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Climate Panel
Climate Advocacy and Healing
With: Kosha Joubert, Maki Sato, and Vanessa Nakate.
In this recorded conversation, Kosha, Maki, and Vanessa delve into issues related to climate change and its social, spiritual, and scientific implications. Key points from this discussion include:
- Understanding human beings’ purpose on Earth and how we can contribute to healing the Earth
- Diagnosing the critical problems that have contributed to the climate crisis
- Acknowledging the sacredness of all life on earth and how that should influence our approach to climate change
Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and integrating ancestral and collective trauma. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, community engagement and intercultural collaboration.
Maki Sato is interested in environmental philosophy that includes a new emerging set of skills and ideas not limited to the relationship between humans and nature but sharing of the global commons, Shintoism, AI, and robotics. Learn more here.
Vanessa Nakate is a climate justice activist from Uganda and the first Fridays For Future striker in Uganda. She is the author of A Bigger Picture and is the founder of the Rise Up climate movement and the Vash Green Schools Project, which aims to install solar panels on all of Uganda’s 24,000 schools. She has spearheaded the Save Congo Rainforest campaign. The United Nations named her a Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2020, and Time magazine named her to its Time100 Next list in 2021.
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The Evolution of the Field of Collective Trauma
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How the collective conversation about trauma has evolved since the first Collective Trauma Summit in 2019
- The importance of coming together in a collective healing movement
- Why it’s vital it understand trauma from multiple viewpoints
“We are creating an ecosystem where a global audience can come together and deepen our collective awareness, which is the beginning of a healing movement.” – Thomas Hübl
Bonus: Attuned
A free chapter of Thomas’ book Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World
Click here to access ➤Thomas Hübl DIV 1
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Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen
– Jami Sieber: Electric Cellist, Vocalist, and Composer
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– Kim Rosen: Author, Spoken Word Artist, Ceremonialist, and Founder, S.H.E. College Fund for Maasai GirlsHighlights from this session:
No bonus giftJami Sieber and Kim Rosen
Jami Sieber is an electric cellist and vocalist who reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Jami creates her own kind of world music, boasting immediate emotional impact and conveying a visionary presence that goes beyond the gorgeous melodies and moving rhythms. Jami’s musical path moved from classical to folk, to rock/pop, to world and improvisation. Since launching her solo career, Jami has entered into dynamic collaborations with an extraordinary spectrum of dancers, actors, poets, visual artists, improvisers, vocalists, and instrumentalists that span the globe. Her compositions have been used for film, (Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, Queen of the Sun, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton), dance, theater, and the popular video game – Braid. She has to her credit 10 self composed and produced recordings that have garnered numerous awards. Jami’s life-long commitment to the environment, social justice, and the healing arts is at the heart of her music, reflecting a deep dedication to the arts as a medium of exploration and awareness of the interconnectedness of all beings. Learn more here.
Kim Rosen, M.F.A., has awakened listeners around the world to the power of poetry to heal, connect and disarm individuals and communities. She is a poet, spoken word artist, ritualist, and guide of inner exploration. Her current passion is creating environments through poetry, music, silence and ceremony to open to aging, death and letting go. Her recent audio release, Feast of Losses, is a collaboration on the same theme with cellist Jami Sieber, with whom Kim has co-created several previous albums. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009). In 2007, she spoke a poem to a group of Maasai girls who had fled FGM and Early Childhood Marriage, and that moment became the seed of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) College Fund, (www.shecollegefund.org), which sends Maasai girls in Kenya to college. Learn more here.
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Healing Through Connection
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Founder, Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and Somatic Experiencing International
Read BioWarning: this important conversation includes the topics of school shootings and animal experimentation (mice). Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.
Highlights from this session:
- How our unresolved traumas affect our families and communities
- Understanding intergenerational trauma and how it relates to systemic trauma
- Serving communities traumatized by war
“Connection tunes the part of our nervous system that gives us the greatest resilience. “
Bonus: Somatic Experiencing
An article detailing the historical context, theory, techniques, and processes of the Somatic Experiencing therapy modality.
Click here to access ➤Peter A Levine, PhD
Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.
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How Are the Children?
Dr. Joy A. DeGruy
Educator, Best-Selling Author, and Activist for Humanity
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- The need to recognize our basic fundamental oneness
- Our collective responsibility to address the resurgence of anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and other systemic harms
- How being in close proximity to different people helps to mitigate fear and promote healing
“When people know better, they can do better.”
No bonus giftDr. Joy A. DeGruy
Dr. Joy Angela DeGruy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication, a Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW), a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research. Dr. DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher and educator. For over two decades, she served as an Assistant Professor at Portland State University’s School of Social Work and now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Joy DeGruy Publications Inc.
Dr. DeGruy’s research focuses on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence, and American chattel slavery. She has over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the field of social work. She conducts workshops and trainings in the areas of Intergenerational/Historical trauma, mental health, social justice, improvement strategies, and evidence-based model development.
Dr. DeGruy has published numerous refereed journal articles and authored her seminal book entitled Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing. She has developed the “African American Male Adolescent Respect Scale” an assessment instrument designed to broaden our understanding of the challenges facing these youth in an effort to prevent their representation in the criminal justice system.
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The Breath of the Universe
Jude Currivan, PhD
Cosmologist, Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author, and Co-Founder, WholeWorld View
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- An invitation from our universe to consciously evolve
- How the fractal patterns underpinning human development mirror those of the cosmos
- Understanding love as the greatest fundamental force in the universe
“We are inseparable from the whole world. We are innately part of it as microcosmic co-creators of universal intelligence.”
Bonus: Universal Heart Guided Attunement
An audio recording of a guided meditation to connect with the universal heart.
Click here to access ➤Jude Currivan, PhD
Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, previously one of the most senior international business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld View. She has a Master’s degree in physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology and a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies. She has traveled to over 80 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the international author of 7 nonfiction books, both award-winning and best-selling– The Cosmic Hologram (2017) and The Story of Gaia (2022.) In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld View to serve the understanding, experiencing, and embodying of unitive awareness and conscious evolution. She is also a faculty member of Ubiquity University and Humanity’s Team.
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Healing Colombia Through Truth Telling
Ciro Galindo and Miguel Salazar
– Ciro Galindo: Survivor of Colombian Conflict
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– Miguel Salazar: Director and ProducerWarning: this important conversation includes the topics of police and military violence, murder, and a brief mention of suicide. Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.
Highlights from this session:
- The painful but ultimately healing process of documenting the war and violence in Colombia that Ciro lived through
- How bravely speaking up and sharing truths about injustices creates space for others to do the same
- Embracing the power of forgiveness while accepting that it’s difficult for some people to access
“We do not need to harm others; we can only enjoy life, work hard, and wait for the day when nature calls us back with a clear conscience.” – Ciro Galindo
“We can’t be indifferent when it comes to war. If we want society to change, we all need to contribute something. One person’s sorrow is everyone’s sorrow.” – Miguel Salazar
Bonus: Documentary Ciro and Me
A free viewing of this film about the story of Colombia, told via the moving journey of a single man’s life, and his search to recover his dignity.
Password: Ciro&Yo2023
Click here to access ➤Ciro Galindo and Miguel Salazar
Ciro Galindo is the protagonist of the documentary Ciro & Yo. Through Ciro’s story we can understand the history of Colombia. He is a privileged witness, on the ground, of a war that seems distant and confusing. Ciro & Yo narrates Ciro’s journey to encounter his past, as he seeks to rebuild his life and build a future for himself and his son. Like so many Colombians, Ciro is a survivor who, after sixty years of fleeing the war, dreams of living in peace and dignity. Learn more here.
Miguel Salazar Aparicio was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Director, producer, screenwriter and photographer of some of the most representative Colombian documentaries of recent years. Historian from the Universidad de los Andes (2000), with an MFA in film and television production and direction from New York University (NYU) (2004). Founder and director of Producciones La Esperanza. Among his productions are Ciro & Yo, The Smiling Lombana, Carta a una sombra, La Toma, Robatierra and Martillo, winners of awards at numerous festivals, with a successful premiere in commercial theaters and broadcast on various television channels and platforms around the world.
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Warning: this important conversation includes the topics of death and terminal cancer. Please consider whether this conversation may be disturbing to you. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen.
Highlights from this session:
- The benefit of welcoming feelings of grief and how that leads to acceptance
- How lovely the world can become when you stop fighting the circumstances of life
- The deep spiritual value in understanding that everyone is a mystery
“We don’t have to learn how to love ourselves. We just have to learn to shuck off everything that’s in the way of us knowing that we love ourselves.”
Bonus: Writing Prompts
Writing prompts on gender, self-love, and the infinite will, to open you up to wonder and exploration.
Click here to access ➤Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show.” Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam, Gibson is the author of seven award-winning books and seven full-length albums. Their live shows have become loving and supportive ecosystems for audiences to feel seen, heard, and held through Gibson’s art.
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Qigong for Vitality and Ease
Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Author and Teacher of Qigong, Meditation, and Baguazhang
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Qigong is an energy and intention-based practice from ancient China. In this session, Mimi will share gentle movement and visualization practices to help nourish and support your body’s ease and vitality. She will also provide helpful context for understanding why qigong can be effective for rebalancing energy and health. All levels of experience are welcome.
“We are responsive and dynamically able to engage with energy in the same way that nature does. Think of a garden. And when the conditions in a garden are optimal, there’s good soil, sunlight, rainfall, and airflow, plants in the garden will thrive.”
No bonus giftMimi Kuo-Deemer
Mimi is an author and teacher of meditation, qigong, and internal martial arts (6th generation Baguazhang). She champions a balance of playfulness and precision, and never underestimates the value of wisdom with a healthy dose of humor. Her teachings draw inspiration from nature, the Dao, and the wisdom of Buddha Dharma. She particularly enjoys discovering and sharing ways that embodiment practices nourish and support our personal welfare, which by extension encompass the welfare of all life. Mimi’s two books include Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis, and Xiu Yang. Her programs and teachings extend across many platforms, including qigong practice videos and DVDs available on Amazon Prime, Commune, yogaandfitness.tv, movementformodernlife.com, Vimeo, and YouTube. Born in upstate New York, Mimi has lived most of her adult life overseas, in Beijing, London, and now Oxfordshire, where she lives with her husband and their dog, three cats, 8 chickens and 60,000 bees.
Collective Trauma Summit Hosts
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Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
Read BioThomas Hübl
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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Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca
Host, Psychotherapist, Cultural Analyst, and Collective Healing Researcher
Read BioDr. Laura Calderón de la Barca
Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca is a psychotherapist, cultural analyst, author and educator. She has a passion for supporting people, individually and as part of a community, to live life to the fullest, and does so through her psychotherapeutic and counselling work with individuals, couples and groups over the last 14 years. She also provides professional training, educational material, research and has offered presentations on various national media in Mexico and Canada. Besides degrees in Literature and Linguistics (BAHons), Discourse Analysis (MA) and Social, Community and Organizational Studies, (PhD, Chaos and complexity theories applied to social healing) Laura holds diplomas as Narrative Therapist (from the Latin American Institute of Family Studies, Mexico City), Anger Management Specialist (with Moose Anger Management in Vancouver, Canada) and Intuitive Integral Psychotherapist and Trainer from the Masters Center for Transformation (Ashland, Oregon). She studies with Thomas Hübl since 2016, graduated from the first Pocket Project training, has participated in the last three Collective Trauma Summits as a panelist and then a host, facilitated the Latin-American, Mexican and Colombia Collective Trauma Exploration Labs, and hosts BIPOC spaces in courses offered by Thomas. Beside her PhD thesis, a written psychotherapeutic prototype session for Mexico, she edited a pioneering book on Collective healing with Maurizio Andolfi (The Oaxaca Book, Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, Roma: 2008), and has been active in the field of collective healing since 2004.
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Pádraig Ó Tuama
Distinguished Irish Poet, Theologian and Mediator, and Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound
Read BioPádraig Ó Tuama
Pádraig Ó Tuama is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound — a podcast that has gained over 10 million downloads since its start in 2020 — and also the author of Poetry Unbound; 50 Poems to Open Your Life. Profiled by The New Yorker, and published in Poetry Ireland, the Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, and many others, he brings interests in conflict, language, religion, and power to his work. His most recent collection is Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022).
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Kosha Joubert
Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and integrating ancestral and collective trauma. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, community engagement and intercultural collaboration. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to the healing of divides and transformational edge-work ever since. She has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2018) for her work in building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. Learn more here.
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Matthew Green
Host, Climate Journalist, and Author of the Resonant World newsletter on Healing Collective Trauma.
Read BioMatthew Green
Matthew is a climate journalist and author of the Resonant World newsletter serving the global movement to heal collective trauma. His book Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace documents how military veterans and their families are exploring new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a student in Thomas Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom Training and an active participant in the Pocket Project.
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Ruby Mendenhall
Host, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation
Read BioRuby Mendenhall
Ruby Mendenhall is the Lee Dallenbauch Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ruby is an Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. She is the founder of the Designing Resiliency and Well-being Maker Lab Node at the college of medicine. She is the co-developer of Designing Spaces of Hope: Interiors and Exteriors and the Community Healing and Resistance through Storytelling frameworks. Her research examines Black mothers’ resiliency and spirituality, and how living in racially segregated neighborhoods with high levels of violence affects their mental and physical health. She is currently directing the STEM Illinois Nobel Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, which provides unprecedented access to computer science and the training of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Citizen/Community Scientists (CSs). Recent grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will also support work around training CHWs and CSs. She is the co-creator of the Wellness Store, which seeks to create a culture of health. Ruby discusses her vision for healing in her TEDxUIUC talk entitled DREAMing and Designing Spaces of Hope in a “Hidden America”.
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Robin Alfred
Host, Executive Coach, Facilitator of Transformation Fields, and Purpose Consultant
Read BioRobin Alfred
Robin Alfred has been studying with Thomas for over 15 years. He is a Senior Student and has had the honour and delight of serving as a mentor on many of Thomas’s online courses and of being one of the co-hosts of each of the four previous Online Trauma Summits. Robin’s passion is to support individual and collective awakening through the embodiment of the timeless, and yet contemporary, mystical teachings that Thomas offers. He practices this in his work as an executive coach, leadership trainer, event facilitator and organisational consultant, all of which have a global reach. He describes his purpose as ‘the facilitation of transformational and healing fields’ – be this in individuals, groups or organisations. Born into a Jewish family, with refugee grandparents who suffered the trauma of persecution in Russia and Poland, Robin has now lived for 28 years in the Findhorn ecovillage and spiritual community in Scotland and studied with a Sufi master for 6 years before meeting Thomas. Robin is a lover of silence, poetry, nature and all things sustainable.
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Dr. Angel Acosta
For the last decade, Dr. Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice, and mindfulness. With a doctorate degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Acosta has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explored healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.
After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, Dr. Acosta began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development with conversations about inequality and healing, to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto, Japan. He continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others. Over the last couple of years, he has designed the Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Experience–a contemplative journey to understand structural inequality. He’s a proud member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project, based at the New School.
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Anna Molitor
Anna is a somatic healing practitioner, group facilitator, and a lover of poetry and movement arts that open a path toward what is most essential. She has a deep passion for the mystery and precision of individual and collective trauma healing and restoration. Anna’s work is deeply informed by 10 years of study and work with Thomas Hübl, her immersion as an assistant facilitator in Bloodline Healing (an ancestral healing modality), and her study of Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing. She bows to the poets, myth-tellers, musicians, healers, teachers, dancers, artists and wild creatures who have blessed her path and woven their magic into who she has become. Anna is a senior student of Thomas Hübl and an assistant and mentor for the current Timeless Wisdom Training. She is delighted to serve for the fifth year as the Collective Trauma Summit Poetry Curator.
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