A 9-day online gathering to share ideas and inspire action to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.
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Day 2
Staying Regulated During the Summit Experience
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Staying Regulated During the Summit Experience
Highlights:
- Defining “self-regulation” and why it’s important
- How participating in the Summit can be a training for taking in other media
- Integration practices to support balance
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.“The Summit is not just about taking in information. It’s also about letting it alchemize and be part of your process. It’s an interdependent whole.” – Thomas Hübl
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The Evolution of the Field of Collective Trauma
Highlights:
- 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
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.“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
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Highlights from this session:
- How the system of capitalism and those who benefit from it have contributed to the climate crisis
- The need to embrace our connectedness and accept our mortality
- How healing trauma and returning to community can help combat climate change
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“If you want to be truly happy, the best, most satisfying, most reliable, and long-lasting way to your own happiness is actually to help others.”
Bonus: Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
This full book by Peter that merges science, spirituality, and practical action to develop a satisfying and appropriate response to global warming.
Click here to access ➤ Dr. Peter Kalmus
Dr. Peter Kalmus, who speaks on his own behalf, is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the recipient of NASA’s Early Career Achievement Medal and NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. Peter has a BSc in physics from Harvard and a PhD in physics from Columbia. His research interests include improving future projections of coral reef decline from increasing ocean heat and extreme humid heat. Peter is also a climate activist. He engages in climate civil disobedience, for which he has been arrested twice. He is co-founder of the Climate Ad Project and the climate app Earth Hero, and the author of numerous articles and the book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. He lives in North Carolina.
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Growing Through Trauma
Chelsea Handler and Shelly Tygielski
– Chelsea Handler: Writer, Comedian, Actress, and Political Activist
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– Shelly Tygielski: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Teacher and Founder, Pandemic of LoveWarning: this important conversation includes the topic of gun violence and brief mention of school shootings. 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 trauma shapes us, and how strategies for living with trauma can ultimately harm us
- The importance of addressing privilege in our efforts to combat racism
- How doing inner work and growing to love yourself allows you to be more available for others
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Looking inside yourself is pretty much the most valuable thing you can do as a human being.” – Chelsea Handler
“If we’re able to show up fully as a healed version of ourselves, it can make such a huge impact on the world.” – Shelly Tygielski
Chelsea Handler and Shelly Tygielski
Chelsea Handler is a comedian, television host, six-time New York Times best-selling author and advocate whose humor and candor have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in entertainment and pop culture. After a strong seven-year run as the host of E!’s top-rated Chelsea Lately, a tenure in which she was the only female late-night talk show host on-air, she launched her documentary series Chelsea Does followed by her talk show Chelsea on Netflix in 2016. She has penned six best-selling books, five of which have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, including 2019’s Life Will Be the Death of Me. In 2021, she launched her iHeart Radio advice podcast, Dear Chelsea, and embarked on the Vaccinated and Horny Tour, bringing her sensational stand-up set to over 90 cities with 115 shows across North America, winning “The Comedy Act of 2021” at the People’s Choice Awards. Following the success of her 2020 HBO Max comedy special Evolution, which earned Chelsea a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album, Handler most recently made her return to Netflix with her critically acclaimed comedy special Revolution. Handler is currently on her 2023 stand-up tour, Little Big Bitch.
Shelly Tygielski, author, philanthropist, and social activist, has been hailed by individuals ranging from President Joe Biden to Arianna Huffington and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn to Maria Shriver. She is the founder of the global, grassroots mutual aid organization, Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured in over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is the Executive Producer and co-host, with actress and activist Debra Messing, of the television show “All Hands on Deck.” Shelly is a mindfulness teacher and a Garrison Institute Fellow who has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful Magazine.
Shelly teaches formalized self-care, community-building, and resilience to organizations around the world and has taught at over 75 organizations and conferences. She and her husband are currently living a nomadic existence, moving to a new location every few months. Shelly holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami, a Master’s Degree from Columbia University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Philanthropic Leadership from Indiana University’s Lilly School of Philanthropy. Learn more at shellytygielski.com and pandemicoflove.com.
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Highlights from this session:
- Ending the stigma that surrounds disability, and understanding that it touches all of our lives
- How learning to heal small wounds leads to better healing for collective ones
- Embracing and taking accountability for our mistakes, and how that teaches us to forgive others
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Disability is just an organic part of what it means to be human. We have segregated it into this specialized box when in actuality, most of us know somebody who is disabled.”
Mia Mingus
Mia Mingus founded and leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project (www.soiltjp.org) which works to build the conditions for TJ. She is passionate about building the skills, relationships and structures that can transform violence, harm and abuse within our communities and that do not rely on or replicate the punitive system we currently live in.
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A Home for All Species
Dr. Lyla June Johnston
Indigenous Musician, Author, and Community Organizer
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- How the trauma of war leads to ecological exploitation
- Practices for giving reciprocity to the earth
- How Native people all over the world worked in greater symbiosis with the planet
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“It’s important to understand that humanity has been a gift in the past, and we can be again.”
Lyla June Johnston
Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne,) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives, and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
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Seeing Beyond Oppression
Shawn Ginwright, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Flourish Agenda, Inc
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- The “4 Pivots of Transformation” for better activism and collective leadership
- Grace as a key skill to help us navigate this century
- How we tap into our humanity through stories
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“The greatest consequence of oppression is the destruction of our inability to see beyond it.”
Bonuses: “4 Pivots of Transformation” Video and Healing Centered Engagement Toolkit
A short video on four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership.
The Healing Centered Engagement Toolkit.
Click here to access ➤ Click here for the second gift ➤ Shawn Ginwright, PhD
Shawn Ginwright, PhD, is a leading innovator, provocateur, and thought leader on African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is a professor of education in the Africana Studies Department and a senior research associate at San Francisco State University. He is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flourish Agenda, Inc., a research lab and consulting firm whose mission is to design strategies that unlock the power of healing and engage youth of color and adult allies in transforming their schools and communities. Dr. Ginwright’s new book is The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves (North Atlantic Books.)
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Pocket Project: Leadership for Healing
Kosha Joubert and Thomas Hübl
– Kosha Joubert: Host, CEO of the Pocket Project, Former CEO of the Global Ecovillage Network
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– Thomas Hübl: Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner ScienceHighlights from this session:
- How the Pocket Project works in tandem with the Summit to create a global healing movement
- Training trauma-informed leaders that can elevate organizations and hold trauma without burning out
- Exploring the global ecosystem of trauma and what’s needed to build sustainable democracies
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Everything we don’t integrate, we perpetuate.” – Thomas Hübl
“There is something about coming home and embedding ourselves in the larger nervous system of humanity, of the biosphere, that is such a key movement for healing on all levels.” – Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert and Thomas Hübl
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.
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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Day 1
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The Evolution of the Field of Collective Trauma
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The Evolution of the Field of Collective Trauma
Highlights:
- 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
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.“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
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The Evolution of the Field of Collective Trauma
Highlights:
- 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
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.“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
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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
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“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
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“When people know better, they can do better.”
Dr. 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
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“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
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“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.
Climate Panel
Climate Advocacy and Healing
With: Kosha Joubert, Maki Sato, and Vanessa Nakate.
As climate change evolves into a climate crisis, more and more people will experience hardship, displacement, and other traumas. What is needed socially, spiritually, and systemically in order for humans to understand their purpose on Earth and contribute to its healing?
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. Learn more here.
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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.
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