Day 8
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until: October 2, 11:59pm NY time
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Day 8
Engaging in Collective Healing
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Engaging in Collective Healing
Highlights:
- Seeing that we are not isolated, and are part of an orchestra in which we all play our part
- How inner healing also becomes external healing
- Finding the gifts, skills, and agency that we can contribute to collective healing
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.
“So the inner healing is also an external healing. And since they’re not separate, we are healing the relationship between inside and outside, between our ancestors and future generations, between humans and nature. All these dualities come more and more together into interconnectedness.” – Thomas Hübl
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Evolving from Collective Trauma to Collective Healing
Highlights:
- How the collective conversation has evolved since the first Collective Trauma Summit six years ago
- What collective trauma and collective healing mean
- Creating a collective architecture for everyone to participate in conversation and finding solutions
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.
“Today we know too much about individual but also systemic trauma to keep on moving ahead and try to forget the past that happened. We know that whatever has been excluded needs to be included, needs to be digested, integrated, turned into post-traumatic learning.” – Thomas Hübl
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Highlights from this session:
- Using active imagination to bridge conscious and unconscious processes
- Incorporating ancestral resources in the healing process to better address trauma
- Embracing grief to help us find deeper meaning in the joy and vitality of life
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“When children find their own peace, the parents also find that peace. It’s through collective healing that we can break the cycle of trauma.”
Bonus: Article on 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,) and his most recent book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey. He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychotherapy Networker and from the U.S. Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.
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Social Transformation Through Somatics
Prentis Hemphill
Writer, Embodiment Facilitator, Political Organizer, Therapist, Founder of The Embodiment Institute
Read BioHighlights from this session:
- Finding strength and resilience in crisis by embracing vulnerability and openness
- Shifting our experience of emotions away from isolation by practicing presence in group spaces
- Finding comfort in living with big questions and unknowns rather than always seeking answers
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“As conditions intensify, the pressure to numb will also increase. But softness gives us access to connection and power, even in the face of terror.”
Prentis Hemphill
Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way. For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and generative somatics and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network from 2016 to 2019. Their work and writing have appeared in The New York Times and The Huffington Post. They are a contributor to ‘You are Your Best Thing’, edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, ‘Holding Change’ by adrienne maree brown, and ‘The Politics of Trauma’ by Staci Haines. They live in North Carolina on a small farm with their partner, child, two dogs, and two chickens while working on an upcoming book on healing justice.
Learn more at prentishemphill.com and theembodimentinstitute.org.
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Highlights from this session:
- Understanding transformation as an ongoing and natural dynamic of the universe
- Finding deeper self-awareness by examining the ego’s resistance to change
- How the wisdom of elders protects and guides us through transformative processes
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“It’s not the end of the world that’s happening, it’s the end of a worldview.”
Bonus: Video: Living in a Time of Overwhelm
Explore how radical change creates overwhelm and how awakening the soul can inspire collective transformation.
Click here to access ➤ Michael Meade
Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today.
He is the author of Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny, Why the World Doesn’t End, and The Water of Life; and is the editor, with James Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, and the creator of the Living Myth Podcast.
Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples.
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Highlights from this session:
- How our cognition and identities are shaped by our physical surroundings
- Honoring the interdependence of all beings and the environment to enable growth
- How the written word changed and challenged our ways of knowing
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Healing is a verb that has no destination. It’s a journey, not a final place we arrive at.”
Sophie Strand
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She is the author of The Flowering Wand, The Madonna Secret, and a forthcoming memoir about chronic illness and environmentalism: The Body is a Doorway: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human.
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Highlights from this session:
- The importance of remembering who we are beyond our traumas
- How traumatic experiences can obscure our connection to our deeper self and the broader universe
- Understanding and respecting how our cultural backgrounds can affect our path toward healing
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“It’s time to study what it’s like to heal in groups, because that is historically what we did. That’s how we work together.”
Spring Washam
Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment and her newest book, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman Awakening from the Underground.
She is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center located in downtown Oakland, CA. She received extensive training from Jack Kornfield, is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California, and has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism since 1999. In addition to being a teacher, she is also a shamanic practitioner and trained with Shipibo Maestra’s for many years in the upper Amazon region of Peru. She has studied many different Indigenous healing practices since 2008 and teaches classes and workshops around the world.
Pocket Project
As we continue to face increasingly difficult challenges both as a society and in our personal lives, it’s more important than ever for organizational leaders to be trauma-informed. What methods of self-regulation are most beneficial to leaders who wish to set a positive example and create compassionate and supportive environments?
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 Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds.
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. Learn more here.
Maria Leister, JD, MSc is a dynamic leader deeply committed to social justice and trauma-informed care. As the COO of the Pocket Project, she oversees operations with precision and compassion. Maria also serves as the Director of Community Development of Displaced Populations at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, where her expertise in working with marginalized communities shines. With a background in law, including directing Harvard Law School’s Harvard Defenders program, Maria has tirelessly advocated for those facing legal challenges. Her experience in US immigration law and direct legal advocacy underscores her dedication to serving the most vulnerable. Maria is driven by a belief in ethically creating impact that preserves and restores human dignity.
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