Resilience Program

Overview

The Resilience Program offers a comprehensive, practice-based training in healing-centred leadership and resilience facilitation, cultivating the inner capacities and relational competencies needed to host resilient conversations and circles in families, teams, communities, and across societal sectors.

In a time of war, displacement, fragmentation, and rising polarization, we are being asked not only to be with complexity but to stay grounded within it. Leaders today need more than technical skill — they need a regulated nervous system, inner maturity, relational depth, systemic awareness, and trauma-sensitive perception. This program helps participants build these capacities through steady practice, cultivating the ability to remain present, receptive, and attuned even in moments of intensity.

Trauma can fracture lives and communities, but when met with care and awareness, it can become a doorway to renewal and deeper connection. The Resilience Program equips participants to walk this trajectory consciously, cultivating the capacities that enable post-traumatic growth for themselves and those they accompany.

The primary program is offered in English, with dedicated strands unfolding in Ukrainian, Arabic, and German to support societal resilience and cultures of welcome.

Program strands

Global Majority

Frontline Workers

African Strand

Jewish Strand

Ukrainian Strand

Arabic Strand

German Strand

English Overall

Join the Program

Become part of a global network committed to nurturing resilience, coherence, and healing across societal spaces.

Three-Phase Training Pathway

The Resilience Program unfolds in three interlinked phases. Participants may join only Phase 1 or apply to continue into Phases 2 and 3.

Completion of Phase 1 is required for entry into Phases 2 and 3. (Previous completion of a PP Trauma-Informed Leadership course fulfils this requirement)

PHASE 1 –
Healing-Centred Leadership

focuses on trauma-informed approaches, building the embodied, relational, and systemic foundations for safe and ethical practice.

PHASE 2 –
Resilience Facilitation

teaches the practical skills of facilitating resilience conversations and circles, enabling participants to hold attuned dialogue spaces across different contexts.

Supervised Practice
Phase

offers supervised practice, feedback, and integration in context specific peer groups, supporting real-world application.

Phase 1

Healing-Centred Leadership

Building the Inner Foundations for Resilient Conversations & Circles

6 Modules + 3 Integration Sessions

7 months

Course Duration

50 hours

Certification

Live & Recorded

Online Session

2 hours

Weekly Time Investment

Modules

Inner Grounding • Trauma Literacy • Relational Attunement • Systemic Awareness

English with simultaneous translation; integration sessions delivered within language- and context-specific strands.

Phase 1 develops the personal, relational, and systemic readiness needed for any trauma-informed practitioner. Participants learn how to ground themselves, attune to others, understand trauma dynamics, and sense the wider systemic fields that shape human experience. These capacities are the ethical core of later facilitation work.

Module 1

May 12, 5-7pm CET - With Kosha Joubert & Rola Halam

The Principle of Care: Foundations of Resilience

Participants explore care as an ethical foundation, trauma as a relational wound, and healing as relational restoration. They learn why presence and coherence are essential leadership capacities and orient to the inner and outer responsibilities of trauma-informed practice.

Integration Session 1 - May 13, 5-7pm CET

Module 2

May 19, 5-7pm CET - With Deb Dana

Befriending Self: Inner Safety, Regulation & Embodied Presence

Focuses on cultivating inner stability, nervous-system awareness, and compassionate understanding of protection patterns in self. Participants build a personal Resilience Toolkit, learn regulation and somatic tracking, and begin to “host themselves with care.”

Module 3

June 2, 5-7pm CET - Kosha Joubert

Befriending Other: Power, Oppression & Harm Repair

This module brings a healing-centred lens to how power, inequity, and historical patterns shape personal relationships in communities and teams. Participants examine how harm can arise in groups and teams, engage in truth-telling and witnessing, and practice tools for accountability, inclusion, and repair.

Integration Session 2 - May 27, 5-7pm CET

Module 4

June 9, 5-7pm CET - Scherto Gill

Befriending Other: Relational Attunement & Trauma Sensitivity

This module brings a healing-centred lens to histories of brutality and explores how intergenerational dialogue can break cycles of silence and restore communal resilience. Participants explore multidimensional harm and unintegrated trauma across generations, while cultivating attentive listening, mutual recognition, and dignity-centred dialogue through witnessing circles, inquiry, and re-storying practices.

Integration Session 3 - june 13, 5-7pm CET

Module 5

June 16, 5-7pm CET - Pat McCabe

Befriending Life: Systemic Sensing, the Living Past & Regeneration

Participants learn to sense systemic, ancestral, and ecological influences — the “more-than-individual” dimensions shaping human experience. Through systemic and earth-based practices, they explore regenerative principles and deepen their sense of relational belonging.

Module 6

June 22, 7-9pm CET - Thomas Hübl

Befriending Humanity: Collective Trauma & Healing Architectures

Introduces frameworks for working with collective trauma fields, mapping collective patterns, understanding the stages of integration, and designing healing-informed group processes. Participants prepare for the shift into practical facilitation in Phase 2.

Integration Sessions (3)

Delivered in the relevant language strands, these sessions support:

integrating the module themes in smaller groups,
strengthening peer learning,
deepening embodiment,
contextualising tools within local realities.

They ensure participants can personalize and contextualize Phase 1 learning before entering Phase 2.

PHASE 1

Foundations of Healing-Centred Practice

6 Modules + Integration Sessions

Inner Grounding • Trauma Literacy • Relational Attunement • Systemic Awareness

Phase 1 establishes the inner and systemic foundations for trauma-informed leadership. Participants develop embodied safety, nervous-system literacy, presence, relational coherence, and cultural sensitivity — the essential capacities for becoming a Healing-Centred Practitioner.

Modules include:

The Principle of Care —
purpose, ethics, and orientation

Trauma & Culture —
truth-telling, equity, repair

Befriending Self —
regulation, protection, patterns, inner safety

Collective Trauma & Healing Architectures –
fields, group processes, design principles

Befriending Other —
relational intelligence, attunement, co-
regulation

Systemic & Ancestral Awareness —
the “living past,” nature connection, regeneration

By the end of Phase 1, participants feel grounded, present, and prepared for relational and group-level work

PHASE 2

Resilience Facilitation

6 Modules + Integration Sessions

Skills for Providing Grounded, Trauma-Informed & Regulating Spaces

Building on the inner and relational foundations of Phase 1, Phase 2 trains participants in applied facilitation across diverse societal settings.They learn to open and hold safe dialogue spaces, guide group sharings, navigate activation and tension, and steward emergent collective processes.

Practical competencies include:

Opening safe containers and trauma-informed agreements

Regulating and resourcing the relational field

Strengthening coherence and deep listening

Navigating conflict, polarization, and emotional intensity

Facilitating emergence, silence, and unscripted moments

Preparing for Resilience Conversations or Resilience Circle sessions

This phase prepares participants to host conversations that foster connection, integration, clarity, and resilience in workplaces, community groups, families, and civic spaces.

PHASE 3

SUPERVISED PRACTICE

4 MENTORING CALLS + PEER GROUP SESSIONS

Applied facilitation • Peer learning • Embodiment over time

In Phase 3, participants are allocated to language, context and culturally-specific

peer groups of 8-10 participants. Phase 3 supports participants in applying what

they have learned through:

guided
practice sessions

peer

feedback

mentoring with

experienced

practitioners

and continued refinement

of inner and relational

competencies

This phase mirrors real-world facilitation and strengthens the confidence required to hold resilient conversations in complex environments.

Core Philosophy

Human beings are deeply interconnected. Our nervous systems, relationships, and the collective fields we participate in continuously influence one another. When trauma remains unprocessed, it can shape individuals, communities, and institutions in ways that perpetuate fragmentation and conflict.

Resilience and trauma integration are therefore not only personal processes but essential capacities for healthy societies. By strengthening our ability to regulate, stay connected, and engage consciously with difficult experiences, we contribute to restoring coherence within ourselves and within the systems we are part of.

Background: Understanding Resilience and Trauma

Resilience and trauma are closely related human responses to challenge.

Resilience is the capacity of individuals and collectives to regulate their nervous systems, remain grounded, and maintain connection and agency in difficult circumstances. It enables people and communities to respond to stress and uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed.

Trauma is the inner response of an individual or collective to an overwhelming experience. When events exceed our capacity to process them, their impact can remain stored in the nervous system. If not integrated, trauma can continue to influence behaviour, perception, and relationships long after the original event has passed, shaping both individuals and cultures.

An important aspect of trauma-informed leadership is recognizing the wider context in which we live.

At times societies experience periods of “hot trauma”—moments of acute crisis such as war, displacement, or disaster. In these situations, the primary work is resilience: stabilising nervous systems, strengthening social connection, and supporting people to endure and navigate the present moment.

In periods of relative stability, communities can engage more fully in trauma integration, creating spaces to process painful experiences, repair relationships, and transform trauma into learning and collective growth.

Healthy societies require both capacities: the ability to remain resilient during crisis and the ability to integrate trauma when conditions allow.

Why This Training Matters

Across many regions of the world, people are living with ongoing crisis, conflict, and collective stress. In such contexts, resilience is not an abstract concept—it is a practical necessity.

Through initiatives such as the Ukraine Trauma Relief Project, the Pocket Project has supported thousands of people with psychosocial support, resilience training, and trauma-informed leadership development. These efforts show that when individuals cultivate self-regulation, relational awareness, and trauma-sensitive facilitation skills, they can become anchors of stability and resilience within their communities.

The Resilience Program builds on these experiences and expands this work to further contexts through dedicated language and regional strands:

Ukrainian — for those supporting communities affected by war and displacement
Arabic — for practitioners working across the Middle East and diaspora
German — for multicultural circles strengthening Cultures of Welcome
English — for practitioners from diverse contexts (including African and Global Majority communities, Jewish communities, frontline workers, and citizens working to address polarization)

Each strand follows a shared curriculum while offering language-specific integration sessions and culturally adapted support.

Through this program, leaders, facilitators, and community members develop the capacities needed to host spaces that restore connection, strengthen collective resilience, and empower people to respond to crisis with clarity, dignity, and care.

Registration

Middle & High Income

If you’re able to choose this price, you’ll help us offer scholarships to participants from the Global South and crisis areas—supporting a more inclusive and compassionate field.

€245

Low Income

This reduced price is for those with lower income—it’s our way of making the training more accessible while honoring your commitment to this work.

€175

Scholarships

We are offering full scholarships for the Resilience Program Training to participants from crisis areas, members of the Global Majority and indigenous leaders.

the Facilitators of Phase 1