Embodied Connection to our Jewish Resilience
2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:45 (America/New_York)
Fostering a Felt Sense of Safety in our Jewish Belonging – For anyone who identifies as Jewish
This monthly gathering offers a warm and supportive space for those with Jewish ancestry to explore resilience, belonging, and the integration of individual, ancestral, and collective experiences. Together, we reflect on personal and historical trauma, the challenges of the present, and the strength within our Jewish identity. By cultivating safety and connection, we support our individual and collective capacity to process, integrate, and deepen our sense of Jewish belonging.

Trauma-Informed Approaches – Healing Architectures for Healing Ecosystems
2025-10-29 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
What is possible when we lead with presence, compassion, and clarity?
What happens when we nurture collaborations that foster trust and mutual thriving?
How do we build organizational ecosystems that feel as alive and resilient as the natural world they are part of?
Healing our nervous systems and healing the biosphere are deeply intertwined. The ways we design and inhabit our human organizations have a direct impact on the ways we engage with the Earth. When we create healing architectures—cultures of care, structures that support belonging, and processes that regenerate trust—we not only transform how we work together but also how we relate to the living systems around us.
Nature teaches us about interdependence, reciprocity, and adaptive intelligence. When our organizational patterns mirror these principles, they become fertile ground for ecological responsibility, ethical leadership, and collective flourishing. The same invisible roots that shape the vitality of a forest also shape the vitality of our communities and workplaces. By tending to trauma and imbalance, we open pathways for regenerative growth in both our human systems and the wider biosphere.
As the Pocket Project introduces our Consultancy service, we invite you to join this exploration of how healing architectures in human organizations can contribute to healing climate change and inspire new ways of collaborating and making decisions together.
In this community call, we will explore:

Leading with presence – cultivating clarity, compassion, and grounded action.
Learning from nature – drawing on living systems to inspire integration, adaptability, and resilience.
Fostering reciprocity – creating ecosystems of trust, collaboration, psychological safety, and mutual care.

A Journey into Jewish Identity
2025-11-02 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin)
For anyone who identifies as Jewish. This group offers a space to explore Jewishness through the dynamic interplay between the universal and the specific. Along the way, we’ll also consider the role of personal and collective triggers as doorways into this inquiry. This is an open group, and new participants are welcome to join at any time.

Rewilding Ourselves – Returning to Wholeness
2025-11-05 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
The call to rewild ourselves is also a call to come home. In our bodies live the oceans and rivers, mountains and deserts, glaciers, grasslands and forests of the Earth.
Together, we will explore how to re-root into the ground beneath us, re-connect with the web of life, and re-member the ancient language of communication with the natural world. Through reflection and shared practices, we will discover how to befriend the untameable beauty of the natural world — and how to experience ourselves as part of its fullness.
In this community call, we will explore:

Inner rewilding – returning to our body, intuition, and aliveness.
Collective rewilding – cultivating belonging and resilience together.
Earth connection – remembering our living bond with nature as teacher and guide.

Coming Home to Being Jewish
2025-11-13 17:00 - 18:45 (Europe/Berlin)
Creating a warm and safe space for the presencing and integration of the individual, ancestral and collective trauma and resilience of being Jewish.
We will meet monthly with people who identify as having Jewish ancestry, to explore aspects of our Jewish experience including: the presencing of our individual, ancestral and collective trauma; the challenges of the current situation in the Middle East; aspects of both Jewish persecution and perpetration; internalised anti-semitism and whatever themes and experiences group participants bring to the call.
Our intention is to create a warm, welcoming and safe space in which such topics and experiences can be felt, held within a field of group coherence and resonance, and in this way to support our individual and collective capacity to reflect, digest and integrate what arises.

Weaving the Next Chapter Together – Celebrating Our Journey & Announcing Our Three-Year Strategy
2025-11-26 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
As we close a remarkable year of healing, learning, and global connection, we gather to celebrate what has grown through our shared field, and to look ahead. In this special community call, we will unveil the Pocket Project’s Three-Year Strategy, a living framework to expand our global network through 1,600+ trauma-informed practitioners and 500+ healing hubs or pockets; to deepen our Crisis Response Platform, bridging global resources and local care networks; and to grow our Library of Transformation, an immersive archive of personal and collective healing stories.
Together, we will reflect on the movement that is growing through each of us, a tapestry of presence, compassion, and systemic transformation, and envision the next steps of our shared journey.
In this gathering, we will explore:

Growing circles of healing – how local practitioners and hubs form the living architecture of a global culture of care.
Integrating trauma across systems – bringing trauma-informed approaches into education, leadership, and social change.
Activating collective coherence – strengthening the relational field that connects and sustains our shared humanity.

Join us as we celebrate what has unfolded and co-shape the path ahead, toward a world where trauma is met with care, and restoration becomes our shared way forward.

Meeting the Current Political Divide in the U.S. - Witnessing our Responses and Resources
2025-12-10 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
The first year of the Trump administration has dismantled existing structures and long-held political agreements. The changes, welcomed by supporters and outraging to others, are impacting the lives of U.S. residents and people around the world.
This Global Social Witnessing will not be a space for political debate, rather an opportunity to witness diverse experiences, challenges and impacts along with the range of resources that we employ as we meet the political division and disruption in many of our lives.
Together we will practice our ability to remain present as we listen to the possible range of feelings and experiences shared. We will hold space for the diversity of voices in the community gathered, maintaining awareness of our embodied experience, presencing our resources, our challenges, and our ability to respond.
We will meet and welcome the current limits of our capacity to turn toward this moment with our bodies, our breath, and openness to listen, and we will be as aware as possible of our felt responses to whatever experiences are shared in the room.
In this call, we will explore:

Resources that support our ability to stay conscious of our own experience and the experience of others
Grounding – as a way to stay present amidst divergence and pain
Navigating turbulence with compassionate presence – exploring our capacity to stay with difference, together

We trust in the quiet power of witnessing life as it is, as the starting point for moving forward.

Coming Home to Being Jewish
2025-12-16 17:00 - 18:45 (Europe/Berlin)
We are looking forward to seeing you on December 16. As this is our last session in the year long cycle of calls for the Jewish Trauma Relief Project, this particular session will be suitable for anybody who has already participated in the calls, but not for people wanting to attend for the first time. In addition to providing our customary space to be present to and integrate our experiences of Jewish trauma, we will also be completing a cycle together, and sharing information about other possibilities for you in 2026. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to meeting any and all previous participants on December 16.

Embodied Connection to our Jewish Resilience
2025-12-16 19:00 - 20:45 (America/New_York)

Words of Wisdom – Entering the Living Field of Mystical Texts
2025-12-18 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
In this workshop, guided by Susanne Ahlendorf and Martin Bruders, we will explore how mystical texts can become living bridges between wisdom and presence. Beginning with an introduction to practices that open the heart and sharpen awareness, we’ll then move into a shared experiential space where words turn into gateways to the ineffable.
Through guided exercises, silence, and dialogue, we will uncover how timeless wisdom speaks through us and into our contemporary lives. Together, we will listen for what wants to emerge in the “in-between” — where text meets life, and meaning becomes alive.
In this community call, we will explore:

Learn simple methods to attune to mystical texts beyond interpretation — entering them as living experiences.
Discover how collective inquiry and dialogue reveal deeper layers of meaning and insight.
Experience how timeless wisdom can illuminate and support your everyday choices and relationships.

Witnessing the Global Media – Towards Emotionally Intelligent Storytelling of the Future
2026-01-07 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
In Global Social Witnessing calls, we tend to attune to global crises and conflicts that we have learned about in the news. But what happens when we make the people and systems that deliver that news our focus? And what becomes present when we attend to both the media’s capacity for courageous truth-telling and its vulnerability to distortion and lies?
Join us for a unique Global Social Witnessing call where we will make space to witness the global media system – sensing into the growing risks facing journalists, and the complex interplay between the 24/7 news cycle and our individual and collective nervous systems.
While attuning to the many ways in which parts of the legacy media may remain enmeshed with the trauma architecture of the past, we will also invite the evolutionary updates that could help nurture more emotionally intelligent forms of storytelling in the future.
In this call we will explore:

Our relationship with the pressures facing journalists
How fragmentation in the media impacts the collective body
What role a trauma-restoring media culture could play in collective healing

We trust that witnessing the media is the subtlest form of intervention we can make to encourage a healing-centred turn in the media industry. Please join us.

Essay by Matthew Green: No Longer Burying The Lead: A New Media Culture for the Metacrisis

The Art of Presence - Deepening Connection through Transparent Communication
2026-01-14 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
In this community call, guided by seasoned facilitator Eva Giedt, we will move beyond the mechanics of speech to explore communication as a profound practice of attunement and embodied awareness. Transparent Communication is not simply a tool for exchange; it is a way of perceiving the subtle flows of information that move between us
Together, we will create a space of shared presence, learning how to listen not just to what is being said, but to the silence and resonance underneath. Through guided practice and relational inquiry, we will discover how slowing down and attuning to our relational fabric allows for a more authentic, fresh, and compassionate way of meeting the world and one another.
Whether you are new to this work or looking to deepen your practice, this call offers an entrance into a more “transparent” way of being in relationship—where our reactivity transforms into insight and our connections become bridges to a deeper sense of interconnectedness.
In this community call, we will explore:

Practice listening with the whole body, moving from mental processing to deep resonance.
Learn to identify and stay present with reactive patterns, allowing them to shift into clarity and understanding.
Experience how “showing up” with transparency helps co-regulate our nervous systems, fostering a collective space of calm and insight.

Harness The Healing Power of Your Breath
2026-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Why is your breath so important? – How we breathe reflects how we live.
In this community call we will gather to focus on our breath as a doorway to our mind, body and spirit. This call is the first module in a 3-part masterclass guided by Laurie Ellis-Young and George T. Ellis – Harness The Healing Power of Your Breath.
Our breath and our nervous system are deeply intertwined, playing a critical role in how we respond to stress and trauma. Through embodied practice, we will explore how the breath can support our wellbeing, and be a guide toward greater awareness, balance and connection.
“Breath is life, there is extraordinary power in your ordinary breath. Change your breath, change your life!” —Laurie Ellis-Young
You will learn to:

Utilize breath to befriend your body, mind and spirit
Understand the relationship between breath and your nervous system
Integrate specific BLIPPs (Breath Literacy’s Instant Power Practices) into daily life
Engage the ABC’s of Breath Literacy: Awareness, Balance, Connection
Employ correct mechanics for breathing optimally

Relational Alchemy – Healing the Gender Wound for Collective Peace
2026-03-04 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
In this community call, we join mathematical physicist and transpersonal psychologist Will Keepin to explore how the fundamental laws of the universe mirror the internal landscape of our social systems. Grounded in the principle of “as above, so below,” Will bridges the macrocosm of physics with the microcosm of our cellular experience, revealing how the fragmentation in our world is an echo of the unresolved divisions within the human collective.
We will examine how the ancient wound of gender disharmony fuels global cycles of violence. By addressing these foundational imbalances, we support the core mission of the World Women Summit 2026 – Women Rising for Peace, strengthening the global movement of women who are transforming the conditions of violence into the foundations of a more resilient world.
“Peace is not the absence of war, peace is the integration of the wounds of the war and the unification of the fabric of life” (Thomas Hübl).
Together, we will explore how showing up to heal our relational fabric is a biological and cosmological act—one that restores the natural flow of life from the individual cell to the global body.
In this community call, we will explore:

The Fractal Nature of Peace: How the principle of “as above, so below” applies to social change – where healing our internal and relational “cells” updates the blueprint of the global body.
Physics of Reconciliation: Moving beyond binary opposition to co-create other pathways of understanding between all genders, informed by both quantum principles and transpersonal psychology.
Restoring the Balance: Understanding how elevating women’s leadership and restoring gender equity are necessary for dismantling structures of violence and building a more compassionate world.

This call is an introduction to a 3-part masterclass, inviting you to go deeper with the practice. Read more and join the masterclass here >>

Women Rising Across Divides – International Women's Day Call on Women's Power for Peace
2026-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Berlin)
On March 8th, International Women’s Day, we invite you into a shared global moment of connection, co-regulation, and remembrance.
Across history and across cultures, women have carried a profound and often unrecognised capacity: to build relationships across divides, to humanise the “other,” and to interrupt cycles of violence before they harden into war. This relational power—quiet, courageous, and deeply human—has shaped peace processes, sustained communities, and kept dialogue alive in the most polarised and painful contexts. In times of conflict, women have been a source of regulation, co-regulation and collective holding.
In this public pre–World Women Summit call, Deb Dana and Kosha Joubert will come together to honour and illuminate this feminine capacity for peace and regulation. Together, we will explore what enables women to stand in fractured spaces with clarity and compassion; to listen beyond positions; to meet fear, grief, and anger without turning away; and to hold open the possibility of peace when it seems least imaginable.
Together, we will explore:

Relational courage in times of conflict – how women hold presence, dignity, and connection in polarised and violent contexts

The inner foundations of peacebuilding – befriending the nervous system , meeting fear and grief, and staying human under pressure
From lived practice to collective impact – how women’s everyday peace work connects into a global movement for lasting change

This call is an invitation to women everywhere—leaders, activists, peacebuilders, mothers, elders, daughters, and allies—to gather, be nourished, and strengthen the field of peace we are already holding.
Join us on International Women’s Day as we honour what women carry—and rise together toward the World Women Summit 2026: Women Rising for Peace.

Cultivating Cultures of Welcome – An Intro Call for Organizations of Welcome
2026-03-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
How do we strengthen the social fabric of welcome in times of polarization and rapid change? What would it look like if integration were a two-way process—one where systems also learn and adapt? We will gather as organizations committed to building welcoming communities to learn more about the Cultivating Cultures of Welcome project.
This session offers both orientation and participation. Together, we will:

Introduce the intentions, framework, and emerging vision of the Cultivating Cultures of Welcome project
Explore the opportunities and tensions present in current inclusion efforts
Take time to complete the needs assessment collectively, allowing shared reflection and dialogue
Open space for questions, clarifications, and connection

By completing the needs assessment in community, we move beyond individual responses and begin strengthening the field of welcome itself, recognizing that sustainable cultures of welcome are built through relationship, reflection, and shared learning.
If your organization is committed to fostering belonging and strengthening community resilience, we would be honored to have you with us.

Cultivating Cultures of Welcome – An Intro Call for Migrant-serving Organizations
2026-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
What becomes possible when truly feel welcomed? In this interactive introductory call, we invite migrant-serving organizations into a shared space to learn more about the Cultivating Cultures of Welcome project.
This session is designed as a participatory space. Together, we will:

Explore the emerging vision and foundations of the Cultivating Cultures of Welcome project
Reflect on the relational and systemic challenges migrant-serving organizations are currently navigating
Complete the project’s needs assessment in community, allowing for shared insight and collective sense-making
Engage in open Q&A about participation, process, and next steps

Completing the assessment in community offers a space to think, reflect, and respond together, strengthening connection across organizations while clarifying what support is most needed in this moment.
If you are working directly with migrant communities and are seeking ways to deepen resilience, relational capacity, and sustainable integration pathways, we warmly invite you to join us.

Listening Across the Threshold – A Social Witnessing Event on Migration and Cultures of Welcome
2026-04-14 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Hosted in English with simultaneous translation in German
The experience of migration touches something essential in all of us, our longing to belong, to be seen, and to find our place in a new world. In this global social witnessing event, we turn toward the human dimension of arrival and integration, creating a space to listen across differences and hold multiple realities at once. At a time when migration is so often reduced to policy and polarization, we return to what lies beneath: the stories, the resilience, and the quiet courage that shape every journey.
Across the United States and Europe, the question of how societies respond to migration has never felt more urgent. In the US, mass deportation operations, the dismantling of asylum protections, and the criminalization of migrants have created a climate of fear for millions of people with lived migration experience. In Europe, border crackdowns, and the erosion of humanitarian commitments have left many who sought safety feeling unwelcome and unseen. And yet, within these same societies, countless individuals, communities, and institutions are quietly working to hold open a different possibility, one rooted in dignity, care, and genuine welcome.
Listening to voices from German institutions and from people with lived migration experience, we explore how sustainable integration depends not only on systems, but on our capacity to stay present and meet complexity with openness. What does it feel like to arrive somewhere new and not yet belong? And what becomes possible when those who hold institutional roles truly listen, not to manage or fix, but to witness and receive?
Together, we will inquire into how a culture of welcome emerges, whether in the moments where we attune to one another across difference, where trauma and resilience are honored side by side, or where belonging begins to feel like something we co-create rather than grant.
Rooted in the vision of the Cultures of Welcome Project, this gathering invites us to sense what shifts when stories are truly witnessed and received with attention.
In this event, we will explore:

Deep Listening and Social Witnessing: Cultivating the inner steadiness to stay present with stories that differ from our own, and to hold complexity without collapsing it.
Bridging Institutional and Lived Perspectives: Exploring how cultures of welcome are built across the gap between systems and the people they serve, and what it asks of each of us.
Trauma and Resilience: Sensing how our own histories shape our ability to welcome others, and how healing happens in relationship.
Co-Creating Cultures of Welcome: Exploring what becomes possible when arrival is met not just with procedures, but with genuine human presence and care.

Staying Present When Things Fall Apart – Resilience as Coherence Across Individuals, Relationships, and Systems
2026-04-20 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
In a world of increasing instability, how do we remain grounded, connected, and able to act? How do we build the capacity to move through disruption without losing ourselves or each other?
This conversation marks the launch of a new Policy Brief from the Pocket Project based on a recent study of a systematic review and analysis of 53 studies on resilience in contexts of collective trauma by Japhet Niyonsenga and colleagues. The findings challenge familiar assumptions: that resilience means returning to normal, that it is an individual capacity, or that it can be built through technical solutions alone.
What emerges instead is a more complex and collective picture: resilience as the capacity to maintain coherence and continuity of identity while undergoing transformation. It develops not in isolation, but through the interaction of individual capacities, relationships, cultural meaning, and structural conditions.
In this event, we will explore:

Understanding Disruption: How complex systems actually move through crisis, and what this means for how we work with individuals, communities, and institutions.
Presence as Foundation: Why the capacity to remain present with difficulty — rather than avoid it — is central to resilience at every level.
Relational and Systemic Practice: How leaders, practitioners, and communities can cultivate the conditions for coherence, trust, and shared meaning in times of stress.

Cultivating Resilience Together – Exploring Self-Regulation, Co-Regulation, and the Power of Collective Wellbeing
2026-04-22 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
The wellbeing of our individual nervous systems and the wellbeing of our communities are deeply intertwined. In this community call, we turn toward what it means to cultivate cultures of resilience—within ourselves and with one another. Resilience is the inner capacity to regulate, ground, and find agency in the face of challenge. It is not the absence of pain or difficulty, but the ability to stay connected—to our bodies, to each other, and to what matters most.
In this session with Anne Huhn and Heidi Wohlhüter, we will explore the interplay between self-regulation and co-regulation, between personal wellbeing and the collective field. How do we become steady enough within ourselves to stay present in moments of tension or uncertainty? And how do we extend that steadiness outward, contributing to spaces where others can soften, land, and belong?
Together, we will inquire into how resilience is not something we build alone, but something that emerges in relationship—in the spaces where we listen, attune, and respond with care. As we deepen our capacity to be with our own experience, we become more available to meet the experiences of others, weaving threads of mutual support within our communities.
This call offers a space to slow down, listen inwardly, and practice being in connection—with ourselves and with one another. It also marks the launch of the Pocket Project’s Resilience Program—a body of work evolving over the past four years through the Ukraine Trauma Relief Project, now opening as an invitation to deepen into resilience together.
In this community call, we will explore:

Inner Resourcing: Cultivating nervous system awareness and recognizing our needs, rhythms, and capacities.
Relational Skills: Strengthening our ability to show up with honesty, presence, and care in our relationships and communities.
Collective Resilience: Sensing how shared regulation and mutual support can nourish grounded, responsive, and life-giving systems.

Global Healing Day – Building Resilience Together
2026-04-25 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Hosted in English with simultaneous live translation in Ukrainian, German and Arabic.
In honor of Global Healing Day on the 25th of April, this Global Social Witnessing call invites us into a deeper exploration of collective resilience as an important quality of collective healing. Global Healing Day is not a single event but a living field of co-creation, a shared pause, a remembering, a decentralised ecosystem of people, organisations, and networks acting in synergy to spark healing across all systems. On this day, we are invited to contribute to a shared pulse of healing.
As we gather within this moment and movement, we turn our attention to an essential capacity of our time: the ability to remain grounded, connected, and resourced in the face of adversity. Resilience is not the absence of pain or difficulty, but the ability to remain connected to oneself and others through hardship, and to find agency in the midst of conflict. We are also delighted to mark this occasion with the launch of the Pocket Project’s Resilience Program, a trauma-informed training for practitioners, leaders, and community stewards dedicated to building societal resilience from the inside out.
Hearing from voices across regions touched by displacement, conflict, and collective trauma, we bear witness to our shared stories and explore what it means to cultivate resilience — within ourselves, our relationships, and the communities we are part of. How do we stabilise our nervous systems when the ground feels uncertain? How do we remain present to others when we ourselves are stretched? And how can the circles we host and inhabit become sources of collective strength and relational repair?
In this Global Social Witnessing Call, we will explore:

Bearing Witness: Honoring the stories of those living through acute crisis, conflict, and collective hardship, and cultivating the inner steadiness to remain present without turning away.
Grounding and Regulation: Exploring practices that support nervous system stabilization and co-regulation, so that we may become anchors of calm within the systems and communities we serve.
Resilience in Relationship: Discovering how resilience circles, trauma-informed facilitation, and relational awareness can strengthen social connection, restore coherence, and sustain communities through ongoing change.

Cultures of Welcome for Social Resilience
2026-05-09 17:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin)
In-Person Interactive Workshop on May 9, 2026 in Berlin (bUm): Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin.
How do we create workforce integration that strengthens society — not through pressure and adaptation alone, but through resilient systems capable of welcome?
At a time when migration continues to shape our societies, this practice-based gathering in Berlin is an exploration into what it means to build cultures of resilience within our communities and beyond. It honours the wisdom already alive in our communities while opening space for dialogue, learning, and embodied practice. Together with diverse actors across sectors, we will explore integration as a mutual, systemic, and relational process.
Listening to voices from German institutions and from people with lived migration experience, we explore how sustainable workforce integration depends not only on systems, but on our capacity to stay present and meet complexity with openness. We are also delighted to mark this gathering with the launch of the Cultures of Welcome initiative, a trauma-informed leadership & resilience facilitation training for practitioners, leaders, and community stewards dedicated to building societal resilience from the inside out.
What to expect:

Listening to the Field: Lived experiences from migrants and refugees in Germany, research insights on collective trauma and integration and perspectives from workforce integration initiatives.

Making the Invisible Visible: Exchange and share tools for resilience building, collective sensemaking through narrative-based formats.

Social Presencing Circles: A reflective space to surface what becomes visible when we truly listen across differences — and across sectors.
From Insight to Commitment: What capacity is most missing? What small prototype could we test in the next 6 months? An introduction to the two-part learning journey ahead.
Catering: Refreshments from inclusive catering services and networking

How to Participate:
Please sign up using the form below to save your spot. After registering, you will receive an email providing more details about the program.
About the Pocket Project:
This event is hosted by the Pocket Project, a global initiative supporting collective trauma integration and resilience through practice-based frameworks such as the Resilience Program and Global Social Witnessing, working in partnership with communities in contexts of inequality, conflict, and historic trauma. Read more about us here.
