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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 8
Day 8
Daily Insight Video from Thomas
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Embracing the Healing Journey
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder of the Academy of Inner Science
Show More Info ▼Highlights from this session:
- The intelligence of our trauma responses
- Not pressuring ourselves and others to bypass our protection mechanisms
- Creating higher social awareness of the absences in our society
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.
“If we are not sensitive to the intelligence within the trauma response, we will constantly put pressure on ourselves in our healing journey.” – Thomas Hübl
Interdisciplinary Panel
Survival, Healing, and Joy: Trauma-Informed Women’s Leadership
With: Kosha Joubert, Anyieth D’Awol, Zarlasht Halaimzai, Ruby Mendenhall
The power differences amongst genders within South Sudan, Afghanistan, the US and South Africa, and how these cultural dynamics are impacted by colonialism
Rising above oppressive circumstances and breaking free from the roles and illusions placed upon us
Caring for our causes and communities by growing our instincts of self-preservation and practicing restorative leadership
Speaker Talks Day 8
These talks will be available to watch for free for 48 hours
From: October 5, 12:01am New York time
Until: October 6, 11:59pm New York time
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Wound as a Portal Into a New World
V (Formerly Eve Ensler)
Author, Playwright, Activist, and Performer
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Why ‘City of Joy’ elevates collective healing above individual therapy, and how it supports the rising of women into community leaders
- Envisioning a new and enchanting culture that we want to live into rather than reacting against the narrative of patriarchy
- The vital need for collective apology in order to liberate nations from past harms and create lasting change
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony award-winning playwright and author of the theatrical phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues. She is the author of books including The Apology and In the Body of the World, as well as The New York Times best-seller I am an Emotional Creature. She helped create the play That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words presented by BAM. She’s the founder of V-Day, a global activist movement that has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against all women (cisgender and transgender,) those who hold fluid identities, nonbinary people, girls, and the planet—and the founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of City of Joy. She writes regularly for The Guardian.
“I got a group of women together in my living room which I think is where all revolutions begin.” – V
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Epigenetics and the Need for Trauma Education in Journalism
Anthony Feinstein
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- How the harms of trauma can be minimized by educating journalists and news organizations.
- The biological drives that affect our functionality in extreme situations.
- How a free press and access to good quality news bolsters democracy and enriches society
Professor Feinstein’s research relates to the study of journalists in conflict situations. He has published a series of studies exploring the psychological effects of conflict on journalists covering various regions and events. He is the author of a number of books, including his most recent – Shooting War. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia and a Peabody award for producing a documentary, “Under Fire” based on his research of journalists in war zones.
“There’s a moral imperative that if you want people to cover the world’s worst places, you need to have a safety net to help them.” – Dr. Anthony Feinstein
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Climate Grief as an Invitation to Meet the Sacred
Nico Cary
Writer, Mindfulness Teacher, and Performance Artist
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- The Altar as a collective grieving practice that allows us to sit with the entire matrix of emotions and transmute fear into love
- Orienting to climate collapse as an intimate process with the self
- How climate grief prepares the body to be in a sacred relationship with the web of life
Nico Cary (he/him) is a dharma and medicine path practitioner, mindfulness facilitator for InsightLA, writer, and performance artist. Currently, his multimedia installations on collective grieving processes have been featured at the Smithsonian, and as a part of The Healing Project at Yerba Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
“I’m not here to process grief. I’m here to let grief process me…to get out of its way and be a welcoming presence.” – Nico Cary
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Systems Sensing for a New Civilization
Melanie Goodchild and Otto Scharmer, PhD
– Melanie Goodchild: Consultant and Faculty, Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning
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– Otto Scharmer, PhD: Co-Founder of Presencing Institute and Sr. Lecturer at MITHighlights from this session:
- Why the next step in this ‘sacred space’ between the death and emergence of new civilizational structures is based on regeneration and ecosystem awareness
- What Indigenous prophecy as well as practices of storytelling, daily ritual, and fire ceremony teach us about healing in times of collective depression
- Experiencing deeper co-sensing capacities and levels of knowing through social spaces that activate embodied, whole systems learning
Melanie Goodchild is Anishinaabe (Ojibway), moose clan, from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketetgaunseebee First Nations. She is a systems and complexity scholar using a relational systems thinking approach at the nexus of multiple worldviews.
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School, and the Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute. He introduced the concept of “presencing”— learning from the emerging future — in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He co-founded MITx u.lab, a platform that has activated a global ecosystem of transformational change involving more than 160,000 users. In March 2020, Otto and his colleagues launched GAIA (Global Activation of Intention and Action), a free, online learning journey geared toward profound civilizational renewal.
“One of the doorways or the pathways to be able to heal together is to open those experiences and go out on the land and actually sit there with the beings that are there that have been just waiting for us to remember them.” – Melanie Goodchild
“We have this dying civilization on the one hand that’s not quite dead yet and something else being born that we don’t even know exactly what it is, but we are the ones who are right in that in-between space, which puts us in such a critical role in the larger process.” – Otto Scharmer
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Confronting the Individual, Transgenerational, and Collective Trauma of Racism
Tupoka Ogette
Anti-Racism Trainer and Advisor, Author, and Podcaster
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Video clip coming soon!Highlights from this session:
- Racism is not about intention but about systemic enculturation
- Understanding our defense mechanisms as distractions that protect our self-image
- Why the insecurities in how we navigate situations of race and power are a sign of movement
Tupoka Ogette was born in Leipzig in 1980. She holds a master’s degree in African Studies and German as a Foreign Language from the University of Leipzig and a master’s degree in International Business from the Graduate School of Grenoble. Since 2012, Tupoka has worked nationwide as a consultant and trainer in the field of racism critique. Her manual published in March 2017 “exit RACISM. Learning to Think Critically of Racism” is a SPIEGEL bestseller. In 2019, she was named one of the 25 most influential women of the year by Edition F magazine. SPIEGEL Online included her as one of ten women in its educational canon on theory and politics. In 2021, About You named her “Idol of The Year.” Most recently, she published her book “And Now You. Living Critically of Racism.”
“Every social change must be accompanied by uncertainty.” – Tupoka Ogette
Poetry
The Summit is complete, but all 8 Poet Readings and Conversations are included in the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package.
Poet conversations 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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The Vulnerable Choice of Breaking Our Hearts Open
David Whyte
Poet, Author, and Philosopher
Show More Info + Video Clip ▼Highlights from this session:
- Dismantling outworn wounds and promises in order to come into a greater generosity with our human community
- How vulnerability opens us to trauma and yet brings us the deepest joy and meaning
- Giving voice to that which cannot be spoken
David Whyte is the author of eleven books of poetry and four books of prose. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, has worked as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands, and has led anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, Amazon, and Himalayas. He works with many European, American, and international companies in the field of organizational development. He is the recipient of two honorary degrees: from Neumann College in Pennsylvania and Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.
“A good poem or good speech is listened into the world as much as it’s spoken.” – David Whyte
Integration Practices for Grounding & Resourcing
Integration Practices for Grounding & Resourcing
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.
All 6 of the Integration Practices will be available to watch through the end of the Summit.
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