RESILIENCE PROGRAM

Trauma-Informed Leadership for Societal Resilience

A three-phase professional training for practitioners, leaders, and community stewards

Overview

Resilience is the inner capacity of an individual or collective to regulate, ground, and find agency in the face of challenge. It is not the absence of pain or difficulty, but the ability to remain connected to oneself and others through adversity.

The Resilience Program is a practice-based training in resilience leadership and resilience facilitation. It supports participants to cultivate the inner stability, relational skills, and systemic awareness needed to host resilient conversations and circles within families, teams, communities, and across societal sectors.

Resilience work sits alongside social justice work. It helps individuals and communities remain resourced and connected while navigating hardship, conflict, and change, while also helping us discern when the moment calls for trauma integration and when the priority is stabilisation and survival.

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

Join the Program

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

Program strands

Global Majority

Frontline Workers

African Strand

Jewish Strand

Ukrainian Strand

Arabic Strand

German Strand

English Overall

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.

Resilience Leadership

May - June 2026

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

Resilience Facilitation

July - Sep 2026

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

Practice Phase

Sep - Dec 2026

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

Dedicated Strands

To ensure cultural relevance, accessibility, and depth of integration, the program is offered through a number of language and context-specific strands.

Current language strands include:

Ukrainian — supporting communities affected by war and displacement

Arabic — for practitioners across the Middle East and diaspora

German — strengthening systemic integration capacities and societal cultures of welcome

English — for participants from diverse global contexts

Ukrainian

supporting communities affected by war and displacement

Arabic

for practitioners across the Middle East and diaspora

German

strengthening systemic integration capacities and societal cultures of welcome

English

or participants from diverse global contexts

In addition to language-based groups, participants joining the English strand will be able to select from dedicated community-focused strands. These are currently in formation and are intended to support deeper resonance and shared context. They are likely to include specific spaces for Global Majority participants, African communities, Jewish communities, and others.

Each strand follows the shared core curriculum, while offering language-specific integration sessions and culturally attuned support. This structure allows participants to engage the material in ways that are both globally connected and locally meaningful.

Extend Your Learning:
Academic Certification Pathway

For participants who wish to deepen their training and connect their learning to a formal academic pathway, the Resilience Program can be integrated into the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Collective Trauma Integration Process
(CTIP).

Offered in collaboration with the Academy of Inner Science and Witten/Herdecke University, this pathway combines experiential training with academic study and leads to a recognized university certificate (30 ECTS credits).

Phase 1

Resilience Leadership

2 months

Course Duration

20 hours

Certification

Live & Recorded

Online Session

2 hours

Weekly Time

Building the Inner Foundations for Resilient Conversations & Circles

6 Modules + Integration Sessions

Inner Grounding • Trauma Literacy • Relational Attunement • Systemic Awareness

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

Phase 1 establishes the inner and systemic foundations for trauma-informed leadership. Participants cultivate embodied safety, nervous system literacy, presence, relational coherence, and cultural sensitivity — core capacities for becoming a Resilience Leader.

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

Themes:

● The Principle of Care as an ethical foundation
● Trauma as a relational wound, healing as relational restoration
● The interplay between trauma, resilience, and societal fragmentation
● Orienting toward presence and coherence as leadership competencies
● The practitioner as a vessel: inner readiness and outer responsibility

Learning Outcomes:

Participants understand the purpose of healing-centred work, the foundational
ethics of trauma-informed practice, and their role within a larger field.

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.”

Themes:

● Polyvagal-informed foundations of safety & connection
● Differentiating trauma from overwhelm, activation, and shutdown
● Befriending protection patterns with compassion
● The link between inner coherence and holding space for others

Learning Outcomes:

Participants cultivate embodied stability, understand their own regulation pathways,
and begin to host themselves with care.

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

Module 3

June 2, 5-7pm CET - Kosha Joubert

Befriending Other: Relational Attunement & Trauma Sensitivity

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.

Themes:

● Trauma-informed relational principles
● Attunement vs. enmeshment
● How trauma shows up in teams: freeze, conflict, avoidance
● Building relational coherence

● The relational field as co-created

Learning Outcomes:

Participants deepen relational intelligence, strengthen their capacity to attune, and
begin to sense group fields with more nuance.

Module 4

June 9, 5-7pm CET - Scherto Gill

Befriending Other: Intergenerational Resilience Repair

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.

Themes:

● Wounds: (multi-dimensional harm – relational, spiritual, cultural, and
structural)
● Trauma (unhealed trauma – the cycles of silence and victimhood)
● Wisdom (intergenerational resilience – attention, attunement and temporal
continuity)
● Dignity (mutual recognition, mutual belongingness, and co-flourishing)

Learning Outcomes:

Strengthen understanding of multidimensional harm and build capacity to facilitate
culturally grounded, dignity-centred healing through intergenerational listening,
dialogue, and inquiry.

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.

Themes:

● Systems sensing: listening to the wider field
● Intergenerational patterns & the “living past”
● Trauma in the land, ecology, and communities
● The human–nature relationship as a site of healing
● Regenerative cultures & planetary belonging

Learning Outcomes:

Participants expand their scope from the interpersonal to the systemic and learn to
sense the wider ecological, ancestral, and cultural fields.

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.

Themes:

● What is collective trauma? Six stages of integration
● How collective fields shape individuals, groups & societies
● Principles for designing healing architectures

● Navigating liminal spaces in group facilitation

● Preparing for Phase 2: the shift from inner work to group holding

Learning Outcomes:

Participants understand collective trauma dynamics, can track collective fields, and
feel prepared to move into the facilitation training of Phase 2.

Integration Sessions

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.

Extend Your Learning:

Coaching Support

The Resilience Program can be complemented by Pocket Project Coaching as part of a broader ecosystem of integration and practice pathways. For participants who wish to deepen their learning, there is an opportunity to receive one-on-one coaching support focused on real-world application.

This pathway is offered through the Pocket Project and provides personalized guidance to help integrate course insights, strengthen facilitation capacity, and support embodied practice.

Academic accreditation

The Resilience Program and Global Social Witnessing Facilitator Course are part of a broader ecosystem of advanced training pathtways in collective trauma integration. For participants who wish for formal academic recognition, there is an opportunity to receive EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER SYSTEM (ECTS) credits and a formal university certificate.

This pathway is offered through a collaboration between the Pocket Project, the Academy of Inner Science, founded by Thomas Hubl, and Written Herdecke University in Germany.

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 amidst ongoing crisis, conflict, and collective stress. In such contexts, resilience is not an abstract concept — it is a lived and 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 experiences show that when individuals cultivate self-regulation, relational awareness, and trauma-sensitive facilitation skills, they can become anchors of stability within their communities. They become Resilience facilitators.

The Resilience Program builds on this work, supporting leaders, facilitators, and community members to develop the capacities needed to host spaces that restore connection, strengthen collective resilience, and enable more grounded and dignified responses to crisis.

Extend Your Learning: Coaching Support

For participants who wish to deepen their learning and bring it more fully into practice, the Resilience Program can be complemented by Pocket Project Coaching.

This optional coaching pathway offers one-on-one support to help translate course insights into real-world application. Coaching can strengthen your capacity to host resilient conversations and circles.

This means:

● You may participate in the Resilience Program as a standalone training, or
● You may choose to add a coaching package to support integration during or after the program

This flexible structure allows you to engage the learning in a way that is both personally meaningful and grounded in your practice or work.

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

the Facilitators of Phase 1