Thomas Hübl DIV 5

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.

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette is one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians/artists in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise, 14 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammy® Awards (with an additional 14 nominations), two Golden Globe nominations, a BRIT Award and sales of over 75 million albums worldwide. Her debut album JAGGED LITTLE PILL, was followed by nine more eclectic and critically acclaimed albums, all of which continue to influence and inspire fans and fellow artists alike. Alanis has acted on the big and small screens both comedically and dramatically with roles in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Dogma,” among many others. She is currently starring in Fox’s sitcom, “The Great North”. 

Alanis’ influence can be felt not only in music as she is also a dedicated supporter and student of spiritual, psychological, and physical wholeness which includes addiction and trauma recovery, female empowerment, and the advancement of a more “whole” approach to children’s education. In 2016, she launched “Conversation with Alanis Morissette,” a podcast that features conversations with a variety of revered authors, doctors, educators, and therapists, covering a wide range of psychosocial topics extending from spirituality to developmentalism to art. 

Facilitating her message through performances, writing, interviews, teachings and public speaking, Alanis has shared the stage with some of today’s great thinkers and change agents. She has contributed her writing to a variety of forums, including a weekly column in The Guardian, Time Magazine, and The New York Times.

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Helen Epstein

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. All three are widely translated and reviewed here. 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.

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Ayọ Tometi

Ayọ (fka Opal) Tometi is one of the most influential human rights leaders of the century according to TIME magazine. As one of the three women co-founders of the Black Lives Matter digital platform and chapter-based network, her name is etched in history. Hailed as a feminist freedom fighter, Ayọ is respected for her track record of uniting communities, and for her thought leadership on race, immigration, and gender. In 2019 she completed nearly a decade of service as the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the first immigrant rights organization for people of African descent in the United States.

Ayọ is a trusted advisor and serves on the board of  Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and the International Living Futures Institute. She has graced the cover of magazines because of her achievements and received numerous recognitions including an honorary PhD, being named Most Influential Women of the Century by USA Today, TIME Magazine, and Most Influential People by Forbes, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan magazines. Ayọ was also honored by the City University of New York (CUNY) with a scholarship in her name to support immigrant students pursuing law degrees. In 2019 she also received the Coretta Scott King Center Award and Douglass 200 Award and is currently featured in a video installation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African History and Culture for her contributions to thought leadership for the betterment of the diaspora.

As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Ayọ has set her movement sights on an even bigger struggle: uplifting Black lives worldwide. In 2020 she founded Diaspora Rising, a new media and advocacy hub dedicated to strengthening the bonds amongst members of the global Black family. Additionally, she’s focused on other social enterprises. With nearly two decades as a human rights champion, she still feels her work has only just begun.

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Fatimah Finney and Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

Fatimah Finney, MA, LMHC is a serial goal-setter, lover of new ideas, and imaginative thinker. She 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 (IDI) and uses this tool to help her consulting clients gain insight into their strengths and growth edges for navigating differences while providing strategies for better cross-cultural interactions. Fatimah has been featured on IFS Talks podcast where she discusses the intersection between IFS and Intercultural Competence. Her chapter on using IFS with Black clients will be published in the upcoming book, Altogether US, which is available for preorder now. She recharges her spirit by playing with her children, taking walks with her parts, and dabbling in creative writing. Her micro essay In My Skin: An Autobiography was recently published in the anthology Nonwhite & Woman: 131 Microessays on Being in the World. 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. Learn more here.

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. Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren. Learn more here.

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, and aspiring oral historian, currently working on his first book We Survived the Night and directing a documentary about the search for unmarked graves at the Indian residential school his family attended in British Columbia. He is a fellow at the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy as well as the Type Media Center, and his work has garnered support from the Sundance Institute, among others. He is also a columnist whose work has appeared in major publications like The New York Times and New Yorker, and has won numerous awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Named on the TIME100 Next list in 2021, Julian has also been a political strategist and cultural organizer, notably helping to lead an Indigenous canoe journey in 2019 and advocating for the appointment of the first Native American cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, in 2020. Raised in Oakland, California, he’s a member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen. He’s also a champion traditional dancer, and has even won a horse in the powwoww circuit. 

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Flavia Valgiusti

Flavia Valgiusti is a lawyer, former judge, researcher, and social psychologist with expertise in trauma-informed law, restorative processes, and juvenile criminology. She is also a professor of neuroscience and law, combining academic knowledge with practical experience. As a UNICEF consultant, Flavia Valgiusti authored a handbook on trauma-informed approaches and successfully implemented a comprehensive training program in North Macedonia. Her work involved training professionals in the judicial, social services, and NGO sectors. Flavia Valgiusti has a postgraduate degree in Transpersonal Psychology and has received training in collective trauma from Thomas Hübl. She actively participated as a co-facilitator of the Pocket Project chapters focused on Collective Traumas in Argentina and Latin America. In addition to being involved in many child rights initiatives, Flavia Valgiusti founded the Children’s Advocates pro bono program at the Bar Association and currently directs the Bar Association’s Institute for Neuroscience and Law. She has made significant contributions to numerous magazine and book publications.

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