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

Day 4

These talks will be available to watch for free
from: September 27, 12:01am NY time
until: September 28, 11:59pm NY time

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Day 4

Presence and Emergence

  • Trauma-Informed Activism

    Highlights:
    • 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

  • 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

  • Trauma, Modernity, and the Myth of Normal

    Dr. Gabor Maté

    Physician and Author of The Myth of Normal

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    Highlights from this session:
    • How trauma is currently showing up in our leaders and politics
    • When our need for belonging influences possibilities for learning and growth
    • How we can help our children from being seduced by technology

    This talk was originally recorded for the 2020 Collective Trauma Summit.

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    “Collective trauma is an essential dimension through which to view what’s happening in our world, and also how we move toward healing in the world.”

    Dr. Gabor Maté

    Gabor Maté (pronounced GAH-bor MAH-tay) is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of five books published in nearly 40 languages, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship between stress and illness. For his ground-breaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His most recent book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, is a New York Times and international bestseller. His next book, co-written with his son Daniel, will be Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children, based on their popular workshop.

    Learn more here.

  • Breaking the Generational Trauma Cycle

    Dr. Mariel Buqué

    Trauma Psychologist, Bestselling Author, and CEO of Break the Cycle

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    Warning: this important conversation includes the topics of suicide and abuse. 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:
    • Disrupting generational family trauma and the cycles of physical and mental health issues it causes
    • Shifting from codependency to interdependence and ending unhealthy relationship patterns
    • Moving from despair to hope through connection and community
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    “We can’t lose sight of the fact that healing is a relational process. We must heal in connection to others”

    Bonus: Intergenerational Trauma Assessment

    An “Intergenerational Adverse Experiences” questionnaire to help you understand multiple layers of intergenerational trauma.

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    Dr. Mariel Buqué

    Dr. Mariel Buqué (pronounced like a bouquet of flowers) is a first-generation Black Dominican psychologist, a world-renowned intergenerational trauma expert, and the author of the bestselling book Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Her mission is to help reduce the recurrence of Intergenerational ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) within communities of color.

    Dr. Buqué earned her doctoral degree in counseling psychology at Columbia University, where she also trained as a 3-year fellow in holistic mental health within Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), an initiative that was backed by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). There, she offered culturally responsive mental health services across multiple specialty clinics, including Columbia Medical’s OB/GYN and Primary Care clinics.

    Upon seeing the huge gap in trauma-informed care and trauma-informed institutional action that specifically addresses the needs of underserved communities, Dr. Buqué sought to develop a holistic system of care, with equity and prevention at the center. This is the method that is central within her consultation and therapy practice, the Break the Cycle Trauma Center (BTC).

    Dr. Buqué is widely sought out for her clinical expertise and trauma approach and her work and weekly mental health tips can be found at www.drmarielbuque.com.

    Learn more here.

  • Healing Legacy Burdens

    Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

    Internal Family Systems Therapy Founder

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    Highlights from this session:
    • How toxic individualism harms us, and connection with the collective heals us
    • The benefits of affinity groups and the power of centering marginalized people
    • Defining legacy burdens and their role in the world’s current major conflicts

    This talk was originally recorded for Thomas Hübl and Dr. Schwartz’s online course “Connect Restore Reclaim”.

    Watch a Short Preview of this Session

    “The more you unburden your parts, the more you begin to embody a sense of connectedness.”

    Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

    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.

  • Understanding Complex PTSD

    Judith Lewis Herman

    Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

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    Warning: this important conversation includes the topic of child abuse, gender violence, and the The Holocaust. 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 essential role of building trust in effectively treating Complex PTSD
    • How group therapy offers connection as a healing antidote to the isolation of trauma
    • Using restorative justice to strengthen communities and address trauma’s many impacts
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    “People have to come together and say, ‘We’re not alone. This is happening all the time,’ and support one another. That’s where change begins.”

    Judith Lewis Herman

    Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In the thirty years prior to her retirement, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. She is the author of the award-winning books Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981), and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984 and the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2007, she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, was published in March 2023.

    Learn more here. 

  • The Restoration of Dignity

    Oleksandra Matviichuk

    Human Rights Lawyer, Head of Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of Ukraine

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    Highlights from this session:
    • The need for trauma-informed collective practices to help Ukraine and other countries process trauma
    • The importance of justice in restoring human dignity for people affected by war
    • How ordinary Ukrainians have shown extraordinary courage and resilience, proving the strength of collective action

    This talk was originally recorded for The Pocket Project 2024 World Women Summit.

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    “When you can’t rely on the legal instruments, you can still rely on people because people have a much greater impact than they can even imagine.”

    Oleksandra Matviichuk

    Oleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights activist and civil society leader based in Ukraine. She heads the non-profit organization Centre for Civil Liberties and is a campaigner for democratic reforms in Ukraine and the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) region.

    Amongst other distinctions, Oleksandra has been awarded with Ukraine’s Woman of Courage (2017) by the United States Embassy in Kyiv and the Right Livelihood Award (2022) for “working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today.” She was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022. The Centre for Civil Liberties was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Ales Bialiatski and Russian organization Memorial. This was the first Nobel Prize awarded to a Ukrainian citizen or organization.

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