What did we explore in this Lab?

This lab focused on exploring the disconnection of both the masculine and the feminine from the earth and each other and building the capacities and processes needed for re-connection. It involved a range of online sessions, solo 4-6 hour quests in nature, creative expression, and gender-focused sessions. We sought an intimate, committed group to explore the nature of a connected and disconnected masculine and feminine. We experimented with deep processes to restore the web of life by healing and reconnecting the traumatized masculine and feminine to the earth and each other.

Who was invited to participate?

People who have had some experience in the Hübl field and who were able to convey a sincere interest in the topic.<br />

More about the journey of the Lab:

We started out with 20 participants and ended with 14 participants. We met 13 times between Jan – Nov 2024.<br />

Moments of Challenge

  • When one of the assistants could not see that her reactivity within the team was connected to the trauma field, and we all had some unconscious reactivity to her.
  • The team needed to find out how to work together in a team of four. Very challenging until it was determined with the help of a mentoring session that there needed to be a clear hierarchy in the team. Facilitators - and assistants.
  • When challenges were made from a male participant into the field, enacting the collective traumas of the masculine and feminine, and you could feel the field froze, and and took a while to come back to safety.
  • When it just seemed too big a topic to get your head around and there was confusion, which of course is part of the trauma field.
  • When the team got stuck in the trauma field and blame surfaced, negativity about the lab process
  • When participants felt there wasn’t enough connection between them, the facilitators and the group responded by creating new structures—constellations, subgroup creation, and open space sessions.

Moments of Grace

  • When the co facilitators realized the conflict on the team reflected the trauma field we could then relax and not try and fix it.
  • When the feminine wound arose and was met and allowed to be there, there seemed to be a slow collective exhale from the women that increased safety, connection and integration.
  • The deep appreciation of the participants for what happened in the groups process, something beyond words, that came from connection, respect, vulnerability, and open hearts.
  • The beauty of the nature quests, every participant with their individual time in nature, listening and experiencing deeper into our personal relationship with Mother Earth. All shared with the group container in words and pictures via WhatsApp group.
  • The power of community. The simple sharing sessions where every participant had their time and space to share their emotions, reflections, and difficulties, and witness all the others. Everyone felt heard, seen, and felt in a safe container of like minded individuals.
  • The final session where there was an outpouring of love and gratitude and a sense that the lab would long continue in their lives and hearts, especially around connection to being earth.

Insights

  • Using the earth as a resource significantly helped ground the group and navigate the trauma field without a lot of raw eruptions of the trauma, but more manageable feelings.
  • The team: A good question to be asked at the beginning of every team meeting - “How is the trauma field showing up in you and in the team, and in the group.
  • The honesty, vulnerability and humanness of the facilitators and support folks is very helpful to participants.
  • It is so important for all participants, especially those without much experience in Thomas’ field to be members of a triad.
  • The importance of having group time with the intention of hearing from everyone, not just leaving it open to who wants to share.

"The group has been a safe space to be seen and heard and appreciated the vulnerability. Given me the chance to explore my relationship with nature with earth, and thank you for connecting to my body."

"I found myself more and more feeling the sense of my body actually being part of the earth, the living earth. And when I felt that the collective trauma of the masculine and feminine in my body felt so much more manageable, workable, and my body had much greater capacity to metabolize that trauma and its lessons."

"I felt that my experience had much in common with every single member of the Lab. it reached across gender, sex and cultural differences. The Lab connected us in our feelings of fragmentation."

"Trusting men’s experiences is not always at the top of my list. In this Lab, I was touched by the plight of men and the crisis of masculinity in today’s world. It opened my heart to individual men in a space of respect and compassion- and, crucially, safety. For this I am grateful."

"Having an overall plan was helpful but also allowing things to emerge through the session was great - I appreciated a mix of both. It's not always comforting to allow flow but that is truly where the magic happens and I think we need to continue to create space for flow. It was good that there wasn't too much rigid planning as it allowed space for individual exploration and sharing."

"The lab feels like a dream, a companion, it felt like it existed on this other plane within. It's more about the feeling I come away with, there is a lot I can't remember cognitively, it's been so lovely and touching to see glimpses of your lives and the search of how to live well, a courageous journey."

Our Lab Team

  • Louise Marra

    Louise Marra

    Louise Marra is an author, movement maker and systems healer. Her leadership experience has spanned all sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, private sector, philanthropy and NGO sector. She has studied for many years individual, transpersonal, somatic and collective and intergenerational trauma and how these might be applied to healing systems. She is the author and founder of the social enterprise ReRoot aimed at reconnecting people to mother earth, and works leading decolonization journeys. She describes herself as a braided river coming from both Maori and European bloodlines.
  • Patrick Dougherty

    Patrick Dougherty

    Patrick Dougherty, M.A., L.P. is a licensed psychologist with over 45 years in practice. A major focus of his work for more than 40 years has been men’s issues, understanding the wounds to men and the wounds by men. He has written several articles, contributed chapters to books, and taught a graduate college course all focused on the evolution of men. He has always had a strong connection to the earth and for the past 10 years has found masculine nourishment and guidance from the living mother earth.
  • Carolin Thywissen

    Carolin Thywissen

    Born 1967 in Germany, after an early divorce of my parents I grew up with my father in patriarchal family structures. I have experienced some parts of the world already at a young age. Ever since I have been drawn to traveling and living in foreign countries and cultures. After studying communication, later yoga and other alternative practices, I am a student of Thomas Hübl since 2017, joining the Core Group after my TWT and last year a Masters Program at Ubiquity University. I am the blessed mother of two young adults and currently working as a yoga teacher and body therapist in the Bavarian countryside. The beauty of humans, animals, nature and movement are my resource.
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