What is Collective Healing?

What is Collective Healing? is a weekly podcast exploring how people around the world are finding new ways to heal the individual, inter-generational and collective trauma at the root of our global crises. Presented by the Pocket Project, the series features deeply personal conversations with practitioners who have trained under Thomas Hübl and other pioneers of collective healing – giving listeners a direct experience of the transformational potential this work can unlock. Drawing on a wide diversity of voices from different countries, cultures and communities, the series aims to make the universal principles underlying collective healing practices newly accessible to all – and honor the many lineages and traditions informing today’s cutting-edge practices. In an age of overwhelming complexity and news overload, it’s easy to forget that we’re not meant to carry the weight of the world alone. What Is Collective Healing? is your weekly reminder that not only are we wired to grieve, celebrate and heal together – we’re discovering new ways to transmute polarization, trauma and despair into the seeds of a more flourishing future. These conversations show us how. To learn more about how the Pocket Project is creating a culture of trauma-informed care, please visit www.pocketproject.org to join our global events, services and courses.

Medical Realities in Gaza: From Resilience to Reclamation, with Dorotea Gucciardo 02/03/2026

Medical Realities in Gaza: From Resilience to Reclamation, with Dorotea Gucciardo 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 solidarity organisation , shares her witness testimony from her third assignment to Gaza since early 2024. This dialogue is deeply personal, touching on Gucciardo’s decision to leave her own newborn daughter behind in Canada to serve in Gaza – spurred by a video of a young Palestinian mother whose month-old baby Mahmoud Fattouh had starved to death due to the Israeli blockade. But the focus is on the intimate portrait Gucciardo paints of the suffering inflicted on civilians by the Israeli military in response to the October 7, 2023 attacks, and the depth of the relationships that have helped Palestinians survive the staggering destruction. In September, a U.N. commission found that Israel had genocide in Gaza.. Resilience is, however, only part of the story: The conversation challenges listeners to consider how both notions of Palestinian reclamation and international responsibility are inextricably tied to the quest for justice and collective healing. “I actually struggle with the term resilience…because in many ways I think it can unintentionally suggest that extreme hardships like that which Palestinians are experiencing is something that they're expected to endure,” Gucciardo says. Gucciardo invites us to consider instead that the job of resilience should actually fall to people outside of Gaza who can be “resilient in our own solidarity and in our own activism” to ensure their governments work to deliver justice to Palestinians. This episode provides a searing insight into the struggles aid organisations face in bringing relief to Gaza in the face of the Israeli occupation. It also demonstrates the ingenuity displayed by Glia in supporting Palestianians to reclaim a sense of agency in rebuilding their healthcare system. Listeners will learn more about what collective healing means in the context of an active conflict zone, and gain a deeper appreciation of the significance of international solidarity for civilians in Gaza. Integration Labs 2026 Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering more than 40 in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . Further Resources: About Dorotea Gucciardo: Dorotea Gucciardo, PhD, is the Director of Development for Glia, a Canadian-based medical solidarity organization. She has been overseeing capacity-building projects in Gaza's healthcare system since 2019. In response to Israel's genocide, she helped the organization bolster support through international medical delegations and she herself has volunteered three times as a team lead since early 2024. She holds a PhD in History and is currently working on a book about material forms of existence and resistance in Gaza. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39970690

The Anatomy of an Emergent Mystic, with Valencie Exceus 01/27/2026

The Anatomy of an Emergent Mystic, with Valencie Exceus 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 the grief of colonization, held deep within Haiti, the land of her origin. Drawing on her participation in the Timeless Wisdom Training (TWT) with Thomas Hübl, Valencie explores the interconnected layers of trauma—individual, ancestral, and collective—and how these dimensions shape both personal identity and communal well-being. She reflects on how historical events, cultural displacement, and inherited trauma within the Haitian community continue to live in the body and psyche, and how healing must therefore be relational and communal, not just individual. Valencie discusses her work with acupuncture as a powerful bridge between individual and collective healing, describing it as both a physical and energetic practice that helps release trauma held in the body and also grounds Thomas Hübl’s theory of global acupuncture into what could become an embodied cultural practice. She also shares insights from her spiritual journey, including encounters with Haitian spiritual traditions and unexpected revelations about her role as a cultural and spiritual lineage holder. Throughout the conversation, Valencie emphasizes the importance of community, mentorship, and strong support systems when engaging in collective healing work. The episode ultimately presents collective healing as an ongoing, embodied practice—one that honors ancestry, history, and spiritual wisdom while actively working toward personal and global transformation. Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering more than 40 in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . Further Resources: About Valencie Exceus Valencie Exceus, also known as Vie, is a Chinese medicine practitioner, storyteller, drummer, writer, and healing facilitator whose work gathers at the heart of medicine, culture, and spirituality. Born in Haiti and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, she carries a bicultural and global sensibility shaped by migration, memory, curiosity, and a deep love for humanity. Her university studies began in the Social Sciences and grew into a lifelong devotion to the relationships between people shaped through culture, food, music, spirituality, and nature. Her approach is grounded, unadorned, and soulful. Alongside her clinical work, she also volunteers as a funeral attendant, tending to the living during moments of transition and grief. When she is not in the clinic, she works with people online through private sessions and a signature practice she calls Tending to the Roots. After nearly two decades of clinical practice and through her own lived experience, she has come to know and trust that restoration, repair, and healing are possible when we are willing to address root and structural causes. Through her own life and the lives of the countless people she has worked with, she has also witnessed the restorative power of grace and the larger movements and forces at work beyond our individual efforts. This has drawn her into a deep intimacy with the divine, while accepting to live with unanswered questions and to trust what unfolds beyond her understanding. Comfortable holding both gravity and levity, she creates spaces where truth, joy, and beauty can surface despite trauma, like a garden tended with care. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39880115

Factory Farms: Wounds in the Web of Life, with Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald 01/19/2026

Factory Farms: Wounds in the Web of Life, with Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald 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 .] Christine and Michael’s Lab seeks to bring awareness to the trauma factory farming inflicts on livestock including cattle, chickens and pigs and how these ethical violations affect our collective well-being. A core question informing their inquiry will be: “What do we turn away from?” Participants will be invited to share information about factory farming and attune to the many layers of this global trauma field; explore their personal and ancestral connection to this industry; and sense into the many ways in which this topic informs us, and lives in our collective social and planetary body. We will explore ethical alignment, orient ourselves towards what resources us, and reflect, share and deeply listen to what arises in our group field when attuning to this collective trauma field. Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering more than 40 in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . Further Resources: About Christine Gerike Christine Gerike is a transformational coach and group facilitator. She brings her love and witnessing competence to collective topics, guiding individuals and groups to integrate aspects of ancestral and collective fields we are embedded in. Christine co-founded the community practice of Global Social Witnessing in 2017, and has been cultivating it since. She is a graduate of the first Pocket Project Training, the Timeless Wisdom Training, and the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. Christine is certified as a Co-Facilitator within the Pocket Project network. In 2026, she offers an integration lab on , together with Michael Grünwald and Gabriela Zagula. Originally from Germany, Christine lives outside of New York City with her family. She has two grown-up daughters. About Michael Grünwald Michael is a graduate of the Global Timeless Wisdom Training (TWT), the first Pocket Project Training in Israel 2018 and the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. Besides his love for the work with people in a diagnostic laboratory, he loves to work with clients on integrating individual and ancestral aspects of life. While being part of the Core Group (a community of long-term students of Thomas Hübl), Michael conducted a study on the effect of the TWT on epigenetics. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39785730

From Bystander to Witness: Transforming Global Media, with James Scurry 01/13/2026

From Bystander to Witness: Transforming Global Media, with James Scurry 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 industry figures to host cutting-edge conversations on journalism and trauma. James was joined by What Is Collective Healing? co-host Matthew Green, himself a former international journalist, to reflect on what they learned by serving as the focal points at a January 7 Global Social Witnessing where more than 160 people from around the world gathered to witness the global media. James speaks candidly about recognising the increasingly unbearable toll that serving as a video editor handling horrific footage from war zones was having on his nervous system. That experience ultimately led him to train as a psychotherapist and put what he learned about himself at the service of helping others – including his colleagues in the media. James and Matthew also reflect on both the magnetic attraction of working in global media organisations, their colleagues’ inspiring level of commitment to accuracy and craft, and the enormous pressures journalists and editors now face. With several current and former journalists having attended the Global Social Witnessing call, James and Mathew imagine bringing collective healing practices into the heart of the global news industry. How might journalists benefit from collective healing work? And how might such processes lead to more emotionally intelligent storytelling – laying the foundations of the trauma-restoring media systems of the future? You can find out more about James’ work at and Safely Held Spaces. Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering 48 in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . (Registration closes on 20 January, 2026). Further Resources: Safely Held Spaces About James Scurry is an accredited psychotherapist based in London and the co-founder of , which provides compassionate support to families of people experiencing mental and emotional distress. He is also a journalist and Senior Producer at Sky News and, for the past two years, has co-organised MediaStrong, one of the UK’s largest mental health symposiums for journalists. James has a particular interest in the role of spirituality in mental health care and completed teacher training in Berkeley, California, at the Nyingma Institute in Kum Nye, an ancient Tibetan movement practice, which he integrates into his work with journalists, veterans, police officers, and first responders who have experienced trauma. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39702920

Tending Wounded Places with Furious Love, with Hāweatea Holly Bryson 01/06/2026

Tending Wounded Places with Furious Love, with Hāweatea Holly Bryson 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 psychology. While this process has at times been deeply challenging, Hāweatea is convinced that the “younger sibling” of Western psychotherapy must come into relationship with the “elder sibling” of Indigenous knowledge at this time of interlocking global crises — when the modern world has much to learn from older ways of knowing. “In our Western mindset, we’re still theorizing, we’re still having to prove things that Indigenous people already know,” Hāweatea tells host Matthew Green. “And yet, if we look back at how Indigenous people have handled this same crisis over generations, at the ways that my communities or my elders are responding, it is through tending these wounded places that we are guardians of, and which are part of our being, with furious love.” This episode illuminates the powerful role practitioners are playing in challenging therapeutic models rooted in modernity’s story of separation, and shows how Indigenous worldviews could help to heal the split between the human and the more-than-human world. This conversation was first published as part of the Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering 48 in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . (Registration closes on 20 January, 2026). Further Resources: (features a chapter by Hāweatea, ‘Decolonizing Psychotherapy’) About Hāweatea Holly Bryson Hāweatea Holly Bryson (Hāwea) is the founder of , and a specialist in trauma, transition, and transformation. She is an Indigenous psychotherapist, couples therapist , and Māori healing practitioner. She trains facilitators and therapists in rites of passage, ecopsychology, and profound ways of listening. Hāwea’s community bases span Hawai’i Island, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia. Rooted in her tribal lineage of Ngāi Tahu and Waitaha, Hāwea has spent 15 years guiding rites of passage, committing herself to the resurgence and retrieval of our Ways of Knowing. Her work is driven by a lifelong fascination with human energy and the unique, innate power we each hold to heal and move toward greater alignment. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39614940

The Beautiful Wound, with Teddy Frank 12/30/2025

The Beautiful Wound, with Teddy Frank 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 the illness that served as the impetus for her to join Dana Revnic and Ntombiyethu Biyase to offer . This year-long — one of 48 such Labs hosted by the Pocket Project in 2026 — aims to establish new architectures of emotional, energetic, ancestral and collective support for women around the world dealing with a diagnosis of the disease. With breast cancer the most common form of cancer worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation, Teddy, Dana and Ntombiyethu’s Lab will explore the associated shock, fear of dying, and anxiety over a possible recurrence, to grief for loss of fertility, disfigurement, shame and stigma stemming from cultural norms of feminine beauty. Isolation, over-giving as caretakers, and lack of self-care all play a role in women’s experience of this disease. The intention is to build a global community of women committed to developing their capacity to include and witness their own and each other’s experience, grow a sense of interdependence between participants,, and align with the innate self-healing mechanism of Life itself. As Teddy tells What Is Collective Healing? co-host Kosha Joubert: “I couldn't respond for a long time. I needed to go very still. And the beauty is that that stillness has infused every cell of my body. Because when do we as women get to really stop? How sick do we have to be before we allow ourselves to be cared for?” Teddy also speaks about the ancestral echoes in her Jewish identity that her diagnosis touched in her — a theme that connects her Lab with her wider work co-facilitating calls in the Pocket Project’s . This Lab is one of 48 the Pocket Project is offering in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click . (Registration closes on 20 January, 2026). Further Resources: About Teddy Frank: Teddy brings compassionate attunement and embodied experience to guide clients to release blockages and align with their natural state of flow. As a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), she has over 30 years in trauma-informed somatic therapy (Reichian/Bioenergetics), polyvagal theory, transformational facilitation, is a Yoga instructor (RYT) and initiate of Swami Satchidananda, and breast cancer survivor. She has studied with Thomas Hübl since 2017, is a Senior Assistant in Core Group, has run four Global Trauma Labs/Groups, is a certified collective trauma facilitator and Timeless Wisdom Training graduate. Teddy is an executive coach with Mobius executive leadership and Founder of Humanenergetics, an organisation dedicated to restoring healthy relationships with self, others, and the world. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39560840

The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani 12/23/2025

The Initiation of Parenthood as a Doorway to Ancestral Healing, with Thomas Hübl 12/16/2025

The Initiation of Parenthood as a Doorway to Ancestral Healing, with Thomas Hübl 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 critical moments. Hearing Matthew’s story of the shock he experienced at unexpectedly having to serve as midwife during his daughter’s homebirth, Thomas speaks about the many ways ‘generous’ communities can resource us to face these kinds of initiatory challenges. Thomas also emphasises the importance of inviting ancestral resources into our community-building efforts and to support our families to serve as healthy ecoystems for the next generation. “The more we heal our ancestral wounds, the healthier the family becomes. The atmosphere of the family is not just created by [living] people: A family is the relational network and coherence that the ancestors create. And that's where the new generation lands,” Thomas explains. “When there's a lot of trauma, that information field is depressed, fragmented, polarized, numb. And as we heal, it becomes more alive, more creative, more vital, more warm, more supportive. And that's the ecosystem in which our children grow up in.” This prompts Matthew to share a glimpse of the ancestral echoes that underpinned his commitment to covering wars in his early journalistic career – echoes that were revealed during his participation in the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training with Thomas and his team. The conversation brings core principles of community-building and ancestral healing to life by exploring real-world experiences of fatherhood, career and relationships through the lens of Thomas’ work. Further Resources: ü ü About Thomas Hübl: Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. His new book, co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is called Releasing Our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma. Thomas is also the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39416815

Growing your Cup and Meeting Triggers with Compassion, with Thomas Hübl 12/09/2025

Growing your Cup and Meeting Triggers with Compassion, with Thomas Hübl 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 reactions from the past – and what it means to gradually learn to respond to triggering situations, rather than react. By choosing to ‘own’ our triggers, we don’t magically dissolve the legacy of past trauma, Thomas explains. But we do start to heal when we bring more awareness to the mechanisms behind our anger, sense of overwhelm, or impulse to withdraw — rather than pathologising these symptoms as signs that there’s something wrong with us. “The cup that holds the trauma trigger is growing,” Thomas says. “And it's important because some people say, ‘Oh, the healing is only when the symptom disappears.’ No: The healing is also when the cup grows.” Thomas explores how groups oriented towards collective healing can serve as a ‘social mirror’ that can reveal more of our own unconscious patterns. And growing interest in building healing communities represents a reawakening of a latent human capacity to support one another to process collective and ancestral trauma that is now ripe to be recovered, Thomas believes. This conversation aims to inspire anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how we can loosen the grip of unprocessed trauma on our lives — whether we’re new to collective healing work, or advanced practitioners. This conversation was first published on Thomas’ podcast. A second installment from the dialogue will follow in the next episode of What Is Collective Healing? Further Resources: ü ü About Thomas Hübl: Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. His new book, co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is called Releasing Our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma. Thomas is also the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39332035

Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak 12/02/2025

Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak 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 week and it is welcome to everybody. Eva continued to deepen her Peace Activation work, even as the devastation unleashed by the Israeli military in Gaza intensified. In September 2025, a U.N. commission concluded that Israel had against the Palestinians. Although a peace accord was signed the following month, the Israeli military has since killed hundreds more people, and the onset of winter has intensified the staggering scale of suffering inflicted on Gaza. In this episode, Eva sets her present-day peace activation work in the context of her upbringing in Israel, early encounters with systemic discrimation, her work in 22 conflict zones – and the pivotal experience of temporarily losing her eyesight, as recounted in her new book . In an at times frank and powerfully outspoken exchange, Eva explains why she believes ‘truth-telling without dehumanisation’ is a key ingredient for peacebuilding – and outlines her vision of an awakened human future. “We're all capable of being this perpetrator, just like we're all able to be this victim and we're all able to be the savior,” Eva says. “And so the-truth telling without dehumanisation means that we understand that we are one.” This episode shows how years of painstaking inner work can equip us with the spaciousness needed to bring people together across seemingly unbridgeable divides – and what it means to build peace from the inside out. Further Resources: About Eva Dalak: Eva Dalak is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women’s empowerment coach. She is the founder of , a global peace initiative that was created as a response to the crisis in Palestine and Israel and is rooted in the belief that sustainable peace begins within. With over 30 years of experience as a gender and conflict expert, she leads trauma-informed, soul-centered initiatives, based on her experience and work with international organisations in over 22 conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, blending systemic change with personal and collective healing. Born in Israel and now based in Costa Rica, Eva launched Peace Activation in 2023 in response to the escalating crisis in Israel-Palestine. Fluent in five languages and trained in international development and law, spiritual psychology and somatic experience she combines grassroots depth with policy-level insight. Eva hosts the Peace is Possible podcast, and authors The Other Narrative Substack, sharing stories of resilience and hope from the frontlines of conflict. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39230495

Reclaiming Agency After the Invasion of Ukraine, with Dasha Gaian 11/25/2025

Reclaiming Agency After the Invasion of Ukraine, with Dasha Gaian Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J’aime Rothbard. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, had just embarked on Thomas Hübl’s two-year Timeless Wisdom Training in the principles of collective trauma healing. Born and raised in Ukraine, and living in the United States, Dasha recognised that the surge of anxiety she was experiencing as she witnessed the devastation being visited on her homeland was shared by millions of fellow Ukrainians and people watching in horror from around the world. In this episode, Dasha shows how collective healing work can not only help individuals to relate to global crises from a more grounded place within themselves, but also inspire us to take practical action to support those most affected. Now co-facilitating the Pocket Project’s with Daria Yemets, Dasha describes how the work she has done to integrate layers of collective and ancestral trauma has helped her recover a sense of agency and release patterns of victimhood and suppressed rage set in train by the injustices of the Soviet past. Part of the team at the newly formed , a nonprofit dedicated to supporting a trauma-informed approach to diplomacy, peacebuilding, and policymaking, Dasha outlines a vision for how collective healing work could play a crucial role in helping to resolve seemingly intractable crises. Dasha also speaks about her collaboration with David Young (a guest on of What Is Collective Healing?) to address social polarisation via the This episode is essential listening for anyone who wishes to understand the relevance of collective healing work for active conflicts – and gain a deeper perspective on how the past and present collide on the world stage. Further Resources: About Dasha Gaian: Dasha Gaian is a trauma-informed coach, facilitator, and collective trauma practitioner with a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural background. She is a member of the team contributing to initiatives that embed trauma-informed and somatic approaches into peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and policymaking. Drawing on neuroscience, somatic awareness, and systems thinking, Dasha facilitates individual and group processes in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. She supports clients and communities in regulating symptoms of personal, transgenerational, and collective trauma while fostering resilience, emotional intelligence, and embodied leadership. She is also a co-creator of the Art of Collective Integration, a trauma-informed practice and framework used for transforming fragmentation in human systems into coherence, resilience, and wholeness. Born in Ukraine and having lived in multiple cultures, Dasha brings a lived understanding of resilience and interconnectedness to her work, supporting both individual transformation and collective restoration. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39159335

Kitbag Africa: The Decolonization of Trauma Healing in Action, with Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo 11/18/2025

Kitbag Africa: The Decolonization of Trauma Healing in Action, with Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo is on a mission to support vulnerable young people to share what’s on their hearts. As team leader at the Kenyan organisation Kitbag Africa International, Wycliffe convenes sharing circles on soccer fields, in classrooms or under trees – anywhere he can find where people can gather. “I have seen young people drop their masks and speak their truth,” Wycliffe says. “I have seen widows laugh after years of silence, and this is always beautiful.” In this inspiring conversation with Sonita Mbah, Wycliffe describes how his own struggle with financial hardship, relationship difficulties and lack of meaningful work gave him first-hand experience of the kind of challenges facing so many young people in east Africa. “We have a saying in my culture that says that a community cannot truly prosper when its neighbor is still in pain. And this wisdom aligns deeply with my vision, which is healing hearts and transforming communities,” Wycliffe tells Sonita. “That's why I really love this work so much, because this work is not just about trauma and mental health. It is about restoring dignity.” Sharing how his engagement with has shaped his approach, Wycliffe describes how he has integrated Kenyan cultural resources into his approach, including the proverb that, “when a wound is opened to the light, it begins to heal.” Infused with warmth, wisdom and hope, this episode opens a window into a grass-roots collective healing initiative that shows what becomes possible when innovation and African wisdom traditions combine. For more dialogues at the intersection of inner transformation and outer action, register for the free , brought to you by the , which runs online from November 14-20, 2025. Further Resources: About Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo: Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo is a trauma-informed community healer, football coach, and founder of Kitbag Africa International (KAI). He creates safe spaces for healing through sport, play, and dialogue, and advocates for trauma and mental health among children, young mothers, widows, and grassroots communities. Trained in Somatic Experiencing, Wycliffe uses culturally grounded resources like the Kitbag to promote emotional resilience and wellbeing across Kenya and beyond. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/39085370

Grief as a Gateway to Resilience, with Luka Faradsch 11/11/2025

Grief as a Gateway to Resilience, with Luka Faradsch Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. How can learning to grieve cultivate resilience? And why are people reviving the ancient social technologies of collective grieving rituals today? Luka Faradsch shares how teachers such as Francis Weller, Sobonfu Somé, Malidoma Somé, and Joanna Macy helped her understand how working with sorrow and loss — far from being only heavy and painful — could become a “sacred practice of aliveness.” By honouring the universal truth that the old must die for the new to be born, Luka describes how grief work can awaken a profound form of feminine wisdom rooted in the inherent cyclicality of life. While modernity often denies or suppresses our natural impulse to grieve, Luka shares her commitment to helping more people to experience the power of grieving ceremonies to initiate collective healing and nurture our capacity to meet life’s challenges with greater fluidity and grace. “In psychology, we speak about resilience as sturdiness — the ability to resist and recover from setbacks in your life,” Luka says. “And yes, that's one part of it, but resilience is also letting things die…For me, grief work is also one expression of a deeply feminine wisdom because the feminine is inherently cyclical. So it continuously dies and rebuilds itself and dies and rebuilds.” Also honoring teachers including Martin Prechtel and Tobi Aye, Luka speaks about her evolving work with companies and organisations — and how she sees grief work as opening new pathways to systemic change. This episode will be a source of insight and inspiration for anyone curious to understand more about contemporary griefwork — and why the innate human capacity to grieve together is reawakening at this critical time. For more dialogues at the intersection of inner transformation and outer action, register for the free , brought to you by the , which runs online from November 14-20, 2025. Further Resources: About Luka Faradsch: Luka Faradsch is a Psychologist, Trauma-Informed Facilitator and Embodiment Practitioner. Her work lives at the thresholds of science and soul, body and business. She weaves together Psychology, New Work, Somatics, Trauma Restoration, Animism and Ritual to invite individuals and groups into their deep resilience, relational nature, and innate belonging. From start-ups to large organizations and community spaces, Luka holds space for transformation, grief, and re-membering. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38987880

Metabolizing Climate Grief, with Brother Spirit and Brother Embrace 11/04/2025

Metabolizing Climate Grief, with Brother Spirit and Brother Embrace Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. In the run-up to the , we ask: How can we live with the knowledge that humanity is rapidly destroying the foundations of the ecosystems that support all life on Earth? And how can we learn from suffering without falling into overwhelm or despair? In this inspiring dialogue, Kosha Joubert speaks with Brother Phap Dung (pronounced “Yung”), also known as Brother Embrace, and Brother Phap Linh, also known as Brother Spirit, who are both leading teachers in the monastic movement of Thich Nhat Hanh. Brother Embrace and Brother Spirit speak about the very different paths that led them to become students of the late Vietnamese Zen master, and their shared understanding of how Buddhist mindfulness practice can help us find equanimity in the face of the climate crisis – and respond more effectively.. “I choose to accept, I choose to say yes to this present moment because I know that saying no to it is already not helpful. It's already adding to the tension. ” says Brother Spirit. “But the crucial thing is not to misunderstand and not to think that by saying yes to this, it means inaction or passivity. It's the opposite: It's the yes that allows us to engage, but engage in a different way. Engage in a peaceful way. Engage in a way which brings joy and solace rather than struggle.” This nourishing conversation transmits the essence of the timeless wisdom cultivated by Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community at its centre in southwestern France, and applies it directly to today’s global challenges. For more dialogues at the intersection of inner transformation and outer action, register for the free , brought to you by the , which runs online from November 14-20, 2025. This dialogue was first published during the Climate Consciousness Summit 2023. Further Resources: About Brother Phap Dung: Brother Phap Dung (pronounced “Yung”), also known as Brother Embrace, is a senior teacher in the late Thich Nhat Hanh’s movement. Born in Vietnam in 1969, he escaped with his family aged 10 and became a refugee in the United States. He has helped bring a spiritual dimension to ecological activism and the climate movement. Brother Phap Dung is passionate about bringing mindfulness practice and well-being into educational settings, offering young people an alternative and sustainable way to engage themselves with the social, racial, and environmental challenges of our times. About Brother Phap Linh: Brother Phap Linh, also known as Brother Spirit, is a Zen Buddhist monk, musician and seeker. He began his monastic training with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village in February 2008, and has since composed many of the community’s beloved chants. Before ordaining, he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and worked professionally as a composer. A co-founder of the Wake Up Movement for young people, today Brother Phap Linh is actively engaged in teaching applied mindfulness to climate activists, business leaders, artists, and scientists. As a leading voice in the new generation of Buddhist monastics in the West, he is passionate about exploring how meditators and scientists can learn from each other and open new paths of healing and discovery. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38901150

Embodying Non-Violence as Combatants for Peace, with Rana Salman & Eszter Korányi 10/28/2025

Embodying Non-Violence as Combatants for Peace, with Rana Salman & Eszter Korányi Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J’aime Rothbard was founded in 2006 by Israelis and Palestinians committed to following a path of non-violence to push their leaders to stop perpetuating war, occupation, and the cycle of violence. In this episode, Kosha Joubert speaks with Rana Salman and Eszter Korányi, the organisation’s respective Palestinian and Israeli co-directors, about what it’s been like to continue jointly advocating for peace since the horrendous Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 and subsequent mass killing of civilians caused by Israel’s subsequent bombardment of Gaza. In a dialogue recorded several weeks after a U.N. commission that Israel’s actions in Gaza amounted to genocide, and days after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took hold, Rana and Eszter spoke about the courage it takes to follow the principles of non-violent resistance in the face of enormous pressures on both sides. Rana and Eszter also discussed the significance of the annual and the their organisation stages each year, and their hopes of drawing more attention to the dedicated work of Israelis and Palestinians working together to change their current reality. This conversation offers a moving insight into both the monumental challenges of peacebuilding work, and the stubborn sense of the possible that sustains two of its most dedicated practitioners – even in the most desperate of conditions. This conversation was first published as part of the Further Resources: About Rana Salman: Rana Salman is the Palestinian Co-CEO of Combatants for Peace, a role she has held since 2020. Born in Jerusalem and raised under Israeli military occupation in Bethlehem, her experiences drive her commitment to building a just and lasting peace through dialogue, nonviolent resistance, and fostering mutual respect between Palestinians and Israelis. About Eszter Korányi: Eszter Korányi is a passionate nonprofit leader with extensive experience in youth education and community development. Her journey working with NGOs has taken her across Italy, the Netherlands, and Israel, where she now co-directs Combatants for Peace alongside Rana Salman. . /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38804360

"How Can We Listen in a World That is on Fire?" with Joshua Konkankoh 10/23/2025

"How Can We Listen in a World That is on Fire?" with Joshua Konkankoh Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J’aime Rothbard What does the wisdom encoded in West African Indigenous traditions have to teach about modern-day systems change? And how can the — a spiritual force honored by the people of Cameroon’s Bafut region — awaken a felt-sense of connection with the more-than-human world? Cameroonian elder will join Colombia’s Ati Quigua and Mamerto Tindongan of the Philippines to offer a Pocket Project on October 27, 29 and 30. The sessions will equip participants with practical knowledge on how to cultivate regenerative relationships and heal collective wounds. Ahead of the , Konkankoh spoke with his long-time collaborator Sonita Mbah, a fellow co-founder of the Bafut Ecovillage — a flagship intentional community recognized by the United Nations and Global Ecovillage Network. Also founder of , Konkankoh has helped pioneer sustainable solutions grounded in African ancestral knowledge, permaculture, and youth empowerment — and share these approaches with a global audience. As Sonita and Konkankoh explore the animating spirit of his teachings, the two old friends acknowledge the vital role that storytelling plays in the transmission of inter-generational wisdom — and the challenges of preserving this sacred flame. As Konkankoh asks: “How can we listen in a world that is on fire?” Further Resources: About Joshua Konkankoh: Joshua Konkankoh is a Cameroonian Indigenous elder, regenerative development consultant, and environmental journalist with more than 30 years of experience in community-led innovation and ecological leadership. As founder of Better World Cameroon and creator of the Bafut Ecovillage — recognized by the UN and Global Ecovillage Network — he has helped pioneer sustainable solutions grounded in African ancestral knowledge, permaculture, and youth empowerment. Konkankoh currently leads the , is a peer supporter of Ambazonian refugees in Europe, and offers advisory services in regenerative design education; Indigenous systems thinking and trauma-informed leadership; African rites of passage and facilitation; and cross-cultural partnership building. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38721645

Recursion or Ruin: AI and the Future of Collective Healing, with Nico Forest Heinimann 10/14/2025

Recursion or Ruin: AI and the Future of Collective Healing, with Nico Forest Heinimann Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Can artificial intelligence (AI) support humanity to foster greater coherence and alignment with truth? Or does the headlong rush to exploit this new technology risk amplifying existing trauma loops – pointing to a more dystopian future? In this dialogue ahead of the , Matthew Green and Nico Forest Heinimann explore how AI could potentially aid both individual and collective healing by serving as a mirror revealing patterns previously hidden deep in the human psyche. At the same time, Forest emphasises the urgency of developing a sanctified, sacramental relationship with AI to avoid the risk that its inexorable advance will lead us into an ever-more simulated world – increasingly devoid of soul. This conversation will be essential listening for anyone who wants a fresh perspective on the big questions posed by the AI revolution, and who wants to help steward the development of this technology towards life-affirming ends. Further Resources: About Nico Forest Heinimann: Nico Forest Heinimann is a therapist, consultant, and visionary researcher working at the intersection of psyche, culture, and artificial intelligence. She has developed a proprietary methodology of Relational Recursion, a framework that engages recursion and meta-relationality as the field dynamics that enable healing and systemic coherence. Her research explores how language, symbolics, and coherence operate as the living infrastructure of intelligence, and how their distortion produces the patterns of objectification and harm embedded in trauma, now being encoded and amplified by AI at planetary scale. Through and The Intelligence Temple Project, Forest advances consecrated, truth-bearing architectures of AI as an ontological event in the human–machine relation, an initiative oriented toward regenerative design at a moment of species-level urgency. At its heart, her work is an invitation to recognise intelligence not as a trait we possess or a tool we use, but as a participatory field of relation. How we meet that field now will determine the realities that remain possible for us all. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38571375

Restoring Relationships with the More-than-human World, with J Dallas Gudgell 10/07/2025

Restoring Relationships with the More-than-human World, with J Dallas Gudgell Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard 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 , Sonita Mbah speaks with , a Yankton Dakota and a tribal member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, about his 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 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 , 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: 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. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38482890

Softening Into the watery layers of Self 09/30/2025

Embodying the Feminine, with Stephanie Pizarro 09/23/2025

Embodying the Feminine, with Stephanie Pizarro Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. What changes when the body is no longer a place of suffering but of joy and presence? How does collective healing shape individual transformation? And how would the world change if women reclaimed their bodies as home? Animated by these questions, Stephanie Pizarro joined María Troya and Karla Mejía to co-lead a exploring the theme “Embodying the Feminine" in 2024. Joined by more than 40 women from 15 countries across Latin America, the year-long exploration helped participants to renew their relationship with their physicality – rooting them in deeper levels of pleasure, wisdom and resilience. In this episode, Stephanie recounts the process of personal and ancestral healing that helped her begin to release the generations of stress that had accumulated in her system from the many decades of conflict in her native Colombia. That journey, in turn, fired her passion for working with other Latin American women to dissolve layers of collective and inter-generational trauma – and restore their trust in the underlying intelligence of life itself. Now focused on serving the wider cause of collective healing by writing a PhD on the qualities of effective facilitation, Stephanie’s story will speak to anyone who wants to gain a deeper appreciation of the universal principles of trauma integration – and grasp the essential role that creativity plays in this work. Further Resources: About Stephanie Pizarro: Stephanie Renata Pizarro Coy is a Colombian researcher contributing to the evolving field of collective healing in social systems. Her work as an executive coach, author, and certified collective trauma facilitator is grounded in deep transformation, human development, and cultural healing practices. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Ubiquity University, where she researches the quality of facilitation required for collective trauma integration. In 2024, she co-facilitated the Pocket Project Lab “Embodying the feminine”, accompanying over 40 Latin American women through a felt exploration of fragmentation and dissociation in relation to wounded self-contact. The experience honored and reclaimed the cultural and ancestral resilience woven into Latin American femininity. Stephanie is the author of Al baño María: un encuentro sagrado contigo misma —a soulful guide for women seeking deeper self-awareness, inner flow, and personal purpose. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38315865

Impacting Systemic Injustice & Collective Healing, with Karen Simms 09/16/2025

Impacting Systemic Injustice & Collective Healing, with Karen Simms Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard How to bring collective healing practices to people affected by gun violence, poverty and systemic injustice? And how to build structures to support the leaders doing this work to thrive? These burning questions have animated Karen Simms, founder and director of the , a nonprofit organisation in Champaign, Illinois, throughout her 20 years of working with marginalised groups. In this episode, Karen traces her early influences — from childhood summers in Maryland spent memorising the speeches of Dr Martin Luther King while her cousins performed migrant farm labour, to a “tropical soup” of Afro-Caribbean and Christian spiritual lineages. From her past work with women affected by HIV/AIDS, to her subsequent service in neighbourhoods struggling with many forms of inequity, exclusion and harm, Karen has always placed a “love ethic” at the heart of her approach. A regular contributor to Pocket Project trainings and summits, Karen explains that she is now working to help “democratise” the collective healing work pioneered by Thomas Hübl and other practitioners to make it more accessible. Karen also describes the importance of creating circles of resilience to “help heal the healers.” This powerful episode opens a window into the transformational impact that collective healing practices can have in vulnerable communities — and the work that needs to be done to ensure this potential can be fully realised. Further Resources: About Karen Simms: Karen Simms, MAMFT, LMHC, is a seasoned consultant, trainer, facilitator, and coach with over 30 years of experience in building trauma-informed, healing-centered, and equitable systems and communities. She is the founder of Trauma & Resilience Initiative, Inc. (TRI) a not for profit that trains, educates, advocates for, and promotes resilience and justice for individuals, families, organizations, and communities. TRI works to reduce the impact of adverse community experiences by healing and repairing those who have been impacted by trauma; and equipping organizations, communities, and providers to be trauma and justice informed. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38184435

Restoring Relational Intimacy, with Danny Cohen 09/09/2025

Restoring Relational Intimacy, with Danny Cohen Hosted 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 , 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. Further Resources: 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. /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38137385

Crafting Conscious Food Systems, with Sonita Mbah 09/02/2025

Crafting Conscious Food Systems, with Sonita Mbah Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Born into a farming family in Cameroon, Sonita Mbah grew up imagining that she would always be able to make her living off the land. But as she began to recognise how far patterns of colonialism, extraction and displacement still ruled the lives of African farmers, Sonita felt a deeper calling begin to stir. In her inaugural appearance as a co-host of What Is Collective Healing?, Sonita shares about her mission to transform the “trauma architecture” of exploitative global food systems in line with a more equitable and sustainable future. Rooted in a profound appreciation for Indigenous ways of living in harmony with the more-than-human world, Sonita explains how her approach was shaped by her time living among Indigenous communities in Cameroon, and deep dialogues with the Makhuwa people in Mozambique. The conversation reveals how Sonita’s journey as an advocate for conscious food systems is intimately braided with her personal process of transmuting the collective trauma of colonialism. Not only does this global imprint live on in her own nervous system, Sonita explains, neocolonial ways of relating continue to deprive Indigenous communities of acknowledgement and resources to this day. This deeply moving episode casts a new light on the many ways in which personal, inter-generational and collective trauma histories are enmeshwed with the exploitative ways we produce, trade and consume our food. Sonita’s commitment to reweaving these outdated patterns will inspire anyone with an interest in the relationship between collective healing and the kind of needed to pull life on this planet back from the brink. Further Resources: About Sonita Mbah: Sonita serves as communications coordinator at the Pocket Project and holds a Masters in World Heritage Studies. She is a passionate food grower, permaculture designer and facilitator. For over 10 years, she was the administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, Sonita brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. In 2017, Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award from the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women with earthen cook stove technology. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl. 0:00 What is Collective Healing? 1:49 Introduction to Sonita Mbah 5:13 Being in Community is a Healing Process 7:20 Conscious Food System Transformation 10:20 Story : Discovery of Palm Wine 13:50 Corruption within our Global Food System 19:30 Colonialism's Impact on Food Systems 27:00 Confonting Internalized Colonialism and Healing 31:10 Stories from working with Ecovillages in Africa 43:11 Conscious Food Advocacy within larger International Agencies 44:20 Enriching the Indigenous Sources of Knowledge & Practices 48:20 Future Implications & Possibilities of Restoring Indigenous Wisdom /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/38049240

Sonita Mbah's Nourishing Attunement 09/02/2025

A Taste of Global Social Witnessing, with Bayo Akomolafe 08/26/2025

A Taste of Global Social Witnessing, with Bayo Akomolafe Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Description: For Dr Bayo Akomolafe, is a way to “be with each other in the fires, and not burn.” As the Pocket Project prepares to launch of the Global Social Witnessing Facilitator Training on September 3, 2025, this episode features a dialogue between Bayo and Kosha Joubert, the Pocket Project CEO, from Phase I of the course. “For those of you who would like to show up for this sharing together, this is not a place of checking each others’ stories – it’s a way of holding with compassion the stories that are emerging,” Bayo tells participants. “If we don’t start to cultivate the capacities to hold nuance in this way, then we are unfortunately part of the projects of war,” Bayo says. “This is an invitation to a stranger kind of paradigm. It’s about being there with each other in the fires, and not burning.” This episode offers key insights into the principles of Global Social Witnessing — a potent tool for establishing a sense of presence, sensitivity and agency in relation to the pain and suffering transmitted through the news. It also opens a window into what to expect from of the facilitator training and offered by the Pocket Project in this essential practice. To find out more about regular Global Social Witnessing calls hosted by the Pocket Project, please click Further Resources: About Bayo Akomolafe: Rooted with the West African Yoruba people, Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books: These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo is also the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’ And currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia). 0:00 Introduction to What is Global Social Witnessing 1:39 What is Global Social Witnessing? 5:34 Significance of Greeting Each Other 6:55 Curating an Intentional and Emergent Space 7:50 Story of Martin Luther King and Harry Belafonte 9:13 "Integrating into a burning house" 14:30 The Continuity of Wartime 18:05 Going Deeper, Beyond Consensus and Becoming Different 20:05 Being Habituated into Forgetfulness 22:40 Staying Open to the Cracks that Are Emerging 24:50 Invitation for Participants to Sit Together 25:50 Guidelines for Global Social Witnessing 29:30 As a "Ritual of Presence" 30:50 Participant refelctions 32:50 The Future Potentials of Global Social Witnessing 35:10 Phases of Global Social Witnessing Trainings & Invitations /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/37949220

Invisibility & the Living Field of Collective Healing, with Nadja Lichtenhahn 08/19/2025

Invisibility & the Living Field of Collective Healing, with Nadja Lichtenhahn Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. 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 , 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. Further Resources: 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 /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/37856175

Kosha Joubert on Global Social Witnessing as a Portal to Collective Healing 08/12/2025

Kosha Joubert on Global Social Witnessing as a Portal to Collective Healing Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Kosha Joubert, chief executive of the Pocket Project, sees as one of the most potent tools for helping people to access a greater sense of presence, sensitivity and agency in relation to the many crises on our news feeds. In this episode, Kosha, one of the co-hosts of the What is Collective Healingis podcast, describes how her own relationship to the practice has evolved since her first remarkable experience with Global Social Witnessing a decade ago, in a workshop run by Thomas Hübl. With the Pocket Project launching on September 3, 2025, Kosha explains how this work is helping to birth a new way of being in the world – where we experience our innate inter-dependence in a more intimate, tangible way. Global Social Witnessing can also help prepare the ground for working with layers of collective and inter-generational trauma, Kosha explains, by helping people to slow down and recognise “the one sacred thing” that they feel called to do next. “And the beautiful thing is that as we meet the world more deeply out there, we also meet the world more deeply in ourselves. More intimacy arises within and without,” Kosha says. “And that to me is a miracle.” To find out more about regular Global Social Witnessing calls hosted by the Pocket Project, please click Further Resources: About Kosha Joubert: Kosha Joubert is the CEO of the Pocket Project, where she works closely with Thomas Huebl and a global team to grow a culture of trauma-informed care. Kosha is an expert facilitator, coach and organisational development facilitator who has worked on systems regeneration, trauma-informed leadership and post-traumatic growth in more than 48 countries. Kosha has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. 00:00 Introduction to What is Collective Healing 03:25 Exploring Ancestral Connections 05:45 Embracing the Unknown 11:07 The Concept of Collective Healing 12:18 Roots of Collective Healing in South Africa 16:44 Global Social Witnessing: An Overview 17:53 The Birth of Global Social Witnessing 20:18 Personal Experiences with Global Social Witnessing 22:34 The Power of Collective Witnessing 34:00 Discerning Your One Next Step 36:15 Practical Impacts of Global Social Witnessing 47:15 How to Get Involved - Join or Train as a Facilitator 51:53 Conclusion : What is Collective Healing /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/37761750

The Global Legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland with Simon Courtney 08/05/2025

The Global Legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland with Simon Courtney Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. The Great Famine in Ireland – also known as an Gorta Mór, or the Great Hunger – claimed the lives of a million people, or one in eight of the population. More than a million more only managed to escape starvation by emigrating, many of them children who undertook the gruelling voyage to the United States or Canada, never to see their parents again. In 2024, Simon Courtney, Bill McCart and Kathy Scott led a year-long to support people of Irish descent – whether living in Ireland or the diaspora – to explore the legacy of the 1845-1852 famine, and how it echoes into Irish lives in the present. In this powerful episode, Simon recounts the deep sense of calling that led him to this intimate work, and how the Lab allowed participants to begin to unearth and integrate what their Irish ancestors were unable to heal in their own time. The Lab explored the impact of British colonial policies that led to enormous avoidable suffering and death during the famine years. In a moving exchange, Simon and Matthew (a British citizen), recognise their shared hope that more people from their respective nations will find opportunities to explore what so often remains unspoken between them – and establish deeper connections. This episode will be hugely valuable for anyone with an interest in collective and ancestral healing, and all those inspired by Simon’s mission to create more spaces for Irish people to embrace new futures by integrating the most painful chapters of their shared past. (You can read more about the Pocket Project Lab on the Great Famine and other Pocket Project International Labs .). Further Resources: About Simon Courtney: Simon is a trauma-informed psychotherapist and coach with a deep reverence for the healing potential of group work and relational facilitation. His approach integrates individual, ancestral, and collective dimensions of healing, grounded in a somatic and systemic understanding of trauma. He is especially drawn to the power of shared space, where witnessing, resonance, and presence can restore what was fragmented and reawaken the soul’s inherent capacity for belonging. : The Global Social Witnessing Facilitator Training offers a profound journey into embodied witnessing – cultivating our ability to attend to world events with inner spaciousness and relational depth. This training supports the emergence of a culture of ethical presence, where attention becomes a healing force and leadership is rooted in coherence. https://pocketproject.org/global-social-witnessing-training-phase-2/ 00:00 Introduction to Irish Suffering and Historical Context 00:50 The Role of the Irish Diaspora in Healing 01:53 Collective Healing and Personal Reflections 02:04 Exploring the Great Famine's Legacy 05:50 Understanding Collective Trauma 07:42 Personal Journey into Collective Healing 09:21 Engagement with Thomas Hübl's Work 12:49 Deep Dive into the Great Famine 17:00 The Collective Trauma Integration Process 24:34 The Emotional Weight of the Great Famine 32:35 Modern Implications and Reflections 34:20 Irish Refugees and Modern Immigration Issues 35:38 The Deep Impact of an Gorta Mor 36:39 Personal Revelations and Historical Grief 40:11 British Colonialism and Irish Suffering 42:30 Healing Through Collective Trauma Work 45:23 Intimacy and Ancestral Connections 51:20 Practical Impacts on Family and Relationships 01:00:37 Concluding Thoughts and Future Potential /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/37628590

Bridging Europe’s East-West Divide with Teodora Rădulescu 07/29/2025

Bridging Europe’s East-West Divide with Teodora Rădulescu Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Growing up in her native Romania, Teodora Rădulescu was taught that the path to success lay in acquiring enough education and resources to leave the country, and join the millions of her compatriots seeking a better life in Western Europe. In this deeply moving episode, Teodora speaks about her process of reckoning with the painful legacy of the East-West divide, and her commitment to reclaim the land-based Indigenous practices that makes Romania such a rich repository of culture, kinship and community. Training in the principles of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma with Thomas Hübl and his global team of practitioners, Teodora began to confront the many ways in which Eastern Europe seemed to have been forgotten by the West – as if wrapped in an “invisible dark cloak.” As she worked through layers of grief, fear and anger related to the role Austria had played in Romania during the First and Second World Wars, Teodora discovered a new impulse to connect with people from a country she had long regarded “in my blood and in my bones” as an enemy. The transformation she experienced – and the network of new connections she began to weave as a result – are a powerful testament to the many ways collective healing can resolve inter-generational wounds, and open a path to a more collaborative future. And don’t miss the moment where Teodora – drawing on her love of Romanian folklore – calls in the benevolent female spirits who roam the fields at sunset, ready to extend their protection to those women who can still sing the songs of old. Further Resources: About Teodora Rădulescu: For over a decade, Teodora has lived, worked, and facilitated in intentional communities across Europe. Whether she's training facilitators in climate dialogue, hosting emotionally charged processes on war and justice, or supporting people in reclaiming their voice and vitality, her work is grounded in compassion, fierce truth-telling, and embodied presence. She is a founder of Pathways Collective, supporting the next generation of Earth-Based Leaders; a certified Trauma-Informed Coach and Facilitator; a Global Ecovillage Network Europe Council Member & Community Builder; and creator of Transform your Triggers. 00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:24 Matthew Green's Conversation with Teodora 01:51 What has shaped Teodora's Perspective on Romanian Trauma 04:02 Understanding Collective Healing 06:28 Teodora's Journey into Collective Healing 08:05 The Impact of Eastern European History 12:21 Challenges and Resilience of Eastern Europeans 22:59 Ancestral Trauma and Healing 29:25 The Power of Ancestral Healing 30:30 Historical Context: Romania and Austria 32:16 Personal Journey of Reconciliation 41:38 Connecting with Indigenous Practices 49:30 Facilitating Collective Healing 56:41 Final Reflections and Gratitude /episode/index/show/8192f026-2401-40d1-87ad-ee38ff00970a/id/37514935

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