What is Collective Healing?

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 th...

This week we feature a complimentary 11 minute attunment for our listeneners: This bonus episode offers a guided attunement to support you in connecting to your own internal resourcefulness through an embodied awareness of the resourcing that is always present within your body. Listen to the full episode with Jaden Ramsey here : https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EkFTdNdMxVmh2ddAkMva1?si=aa02e7c0d2...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  Intensely dedicated to a daily spiritual practice, Jaden Ramsey noticed that his search for transcendence seemed to be taking him further away from the world – rather than rooting him more deeply in it. Drawn to the idea of engaging in community, Jaden joined the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training led by Thomas Hübl and team,  and began to lear...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  Despite building a highly successful career as tech start-up entrepreneur, Claude Terosier could sense that something in her life wasn't working. In this episode, Claude describes how new pathways began to open up when she began to reckon with the previously unacknowledged complexities of her mixed race identity as the daughter of a white Fren...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard 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 Dominican Republic, who know the island as Quisqueya,...

Interview by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In her new book of documentary poetry UNRULY , Antoinette Cooper braids her experiences of medical trauma and sexual violence with the stories of the "Mothers of Gynecology" – enslaved Black women who were subjected to medical experiments by 19th century gynecologist J. Marion Sims, who appears in the book under the pseudonym Father Butcher....

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Yocheved Sidof traces her ancestry back 2,500 years, to the Babylonian exile from Jerusalem. This pivotal event in Jewish history forced her forebears to seek sanctuary in new lands, and they ultimately established a community in Mashhad, in present-day Iran. In the 1970s, Yocheved's parents emigrated to the Midwestern United States, where she...

What does collective healing have to do with creativity? And what role can poetry play in a world gripped by so much suffering?  Lori Shridhare, a writer and director of communications at Harvard Medical School, began studying with teacher and international facilitator Thomas  Hübl . After years of immersive study of collective and inter-generational trauma, Lori turned to writing poetry. Througho...

Witness. Target = Rubble. by Lori Shridhare Published in Merion West, February 2025 I write as both the witness and the experiencer. We appear as two separate individuals. We are not.   Witness is now the living trace of this encounter. -Gert-Jan van der Heiden   Echoes of seismic blasts penetrate this skin of memory. I am under. Boulders on my back. Polygonals, squares, round.  Slabs. We try to h...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  Laura Calderon de la Barca leads us deeper into discovery and exploration of the concept of collective healing as it relates to entire nations.  Laura brings us into her personal pilgrimage that led to her realization that much of the shame she felt was inherited from her ancestors. Through her process of deep inner connection with that pain,...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  Join Matthew Green and David Young as they dive into the mechanisms of polarization, the significance of grief, and the potential for societal transformation through collective healing. David draws us into his comprehension that collective healing is not just about the sum of individuals but about understanding and attuning to the collective a...

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.  In our inaugural episode, we are joined by Manda Johnson, co-founder of the Pocket Project's Global Social Witnessing Competence Centre. Amanda shares her journey of integrating her personal and ancestral trauma, which led her to the practice of Global Social Witnessing. Together, they explore how this practice connects personal healing with c...

Matthew Green is joined by Laura Calderon de la Barca, who shares her own process of unpicking the knot that she discovered had not only deep ancestral and collective origins, but also has geographic dimensions.  Laura is a psychotherapist specialized in collective and intergenerational trauma, as well as a collective healing researcher, educator, consultant, linguist and cultural analyst. Beside...

"Polarization isn't the end; it's an invitation to open new pathways for the ways we understand ourselves and each other." - David Young Tune into this preview of our second full episode, where Matthew Green drops in with David to explore the incredible and unexpected opportunities we are presented with in the times we are living in today. Walk away with a new and broadened perspective of what Col...

Here's a preview of our first episode, where Matthew Green sits down with Manda Johnson to talk about the origins of Global Social Witnessing , what it is and how it can transform how we think about trauma.   Click here to learn about our next Global Social Witnessing Facilitator training Manda Johnson is a co-founder of the Pocket Project's Global Social Witnessing Competence Centre and has been...

The Pocket Project is delighted to announce the launch of a new weekly podcast exploring how people around the world are coming together to find new ways to heal individual, inter-generational and collective trauma. What Is Collective Healing? features moving conversations with participants in the work of the Pocket Project and practitioners who have trained with Thomas Hübl and other leaders in t...