Highlights 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

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.  He has worked with tens of thousands of people worldwide through workshops, multi-year training programs, and online courses. 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.

He is the author of the book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds.

Highlights from this session:

• The aspects of collective trauma that impact climate change
• The value of emergence and collective wisdom in the construction of the Paris Agreement
• How climate change is a collective healing process that mirrors the individual path of transformation

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, where she oversaw the delivery of the historic Paris Agreement. Today she is the co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast Outrage & Optimism, and is the co-author of the recently published book, The Future We Choose.

Highlights 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?

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. 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.

Highlights from this session:

• Art as a way to form a relationship with your space and yourself
• How inviting uncertainty and letting go of what we’ve done before allows new creative ideas in
• Representing the transformational processes of expansion and contraction, mirroring the processes of the nervous system

Katja Strunz is an international artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her work revolves around the intertwining of time, space, and movement. Memory and trauma play a central role, as well as the idea of pausing to perceive oneself – physically and psychologically.

Highlights from this session:

• Countering the status quo by engaging in creative, nonviolent activism through inner transformation
• The lifelong path of building trust and community in the face of active conflict, injustice, and occupation
• Recognizing the common enemies of hatred and fear to see that our healing and liberation are interconnected

Sulaiman Khatib is a Board Member of Middle East Initiatives and is a Co-Founder and former Co-Director of Combatants for Peace, a non-profit Israeli and Palestinian peace-building organization. He was the Founder and General Director of Al-Qud’s Association for Democracy and Dialogue, where he worked with Palestinian youth towards the promotion of peace, democracy, dialogue, and civic participation in the Palestinian Territories. He is a committed advocate for peace in the Middle East, and an active member of various programs aiming to promote a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Sulaiman was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 & 2018 on behalf of CfP. He is the author of In This Place Together: A Palestinian’s Journey to Collective Liberation.