Collective Trauma Summit

A 9-day online gathering to share ideas and inspire action to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.

FREE ENCORE EVENT THROUGH OCT. 8, 2023

FREE ENCORE EVENT extended THROUGH OCT. 9, 2023

Sept 26 – OCT 4, 2023

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Daily Schedule of Speakers and Events

The Summit begins on September 26.

The live Summit has ended, but you can still enjoy these Highlights.

The Summit broadcast took place from Sept. 26 – Oct. 4, 2023.

You can watch the Encore here through October 8 >

The Summit broadcast took place from Sept. 26 – Oct. 4, 2023.

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

Click here to see an overview of the Schedule At-a-Glance >

If you’d like to get lifetime downloadable access to the Summit recordings, you may purchase the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package for a special price here ➤

Day 4

Friday, September 29, 2023

Daily Insight Video from Thomas

Collective Leadership

Thomas Hübl

Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
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Highlights from this session:
- Why it’s important to contemplate what our own contributions are
- Using creativity rather than fear as the fuel to power our lives
- The shift from “power-over” structures to “power-with,” relation-based, competence-based structures
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.

“If I’m in an orchestra, I need to play my instrument so that other people can fully embrace their place in the orchestra. If everyone plays the music that was given to us by life, then we take care of our share.” – Thomas Hübl

Speaker Talks Day 4

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Building Humane Technology

Randima Fernando

Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology
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Highlights from this session:
- How technology hijacks our dopamine response and reinforces trauma symptoms
- The downstream consequences of the “Attention Economy”
- How social media and the ‘like’ button have created a division of reality
Randima is a Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology, which has helped over 100 million people globally understand the harms of extractive technology through the documentary film “The Social Dilemma,” the podcast Your Undivided Attention, and many other projects. Randima served for seven years as founding Executive Director at Mindful Schools, a nonprofit that has taught mindfulness to millions of kids and over 50,000 educators worldwide. Randima has led many award-winning projects and authored three #1-ranked books on 3D graphics over seven years at NVIDIA. He also serves on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

“Be clear about what you want for your life so that you can be discerning.”
Biology of Trauma

Dr. Aimie Apigian, MS, MPH

Founder, Trauma Healing Accelerated
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Highlights from this session:
- How generational trauma is passed on through epigenetics
- The difference between a normal stress response and a trauma response
- The power of somatic work to change our biology
Dr. Aimie Apigian, MS, MPH is a double board-certified medical physician in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine and a leading medical expert on trauma. She developed “The Biology of Trauma,” a signature model and methodology that both adds to and bridges trauma work and medicine by reverse-engineering the chronic effects of trauma on the nervous system and body on a cellular level. She is also a Certified Functional Medicine physician and has training and certifications in various medical and trauma-centered fields and modalities. She is the founder and CEO of Trauma Healing Accelerated, offering her foundational online course: “The 21-Day Journey to Calm Aliveness.”

“We’re able to engage with life, family, work, and the world in a very different way when we’re coming from a biology of safety.”
Racial and Gender Justice

Yolo Akili Robinson

Executive Director, Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
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Highlights from this session:
- Destigmatizing mental illness and centering wellness within Black communities
- How perceptions of gender impact the way people are treated in personal and professional settings
- The need for healing in community, and what resources and systemic changes are needed to support that
Yolo Akili Robinson is a non-binary award-winning writer, and founder and Executive Director of BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective). His work focuses on family counseling with Black men and boys, HIV/AIDS, and healing justice/wellness. He is the author of Dear Universe: Letters of Affirmation & Empowerment for All of Us, and has been featured in many other publications.

“We have to reimagine these systems in order for us to really create healing in our world.”
Courage, Compassion, and Karma

Danielle LaPorte

Creator of the Heart Centered Leadership Program and Membership and Author of How To Be Loving
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Highlights from this session:
- Our responsibility to respond to suffering with unmitigated, unfiltered compassion
- The need to accept even negative emotions without trying to change them
- That healing is relational and asking for help is natural
Danielle LaPorte is the former director of a future studies think tank in Washington, DC, where she managed a team creating global scenarios. She now speaks about the intelligence of the heart. She is the author of several books and the producer of dozens of meditation kits and online programs for spiritual support. Danielle is the creator of the Heart-Centered Membership and the Heart-Centered Leadership Program with 400+ leaders in 30 countries hosting conversation circles, retreats, and workshops in all kinds of communities and businesses. She hosts the podcast With Love, Danielle.

“The suffering made clear this incredible support system I have, the harm turned me into a healer.”
Sacredness of Soul

Jerry Tello

Internationally Recognized Speaker, Healing Practitioner, and Community Elder
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Highlights from this session:
- How we carry the trauma of our ancestors and the medicine of their knowledge and traditions
- The healing power of acknowledging our wounds, accepting our circumstances, and welcoming help from the collective
- The role of the masculine and feminine in every healing journey
Jerry Tello is a servant community leader, healing practitioner, and internationally recognized author and voice for healing and justice. Maestro Tello is considered an international expert in the areas of healing, and culturally based, trauma-informed, healing-centered strategies and curricula. For over 45 years he has dedicated himself to the prevention and healing of individuals, families, communities, and systems by speaking to over half a million people and training thousands of facilitators across the nation. He is the co-founder and Director of Training and Capacity Building for the National Compadres Network and oversees Sacred Circles Center in Whittier California. He has received many major awards and has authored numerous articles, videos, webinars, curricula, and books including the award-winning book Recovering Your Sacredness, A Fathers Love, and a series of children’s books.

“When you know who you are and you have a collective around you, you have a lot of power.”
Creating Healing Spaces

Thomas Hübl

Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
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Highlights from this session:
- How trauma creates repetition of the past and how safe, healing spaces can bring us into the present
- The need to feel and digest fear in order to ground ourselves and gain new perspectives
- The importance of incorporating art into social healing rituals
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.

“To be in a creative space together means daring to go into areas of life that are not conventional.”

Poetry

Poet conversations will be available to watch for free from the day they are released through the end of the Summit (October 4).

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

Poetry of Witness

Carolyn Forché

Award Winning Poet of Witness, Human Rights Advocate, and National Book Award Finalist
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Highlights from this session:
- Poetry as a way of articulating and exteriorizing trauma
- Feeling into our suffering and allowing it to guide us toward wisdom
- How poetry has become more attuned to social justice
Carolyn Forché is a poet, teacher, and activist. She is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections, including Gathering the Tribes and the memoir What You Have Heard is True, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Awards. Her work in human rights advocacy has earned her the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award.

“Whatever absorbs your psyche, whatever consumes you, whatever your inner obsessions are, they will inevitably come to the page when you write. This is why writing can be so therapeutic.”

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 4).

Traditional Yoga for Self-Care: A Trauma-Informed Class

Susanna Barkataki

Yoga Unity Activist and Author of Embrace Yoga’s Roots
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Highlights from this session:

In a blend of practice, meditation, reflection, and asana, this class will share authentic, embodied, powerful, and inspirational tools for the heart of yoga’s roots. Drawing from her book, Susanna will guide us through trauma-informed yoga practices that have always been part of yoga’s roots. Trained in the Shankaracharya Hatha yoga tradition, Susanna shares an authentic and supportive approach to exploring and deepening yoga. Expect a slow, powerful flow with core stability work building to a more vigorous flow with time for cool down and integration. This practice will leave you feeling inspired, peaceful, empowered, and more connected to yourself.

Susanna Barkataki is a yoga teacher and visionary known for championing the decolonization of yoga to embrace its true roots. She is the founder of the Ignite Institute for Yogic Leadership, and author of the #1 International Bestseller, “Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice”. She blends authentic yoga with social justice, and is often a consultant for large organizations, most notably the UN and TEDx.

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Daily Schedule of Speakers and Events

The live Summit has ended, but you can still enjoy these Highlights.

Day 4

Daily Insight Video from Thomas

Collective Leadership

Thomas Hübl

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

Highlights from this session:

Speaker Talks Day 4

Building Humane Technology

Randima Fernando

Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

Highlights from this session:

Biology of Trauma

Dr. Aimie Apigian, MS, MPH

Founder, Trauma Healing Accelerated

Highlights from this session:

Racial and Gender Justice

Yolo Akili Robinson

Executive Director, Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

Highlights from this session:

Courage, Compassion, and Karma

Danielle LaPorte

Creator of the Heart Centered Leadership Program and Membership and Author of How To Be Loving

Highlights from this session:

Sacredness of Soul

Jerry Tello

Internationally Recognized Speaker, Healing Practitioner, and Community Elder

Highlights from this session:

Creating Healing Spaces

Thomas Hübl

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

Highlights from this session:

Poetry

Poetry of Witness

Carolyn Forché

Award Winning Poet of Witness, Human Rights Advocate, and National Book Award Finalist

Highlights from this session:

Integration Practice

Traditional Yoga for Self-Care: A Trauma-Informed Class

Susanna Barkataki

Yoga Unity Activist and Author of Embrace Yoga’s Roots

Highlights from this session:

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