Transforming Corporate Organizations into Soulful Workplaces with Amy Elizabeth Fox
Release Date: 05/01/2025
Resolving Math-Anxiety Through Trauma-Informed Teaching, with Dr Bea Bleile
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard This conversation explores how academic learning is impacted by a student's emotional state, prior experiences, and the safety of the learning environment. Bea, who has been teaching in various roles since 1993, saw that traditional teaching methods fail to account for the "whole" students who enter the classrooms. This failure often results in elevated student anxiety and hindered learning: As a teacher committed to evolving current educational institutions and systems, she addresses: - The impact of negative emotions on learning...
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Elevating Consciousness & Healing Through Art & Music with Ester Martinez
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This rich conversation explores many topics, from Ester’s personal and professional journeys, to spiritual mysticism, to the parallels between experiencing ‘excellence’ in art, music and transformational trauma healing. Ester began sharing her NDEs and naming,”‘the Divine embrace” as her childhood comfort, the foundation of her healing approach and an enduring influence in her therapeutic practices. She also reflects on: - Why healing is always possible - Art and music as mediums for elevating consciousness...
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Shining Authenticity's Light into Corporate Leadership, with Lubna Forzley
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This passionate conversation begins with Lubna’s upbringing in war-torn Beirut. She recalls seeing bombs falling and people dying and wondering, “What is the point of this? How do we find purpose?” Her mom told her, "It's okay, everything’s replaceable except you, the people you love and the story (or purpose) you live by.” After 15 years of corporate work Lubna launched her own business, Stories. Its name acknowledges the intertwining of our purpose and personal brands, and the alignment of our internal and external...
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Intimacy, Healing and "Sand in the System" with Kosha Joubert.
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This heart-felt conversation arcs from the pain of apartness to the healing power of connectedness. Kosha shares her personal journey, which led her from the cognitive and somatic dissonance of enforced separation (apartheid) to the synchronicity of inter-connection. She also explains how: - Human love and connection can change systems from the bottom-up - Witnessing eco-communities’ good intentions and dedication to restoring relationships with nature, social systems, cultures, and economies led her to, “fall in love...
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6 Ingredients of Lasting Love with Dr Sara Nasserzadeh
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This conversation delivers rich insights on the importance of clear communication and intentional maintenance in healthy love relationships. Dr Sara also explores the ways personal and inherited trauma can impact intimate relationships, from causing ongoing emotional issues to expanding individuals' resilience and abilities to maintain healthy relationships. In addition to sharing stories from her personal and professional life, Dr Sara explains: - How the six relational ingredients of her Emergent Love Model interact and evolve...
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The Sound of Healing with Reggie Hubbard
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Listen to hear a powerful and playful discourse that flows from racial anger to curiosity, skepticism, critical thinking, surrender and stroke recovery. Reggie speaks about how his unwavering self-care practices unleashed the transformative alchemy of inner peace. He also describes teaching peace and mindfulness practices to political activists and US Congress members, supporting their need for grounding in chaotic times. He also invites us to: - Express our grief and connect with our emotions rather than avoiding difficult feelings -...
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Healing Ruptured Connections to Self, Land and Culture with Sanjog Kaur
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard Sanjog’s spiritual name means ‘connection.’ In this flowing, deeply connected conversation, Sanjog describes how ‘longing’ helped her heal her eating disorder. She also explains how heartfelt intentions (as opposed to external goals) helped her navigate obstacles in her addiction recovery. In addition to attuning to our innate ‘longings’ and ‘intentions’, Sanjog highlights the importance of trusting our own intuition, and accepting that we inherently know what we need. Join us to hear Sanjog describe how: - A trip to the...
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Khonmadi: Feeling the Heartbeat of Mother Earth, with Dr Ruby Gibson
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes, Produced by J’aime Rothbard. In this magical conversation, Dr. Ruby shares the launch of The Khonmadi Project, which was inspired by a dream. She has since discovered that Khonmadi is known to different indigenous cultures worldwide, as a term that relates to healing Mother Earth. Dr. Ruby also shares her personal and professional journey, which began at age 13. Learning about the emotional roots of physical pain, led her from massage therapy to somatic healing, and the creation of Somatic Archaeologyⓒ which considers the body a "walking library" of...
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Healing the Trauma of the Heart with Tiph Fedor
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. The spiritual journey and process of trauma healing are presented as aligned experiences that unfold together as we progress through healing into wholeness. This conversation begins with Tiph’s healing journey. A highly sensitive, empathetic child, growing up in a family where emotions were suppressed was a painful experience that led her to heroin addiction— described as a "magic bullet," it numbed Tiph’s emotions but made her life a ‘grim’ period of survival. She goes on to share how she overcame her addiction, and the...
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Finding Chronic Pain Relief in Parts Work with Terry Baranski
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Compassionate Inquiry® (CI) both aim to reconnect individuals with their core Self. Learn how understanding parts' reality' roles, and feeling into the somatic flow of Self facilitates healing. In this conversation, Terry illuminates the IFS approach, including the nature of Self, how our how parts manifest chronic pain and why addressing these internal conflicts is essential for healing. Having been trained in both CI and IFS, Terry adeptly distinguishes the two approaches’ areas of...
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This episode explores the role of trauma awareness in leadership and organizational development. By integrating psycho-spiritual insights, Amy’s work supports leaders in fostering healthier, more sustainable, workplaces which can lead to individual and company-wide healing and transformation. Her initiatives invite leaders to explore their early traumas and free themselves from the old survival strategies and untreated traumas that affect their daily decision-making and organizational dynamics.
In this deep, rich conversation, Amy shares her vision for future organizations, plus explains how:
- Addressing a leader's collective trauma can evoke more compassionate, soul-ful leadership
- To reconcile the sacred and the secular in business practices
- Implanting uniquely functioning microcosms within organizations inspires holistic cultural change
- To expand the prevalent short-term profit lens to encompass social and environmental impact
- Certain organizations are addressing the harm they've caused to people and our planet
Amy concludes with reflections on our current transition into a world rife with complex, chaotic problems, and how we can best fulfill the increasing demand for healing that will be vital in addressing the collective trauma our global society faces.
About Amy Elizabeth Fox
Co-Founder & CEO,
Mobius Executive Leadership
An expert in healing individual, family, and collective trauma, Amy has pioneered the introduction of trauma-informed development and psycho-spiritual principles into leadership programs.
Since 2005, she has served as a co-founder and CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm. Since then, Amy has served as a leadership and culture change advisor to eminent profes- sional services firms and Fortune 500 companies, facilitated immersive executive development programs for senior leaders, guided long standing client programs and overseen Mobius’ evolution and expansion.
On the faculty of the African Leadership Institute’s Desmond Tutu Fellows Program at Oxford, Amy is also a senior student of mystical teacher, Thomas Hübl, serving as part of his online faculty team and his lead faculty for his two-year Timeless Wisdom Training. Together, they are guiding a first-of-its-kind year-long certification in Trauma-Informed Consulting and Coaching.
Before starting Mobius, Amy worked as a trainer for Vantage Partners, as a senior executive in Wellspace and as the Director of Public Affairs for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she supported Paul Gorman, Carl Sagan, and vice president Gore in a decade long effort to engage the American faith communities in responding to climate change and environmental degradation.
Amy has a Masters in counselling from Lesley College and a BA in psychology from Wesleyan University.
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Related Links:
Love and Healing in Business - A Trauma-Informed Journal
The African Leadership Institute’s Desmond Tutu’s Fellows Program at Oxford\
Videos:
Teachers:
Lynda Ceasara Podcasts:
5 Essential Skills for Embodied Mindfulness
Somatic work and the Electromagnetic Human
Training:
Thomas & Amy's Trauma-Informed Consulting & Coaching Program
Books:
Quotes:
“If someone's in a group that you're guiding for healing, they're there for a sole purpose.
You have a contract with them and you belong to them forever.” - Linda Cesar
“... organizations are becoming more honoring organizations that are more honoring of human
rhythm, human relationship, human diversity, and the proper place of humanity in the family of
Things.” - Amy Elizabeth Fox
“We are refining ourselves to be even purer instruments of the qualities of kindness, of patience,
of compassion – those are the diamonds we are here polishing in ourselves so that we can be
agents of those qualities out in society.” - Amy Elizabeth Fox
“We need to expand our ability to tolerate, witness and hold each other’s pain and only when we
do that do we have the possibility of a natural arising of a new intelligence and the organic unveiling
of what are skillful means.” - Amy Elizabeth Fox
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there," - Rumi
Social Media Links:
MEL LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mobius-executive-leadership/
AEF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyelizabethfox/