What is Collective Healing?

You are warmly invited to join Kosha and Adrian Wagner of the Pocket Project's research team, who has been deeply involved in the Conditions for Collective Trauma Map, for a live presentation:  Register for the community call Mapping the Conditions for Collective Trauma – From Data to Deeper Awareness on October 8 Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard. We're joined by Pocket Project...

Register for the Pocket Project Community Call, Neuroinclusive Approaches: Cultivating Spaces Where We Can All Belong on September 23 Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Rick Hanson, Ph. D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, founder of the Global Compassion Coalition , and New York Times best-selling author.  His seven books have been...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can we turn everyday moments of sadness, disappointment, anger and shame into gateways to awakening? And is there an easy way to dissolve the sense of separation that lies at the root of our suffering?  Building on last week's episode, which featured an introductory practice from the Wholeness Work , we're delighted to share this dialogue w...

Notes by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Practice created and shared by Connirae Andreas. Used with permission. The team here at What is Collective Healing? has long been intrigued by Connirae Andreas , an author and personal transformation and healing leader who's built a global following for her Wholeness Work . In this two-part series, we're taking a deep dive into the Wholeness Work...

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   What happens when men, women and people of other genders come together to acknowledge the previously unspoken distrust that exists between them? And how can we move beyond victim narratives to ask what lessons perpetrators may have to teach?  On July 1, the Pocket Project held From the Epstein Files to Inside the Manosphere – Tending to Fractu...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. During a 300-year period starting in the mid-fifteenth century, an estimated 40,000-60,000 people were executed in Europe after being found guilty of practising witchcraft. Taking into account the toll of lynchings, deaths from torture, prison deaths and suicides in detention, some estimates put the overall death toll from the witch trials as h...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   Therapist and teacher Markus Hirzig has pursued a central question throughout his decades-long career: Why, despite our enormous human potential, do we so often get caught in patterns that limit us and drain our energy — and how can we break these cycles? Having started out as a physiotherapist and osteopath, Markus began looking for answers...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When we embark on a healing path, there will inevitably come a point when we meet parts of ourselves that we'd previously managed to deny or avoid. At the personal level, this can look like reflecting on things we said or did in the past that we now regret, or gaining a new perspective on habitual patterns of relating that we've started to outg...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Healing from trauma — whether inflicted in our lifetime, passed down by our ancestors, or present in the collective — is an inevitably uncomfortable, messy and ambiguous process, which may never feel entirely resolved or complete. Many contemplative practices, by contrast, hold out the promise of a sudden awakening experience that reveal our se...

May Pundak is the Israeli co-executive director of  A Land for All , a joint Palestinian-Israeli movement working towards a political framework in which two democratic, sovereign states exist within a shared homeland, rooted in equality, freedom, and dignity.  In a dialogue first broadcast as part of the Pocket Project's World Women Summit: Women Rising for Peace in March, May speaks about her com...

Poem written and performed by Carolina Herbert. Used with her permission. Introduced by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  In this special episode, we bring you a poem by Carolina Herbert , a PhD Arts Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and expressive arts practitioner. Entitled 'Between Inheritance and Hiraeth,' the work explores ancestral work, collective memory and forgiveness. The...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  How can the apparently catastrophic collapse of the person we thought we were clear the path for who we are meant to become? What might change when we dwell less on what we're doing to serve others, and focus more on the quality of consciousness from which our action arises? Dr Rola Hallam is an award-winning humanitarian recognised for her ex...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can we meet this time of polarisation, breakdown and chaos by turning our lives into 'instruments of repair'? How can we undertake the work of healing and reconciliation needed to restore relations between genders? Amy Elizabeth Fox is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mobius Executive Leadership , a global transformational lead...

Register for the July 1 Global Social Witnessing Event  Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. We are living in a time when a new upsurge in systemic oppression, silencing and violence toward the feminine has become impossible to ignore. The Epstein Files, the activities of misogynistic influencers featured in the 'Inside the Manosphere' documentary, and a CNN investigation into the...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. John Kania joins Kosha Joubert to explore the evolving relationship between systems change and collective healing. Drawing on decades of experience in social innovation and collective impact, John reflects on how his work has shifted from focusing primarily on structures, institutions, and collaboration to recognizing the profound role that tra...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What is the true meaning of resilience? And how can cultivating our capacity to stay related to life's challenges help us align with a more authentic future?  In this powerful episode, Pocket Project CEO Kosha Joubert and the teacher and facilitator Thomas Hübl. explore the essence of the kind of resilience work practiced in the Pocket Project'...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What are the barriers standing between men and collective healing? And how can we establish more of the kind of spaces where men can move from confusion, suffering, pain and competition into deeper levels of presence, relatedness, reverence, and grace? In this episode, we welcome Kevin Young , a life coach and meditation teacher based in County...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   What relevance do timeless mystical principles have for the way we work with groups of people today? And how can contemporary forms of "applied mysticism" help us rise to the challenge of these chaotic times? For 35 years, Robin Alfred has been facilitating transformational processes for groups ranging in size from six to 600 people and encom...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How does the source code underlying centuries of global colonialism live on in our minds and bodies? And how can we transmute the legacy of this monumental collective trauma field into an authentic commitment to justice, restoration, and repair?  In this episode, Hawah Kasat, host of Everlutionary , and Reggie Hubbard, founder of Active Peace Y...

Hosted by Sonita Mbah Produced by J'aime Rothbard When migrants arrive in host countries, authorities tend to assume that it's up to the newcomers to adapt — not the other way around. What if we could create cultures of welcome to support a two-way process — where both migrants and hosts embrace opportunities to learn and adapt? In this episode, Colombian philosopher turned culture change research...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. A year ago, we launched What is Collective Healing? to create a platform for practitioners from around the world to share what they are learning as they build the trauma healing architecture of the future. In this special anniversary episode, we've woven together a selection of excerpts into an audio tapestry designed to reflect the enormous di...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Are we approaching trauma work upside-down? For years, Steven Hoskinson followed conventional psychotherapeutic wisdom by making a person's distress and difficulties the focus of his sessions. But there came a point where he realised there was a better way. By guiding people to notice cues of orientation, enjoyment, pleasure and wellness, Steve...

Since founding the Kufunda Learning Village in Zimbabwe in 2002, Maaianne Knuth has undertaken a profound journey into the heart of collective healing.  Born of Danish and Zimbabwean parents, Maaianne wanted to create a sanctuary that would support Zimbabweans  —  especially women and youth — to reclaim the depth of their brilliance, wisdom and sense of belonging. Nestling amid granite boulders an...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can collective healing work help nonprofits, educational establishments and communities worldwide achieve greater impact in the face of growing global chaos? And what role can trauma-informed leadership play in building institutional cultures of care?  Maria Leister walks these questions every day in her role as consultancy director at the...

In this special guided practice, Kosha Joubert, CEO of the Pocket Project invites us to pause, unplug, and return to the intelligence of our bodies and the natural world. In times of increasing complexity and as we gain awareness of the personal, ancestral, and collective layers of experience are constantly moving through us, this meditation offers a simple yet profound reset. Rooted in the wisdom...