Transforming Corporate Organizations into Soulful Workplaces with Amy Elizabeth Fox
Release Date: 05/01/2025
I’m All I Wanted to Be. Now What? With Sat Dharam Kaur
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This conversation opens with Sat Dharam sharing her realization that her original life goals have been achieved, and asking herself, “What’s next?” She goes on to look forward and explore the possibilities. A therapist’s state is known to influence the client's experience and expand the potential for healing. That’s why Compassionate Inquiry® brings empathetic presence into therapeutic contexts. But if current psychological and spiritual understandings were expanded to include environmental consciousness and creative expression,...
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What Happens in Women’s Circles with Tanya Lynn
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted and Produced by J’aime Rothbard In this lively conversation, Tanya reveals why women gather in Circles and the personal growth that can happen when they do. She shares her long Circling history and what recently motivated her to train in Somatic Experiencing and integrate it into her Circle Work. Tanya also demystifies: - Sisterhood - The Mother Wound, Sister Wound and Witch Wounds - The Role of Circles - The Roles of Perimenopause and Menopause - The Wild Woman - The Council of Queens - The Grandmother Clan Join us to learn what happens in Woman’s Circles. You might...
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Longing to Belong with Cristina Bâra
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted and Produced by J’aime Rothbard The gentle conversation flows from Cristina’s personal journey to her professional role within the Compassionate Inquiry® organization to the approach’s impact on individual and group development. She highlights how Compassionate Inquiry® groups foster a sense of community and mutual support by inviting individuals to explore their emotions and experiences in the safe facilitated spaces that are essential for meaningful personal exploration. Cristina also explains: - Why the self-discovery and healing path often require us to experience our...
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Bonus Song: U.K. Blessed with Jacob Kishere AKA Culture Pilgrim
The Gifts of Trauma
In our most recent episode, host Kevin Young sat down with the multi-faceted and multi-talented Jacob Kishere in . If you missed it, you can find the conversation . If you've already listened, you'll be pleased to hear that we didn't let Jacob get away without offering a taste of this artform he fully produces and performs independently under his stage name, Culture Pilgrim. U.K. Blessed is a hiphop testament of Jacob's enduring pursuit of mining hope from within when the exterior world is perceivably void of it -- and coming up with glistening things born of weathering the pressures of such...
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Evoking the Resonant Man with Jacob Kishere
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This deep, esoteric and practical conversation addresses the lack of positive role models and meaningful traditions for men, today. Jacob introduces the "Resonant Man," an archetype that aims to evolve masculinity into a sacred form that addresses current societal contexts and the importance of male identity. After recognizing the need for a communal space that fosters growth and understanding in relation to masculinity, Jacob encourages men to connect with supportive communities, engage in dialogues, explore their emotional...
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Enhancing Bodywork & EFT (Tapping) with Compassionate Inquiry with Pam Sommer
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. In this intimate, flowing conversation, Pam unravels the interconnections of emotions and physical sensations, particularly pain, in therapeutic settings including Massage Therapy, RMT, Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT (tapping), and Compassionate Inquiry® CI. She shares the therapeutic effects on her anxiety and physical pain she experienced while training in EFT and CI, highlighting that while both issues are still present, she now has the tools to manage them. Pam also touches on: - Generational trauma and how earlier...
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Awakening from Shutdown, Numbness & Not-Enoughness with Irina Sadakova
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard In this revealing conversation, Irina shares her experience as a child growing up in Soviet Russia, the impact of generational trauma and her journey of personal transformation. She weaves in repeating ancestral themes, highlights the abandonment trauma that impacted three consecutive generations in her maternal line, and explains how grief can fuel growth and healing. In this interview Irina also emphasizes the significance of: - Compassionate Inquiry in the expansion of her understanding of trauma - Personal experiences in...
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Multicultural & Ancestral Healing Perspectives with Soraya Romao-Inglis
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This gentle conversation explores Soraya’s multifaceted approach to therapy which acknowledges personal, cultural, and systemic factors. She shares her personal trauma experiences as a BIPOC female immigrant in Canada, her ancestors' influence in her life and work, and the multicultural compassionate lens she uses to support her clients’ healing. Soraya also explains: Trauma’s roots and manifestations in human behavior - Emotional eating as a coping mechanism for unaddressed trauma. - How nervous system...
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The Art of Integrating CI in Relational Trauma Therapy with Rita Bozi
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard This nuanced conversation begins with a deep dive into healing relational trauma. Rita explains developmental trauma, relational trauma and how both are rooted in ancestral and intergenerational trauma. After deftly highlighting how trauma experienced during critical developmental periods can lead to gaps in our self-awareness, emotional and relational functioning, she goes on to explore: - Forgiveness as a natural outcome of personal healing rather than a prerequisite for it. - Embodiment’s role in fully experiencing and...
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Transforming Corporate Organizations into Soulful Workplaces with Amy Elizabeth Fox
The Gifts of Trauma
Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. 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,...
info_outlineHosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard.
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/