
A 9-day online gathering to share ideas and inspire action to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.
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.
The Summit broadcast took place from Sept. 26 – Oct. 4, 2023.
This schedule is subject to change; additional talks and panels may be added.
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Day 5
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Daily Insight Video from Thomas
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The Turning Point of Now
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
Show More Info ▼Highlights from this session:
- Understanding that the social structures that are falling apart now are built on trauma
- Systems that are built on relationships may evolve but cannot fall apart
- The nature of crisis vs. what’s emergent, creative and charged with aliveness
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.
“We need to address non-emergent frozen trauma structures with care, not with push. If we address them with relationality, compassion, interest and skill, we can actually melt the resistance to change.” – Thomas Hübl
Speaker Talks Day 5
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Journey of Empowerment
Alanis Morissette
Wholeness Advocate, Thought Leader, and Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- How to adhere to your values while passionately pursuing your life’s purpose
- Understanding interdependence as adults and parents, and how to pass that knowledge on
- The importance of art and music to the collective healing movement
Alanis Morissette is a widely influential singer-songwriter with 14 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammys, and over 75 million albums sold. She’s known for her debut “JAGGED LITTLE PILL,” and has released nine more acclaimed albums. Beyond music and acting, she’s committed to spiritual and psychological well-being, supporting causes like recovery and female empowerment. In 2016, she launched a podcast where she shares her insights. Her multifaceted career highlights her impact across multiple platforms and subjects.
“We are united and interconnected and the micro is the macro. What’s happening in my living room is happening between nations.”
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Learning From Survivors
Helen Epstein
Author and Journalist
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Lessons from being raised by Holocaust survivors
- The healing power of sharing in groups and seeing our experiences reflected in others
- The need for more people to recognize the consequences of hate
American author and journalist Helen Epstein is a daughter of Holocaust survivors and is best known for her non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust; Where She Came From; and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. Born in Prague and raised in New York City, she lectures in the Americas and Europe. Most recently, she edited her mother’s memoir Franci’s War and wrote Getting Through It, a medical memoir of surviving surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to treat GYN cancer. She is now working on a book about her life writing non-fiction.
“One survives through a combination of work and love.”
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Collective Healing Through Activism
Ayọ Tometi
Human Rights Leader, Co-Founder, #BlackLivesMatter, and Founder, Diaspora Rising
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Ayo’s personal story leading up to the co-founding of Black Lives Matter
- The courage inherent in addressing our own wounds to end cycles of harm
- The power of activism in acknowledging shared pain and healing collective trauma
Ayọ Tometi is an award-winning human rights champion, social entrepreneur, and a co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter, the movement nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Ayọ is the youngest of the three Black women who co-founded the #BlackLivesMatter platform, and in 2021 she became the first woman recipient of the International Peace Honors Award. Ayọ has graced multiple TIME Magazine covers, including 100 Most of the Influential Women of the Last Century and 100 Most Influential People of the Year. She is widely respected for her track record, and has been hailed as a new civil rights leader by those in the grassroots and major media outlets such as CNN, BBC and the LA Times. Ayọ is a trusted advisor to several organizations and initiatives in the public and private sector. An ardent futurist Ayọ has committed her life to joyfully and rigorously engaging people in both imagining and forging a better world together.
“The opportunity for transformation occurs and lives in that space of sincere, deep listening.”
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Healing Legacy Burdens
Fatimah Finney and Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
– Fatimah Finney: Therapist, Consultant, Trainer, and Author
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– Richard C. Schwartz, PhD: Internal Family Systems Therapy FounderHighlights from this session:
- How toxic individualism harms us and connection with the collective heals us
- The benefits of affinity groups and the power of centering marginalized people
- Defining legacy burdens and their role in the world’s current major conflicts
Fatimah Finney, MA, LMHC is a skilled licensed mental health counselor and a trainer at the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute. She supports a diverse client group as an EAP Counselor with a focus on workplace and relational trauma. Fatimah is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory. Her chapter on using IFS with Black clients will be published in the upcoming book, Altogether US, which is available for preorder now. She is a firm believer in the power of collective healing through community care and seeks to eradicate the systems of oppression that block the possibility of it.
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has published five books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model.
“The more you unburden your parts, the more you begin to embody a sense of connectedness.” – Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
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Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Writer and Filmmaker
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- The role of a storyteller within generational trauma, and the tradition of oral historians in Native culture
- The ongoing traumatic impact of forcing Native children into “residential” schools
- How to root yourself in your spirit as a form of wellness and an antidote to colonialism
Julian Brave NoiseCat, writer and filmmaker, is a visiting fellow of the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan and a fellow of the Type Media Center. He is currently working on his first book, We Survived the Night, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf, as well as directing his first documentary, which follows the search for unmarked graves at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s family was sent to in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
“History is not past. It’s very much present. It’s very much with us.”
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Trauma-Informed Law
Flavia Valgiusti
Former Judge, Professor of Neuroscience and Law, and Trauma-Informed Law Consultant
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- The need for trauma-informed updates to adult and juvenile criminal justice systems
- Transitioning from retributive justice to restorative justice
- The transformative power of safe spaces to share and process collective trauma
Flavia Valgiusti is a lawyer, former judge, researcher, and social psychologist with expertise in trauma-informed law, restorative processes, and juvenile criminology. She is a professor of neuroscience and law and a UNICEF consultant. Her work involved training professionals in the judicial, social services, and NGO sectors. She founded the Children’s Advocates pro bono program at the Bar Association and currently directs the Bar Association’s Institute for Neuroscience and Law.
“I work with trauma-informed law because I believe that the law is a trauma-healing resource.”
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 7 Poet Readings and Conversations are included in the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package.
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The Music of Language
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Going beyond the limitations we set for ourselves and our creative work
- The collective emotional weight that words carry
- Poems as language dances that make us feel alive in every way
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, and the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous prestigious publications and anthologies.
“A poem is a gesture toward home.”
Integration Practice
The 9-day Summit is complete. Five 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).
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3-Sync Meditation to Connect to the Movement of the Summit
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Video clip coming soon!Highlights from this session:
There’s a lot to process from this summit! In this session, Thomas guides you through a simple but effective meditation for reflecting on the Summit experiences of the day. You’ll be left with clarity about what is still moving in you asking for your attention, and clear direction about next steps to take to more fully contemplate and integrate the experience.
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.
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