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Trauma-Informed Activism
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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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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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Voices for the Planet
Leah Thomas
Celebrated Environmentalist, Founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist Non-Profit, and Author
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- 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
“We can’t address a global issue without including global voices.”
No bonus giftLeah Thomas
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 has been recognized for her work in many outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, CNN, ABC News, and NBC, among others, and has been honored on lists including Forbes 30 under 30, EBONY Power 100, TIME100 Next, and INSIDER’s Climate Action 30. She is based in Los Angeles, California.
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- 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.
“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.”
No bonus giftAbigail Disney
Abigail E. Disney advocates for real changes to the way capitalism operates in today’s world. As a philanthropist and social activist, she has worked with organizations supporting peacebuilding, gender justice, and systemic cultural change. She is a documentary filmmaker who won an Emmy for “The Armor of Light.” Her latest film, “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” which she co-directed with Kathleen Hughes, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film screened in select theaters and is available now on demand.
In Season 4 of the podcast “All Ears,” Abigail used the film as a jumping-off point to ask big-thinking business leaders, union organizers, economists, and others how they would fix our broken economy. She is also Chair and Co-Founder of Level Forward, an ecosystem of storytellers, entrepreneurs, and social change-makers dedicated to balancing artistic vision, social impact, and stakeholder return. She also created the nonprofit Peace is Loud, which uses storytelling to advance social movements and the Daphne Foundation, which supports organizations working for a more equitable, fair, and peaceful New York City.
Learn more about Abigail here and her latest documentary here.
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The Mysterious Motion of Spirituality
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD
Author, Teacher, and Trans-Public Intellectual
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- 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”.
“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”
No bonus giftBayo Akomolafe, PhD
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online post-activist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains.’
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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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- 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
“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.”
Bonus: Hospicing Modernity Discussions
By Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira AndreottiA series of six online sessions organized by the GTDF collective around Vanessa’s book Hospicing Modernity.
Click here to access ➤Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts and Research Collective, and one of the designers of the course: “Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability,” available at the University of Victoria through Continuing Studies.
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Connecting With Nature’s Healing
Marco Lambertini
Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative
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- 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
“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.”
No bonus giftMarco Lambertini
Marco Lambertini is the Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative. He was WWF International Director General from 2014 – 2022 and Special Envoy in 2023. Before joining WWF he was the Global Director of Network and Programme and subsequently CEO of BirdLIfe International.
Marco’s 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.
Marco is a member of the China Council (CCICED), a member of the Board of Directors for the Fondation Prince Albert III de Monaco, the former co-chair and now a board member of the Belt and Road Initiative Greening Coalition, a founding member of the Nature Action Agenda and the Friends of Ocean Action at WEF, an outgoing member of the UN Global Compact Board, and the former co-focal point for UN DESA’s Community of Ocean Action on Marine/Coastal Ecosystems. Marco is also a former co-chair of the Global Commons Alliance.
Collective Impacts of Climate Journalism
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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.
Rebecca B. Weston LCSW, JD is a practicing clinician and Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. Rebecca organizes and provides support for mental health clinicians seeking to apply their skills in service of the climate movement. Her expertise includes the mental health impacts of the climate crisis and the psychological underpinnings of climate denial. Through her work, she emphasizes the need for compassionate spaces to engage our emotions while stepping forward into action. Learn more here.
Yessenia Funes is a journalist who has covered climate change and the environment for 10 years. Her work focuses on the human impacts of and resistance to climate and environmental issues. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Vox, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and National Geographic. She is presently editor-at-large for the independent magazine Atmos and publishes her own creative climate newsletter, Possibilities. Learn more here.
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