#22 - Personal trauma from apartheid, with Kosha Joubert

Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and healing personal, ancestral, and collective trauma. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an experienced facilitator, coach, and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of systems regeneration, intercultural collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to transformational edgework ever since. She has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for her work in building the Global Ecovillage Network into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. https://www.opencircle.live/team/kosha https://pocketproject.org/ In this episode we will discuss how growing up in South Africa and living during the Apartheid as a child and as a youngster contributed to the defining turning points in her life. What is collective trauma and how can we recognize and accept it? What made Kosha Joubert become aware that collective trauma is such a core topic? Examples of collective trauma and where it prevents us from really creating the change we want to see.