What is Collective Healing?

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...

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...