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Speaker Talks
The Conference broadcast took place from Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2024. You can still watch these Conference Highlights.
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The Conference broadcast took place from Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2024.
The Conference broadcast took place from Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2024.
Each day, we’ll release 4-5 Speaker Talks, which are available to watch for free for 48 hours. You can watch a preview of most talks to decide which ones you are most interested in viewing.
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Day 1
These talks will be available to watch for free
from: September 24, 12:01am NY time
until: September 25, 11:59pm NY time
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Daily Insight Video
from Thomas
Day 1
Evolving from Collective Trauma to Collective Healing
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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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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
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Safety, Connection, and Our Nervous System
Dr. Stephen Porges
Professor of Psychiatry, Researcher, Author, Speaker, and Co-Founder of Polyvagal Institute
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Upgrade Now Upgrade NowHighlights from this session:
- How connection and co-regulation build resilience and enable healing
- Helping therapists and caregivers regulate their own biobehavioral states
- Utilizing music and rhythm as tools for calming the nervous system and promoting healing
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“We don’t solve problems when we’re frightened. We solve problems when we’re safe with others.”
No bonus giftDr. Stephen Porges
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences. He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™, which currently is used by approximately 4,000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing and state regulation. Dr. Porges is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.
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Spirit and Ceremony
Serene Thin Elk
Indigenous Mental Health and Addiction Therapist, Speaker, and Consultant
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Upgrade Now Upgrade NowWarning: this important conversation includes the topic of harms caused in residential schools. 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 the presence of ancestors can guide and support the healing journey
- The role of ceremonies and community in Indigenous life and medicine
- Revealing internalized oppression and overcoming it with compassion
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“That love and compassion that our ancestors had and still have is why we’re here.”
Bonus: What We Carry for Our Ancestors
By Serene Thin ElkSerene’s Sioux Falls, TED X talk focusing on how historical traumas impact us individually and collectively.
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Serene Thin Elk
Serene Thin Elk, MA, LPC-MH, LAC, is a L/Dakota clinical addiction and mental health therapist and mother to four beautiful children. She is a member of the Ihanktonwan (Yankton Sioux Tribe) and Sicangu (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) Oyate in South Dakota and currently works for South Datoka Urban Indian Health as the Community Programs Director. In her current role as a director, she is a part of tiospaye (kinship within an extended family) who are her colleagues, and together they seek to integrate both culture and spirituality into community healing models. Her professional and personal passions focus on intergenerational healing along with educating others about historical traumas and how this translates to the present-day experiences of Native people.
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The Radical Courage of Hope
Fleet Maull, PhD
Founder and CEO of Heart Mind Institute, Author, Dharma Teacher, and Mindset Coach
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Upgrade Now Upgrade NowHighlights from this session:
- Fostering radical responsibility by integrating personal accountability with collective action
- Understanding the effective use of psychedelic-assisted therapy and its potential
- Choosing optimism and believing in the innate goodness of humanity to rediscover hope
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“Turning towards bearing witness… our tendency is to externalize something and call it evil… it’s the result of suffering. Hurt people, hurt people and healed people can heal people.”
Bonus: Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness eBook
By Fleet Maull, PhDLearn how to tap into your body’s innate capacity for auto-regulation into profound states of awareness, coherence and flow.
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Fleet Maull, PhD
Fleet Maull, PhD is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur, and peacemaker who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation. He founded the Prison Mindfulness Institute and the National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence from 1985 to 1999.
He also founded the global, transformational education platform Heart Mind Institute, which offers online summits and courses integrating western science with ancestral and contemplative wisdom while addressing themes of trauma healing, resilience building, post-traumatic growth, expanded states of consciousness, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and more.
He co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute where he trains trauma-informed mindfulness teachers to work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and marginalization. He has served on the leadership team for the annual Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat for more than 20 years and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness retreats.
Informed by over 50 years of practice & study, Dr. Maull developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM) meditation, a deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma-informed approach that accelerates healing, self-regulation, and awakening.
Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good; Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull; and The Resilient C.O.: Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals.
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Hope for Climate Justice
Claudia Peña
Co-Founding Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA
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Upgrade Now Upgrade NowHighlights from this session:
- Finding hope in how new generations support climate justice and promote sustainability
- How individual healing impacts and inspires the community and the world
- The need for reconciliation to address the widespread harm inflicted by colonization
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“In a time of crisis, we turn back to the basics and we know exactly what can bring us internal balance. We know exactly what we need as individuals, which of course grows into what the collective needs.”
No bonus giftClaudia Peña
Claudia Peña is the co-founding Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA and is on the faculty at UCLA School of Law and in the Gender Studies Department. Her scholarship addresses how trauma intersects with the legal system. She teaches both students and attorneys how to practice trauma and healing-informed lawyering and advocacy and has trained the Federal Public Defender, a cross section of clinics at law schools across the west coast, various Title IX offices at educational institutions, and a multitude of legal service providers including those serving veterans, immigrants, people facing houselessness, survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence, and children/youth who have been abused or neglected. Claudia is a restorative/transformative justice practitioner as well as an artist. She is the former Executive Director of For Freedoms and continues on as a Senior Advisor.
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Building Resilience in Climate Activism
Barbara Easterlin, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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Upgrade Now Upgrade NowHighlights from this session:
- Finding agency in the face of climate change by connecting with what we love and leveraging our unique strengths to contribute to collective action
- How climate psychology supports emotional responses to the climate crisis, promotes resilience, and advocates for social justice in mental health
- The need for collective movements and community support, in order to address both the climate crisis and the underlying societal traumas that contribute to ecological degradation
This talk was originally recorded for Thomas Hübl’s online course “’Navigating the Levels of Trauma Healing”.
Watch a Short Preview of this Session“The climate crisis is a signal, and it’s telling us that we shouldn’t be too secure right now. That insecurity can be a powerful motivator for change, if we stay alert to it.”
No bonus giftBarbara Easterlin, PhD
Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., is a California-licensed clinical psychologist and a member of the American Psychological Association’s newly formed Climate Change Psychology Community of Scholars and Practitioners. Until 2020, Barbara was a member of the UC Berkeley Psychology Department’s clinical faculty. Currently, she is the Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, a non-profit dedicated to supporting clinicians working at the intersection of mental health and climate change. She co-developed a 60-hour Climate Psychology Certificate Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. In addition, she delivers mental health workshops in support of climate front-line workers including activists, scientists, and first responders.
With a Master’s degree in Social Ecology and Environmental Psychology and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, she is interested not only in the intersectional impact of climate change and environmental injustice on mental health but also in the positive impact of nature on individuals’ stress responses. She is particularly interested in the psychological process of denial and the positive benefits to mental health arising from emotionally informed activism.
Learn more at barbaraeasterlinphd.org and climatepsychology.us.
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