Restoring Relational Intimacy, with Danny Cohen
Release Date: 09/09/2025
Medical Realities in Gaza: From Resilience to Reclamation, with Dorotea Gucciardo
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J’aime Rothbard. When Dorotea Gucciardo returned to Rafah in southern Gaza in November last year, she could barely comprehend the scale of the devastation caused by the Israeli military. “I couldn't recognize a thing. Every building was gone. and not just gone but removed, rubble removed and new roads built. And I remember asking the U.N. representative on the bus that was bringing us in, where are we?...It was as if I was on a completely different continent.” In this powerful episode, Gucciardo, who is Director of Development at the Canadian medical...
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The Anatomy of an Emergent Mystic, with Valencie Exceus
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. What is a global acupuncture point? Join us as we explore how the mystical is born out of integrated lived experience. Valencie shares her journey into collective healing, tracing her story from birth and early life in Haiti, into her formative years after her family migrated to the United States. Valencie speaks of the imprint of cultural collisions that she faced as she came of age in a foreign land, offering a glimpse into the mountainous terrain that she carried within. She draws us into a parallel reality reflecting...
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Factory Farms: Wounds in the Web of Life, with Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. What happens when we expand the circle of collective healing to go beyond the purely human world? And how can we begin to address the enormous weight of animal pain caused by factory farms? In this episode, Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald introduce a year-long Pocket Project they’re hosting from February 25 called . The Lab is one of more than 40 the Pocket Project is hosting in 2026 exploring collective and inter-generational trauma from a wide range of geographic, cultural and thematic perspectives. [Applications open .]...
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From Bystander to Witness: Transforming Global Media, with James Scurry
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. In Pocket Project calls, we come together in community to mindfully attune to global crises we’ve learned about through the news. But what happens when we make the people and systems delivering that news our ? What can we learn about both the media’s capacity for courageous truth-telling and its potential to amplify collective and inter-generational trauma loops from the past? This episode features James Scurry, a senior producer at Sky News, psychotherapist and co-convener of , an annual symposium convening senior...
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Tending Wounded Places with Furious Love, with Hāweatea Holly Bryson
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. For centuries, the march of modernity has not only unleashed devastation on Indigenous peoples and our natural environments, but also aimed to eradicate healing arts that have sustained communities and landscapes for millennia. Hāweatea Holly Bryson is an Indigenous psychotherapist, rite of passage guide, and Māori healing practitioner of the Ngāi Tahu and Waitaha tribes who is working to challenge the colonial power structures that still endure within Western psychotherapy, and restore the role of cosmologies that long predate modern...
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The Beautiful Wound, with Teddy Frank
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J’aime Rothbard. When Teddy Frank was diagnosed with breast cancer, her initial reaction was one of shock and denial. Then a more competent part of herself — a part she recognised from her ancestral lineage — took charge, seeking to gather as much information as possible about her treatment options. The visceral experience of existential terror came on much more slowly – and with it an initiation into what it means to feel at first helpless, and then embraced by a much bigger force. In this episode, Teddy speaks about the encounter with...
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The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. This episdode is a rebroadcast from July 1, 2025. Solea Anani sees the collective healing work taking place in the world today as the answer to prayers offered long ago by our ancestors. In this powerful dialogue, Solea opens a unique window into ancestral healing work – drawing on her roots as a member of the red-skinned Taino people of the Dominican Republic, who know the island as Quisqueya, or Mother of All Lands. Solea describes how the grief, fear and isolation she experienced as a child when her socialist parents moved...
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The Initiation of Parenthood as a Doorway to Ancestral Healing, with Thomas Hübl
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Do we need ‘parenting schools’? What does it mean to be initiated into the archetypal power of being a mother or father? And what responsibility do we hold to build the kind of healing communities that can nourish us in our daily lives – and allow us to nourish others in return? In this second part of a conversation first published on , co-founder builds on a question about the transmission of ancestral trauma from parent to child to set forth an expansive vision of the power of healing-oriented communities to support us through...
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Growing your Cup and Meeting Triggers with Compassion, with Thomas Hübl
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Why do we beat ourselves up for getting pulled into the same old triggers? And how can we grow our capacity to observe our emotional reactions – rather than being hijacked by them? co-founder has devoted his life to helping as many people as possible to ‘grow our cup’ – his term for building a capacity to meet the trauma loops playing out inside of us with more awareness, spaciousness and compassion. In this episode, Thomas and Matthew go back to basics by exploring how we can tell when we’re experiencing trauma...
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Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak
What is Collective Healing?
Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J’aime Rothbard. It’s often said that peace starts within. But what does that mean in practice? is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women’s empowerment coach with decades of experience as a gender and conflict expert working across Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Eva founded , a global peace initiative that brings Israelis and Palestinians together to heal divides by bearing witness to each other’s pain. She continues to host this space every...
info_outlineHosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard
How can we release old ways of relating rooted in past trauma and instead allow our bodies and hearts to naturally relax together in the here and now?
That fundamental question has guided Danny Cohen’s many years of psychotherapeutic training and spiritual practice – and also lies at the heart of his pioneering programme, the Art of Communication, which helps people transform how they communicate and connect in everyday life.
In this illuminating and moving episode, Danny describes how his deep search for ways to restore relational intimacy since his teens was driven by a combination of personal suffering and inspiration he derived from accounts of illumination from spiritual masters.
In 2015 Danny began studying with Thomas Hübl and in 2017, joined the first Pocket Project training. Danny describes the profound influence Thomas’s teachings on relational attunement and the mystical principles of trauma healing have had on his work – which is also rooted in insights from Dr Marshall Rosenberg, the developer of Nonviolent Communication, and Steve Hoskinson, creator of the Organic Intelligence approach to trauma healing.
The episode concludes by considering how trauma healing relates to the cycles of collective trauma playing out on the global stage — and the spiritual resources needed to sustain such work in the face of so much darkness.
This episode will speak to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how trauma shapes our default ways of relating – and how we can reconnect with our natural impulse to meet one another from a place of giving, tenderness and care.
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About Danny Cohen:
After finishing his degree from the Wharton School of Business in 2010, Danny made it his business to explore what had been missing for him in that education. It’s been a deep dive into wisdom traditions, psychotherapy training, mindfulness (including 15+ months on silent retreat), systems thinking, mysticism, and Nonviolent Communication. Having worked with thousands of educators in his time as a Guiding Teacher at Mindful Schools, as a founder and senior teacher with hundreds of seekers coming on retreat with Or HaLev: Jewish Spirituality and Meditation, and with CEOs and business executives as part of the core faculty of the Evolve Foundation, as well with many parents, activists, therapists, and people working for systems change, and other human beings around the world, Danny has found consistent principles and competencies across cultures and contexts that open the doors to a more beautiful, effective, and regenerative way of being alive together.