is a comedian, television host, and six-time New York Times best-selling author whose humor and candor have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in entertainment and pop culture. She gained fame as the host of E!’s late-night talk show “Chelsea Lately,” and has been featured on Netflix shows and specials, a Grammy-nominated HBO special, her “Dear Chelsea” podcast, and stand-up tours. Handler is currently on her 2023 stand-up tour, “Little Big Bitch.” Learn more at chelseahandler.com.

Shelly Tygielski, author, philanthropist, and social activist, is the founder of the global, grassroots mutual aid organization, Pandemic of Love. She is the Executive Producer and co-host, with actress and activist Debra Messing, of the television show “All Hands on Deck.” Shelly is a mindfulness teacher who has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful Magazine. Learn more at shellytygielski.com and pandemicoflove.com.

Highlights from this session:

• Ending the stigma that surrounds disability, and understanding that it touches all of our lives
• How learning to heal small wounds leads to better healing for collective ones
• Embracing and taking accountability for our mistakes, and how that teaches us to forgive others

Mia Mingus is the founder of SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project. She is dedicated to creating community-driven solutions to violence, and helping foster skills and relationships in those communities that genuinely address harm and abuse. 

Highlights from this session:

• How the trauma of war leads to ecological exploitation
• Practices for giving reciprocity to the earth
• How Native people all over the world worked in greater symbiosis with the planet

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne,) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe toward personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives, and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.

Highlights from this session:

• The “4 Pivots of Transformation” for better activism and collective leadership
• Grace as a key skill to help us navigate this century
• How we tap into our humanity through stories

Shawn Ginwright, PhD, is a leading innovator, provocateur, and thought leader on African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is a professor and senior research associate at San Francisco State University. He is also the founder and CEO of Flourish Agenda, Inc., a research lab and consulting firm whose mission is to design strategies that unlock the power of healing and engage youth of color and adult allies in transforming their schools and communities. Dr. Ginwright’s new book is The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves.

Highlights from this session:

• How the Pocket Project works in tandem with the Summit to create a global healing movement
• Training trauma-informed leaders that can elevate organizations and hold trauma without burning out
• Exploring the global ecosystem of trauma and what’s needed to build sustainable democracies

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.

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.