What is Collective Healing?

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In Pocket Project Global Social Witnessing 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 focus ? What can we learn about both the media's capacity for courageous truth-telling and its potential to ampli...

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 N...

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 mor...

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...

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 Point of...

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? Pocket Project co-founder Thomas Hübl has devoted his life to helping as many people as possible to 'grow our cup' – his term for building a capacity to meet the tr...

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   It's often said that peace starts within. But what does that mean in practice? Eva Dalak 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 o...

  Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Dasha Gaian 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 vis...

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...

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 —...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In the run-up to the Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 , 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 Pha...

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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 Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 , Matthew Green and Nico Forest Heinimann e...

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 Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 , Sonita Mbah speaks with Dallas Gudgell , a Yankton Dakota and a tribal member of the Fort P...

A self attumement to meet the watery edges of the self, facilitated by Kosha Joubert. Kosha is the CEO of the Pocket Project.  What is Collective Healing? Are you curious to find out for yourself? Every month, the Pocket Project hosts a range of different free events open to everyone. To find out what's on this month, visit https://pocketproject.org/pocket-events/  

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 Pocket Project International La...

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 Trauma & Resilience Initiative , a nonprofit organisation in Champaign, Illinoi...

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 Art of Communicat...

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 c...

This grounding attunment is a prelude to our next episode Crafting Conscious Food Systems,  with Sonita Mbah. It delivers new depth, color and gratitude to anybody curious to explore a mindful eating practice. As you are sitting down to your next meal, you are welcome to settle in with this meditation and receive its sumptuous invitation to connect with all of the elemental, human and nonhuman wor...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.    Description: For Dr Bayo Akomolafe, Global Social Witnessing is a way to "be with each other in the fires, and not burn." As the Pocket Project prepares to launch Phase Two 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...

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 indi...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  Kosha Joubert, chief executive of the Pocket Project, sees Global Social Witnessing 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, describe...

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 ag...