Collective Trauma Summit

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The Summit broadcast took place from Sept. 28 – Oct. 6, 2022.

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The Summit broadcast took place from Sept. 28 – Oct. 6, 2022.

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This schedule is subject to change, additional talks and panels may be added.

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Day 4

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Day 4

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Daily Insight Video from Thomas

Relational and Spiritual Resourcing

Thomas Hübl

Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
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Highlights from this session:
- Experiencing ‘integrated histories’ through our ancestors
- Creating co-regulated relational networks of trust and collective intelligence
- Discovering our deep interconnectedness within the systems of life
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.

“Where we are hurt, we often feel separate. That’s why spiritual resourcing, relational resourcing, and inner resourcing are very important.” – Thomas Hübl

Speaker Talks Day 4

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From: October 1, 12:01am New York time
Until: October 2, 11:59pm New York time

The Essential Role of Self-Kindness in Humanitarian and Climate Work

Zainab Salbi

Author, Humanitarian, Founder of Women for Women, and Co-Founder of Daughters for Earth
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Highlights from this session:
- Increasing the potency and truthfulness of advocacy work through engaging in personal healing
- The importance of being in alignment with our own moral compass and external actions
- How collective responsibility and shadow work cultivate interdependence
Zainab is co-founder of DaughtersforEarth.org, Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of the Redefined podcast. She is the author of four books, including the national bestseller Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, and her latest, Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light To Heal Ourselves and the World. She is the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through Her Eyes with Zainab Salbi at Yahoo News. Zainab founded Women for Women International, a humanitarian development non-profit dedicated to serving women survivors of war by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency.

“Good people are good people because they act on their goodness, not because they think of themselves as good.” – Zainab Salbi
Navigating Trauma and Moral Injury in an Unforgiving Media Landscape

Dean Yates

Author, Workplace Mental Health Expert, Public Speaker, and Journalist
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Highlights from this session:
- How media organizations can support journalists’ mental health instead of punishing them for seeking support
- The need for peer networks and communal healing in journalism
- The need for therapists to understand journalistic culture in order to treat journalists with PTSD
Dean is a journalist and the author of an upcoming book about healing from PTSD and moral injury set around Ward 17, a Melbourne psych unit that treats veterans and first responders. He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, in the roles of journalist, bureau chief, and senior editor, and three years as their head of mental health.

“No one should think that their career is going to be jeopardized if they put their hand up and seek mental health support.” – Dean Yates
Building Trauma Sensitive Communities of Emotional Wellbeing

Celina de Sola

Co-founder and President of Glasswing
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Highlights from this session:
- Normalizing the stigma of mental health and addressing burnout through tools for self-care and emotional wellbeing
- Trauma-informed approaches to stress and violence prevention in schools, hospitals, healthcare centers and police communities
- Individual and systemic approaches to health and safety for youth within communities facing adversity
Celina is co-founder of Glasswing, a Salvadoran organization that addresses the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence, and trauma, through public education, health, and community empowerment initiatives in 10 countries. Celina has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. She’s worked as a crisis interventionist for Latino immigrants in the US, has been a consultant for international organizations, and spent almost 6 years leading responses to complex humanitarian emergencies. She is an Audacious Project and Skoll Awardee, a Fellow of the Obama Foundation and Ashoka, and a Tallberg Global Leader. She serves on the Advisory Council of the InterAmerican Foundation, and on the Boards of several Latin American foundations.

“Right now is a good time to work actively and explicitly on the topic of mental health at an interpersonal, intrapersonal, and community level, because it’s been made clear it is a problem that we all face, no matter our educational, socioeconomic, religious, or ethnic level.” – Celina de Sola
The Power of Antiracist and Relational Healing Work to Unlock Potential

Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN

Founder of Lumos Transforms and Creator of The Resilience Toolkit
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Highlights from this session:
- How embodied, antiracist work can create conditions for trauma prevention and collective change
- Creating the safety to dream equitable systems into being
- Growing ‘rich landscapes of support’ through relational trauma healing
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and the creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is a skilled practitioner, dynamic speaker, and valued strategist. She is known for her unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.

“If it’s the site of the wounding, it’s often the site of the healing.” – Nkem Ndefo
Discovering the Heroic Courage to Heal Transgenerational Trauma Through Our Relationships

Terry Real, LICSW

NY Times Best Selling Author and Family Therapist
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Highlights from this session:
- Relationships as spaces of healing rather than as escapes from our wounds
- Raising awareness of our role within intergenerational and cultural systems to bring peace to our ancestry
- Confronting domination and grandiosity through accountability and ‘loving firmness’
Terry Real is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men and male psychology as well as his work on gender and couples. Terry has appeared often as the relationship expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. His work has been featured in numerous academic articles as well as media venues such as CNN, The New York Times, and many others. In 1997 he published the national bestseller I Don’t Want To Talk About It, the first book ever written on the topic of male depression. Terry founded The Relational Life Institute. The Institute offers a training program for therapists as well as workshops for couples and individuals.

“The best gift we can give to the next generation is our own recovery.” – Terry Real, LICSW
Filling Our Wells of Resilience: Contemplative Solutions to Eco-Anxiety and Climate Crisis

Dekila Chungyalpa

Founder and Director, Loka Initiative
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Highlights 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
Dekila Chungyalpa is the founder and director of the Loka Initiative, a capacity-building and outreach platform for faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions who work on environmental and climate issues. Dekila worked on community-based conservation in the Himalayas, and on climate adaptation and free-flowing rivers in the Mekong region for the World Wildlife Fund. 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.

“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

Poetry

Poet conversations will be available to watch for free from the day they are released through the end of the Summit (October 6).

The Summit is complete, but all 8 Poet Readings and Conversations are included in the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package.

The World We Want is Waiting for Us to Speak It Into Existence

Danez Smith

Poet
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Highlights from this session:
- The poet’s job in reminding people what is and what is possible
- Finding the threads of universality through specificity
- Developing clear intent for whom a poem reaches and how it touches them
Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez’s poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective. Former co-host of the Webby nominated podcast VS (Versus), they live in Minneapolis near their people.

“We all can’t save the world, but if we can all save our block, then maybe that means the world is saved.” – Danez Smith

Integration Practice

The 9-day Summit is complete. Six integration practices (dance, yoga, meditation, qigong, sonic journey, and social presencing theater) are included in the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package.

Integration Practices will be available to watch for free from the day they are released through the end of the Summit (October 6).

Healing Qigong for Integration

Master Mingtong Gu

Founder, The Chi Center
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Highlights from this session:

This Qigong sound healing practice is specifically designed for physical and emotional healing. In this integration session, Master Mingtong takes us through a five-organ system to attune our physical and energetic bodies from contracted to expanded states. Through sound healing, we are invited to shift from stagnation to flow, from disconnection to connection, and into the wholeness of who we are.

Master Mingtong Gu brings ancient wisdom to the west for better health and consciousness in contemporary times. Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Mingtong is on faculty for Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Shift Network. He is the founder of The Chi Center / The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong, a beautiful 79 acre retreat center located 20 minutes south of Santa Fe, NM.

“The most important journey is connection of the mind with the entire body, the mind with your heart, even deeply with your five organ system, awakening to the wholeness, awakening to the pure essence of who we are. That is the gift of healing the trauma.” – Master Mingtong Gu

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Day 4

Day 4

Daily Insight Video from Thomas

Relational and Spiritual Resourcing

Thomas Hübl

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

Highlights from this session:

Speaker Talks Day 4

The Essential Role of Self-Kindness in Humanitarian and Climate Work

Zainab Salbi

Author, Humanitarian, Founder of Women for Women, and Co-Founder of Daughters for Earth

Highlights from this session:

Navigating Trauma and Moral Injury in an Unforgiving Media Landscape

Dean Yates

Author, Workplace Mental Health Expert, Public Speaker, and Journalist

Highlights from this session:

Building Trauma Sensitive Communities of Emotional Wellbeing

Celina de Sola

Co-founder and President of Glasswing

Highlights from this session:

The Power of Antiracist and Relational Healing Work to Unlock Potential

Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN

Founder of Lumos Transforms and Creator of The Resilience Toolkit

Highlights from this session:

Discovering the Heroic Courage to Heal Transgenerational Trauma Through Our Relationships

Terry Real, LICSW

NY Times Best Selling Author and Family Therapist

Highlights from this session:

Filling Our Wells of Resilience: Contemplative Solutions to Eco-Anxiety and Climate Crisis

Dekila Chungyalpa

Founder and Director, Loka Initiative

Highlights from this session:

Poetry

The World We Want is Waiting for Us to Speak It Into Existence

Danez Smith

Poet

Highlights from this session:

Integration Practice

Healing Qigong for Integration

Master Mingtong Gu

Founder, The Chi Center

Highlights from this session:

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