What is Collective Healing?

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...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Opening song by Lila June , daughter of Pat McCabe.  What would it mean to realign ourselves with the Earth's original economy: radical abundance and fearless generosity? And what can the humpback whale and the beaver teach us five-fingereds about how to live in reciprocity with the whole?   Drawing from her deep knowledge of Diné and Lakota tr...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Deb Dana is a pioneering clinician who has helped thousands of people to understand how our nervous systems shape our capacity for healing, connection, safety and peace. In this episode, Deb shares how we can learn to notice when we're receiving the cues of unsafety that cause us to withdraw. This first step can support us to consciously choose...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.   When Dr. Ntombiyethu Biase was on a retreat led by Thomas Hübl in the United States, one of the participants invited her to join a ritual to honour the memory of enslaved people buried at a nearby mass grave. On her return to her native South Africa, Ntombiyethu felt an impulse to step outside the airport, scoop up some soil, rub it between h...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What's the impact on women when men bring the war home? And how might military veterans, their families, and the societies that sent them to fight engage in collective healing?   As a journalist, Matthew Green spent years reporting from conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across Africa before returning to his native Britain to write Aftershock:...

Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can we heal collective trauma when war is creating fresh trauma day after day? And what are the resources that can sustain us even in the most painful of circumstances? In this episode, Daria Yemets, a psychologist who runs the Pocket Project's Ukraine Trauma Relief Project , speaks about the organisation's work to support for her fellow Ukra...

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Ahead of the Pocket Project World Women Summit 2026 ,  Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) are hosting two events: Relational Alchemy: Healing the Gender Wound for Global Peace (A community call on March 4) Bringing Peace to Intimate Relationships (A three-day Regenerative Masterclass launching o...

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What role does empathy play in powering the fight for justice? And why is prosecuting war crimes an essential step towards collective healing?  In this powerful episode, which was first aired last March as part of the Pocket Project World Women Summit 2025 , human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk provides a deeply personal account of how e...

  Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When Rita Maria Brown's daughter was three years old, they were playing in a garden in her native Brazil when an older girl approached Rita and asked: 'Do you hit her?'  "Her words went straight to my heart. I'll never forget that moment," Rita says. "And it was like time slowed down and I felt the weight of that question in my own nervous syst...

  Hosted by Kosha Joubert.  Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What happens in a Pocket Project Integration Lab ? And how does the process contribute to individual and collective healing? In this episode, Adrian Wagner, part of the Pocket Project's research team, explores his work using software known as SenseMaker to capture the subtlety of the processes that occur in collective healing work.  After ga...

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 b...

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...

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 Integration Lab they're hosting from February 25 called Ethics of...