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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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01:09:58

Walking the Talk: How Organizations and Non-Profit...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/04/21

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 Pocket Project, where she leads consulting and coaching programmes designed to help partner

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Five Element Meditation, with Kosha Joubert

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/04/14

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 that the body is our closest connection to nature, this journey gently guides you back into embodied

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59:39

Radical Abundance and Fearless Generosity, with Woman...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/04/07

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 traditions, Woman Stands Shining Pat McCabe invites us to connect with our breath as a portal to bring our

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57:50

Befriending our Nervous Systems: The Pathway to...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/03/31

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 to connect with the resources that allow us to stay related to people or situations that might

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45:59

Walking Between Worlds: A South African Medicine...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/03/24

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 her hands and say: "I'm home." "The minute I did that, I had this feeling of awe. I looked up at the sky

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50:28

When the War Comes Home: How Trauma Travels Through...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/03/17

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: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace, a book documenting the struggles of former

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01:06:02

Building Circles of Resilience in Ukraine, with Daria...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/03/10

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 Ukrainians since Russia's invasion in February, 2022. Daria explains that the Pocket Project began by

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50:41

Opening the Heart of Humanity by Healing the Gender...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/03/03

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 on March 11) In this episode, Cynthia and Will draw on their decades of working with the ancient

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43:45

Empathy Is Fueling the Fight for Justice in Ukraine,...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/02/24

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 empathy fuels her struggle to secure accountability for atrocities committed during the invasion of

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52:32

Shedding the Skins of Colonization, with Rita Maria...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/02/16

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 system because of my history with domestic violence, but also what that question meant to her." In this

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41:23

Tending to the Sacred Tapestry: What Happens Inside...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/02/10

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 gathering personal stories from participants in the last round of International Labs in 2024, Adrian curated

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58:56

Medical Realities in Gaza: From Resilience to...

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/02/03

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 bus that was bringing us in, where are we?...It was as if I was on a completely different continent." In

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55:09

The Anatomy of an Emergent Mystic, with Valencie Exceus

What is Collective Healing? ·

2026/01/27

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 collisions that she faced as she came of age in a foreign land, offering a glimpse into the mountainous

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46:31

Factory Farms: Wounds in the Web of Life, with...

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2026/01/19

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 Animal Harm: Wounds in the Collective Field. Opening Ourselves to Animal Welfare and Ethical Violation

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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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49:26

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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01:01:23

The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani

What is Collective Healing? ·

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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30:08

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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