What is Collective Healing?

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Online Event: How Many Stories Form a "We" How can we respond to the pandemic of separation afflicting our modern world? What does it mean to go beyond the quest to 'heal' or 'fix' ourselves? How can we remember that we're already whole? We've been looking forward to this conversation with Michael Stone for months, and the dialo...

Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Online Event: How Many Stories Form a "We" Living at their family home on the coast of Southern California, Myra L. Jackson's grandmother could sense when rain was coming by sticking out her tongue. She foraged collard greens and radishes in the nearby canyons, and taught her grandchildren to find trapdoor spiders and fossilised...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Learn more and register for the "How Many Stories Form a We" Online Event  This episode starts with a miraculous wartime escape, an inter-generational reunion many decades later, and the long collective shadows cast in Austria by World War Two and the Holocaust.  It ends with a vision for healing one of humanity's core wounds: A centuries-old s...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Community Call Building Islands of Coherence: Growing a Global Movement for Collective Healing on October 21 This week we're excited to dive deeper into the mystical dimension of collective healing with a much-anticipated, visionary dialogue with the teacher, mystic and award-winning poet Richard Rudd. Richard is best known for...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Community Call Building Islands of Coherence: Growing a Global Movement for Collective Healing on October 21 When Gaye Donaldson first encountered Systemic Constellation Work in 1994, the revelation she experienced made new sense of her life up to that point — and propelled her onto an unexpected path. Gaye has since spent more...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   Register for the community call Mapping the Conditions for Collective Trauma – From Data to Deeper Awareness on October 8   Lots of people talk about 'healing Earth'. But what if we need Earth to heal us? Could we learn to see beyond a narrowly scientific worldview to embrace more of nature's mystery?  In this episode, we welcome Tiókasin Ghos...

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...