Collective Trauma & Climate Change
Inviting Global Healing
Pocket project @ UN Climate Change Conference
6.-18. NOVEMBER 2022
Trauma is at the root of our inaction in the face of Climate Change. Trauma symptoms of numbness, apathy, hyper-activation and polarisation dramatically slow down our ability to respond adequately. Trauma is the sand in the system and the reason it is so hard to implement our good intentions and climate agreements.
As we expanded our global healing movement, through meditations, updates from COP27, interviews with Thomas Hübl and others, and news from communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis – helping restore our collective sensitivity and compassion and increase our flow of possibility and potential.
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Program Overview:
Meaningful conversations
We explored the importance of trauma-informed approaches for more effective Climate Change action. Allowing ourself to be inspired by inspirational conversations.
UPDATES FROM COP27
Exciting live introductions and short updates about what was happening on the ground at COP27.
Communities on the frontlines
We mindfully attended to Climate Change with embodied awareness, thereby shifting from being bystanders to responding from our hearts, minds and bodies.
Movie screening
In partnership with the Roots of Resilience Project, we were screening Once You Know, a 144-minute life-changing documentary featuring Emmanuel Cappellin in his journey across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse.
Collective Trauma summit
We were pleased to present the climate-focused speaker talks being made available as part of the Pocket Project‘s partnership with the Collective Trauma Summit.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Meaningful Conversations
Thomas Hübl
Listening to the Wind of Change
Tue, Nov 8 7-8.30pm
Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has been facilitating large-scale events and courses that focus on the healing and integration of trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans. Over the last decade, he has facilitated dialogue with thousands of people around healing the collective traumas of racism, oppression, colonialism, genocides in the U.S., Israel, Germany, Spain, and Argentina. He is the author of the book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds, available here. His non-profit organization, the Pocket Project, works to support the healing of collective trauma throughout the world.
Charles Eisenstein
Trusting What the Heart Knows
Thu, Nov 10 7-8.30pm
Charles Eisenstein is an essayist and the author of several books, including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible
John D. Liu
Ecosystem Restoration
Tue, Nov 13 7-8.30pm
John D. Liu, Filmmaker, Ecologist, Founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a grassroots movement to regenerate degraded lands worldwide. John made the documentaries Green Gold, a Prix Italia award winner, and Hope in a Changing Climate, named the best ecosystem film at the International Wildlife Film Festival.
Nora Bateson
Where does deep change grow from?
Thu, Nov 17 7-8.30pm
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”.
She wrote, directed and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of Gregory Bateson.
Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems.
Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.
Brother Phap Dung
UN COP27 - Closing
Fri, Nov 18 7-8.30pm
Brother Phap Dung (pronounced “Yung”) is a senior Teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community. Born in Vietnam in 1969, he escaped with his family aged ten and became a refugee in America. He has helped bring a spiritual dimension to ecological activism and the climate movement, representing his community at the Paris COP21. Brother Phap Dung is passionate about bringing mindfulness practice and well-being into educational settings, offering young people an alternative and sustainable way to engage themselves with the social, racial, and environmental challenges of our times.
Brother Spirit
UN COP27 - Closing
Fri, Nov 18 7-8.30pm
Brother Spirit also known as Brother Pháp Linh, is a Zen Buddhist monk ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. A musician and mathematician, he is pioneering new approaches in the meeting of science and contemplation. He is becoming a leading voice in a new generation of young monastics, helping to bring awareness and healing to the collective trauma of climate grief and anxiety.
Matthew Green
Fri, Nov 6 7-8.30pm & Thu, Nov 17 7-8.30pm
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Emmanuel Cappellin
Once You Know
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communities on the frontlines
Sarah Queblatin
Witnessing Philippines
Mon, Nov 7 7-8.30pm
Sarah Queblatin is an inclusive design strategist passionate in transforming the narrative of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into Design for Resilience and Regeneration. With a background in mental health and psycho-social support, ecopsychology, and expressive arts , she applies a trauma-informed understanding of regenerative resilience in her work with climate and conflict vulnerable communities. Sarah is a core team member of Permaculture for Refugees and is contributing to ways to decolonize permaculture through Principle 0. She has worked with the Global Ecovillage Network as UN and Advocacy coordinator and as representative to the UN Climate conferences. She started Green Releaf Initiative in the Philippines, one of the most climate vulnerable nations in the world, working with regenerative solutions for food sovereignty, regenerative livelihood, and ecosystem restoration. She combines this work with a passion project called Kalikhasan: Living Story Landscapes, working with local culture bearers and creatives in designing places of remembrance, resilience, and regeneration in communities facing loss and damages from climate emergencies. Sarah is also shaping a dialogue journey on decolonizing and transforming narratives of ecosystem restoration between the global north and south called Restore-Restory, where learnings can offer shared wisdom, collective healing, and emerging ways of regeneration from countries already facing harsh climate emergencies around the world.
Linda Kabaira
Witnessing Zimbabwe
Wed, Nov 9 7-8.30pm
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Daria Yemets
Witnessing Ukraine
Fri, Nov 11 6-7.30pm
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Volodymyr Gandziura
Witnessing Ukraine
Fri, Nov 11 6-7.30pm
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Katherine Poco-Enders Witnessing California, USA
Mon, Nov 14 7-8.30pm
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Margarita O. Zethelius
Witnessing Colombia
Wed, Nov 16 7-8.30pm
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Updates from COP27
Sonita Mbah
General Updates from Cop27
Sonita Mbah is combining her role at The Pocket Project with her Masters in World Heritage Studies. She is a passionate food grower, Permaculture designer and facilitator. For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. In 2017, Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl.
Claire Kaufman
Mon Nov 7 7-8.30pm
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Gina Cortés Valderrama
Wed Nov 9 7-8.30pm
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Caroline Mair-Toby
Thu Nov 10 7-8.30pm
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Elise Buckle
Tue, Nov 15 7-8.30pm
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Mohammed Anwar Shaheen
Wed, Nov 16 7-8.30pm
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