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Daily Schedule of Speakers and Events
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.
This schedule is subject to change, additional talks and panels may be added.
Day 6
Monday, October 3, 2022
Day 6
Daily Insight Video from Thomas
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Being Rooted in an Ancestral Context
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
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- History is not behind us but within us
- Harvesting the learnings from our ancestors’ unintegrated trauma
- The resilience of our legacies and living in service to future generations
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.
“Ancestral healing work is very important because it’s part of liquefying and harvesting the learning that is still stuck in the trauma.” – Thomas Hübl
Interdisciplinary Panel
Healing Racialized Trauma Through Joy and Fantastic Forgiveness
With: Ruby Mendenhall, Nico Cary, Dr. Sará King, Dr. Andrea Pennington
Speaker Talks Day 6
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Until: October 4, 11:59pm New York time
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The Neuroscience of Belonging
Dr. Sará King and Dr. Dan Siegel
– Dr. Sará King: Neuroscientist, Political and Learning Scientist, Speaker, and Founder of MindHeart Consulting
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– Dr. Dan Siegel: Executive Director, Mindsight InstituteHighlights from this session:
- The neuroscience of in-group and out-group distinctions and stress responses in marginalized communities
- Developing a collective nervous system that assists in the evolution versus the destruction of the planet
- Enhancing the self-expanding emotions of gratitude, compassion, and awe as antidotes to contempt and shame
Dr. Sará King is a neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, education philosopher, social-entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Neurology at OHSU (Oregon Health Science University) in the Oregon Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine in Neurological Disorders, a Garrison Institute Fellow and Society for Neuroscience Associate, and a member of Google’s well-being think tank “Vitality Lab.” She is also the founder of MindHeart Consulting, a scientific consulting firm through which she offers up “The Science of Social Justice” framework and the “Systems Based Awareness Map” (SBAM) which she created to explore our capacity to heal intergenerational trauma and promote the well-being of “collective nervous systems.”
Dr. Dan Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight and teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families, and communities. He is the author of many books, including five New York Times bestselling books, such as Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence, and the upcoming IntraConnected. Dr. Siegel also serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which currently contains over eighty textbooks.
“We can be intentionally tapping into compassion, gratitude, and awe, and sharing the energy and information of that throughout our collective nervous system.” – Dr. Sará King
“The human mind can actually be the source of a solution if we realize that we’ve been in too much linear thinking, and then add to that, systems’ thinking, where you look at the interconnected nature of the whole and start to live in a more integrated way.” – Dr. Dan Siegel
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Wellness as a Form of Resistance
Athena Viscusi
Clinical Social Worker, Psychosocial Specialist at Doctors Without Borders
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Secondary resilience as a corollary to secondary trauma
- The necessity of caring for yourself when caring for your community
- The tradition of Témoignage; bearing witness to suffering, and the obligation to raise public awareness
Athena Viscusi, LCSW has been working in international humanitarian aid since 2010, and previously worked in Washington DC, providing mental health care to immigrants and refugees. She has directed mental health and psychosocial interventions for Doctors Without Borders in response to natural disasters such as earthquakes, epidemics, and man-made disasters such as war and genocide. Currently she provides emotional support to front line staff in humanitarian projects. Her pro-bono work includes forensic examinations, and evaluations for asylum applicants.
“For people under occupation and persecution, I really believe that wellness is a form of resistance.” – Athena Viscusi
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Ancestral Resiliency as a Blueprint for Dismantling White Supremacy
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
Founder and CEO of Love as a Kind of Cure
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Opening to Black, Brown, and Indigenous knowledge to develop a clear understanding of the past 400 years
- The epigenetic and intergenerational transfer and healing of trauma
- The importance of resourcing through coaching, community, and bodywork to unpack white supremacy
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene is a writer and social entrepreneur. She leads Love As A Kind of Cure, a social enterprise that dismantles white supremacy through live events and immersive learning. Since their 2020 birthday bash for Toni Morrison at the Brooklyn Museum, Love As a Kind of Cure has galvanized women like Arundhati Roy, Nikki Giovanni, Krista Tippett, and Joy Harjo in this work. Magogodi has been featured in The BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and Harvard Review, and received fancy pants awards from luminaries like Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. Get her antiracist shouts, raves, and raucous asides delivered to your inbox every Thursday—side effects have been known to include epic dance moves, loud laughs, and giving a damn. Magogodi is a proudly Soweto-made soul.
“Artists are in the business of imagining the future so we can start inhabiting that future.” – Magogodi Makhene
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Presence and Trauma Healing on the Spiritual Path
A. H. Almaas
Founder, Diamond Approach to Self-realization
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- Facing the difficulties manifested in our neurology, psychology, and conditioning as part of the spiritual path
- Trauma therapy as a tool to open one’s spiritual nature, and be able to handle spiritual energies
- The difficult but necessary practice of actualizing spiritual realization into our everyday lives
A. Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) was born in Kuwait, and later studied at the University of California in Berkeley. His work inquires into the psychological and spiritual aspects of human nature. Hameed’s process of exploration led to the creation of the Ridhwan School and, with his colleague Karen Johnson, resulted in the founding and unfoldment of the Diamond Approach. He is the author of 20 books, including Keys to the Enneagram: How to Unlock the Highest Potential of Every Personality Type; Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart; and The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence.
“The teaching is not separate from being, from the true nature of our spirit, or true nature of reality.” – A.H. Almaas
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Addressing Trauma at the Systemic Level in Journalism
Elana Newman, PhD
McFarlin Professor of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Research Director Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
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- The effects of globalization on how traumatic news is presented
- The resiliency gained from approaching journalism ethically
- The key role that journalists play in helping us understand and heal from collective trauma
Elana Newman is the McFarlin Professor of Psychology at The University of Tulsa, Research Director at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and Co-Director of The University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity, and Injustice. She is a journalist ally and PTSD/traumatic stress expert. She is a skilled clinician and trainer in a wide range of trauma-related therapies and disaster interventions across the lifespan, and co-editor of the book Trauma Therapy in Context. Currently, she provides training about trauma science and trauma-related newsroom practices to journalists. Newman is a past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.
“For journalists, PTSD is an occupational hazard, but it’s not destiny.” – Elana Newman, PhD
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.
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Poetry as World Building
Camonghne Felix
Poet and Political Communications Strategist
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Why you do not have to be a poet to access the world building capacity that poems can offer
- Decentering whiteness and intellect, and preserving an artist’s spirituality capacity
- Poems as structural portals that precede our understanding of them
Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019) which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, Freeman’s, and elsewhere. Felix’s next book, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation, is forthcoming in February 2023 from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
“We are trying to speak to a future that doesn’t yet exist because it can’t exist, but this intuitive, knowing that it must and that it is inevitable.” – Camonghne Felix
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).
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3-Sync Meditation Practice
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
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This meditative awareness practice supports us in presencing our emotional experiences, breath and senses to bring us into greater inner coherence. Join Thomas in this foundational practice to regulate and ground yourself in your body, in this moment and within the greater collective field of this Summit.
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.
“Five minutes spent presencing enjoyment really recharges our battery; it makes us feel more present, more embodied. It simply adds beauty to our world.” – Thomas Hübl
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