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What is Collective Healing?

The Pocket Project

What is Collective Healing? is a weekly podcast exploring how people around the world are finding new ways to heal the individual, inter-generational and collective trauma at the root of our global crises. Presented by the Pocket Project, the series features deeply personal conversations with practitioners who have trained under Thomas Hübl and other pioneers of collective healing – giving listeners a direct experience of the transformational potential this work can unlock. Drawing on a wide

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49:12

From Bystander to Witness: Transforming Global Media,...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/01/13

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In Pocket Project Global Social Witnessing calls, we come together in community to mindfully attune to global crises we've learned about through the news. But what happens when we make the people and systems delivering that news our focus? What can we learn about both the media's capacity for courageous truth-telling and its potential to amplify collective and inter-generational trauma loops from the past? This episode features James Scurry, a

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49:57

Tending Wounded Places with Furious Love, with...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/01/06

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. For centuries, the march of modernity has not only unleashed devastation on Indigenous peoples and our natural environments, but also aimed to eradicate healing arts that have sustained communities and landscapes for millennia. Hāweatea Holly Bryson is an Indigenous psychotherapist, rite of passage guide, and Māori healing practitioner of the Ngāi Tahu and Waitaha tribes who is working to challenge the colonial power structures that still endure

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The Beautiful Wound, with Teddy Frank

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/12/30

Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When Teddy Frank was diagnosed with breast cancer, her initial reaction was one of shock and denial. Then a more competent part of herself — a part she recognised from her ancestral lineage — took charge, seeking to gather as much information as possible about her treatment options. The visceral experience of existential terror came on much more slowly – and with it an initiation into what it means to feel at first helpless, and then embraced by

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The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani

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2025/12/23

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. This episdode is a rebroadcast from July 1, 2025. 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, or Mother of All Lands. Solea describes how the

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The Initiation of Parenthood as a Doorway to...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/12/16

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Do we need 'parenting schools'? What does it mean to be initiated into the archetypal power of being a mother or father? And what responsibility do we hold to build the kind of healing communities that can nourish us in our daily lives – and allow us to nourish others in return? In this second part of a conversation first published on Point of Relation, Pocket Project co-founder Thomas Hübl builds on a question about the transmission of ancestral

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30:17

Growing your Cup and Meeting Triggers with...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/12/09

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Why do we beat ourselves up for getting pulled into the same old triggers? And how can we grow our capacity to observe our emotional reactions – rather than being hijacked by them? Pocket Project co-founder Thomas Hübl has devoted his life to helping as many people as possible to 'grow our cup' – his term for building a capacity to meet the trauma loops playing out inside of us with more awareness, spaciousness and compassion. In this episode,

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58:16

Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/12/02

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. It's often said that peace starts within. But what does that mean in practice? Eva Dalak is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women's empowerment coach with decades of experience as a gender and conflict expert working across Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Eva founded Peace Activation, a global peace initiative that brings Israelis and Palestinians

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59:56

Reclaiming Agency After the Invasion of Ukraine, with...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/11/25

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Dasha Gaian had just embarked on Thomas Hübl's two-year Timeless Wisdom Training in the principles of collective trauma healing. Born and raised in Ukraine, and living in the United States, Dasha recognised that the surge of anxiety she was experiencing as she witnessed the devastation being visited on her homeland was shared by millions of fellow Ukrainians and people watching in horror from

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48:53

Kitbag Africa: The Decolonization of Trauma Healing...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/11/18

Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo is on a mission to support vulnerable young people to share what's on their hearts. As team leader at the Kenyan organisation Kitbag Africa International, Wycliffe convenes sharing circles on soccer fields, in classrooms or under trees – anywhere he can find where people can gather. "I have seen young people drop their masks and speak their truth," Wycliffe says. "I have seen widows laugh after years of silence, and this is

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52:24

Grief as a Gateway to Resilience, with Luka Faradsch

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/11/11

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can learning to grieve cultivate resilience? And why are people reviving the ancient social technologies of collective grieving rituals today? Luka Faradsch shares how teachers such as Francis Weller, Sobonfu Somé, Malidoma Somé, and Joanna Macy helped her understand how working with sorrow and loss — far from being only heavy and painful — could become a "sacred practice of aliveness." By honouring the universal truth that the old must die

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58:01

Metabolizing Climate Grief, with Brother Spirit and...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/11/04

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In the run-up to the Climate Consciousness Summit 2025, we ask: How can we live with the knowledge that humanity is rapidly destroying the foundations of the ecosystems that support all life on Earth? And how can we learn from suffering without falling into overwhelm or despair? In this inspiring dialogue, Kosha Joubert speaks with Brother Phap Dung (pronounced "Yung"), also known as Brother Embrace, and Brother Phap Linh, also known as Brother

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44:33

Embodying Non-Violence as Combatants for Peace, with...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/10/28

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Combatants for Peace was founded in 2006 by Israelis and Palestinians committed to following a path of non-violence to push their leaders to stop perpetuating war, occupation, and the cycle of violence. In this episode, Kosha Joubert speaks with Rana Salman and Eszter Korányi, the organisation's respective Palestinian and Israeli co-directors, about what it's been like to continue jointly advocating for peace since the horrendous Hamas attacks on

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45:53

"How Can We Listen in a World That is on Fire?" with...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/10/23

Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J’aime Rothbard What does the wisdom encoded in West African Indigenous traditions have to teach about modern-day systems change? And how can the Spirit of Ndanifor — a spiritual force honored by the people of Cameroon’s Bafut region — awaken a felt-sense of connection with the more-than-human world? Cameroonian elder Joshua Konkankoh will join Colombia’s Ati Quigua and Mamerto Tindongan of the Philippines to offer a Pocket Project Regenerative Masterclass on

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53:46

Recursion or Ruin: AI and the Future of Collective...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/10/14

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 explore how AI could potentially aid both individual and collective healing by serving as a mirror

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54:47

Restoring Relationships with the More-than-human...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/10/07

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 Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, about his work to restore buffalo herds and grassland

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Softening Into the watery layers of Self

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/09/30

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/

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53:31

Embodying the Feminine, with Stephanie Pizarro

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/09/23

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 Lab exploring the theme “Embodying the Feminine" in 2024. Joined by more than 40 women from 15 countries

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54:22

Impacting Systemic Injustice & Collective Healing,...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/09/16

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, Illinois, throughout her 20 years of working with marginalised groups. In this episode, Karen traces her early

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56:37

Restoring Relational Intimacy with Danny Cohen

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/09/09

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 Communication, which helps people transform how they communicate and connect in everyday life. In this

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52:06

Crafting Conscious Food Systems with Sonita Mbah

What is Collective Healing? ·

2025/09/02

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 co-host of What Is Collective Healing?, Sonita shares about her mission to transform the “trauma

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