Articles & Videos
We will be posting more articles and videos, by Thomas Hübl and other contributors, as well as links to relevant research studies, in the coming months.
ARTICLE: Silver Linings in Challenging Times
By Ellen Barlowpublished in Harvard Catalyst02/09/2020 Silver Linings in Challenging Times – How members of Harvard Medical School faculty and staff are thriving, despite what 2020 has brought these past six months. Silver Linings in Challenging Times...VIDEO: Processing Collective Trauma to Release Love, Presence and Freedom
The third panel within the Conscious R:evolution platform will build awareness of what collective trauma is and how to deal with it, especially in a year in which the whole world is in a global, health, economic, but above all ecological crisis. Speakers: Thomas Hübl...VIDEO: Building Community Coherence and Resilience
Topics of this talk: What does it mean to create community coherence? How can an individual or group leverage adversity to consciously build more resilience? How can we increase our relational capacity to self-regulate? How can we create coherent collective fields...VIDEO: Spiritual Teacher Thomas Hübl & Contemplative Scholar Practitioner Dr. Angel Acosta
The Garrison Institute Forum on Social Justice continues with a conversation between Thomas Hübl, spiritual teacher and author, and Dr. Angel Acosta, contemplative scholar-practitioner, on collective trauma and healing in a fractured world. These interactive Forum...VIDEO: Collective Witnessing for Deep Healing
In this talk we’ll look at: What is collective witnessing? What does it mean to create a field of presence either as the participant or observer and what effect does this have? How to use the power of the collective fields to heal trauma How collective...VIDEO: Collective Trauma In Our World Today
In this first event in the series, Thomas explored: How we are born into a pre-traumatized world and how collective trauma surfaces in times of stress and change How collective trauma gets created, passed through generations and re-triggered in times of stress How...ARTICLE: Collective Trauma – Harvard Longwood Campus workshops explore trauma, resilience
By Lori Shridharepublished in Harvard Medical School News17/06/2020 About a three-part webinar series in May and early June for Harvard staff, guided by Thomas Hübl Read article hereVIDEO: Otto Scharmer in Dialogue with Thomas Hübl: Global Social Witnessing and the Current Crisis
What is the background to the current global crisis situation with the #coronavirus #pandemic? What do we need now and what are the prospects? What role does collective trauma and absencing play? In contrast, attention and awareness is the real super power today. In...ARTICLE: I have to take care of myself first’: the online support group helping doctors deal with trauma
By Lori Shridharepublished in Positive News UK26/05/2020 About a healthcare workers support project during the pandemic crisis initiated by Thomas Hübls’s Pocket Project for Collective and Intergenerational Trauma Integration. Read article hereVIDEO: The #Coronavirus Crisis: Remaining Related and Resilient
Thomas Hübl and Terry Patten explore how we can remain related and open-hearted in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss ways to work with our own stress and fears, be of help to others, and avoid becoming polarized. Thomas shares the insight that while...VIDEO: Healing Collective Trauma with Thomas Hübl & Brian Swimme
Brian Swimme joins Thomas Hübl for an exploration of trauma through the perspective of how understanding the cosmos can illuminate new paths for healing.ARTICLE: Systems Sensing: Attending to Collective Trauma – Thomas at GAIA Journey
By Helio Borges published in medium.com13/03/2020 Thomas Hübl was a guest at the Community Meeting of GAIA Journey, a project initiated by Otto Scharmer’s Presencing Institute. He shared his insights into collective trauma. The article includes the video recording of...ARTICLE: Deepening our Collective Roots
By Taylor Plimptonpublished in Tricycle13/03/2020 Hübl, T.: “Deepening our Collective Roots.” Tricycle (March 13, 2020) In: Practicing in a Pandemic – Six new teachings on how to find compassion and equanimity in a time of great uncertainty, Gesshin Claire Greenwood,...ARTICLE: Internet, Technological Development and Trauma
By Ina Krausepublished in thomashuebl.com15/12/2019 Why is it important today to bring these issues together? Technological development is progressing very fast. Digitization of work, industry 4.0, robotization, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism are keywords....VIDEO: Healing Collective Trauma – Thomas Hübl at Harvard Medical School
From exposure to a 24/7 news cycle to crises in our communities, we are living in a time of high stress and collective trauma. What are the effects on each of us and what can we do to create space for healing? Bala Subramaniam discusses his research on meditation...ARTICLE: A New Initiative Grapples with Collective Traumas
By Lori Shridharepublished in Buddhist Review Tricycle22/08/2019 Shridhare, Lori: “A New Initiative Grapples with Collective Traumas“, Tricycle (August 22, 2019). About Global Social Witnessing and the Pocket Project for Collective and Intergenerational Trauma...VIDEO: Otto Scharmer & Thomas Hübl: Solvable Transformation and Collective Trauma
How is the effect of social intervention tools influenced by collective trauma? Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the “Theorie U” (leading from the future), and Thomas Hübl approach this question from their own side...VIDEO: Wisdom 2.0 – Healing Personal and Collective Trauma
Thomas Hübl just made his first visit to the Wisdom 2.0 conference, held from March 1 to 3, 2019, in San Francisco! He held a dialogue on the main stage with Soren Gordhamer, founder of Wisdom 2.0, on the topic of “Healing Personal and Collective Trauma”, then led a...VIDEO: Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth: Peter Levine & Thomas Hübl
In this memorable conversation from SAND 2018 (Science and Nonduality Conference) Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Hübl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discuss the relationship between...VIDEO: Healing Collective Trauma
Thomas Hübl’s work explores and supports our quest for greater awareness, and in particular the implications of collective trauma for the development of our individual lives and for humanity in general. In this talk from SAND18 (Science and Nonduality Conference 2018)...VIDEO: Pocket Project at the Bermuda Conference
Samvedam Randles, Pocket Project one-year training alumni, offered a presentation on “Intergenerational and Collective trauma” at the Bermuda conference to raise awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences. She shares her experiences from the Pocket Project...VIDEO: The Trauma of Technology – a TEDx talk by Thomas Hübl
Thomas was invited to speak at the TEDx Marin event on September 15, 2018. His talk focused on technology’s role in cultural trauma, and about what psychological and physiological price we pay for our tech addictions.VIDEO: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch on Transgenerational Trauma
This is a talk about transgenerational trauma between Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, her daughter Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch and Thomas Hübl. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (92) is a German-British cellist and one of the last-known survivors of the “Girls’ Orchestra” of...VIDEO: Professor Isabelle Mansuy on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Isabelle Mansuy is professor in neuroepigenetics at the university Zurich. Her lab is pioneer in the new field of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. This talk with Thomas Hübl at the Celebrate Life Festival 2017 was recorded on August 2nd during module 2...ARTICLE: Toward the Integration of Collective Trauma in a Time of Exponential Change
By Julie Jordan Avrittpublished in SpandaJournal_VII,128/06/2017 “…..Yet, despite our relative species success, at this stage in our brief history we face greater disruption and uncertainty than perhaps at any other time. The changes that have occurred in...ARTICLE: New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens
By William Ury & Thomas Hüblpublished in Kosmos Journal23/06/2017 In this dialog between international mediator William Ury and spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl, starting point is the victim-centered peace process in Colombia and the power of forgiveness and an apology...ARTICLE: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma
By Julie Jordan Avrittpublished in Kosmos Journal06/06/2017 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation…” ~...VIDEO: William Ury and Thomas Hübl on Negotiation in Conflict Situations
William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s program on negotiation and author of best-selling “Getting to Yes,” speaks with Thomas Hübl about the symptoms of trauma in several international conflicts.VIDEO: William Ury and Thomas Hübl on Negotiation
William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s program on negotiation and author of best-selling “Getting to Yes,” speaks with Thomas Hübl about the symptoms of trauma in several international conflicts.VIDEO: Scilla Elworthy and Thomas Hübl on Trauma Integration
Dialogue between Thomas Hübl and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy as part of the Pocket Project.VIDEO: Dr. Rivka Tuval-Mashiach and Thomas Hübl on Trauma Integration
Dr. Rivka Tuval-Mashiach is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is the head of the Community Services Unit of NATAL, the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War. Her research fields include coping with...VIDEO: About the Pocket Project
Thomas Hübl discusses the goals of The Pocket Project, an initiative dedicated to deepening our understanding of collective and intergenerational trauma, and to training groups of people worldwide to work effectively in conflict and trauma situations.ARTICLE: Developing a Safe Container for Trauma Integration
By Pocket Projectpublished in pocketproject.org23/07/2016 On June 28, 2016, Thomas Hübl met with the Pocket Project working group in Israel. Below is a partial transcript of their conversation, in which Thomas discusses the resources that we can develop and draw upon...