What is Collective Healing?
by 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 diversity of voices from different countries, cultures and communities, the series aims to make the universal principles underlying collective healing practices newly accessible to all – and honor the many lineages and traditions informing today's cutting-edge practices. In an age of overwhelming complexity and news overload, it's easy to forget that we're not meant to carry the weight of the world alone. What Is Collective Healing? is your weekly reminder that not only are we wired to grieve,
Episodes
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The Awestruck Scientist: Healing the Split Between Spirituality and Science, with Christian Mandl
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Learn more and register for the "How Many Stories Form a We" Online Event This episode starts with a miraculous wartime escape, an inter-generational reunion many decades later, and the long collective shadows cast in Austria by World War Two...
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Humanity's Dragonfly Moment: Embracing Our New Era of Collective Intelligence, with Richard Rudd
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Community Call Building Islands of Coherence: Growing a Global Movement for Collective Healing on October 21 This week we're excited to dive deeper into the mystical dimension of collective healing with a much-anticipated,...
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Potency in the Unknown: Lessons from a Lifetime of Systemic Constellations, with Gaye Donaldson
Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the Community Call Building Islands of Coherence: Growing a Global Movement for Collective Healing on October 21 When Gaye Donaldson first encountered Systemic Constellation Work in 1994, the revelation she experienced made new...
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Intuitive Culture: Restoring our Resonance with Earth, with Tiókasin Ghosthorse
Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Register for the community call Mapping the Conditions for Collective Trauma – From Data to Deeper Awareness on October 8 Lots of people talk about 'healing Earth'. But what if we need Earth to heal us? Could we learn to see beyond a narrowly...
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The Conditions for Collective Trauma Map – From Data to Deeper Awareness, with Thomas Hübl & Max Roth
You are warmly invited to join Kosha and Adrian Wagner of the Pocket Project's research team, who has been deeply involved in the Conditions for Collective Trauma Map, for a live presentation: Register for the community call Mapping the Conditions for Collective Trauma – From Data to Deeper...
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Restoring Healthy Human Politics: Harnessing the Power of Compassion for Collective Action, with Rick Hanson
Register for the Pocket Project Community Call, Neuroinclusive Approaches: Cultivating Spaces Where We Can All Belong on September 23 Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, founder of...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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,...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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?…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
About this show
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 diversity of voices from different countries, cultures and communities, the series aims to make the universal principles underlying collective healing practices newly accessible to all – and honor the many lineages and traditions informing today's cutting-edge practices. In an age of overwhelming complexity and news overload, it's easy to forget that we're not meant to carry the weight of the world alone. What Is Collective Healing? is your weekly reminder that not only are we wired to grieve,
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