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Invisibility & the Living Field of Collective Healing, with Nadja Lichtenhahn

What is Collective Healing?

Release Date: 08/19/2025

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Born in the former East Germany, Nadja Lichtenhahn started her career as a legal and business strategist, serving 20 years in leadership positions in the film and media  industry. 

In the past decade, Nadja has honoured a deep sense of calling that took her in a new direction: serving as a transformational coach, guide, and facilitator for individuals and organisations. 

In this episode, Nadja describes how the Pocket Project, and the Timeless Wisdom Training and Collective Trauma Facilitator Training  led by Thomas Hübl, has helped her refine her capacity to work with the “reciprocal living field” that unites all life – a core principle of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma. 

“I've come to a deeper understanding that this very moment carries all the information that we need,” Nadja says. “And often what I experience in our group work is that we get reflections back of our own light, of our own authenticity, that we often cannot see ourselves.”

Nadja speaks candidly about her lifelong quest to establish a secure sense of belonging after moving to West Germany — tracing the roots of her sense of dislocation and inner-outer divide through her homeland’s collective experience, and her own soul path.

Nadja also opens up about the sometimes challenging process of embracing greater visibility and sharing her authentic voice in her collective healing work — exploring the struggle many practitioners face in publicly owning their gifts as facilitators as they transition from more conventional careers.

The unique quality of Nadja’s transmission will serve as an inspiration to anybody seeking a deeper understanding of how to tap into the power of collective intelligence to change their own life – and the lives of the people around them. 

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About Nadja Lichtenhahn: 

Nadja is a coach, guide, and facilitator committed to the responsible stewardship of human life force. She supports individuals, groups, and organizations to navigate complexity by reconnecting with the underlying intelligence of their systems and fostering inner and outer coherence, trauma-restorative presence and integration. 

Born in former East Germany, Nadja spent the first two decades of her career as a legal and business strategist in leadership positions in the film and media industry. Her passion for human and systemic transformation eventually led her to expand into coaching, and facilitation. For nearly a decade, she has been guiding and facilitating transformative processes across personal, organizational, and collective levels. Nadja bridges strategic clarity with deep presence and energetic attunement, helping clients restore authentic agency while strengthening their connection to the collective field and integrating polarities within. She is a graduate of the Timeless Wisdom Training and Collective Trauma Facilitator Training led by Thomas Hübl and his global team.

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing
 
02:32 Nadja Describes Collective Healing
 
04:11 The Reciprocal Living Field
 
06:41 The Role of Group Awareness
 
09:57 Personal Healing Journeys
 
15:53 Meeting & Training with Thomas Hübl
 
19:30 Each Moment In Time Contains All Information 
 
22:06 Nadja's Personal Healing Process
 
27:00 How Thomas Hübl Describes Fragmentation 
 
34:00 Collective Patterns of Hiding & Invisibility 
 
39:10 Nadja's Work with Women's Groups
 
41:50 Bridging Personal and Universal Experiences