Collective Healing Conference

An online gathering to explore trauma-informed pathways for personal, ancestral, and collective healing.

An 8-day online gathering to explore trauma-informed pathways for personal, ancestral, and collective healing.

Free Encore Oct 4 – 6

Sept 24 – Oct 1, 2024

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Schedule of Speakers and Events

Daily Schedule of Speakers and Events

The Conference begins on September 24.

The live Conference has ended, but you can still watch short clips below and enjoy these Highlights.

The Conference broadcast is over. You can watch the Free Encore here through October 6.

For unlimited access to the Conference recordings and upcoming live workshops, check out the All-Access Pass for 50% off ➤

The Conference broadcast took place from Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2024.

This schedule is subject to change; additional talks and panels may be added.

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Day 3

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Activism Without Borders

Daily Insight Video from Thomas

Trauma-Informed Activism

Thomas Hübl

Host, Teacher, Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma, and Founder, Academy of Inner Science
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Highlights from this session:
- Understanding how healing is not an obstacle, but rather part of transformational power
- How the internal journey of a person becomes the fuel for their impact in the world
- Our power comes from being grounded in who we are and understanding our gifts
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.

He is the author of 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, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Learn more here.

“As we do our inner work, our activism becomes less polarizing, less fragmented, becomes more integrated, becomes more onboarding of multiple voices and diversity and also of multiple approaches to solve certain complex issues.” – Thomas Hübl

Speaker Talks Day 3

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Voices for the Planet

Leah Thomas

Celebrated Environmentalist, Founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist Non-Profit, and Author
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Highlights from this session:
- Creating inclusive environmental movements that amplify the perspectives of those most affected by environmental degradation
- Connecting historical segregation practices to environmental injustices
- How local environmental policies carry international consequences due to the interconnectedness of environmental issues
Leah Thomas is a celebrated environmentalist, the founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist non-profit, and the author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet. She’s been recognized for her work in many outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, CNN, ABC News, and NBC, and has been honored on lists including Forbes 30 under 30, EBONY Power 100, TIME100 Next, and INSIDER’s Climate Action 30.

“We can’t address a global issue without including global voices.”
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The Complex Legacy of Disney

Abigail Disney

Filmmaker, Philanthropist, and Activist
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Highlights from this session:
- How Abigail’s activism has been informed by the evolution of the Disney company
- The importance of offering a nuanced understanding of the actions and legacies of historical figures
- How moral injury can lead to deep psychological wounds and can result from systemic failures
This talk was originally aired on Thomas Hübl’s podcast: Point of Relation.
Abigail E. Disney is a philanthropist and social activist who works with organizations supporting peacebuilding, gender justice, and systemic cultural change. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose latest film is “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales”.

“It’s amazing that guilt is dismissed as a weak emotion when they’re fighting so hard so that nobody ever feels it. That feels to me like a little bit of a confession of how powerful and how much it asks of you.”
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The Mysterious Motion of Spirituality

Bayo Akomolafe, PhD

Author, Teacher, and Trans-Public Intellectual
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Highlights from this session:
- How true healing is not individualistic but is interconnected with the collective, the ecological, and the ancestral
- Spirituality as a real, moving force that propels ongoing transformation
- Moving away from isolation and over-categorization in psychology to embrace a more holistic approach
This talk was originally recorded for Thomas Hübl’s online course “The Spiritual Healing Journey”.
Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D. is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and the author of We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. He is also the visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online post-activist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains.’

“Even just to have a drink of water is to ignite pathways across space-time, across species, across multi-dimensions of how drinking a cup of water is the creation and the demise of worlds”
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Indigenous Wisdom for the Future

Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria
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Highlights from this session:
- Transitioning from a crumbling modernity toward emerging ways of being and understanding
- Working with Indigenous communities to foster interdependence with the environment
- Culturally embracing the responsibility of elderhood over the desire for perpetual youth
Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She’s worked extensively in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the climate and nature emergency. She’s the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts and Research Collective, and helped design the course: “Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability.”

“We need the wisdom breadcrumbs that come from these ancient cultures that will give us direction towards how we need to be together. It’s not necessarily where exactly we want to go, but how we can come together in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.”
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Connecting With Nature’s Healing

Marco Lambertini

Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative
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Highlights from this session:
- Finding our instinctive connection with nature and its role in emotional well-being
- Understanding how modern urban living disconnects us from nature
- Exploring the urgent need for systemic change to stop the losses of biodiversity that threaten life on earth
Marco Lambertini is the Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative. His experience and career range from ecological field research to high-level advocacy and international policy, nature reserve management, integrated conservation and development projects, environmental education, NGO development, communications, and campaigning in many countries all over the world.

“Unfortunately moral arguments, they’re not as powerful to drive change… we need to actually internalize the risk and the threat of nature loss to begin to respond.”
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Climate Panel

Collective Impacts of Climate Journalism

With: Kosha Joubert, Rebecca B. Weston, and Yessenia Funes.

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Integration Practice

The 8-day Conference is complete. Five integration practices (qigong, sound bath, meditation, yoga, and 3-sync meditation) are included in the Collective Trauma Healing Upgrade Package.

Integration Practices will be available to watch for free through the end of the Conference (October 1).

Somatic Practices for Social Change

Staci K. Haines

Author and Co-Founder of Generative Somatics and Generation FIVE
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Highlights from this session:

Staci K. Haines shares transformative somatic practices designed to heal individual and collective trauma. Through centering exercises, consent practices, and the principle of “Blending,” Staci guides participants to reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their agency, and align their actions with their deepest values. This session not only offers practical tools for embodied healing but also highlights the critical intersection between trauma recovery and social justice work.

This talk was originally recorded for the 2021 Collective Trauma Summit.

Staci K. Haines is an author, innovator, and educator in the field of Somatics, whose work focuses on transforming social and climate justice movements and healing the impacts of trauma and oppression. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice, founder of generationFIVE, and co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial organization dedicated to building social justice capacity by healing trauma through Somatics.

“Somatic awareness is bringing our attention to the language of the body, which is really sensation… starting to feel, learn from, and listen to the aliveness of the body.”

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