What is Collective Healing?
What is Collective Healing? is a weekly podcast from the Pocket Project exploring how people worldwide are healing individual, inter-generational, and collective trauma. It features personal conversations with practitioners trained under Thomas Hübl and other pioneers of collective healing. The series draws on diverse voices and traditions to make the principles behind collective healing more accessible. It offers a reminder that grief, celebration, and healing are meant to be shared, and that polarization and despair can be transformed.
Episodes
The Wholeness Work: A Precise Path to Freedom, with Connirae Andreas
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can we turn everyday moments of sadness, disappointment, anger and shame into gateways to awakening? And is there an easy way to dissolve the sense of separation that lies at the root of our suffering? Building on last week's episode, which featured an introductory practice from the Wholeness Work, we're delighted to share this dialogue w
Bonus Practice Episode, with Connirae Andreas
Notes by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Practice created and shared by Connirae Andreas. Used with permission. The team here at What is Collective Healing? has long been intrigued by Connirae Andreas, an author and personal transformation and healing leader who's built a global following for her Wholeness Work. In this two-part series, we're taking a deep dive into the Wholeness Work t
The Gender Wound: Beyond Victim, Perpetrator, and Savior with Pamela von Sabljar and Sean Talbeaux
Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard. What happens when men, women and people of other genders come together to acknowledge the previously unspoken distrust that exists between them? And how can we move beyond victim narratives to ask what lessons perpetrators may have to teach? On July 1, the Pocket Project held From the Epstein Files to Inside the Manosphere – Tending to Fractu
Transmuting the Legacy of Europe's Witch Trials in our Bodies, Lineages and Culture, with Andrea Livingston and Lysan Boshuyzen
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. During a 300-year period starting in the mid-fifteenth century, an estimated 40,000-60,000 people were executed in Europe after being found guilty of practising witchcraft. Taking into account the toll of lynchings, deaths from torture, prison deaths and suicides in detention, some estimates put the overall death toll from the witch trials as h
Self-Regulation is the Key: Hard-won Wisdom from a Pioneer of Collective Trauma Integration, with Markus Hirzig
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Therapist and teacher Markus Hirzig has pursued a central question throughout his decades-long career: Why, despite our enormous human potential, do we so often get caught in patterns that limit us and drain our energy — and how can we break these cycles? Having started out as a physiotherapist and osteopath, Markus began looking for answers i
Meeting the "Shadow Trauma" of Transgression: The Healthy Way to Approach Your Past, with Thomas Hübl
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. When we embark on a healing path, there will inevitably come a point when we meet parts of ourselves that we'd previously managed to deny or avoid. At the personal level, this can look like reflecting on things we said or did in the past that we now regret, or gaining a new perspective on habitual patterns of relating that we've started to outg
The Path Is Created as We Walk: How to Let Yourself Be Authored by Life, with Thomas Hübl
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Healing from trauma — whether inflicted in our lifetime, passed down by our ancestors, or present in the collective — is an inevitably uncomfortable, messy and ambiguous process, which may never feel entirely resolved or complete. Many contemplative practices, by contrast, hold out the promise of a sudden awakening experience that reveal our se
Two States, One Homeland: Keeping the Flame of Political Imagination Alive in Israel-Palestine, with May Pundak
May Pundak is the Israeli co-executive director of A Land for All, a joint Palestinian-Israeli movement working towards a political framework in which two democratic, sovereign states exist within a shared homeland, rooted in equality, freedom, and dignity. In a dialogue first broadcast as part of the Pocket Project's World Women Summit: Women Rising for Peace in March, May speaks about her commi
Bonus Poetry Episode, with Carolina Herbert
Poem written and performed by Carolina Herbert. Used with her permission. Introduced by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In this special episode, we bring you a poem by Carolina Herbert, a PhD Arts Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and expressive arts practitioner. Entitled 'Between Inheritance and Hiraeth,' the work explores ancestral work, collective memory and forgiveness. The p
Rebirthing the Wise Warrior: Burnout as a Portal to Collective Liberation, with Dr Rola Hallam
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. How can the apparently catastrophic collapse of the person we thought we were clear the path for who we are meant to become? What might change when we dwell less on what we're doing to serve others, and focus more on the quality of consciousness from which our action arises? Dr Rola Hallam is an award-winning humanitarian recognised for her ex
Leading in Chaos: Transforming our Lives Into 'Instruments of Repair', with Amy Elizabeth Fox
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 leade
A Global Social Witnessing Invitation: From the Epstein Files to Inside the Manosphere – Tending to Fractured Gender Relations
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 th
Relational Resourcing Before Repair: The Missing Foundation of Systems Change, with John Kania
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
Thomas Hübl on Restoring Forward: How Cultivating Resilience Aligns Us With a More Flourishing Future
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'
Calling Men into Presence: Masculinity Beyond Separation and Struggle, with Kevin Young
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
Building Architectures of Grace: How Contemporary Mysticism Can Help Us Lead in Chaotic Times, with Robin Alfred
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 encomp
Presencing America's Ugly Truths: Collective Healing in a Time of Collapse, with Hawah Kasat & Reggie Hubbard
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
Embracing Migration in a Culture of Care, with Ana María Araos
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
Our One-Year Anniversary Special Episode
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
Organic Intelligence®: Activating Self-Healing Through the Power of Pleasure and Joy, with Steven Hoskinson
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
Kufunda Learning Village: Building Community with Movement Medicine in an African Sanctuary, with Maaianne Knuth
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
Walking the Talk: How Organizations and Non-Profit Cultures Can Truly Become Trauma-Informed, with Maria Leister
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
Five Element Meditation, with Kosha Joubert
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
Radical Abundance and Fearless Generosity, with Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe
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 trad
Befriending our Nervous Systems: The Pathway to Peace, with Deb Dana
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
Walking Between Worlds: A South African Medicine Path, with Dr. Ntombiyethu Biase
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 he
When the War Comes Home: How Trauma Travels Through Men, Women and Generations, with Matthew Green
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:
Building Circles of Resilience in Ukraine, with Daria Yemets
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
Opening the Heart of Humanity by Healing the Gender Wound, with Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin
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 launch
Empathy Is Fueling the Fight for Justice in Ukraine, with Oleksandra Matviichuk
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 em
Shedding the Skins of Colonization, with Rita Maria Brown and Shayla Wright
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 syste
Tending to the Sacred Tapestry: What Happens Inside an Integration Lab, with Adrian Wagner
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 gath
Medical Realities in Gaza: From Resilience to Reclamation, with Dorotea Gucciardo
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
The Anatomy of an Emergent Mystic, with Valencie Exceus
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 c
Factory Farms: Wounds in the Web of Life, with Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald
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 o
From Bystander to Witness: Transforming Global Media, with James Scurry
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 ampli
Tending Wounded Places with Furious Love, with Hāweatea Holly Bryson
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 N
The Beautiful Wound, with Teddy Frank
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 mor
The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani
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
The Initiation of Parenthood as a Doorway to Ancestral Healing, with Thomas Hübl
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
Growing your Cup and Meeting Triggers with Compassion, with Thomas Hübl
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 tr
Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak
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
Reclaiming Agency After the Invasion of Ukraine, with Dasha Gaian
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 vis
Kitbag Africa: The Decolonization of Trauma Healing in Action, with Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo
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
Grief as a Gateway to Resilience, with Luka Faradsch
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 —
Metabolizing Climate Grief, with Brother Spirit and Brother Embrace
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
Embodying Non-Violence as Combatants for Peace, with Rana Salman & Eszter Korányi
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"How Can We Listen in a World That is on Fire?" with Joshua Konkankoh
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Recursion or Ruin: AI and the Future of Collective Healing, with Nico Forest Heinimann
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 ex
Restoring Relationships with the More-than-human World, with J Dallas Gudgell
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 Pec
Softening Into the watery layers of Self
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/
Embodying the Feminine, with Stephanie Pizarro
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
Impacting Systemic Injustice & Collective Healing, with Karen Simms
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
Restoring Relational Intimacy, with Danny Cohen
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
Crafting Conscious Food Systems, with Sonita Mbah
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
Sonita Mbah's Nourishing Attunement
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 worl
A Taste of Global Social Witnessing, with Bayo Akomolafe
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
Invisibility & the Living Field of Collective Healing, with Nadja Lichtenhahn
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
Kosha Joubert on Global Social Witnessing as a Portal to Collective Healing
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
The Global Legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland with Simon Courtney
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 a
Bridging Europe's East-West Divide with Teodora Rădulescu
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
Bonus Attunement : A Somatic Practice for Self Resourcing
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
Repair in the Feeling of Belonging with Jaden Ramsey
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 lea
Being Mixed Race: From Fragmentation to Wholeness with Claude Terosier
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 Fre
The Prayers of Our Ancestors with Solea Anani
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 Quisquey
"Writing to save my life" with Antoinette Cooper
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.
Accessing Ancestral Healing with Yocheved Sidof
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
Witnessing the Collective with Lori Shridhare
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. Throughout
Bonus Poem : Witness. Target = Rubble. by Lori Shridhare
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 tr
The Collective Wound of Colonialism with Laura Calderón de la Barca
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,
The Art of Collective Integration with David Young
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
Global Social Witnessing with Manda Johnson
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
Trailer - Laura Calderon de la Barca and the Collective Wound of Colonialism
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
Trailer - David Young and The Art of Collective Integration
"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
Trailer - Manda Johnson & Global Social Witnessing
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 a
Trailer - What is Collective Healing?
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
