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Speaker Talks Day 3
Each day, we’ll release 5-6 Speaker Talks, which are available to watch for free for 48 hours. You can watch a preview of most talks to decide which ones you are most interested in viewing.
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Special extended access to this page will end on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 11:59pm New York Time.
These talks will be available to watch for free for 48 hours
From: September 28, 12:01am New York time
Until: September 29, 11:59pm New York time
Time left to watch:
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Emergence
Thomas Hübl
Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How unintegrated history interferes with presence and emergence
- How the “repetition compulsion” recreates similar conflicts over and over
- The difference between emergence and projecting the pain of the past
“We can connect much more to the emergence that is alive in all of us, because it’s free. Everybody has access to it. We just need to create the circumstances and the ecosystems to support it.” – 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 3
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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Highlights from this session:
- The conjunction of traditional spiritual practices in modern science
- How the body senses individual, collective, and ancestral healing
- Why we can’t wait until our trauma is totally cleared before we do our work in the world
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Resilience is not just bouncing back to the original, it’s actually being able to grow from what happened.”
Dr. Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté, a retired physician, is an internationally published author of five books translated in over 35 languages, including the award-winning bestseller, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction and his latest international best seller, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. He is a recipient of his country’s highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada, for his ground-breaking work on the links between trauma, addiction, and social issues. A film based on his work, The Wisdom of Trauma, has been viewed by over 10 million people internationally and has been translated into 20 languages.
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Highlights from this session:
- Handling the feelings of betrayal and moral injury that accompany deep undercover work
- The cultural changes within the law enforcement community that are needed for progress to occur
- How bearing witness to other people’s trauma supports our own healing process
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“If I tell you my story, that gives you permission to tell me your story. Then we validate each other’s feelings through our conversations.”
Bob Delaney
Bob Delaney’s life story has been told in his two books – Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob and Surviving the Shadows: A Journey of Hope into Post-Traumatic Stress. His most recent book is Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resiliency, Courage, and Wisdom from the COVID Front-lines.
Delaney was a New Jersey State Trooper who went deep undercover for three years to infiltrate the Mafia in the late 1970s. The assignment took a toll and he dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder. His personal journey of healing led him to become a student and advocate for post-trauma awareness. He has worked with the military, law enforcement, firefighters, first responders, healthcare workers, and many others by providing post-trauma awareness and education.
His contributions to PTSD awareness and support to military officials and their families have been recognized with honors and proclamations from many, including President Barack Obama and senior-ranking military leaders. In 2010, President Barack Obama conferred upon Delaney the President’s Volunteer Service Award.
He has twice received the United States Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, in 2011 for his assistance in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings and in 2013 for his work with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Delaney is the 2020 recipient of The Theodore Roosevelt Award, bestowed on four U.S. Presidents (Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan) and other distinguished citizens. Delaney received a B.S. in Criminal Justice from New Jersey City University and an M.A. in Leadership from St. Mary’s College of California. He is also a Harvard Global Mental Health Trauma Recovery alumnus and presents globally on leadership, resiliency, trauma, and self-care.
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Highlights from this session:
- Reorienting from ‘me’ to ‘we’ in order to heal ourselves and others
- How to approach our wounds with curiosity instead of reactivity and shame
- Understanding how our early relationships impact those we form as adults
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Connection is one of the major ways we regulate ourselves.”
Bonus: Attachment Quiz
A quiz to determine your attachment style – secure, anxious, ambivalent, or disorganized. Results include a detailed breakdown of your style.
Click here to access ➤ Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution. Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds. Through various training programs, books, lectures, and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped countless people in their healing journey toward experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness, and more fulfilling relationships. She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities, and the world as a whole.
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Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
Founder and CEO, Agape International Spiritual Center, Author of Life Visioning
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How to gain sovereignty over our own awareness and resist outside conditioning
- The real role and nature of visionaries – as healers, lovers, and system-changers
- That a community of like-minded people is one of the pillars of transformation
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Vision without action is a fantasy. Action without vision is chaos.”
Michael B. Beckwith
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and CEO of the Agape International Spiritual Center. Based in Los Angeles, California, Agape is a trans-denominational, multicultural community of tens of thousands of local, national, and international members and live streamers. Highly regarded for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality that acknowledges the accelerated pace of our contemporary times. His unique transmission of spiritual practices including meditation, affirmative prayer, and life visioning enable the practitioner to take the experience of inner peace coupled with awakened awareness into the activities of everyday life.
Beckwith has appeared on The Ellen Show, Super Soul Sunday, The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, Dr. Oz, Tavis Smiley, and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You. He is an inaugural member of SuperSoul 100. Michael has been the recipient of numerous humanitarian awards. His new podcast, Take Back Your Mind, is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Every Sunday tens of thousands join Michael for Sunday services online at Agapelive.com and Facebook Live.
Learn more about Michael here, and learn more about Agape here.
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Climate Anxiety
Britt Wray, PhD
Author and Researcher at the Forefront of Climate Change and Mental Health
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Turning climate anxiety into climate activism
- Giving communities the tools to navigate the effects of climate change
- How practicing mindfulness and feeling our interconnectedness can inspire action
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Better futures will be entirely missed if we get stuck in fear and dread.”
Bonus: Generation Dread
The introductory chapter of Britt’s book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.
Click here to access ➤ Britt Wray, PhD
Britt Wray, PhD is the Director of the Chair’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. She is the author of 2 books, the most recent being Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid the climate emergency, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.
Britt has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, among other publications. She holds a Climate Psychology Certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Fellow in the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship offered by Harvard C-Change. She is the Founder of the weekly Gen Dread newsletter (gendread.substack.com), which shares insights and expert advice for coping with climate distress and taking climate action.
Women’s Leadership Panel
Trauma-Informed Women in Leadership
With: Kosha Joubert, Deb Dana, Rola Hallam, and Maria Leister
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
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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.
The Pocket Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing a culture of trauma-informed care. We develop training, consulting, and social impact projects that contribute to the global restoration movement.
