Restoring Relationships with the More-than-human World, with J Dallas Gudgell
Release Date: 10/07/2025
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...
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What role can the more-than-human world play in collective healing? And what lessons does the enduring reciprocity between Native American communities and the buffalo have to teach?
In this special episode previewing the Climate Consciousness Summit 2025, Sonita Mbah speaks with Dallas Gudgell, a Yankton Dakota and a tribal member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, about his work to restore buffalo herds and grassland ecosystems in Yellowstone National Park and tribal lands.
Buffalo once roamed from Florida to Alaska in their tens of millions, but the U.S. government sought to eradicate the species as part of its broader, genocidal campaign against the Native American population in the 19th century.
In his role as board vice-president of the Buffalo Field Campaign, Dallas works to stop the harassment and slaughter of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo herds, while collaborating with all people – especially Indigenous Nations – to honour and protect the sacredness of this keystone species.
Dallas shares a holistic vision of collective healing, where benefits to buffalo, their grassland habitats (which draw down vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide), and Indigenous communities form a virtuous cycle.
This episode will inspire anyone seeking to understand how collective and inter-generational trauma healing can serve both “two-leggeds in the human world, and the “four-leggeds”of the animal kingdom – and the climate that sustains us all.
Further Resources:
Climate Consciousness Summit 2025
It’s Time to Reimagine Management of the Yellowstone National Park Bison
About J Dallas Gudgell:
J Dallas Gudgell has nearly four decades of experience in environmental science, lobbying, human rights advocacy, social and environmental justice, K12 general and special education teaching, higher education adjunct teaching, life coaching, individual and organization consulting and professional development consulting, cultural competency (DEI) training and public relations. He has been a backcountry backpacker since the age of 13.
Dallas considers himself a “decorated” father with grown children, young twins, foster children, and grandchildren. He keeps active through backyard construction projects, skiing, hiking, running, mountain biking and has recently taken to running 5K and 10k fun runs with his twins.