Trauma-Informed Leadership

Trauma-Informed Leadership Course II
with Thomas Huebl & Team
For Communities, NGOs and Aid Organizations
MaY - SEPTEMBER 2022
About the Course
This course offers a refinement and deepening of our first Trauma-informed Leadership Course from 2021. We will offer additional Integration Sessions, Affinity Group Sessions and Practice Groups in Spanish, Ukrainian and German.
As trauma-informed leaders, we develop our skills for systemic healing, becoming more able to integrate the past, fulfil our potential and create new opportunities and possibilities with our teams.
When experience meets us in our open, vulnerable and responsive aspects, it becomes water, fluid life. I can respond to my life circumstances as a leader. But if snowflakes fall onto ice and my life experiences meet me in my trauma, I can’t respond to the life circumstance, and then we call it a problem, a difficulty, a challenge…
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Tools for the cultivation of presence, resilience and spaciousness - nurturing self-growth and compassion
Tools and frameworks to refine our leadership and develop trauma-informed guidelines and healing architectures
Willingness to engage with ‘difficulties’ as the way, rather than in the way - cultivating curiosity and catalysing latent intelligence
Ability to engage more skillfully with team and community challenges, including the ability to recognize and respond more adequately to symptoms of stress and trauma
Increased capacity for relational and systems sensing - the ability to meet the communities, organisations and environments we serve with a higher level of response-ability
Access to a global network of like-minded conscientious innovators and change-makers
If everybody looks through broken glass, then together, we are looking at a world that looks broken. When I notice my crack in my window, and you notice yours, and we start healing our cracks, then we begin to look at the world through clear glass. And that’s what trauma healing does. It starts unifying the world.
Programme outline
All course sessions with take place from 7-9pm CET (Central European) – You can use this Time Zone Converter to convert to another time zone.
Public Module 0: Why Trauma-Informed Leadership?
April 26, 2022 - Thomas Hübl
- How can we wake up to the hidden variable in our societal matrix: individual, ancestral and collective trauma?
- How can each of us become a focal point for relationality and coherence?
- How can we build a collective body to heal our collective wounds?
Module 1: Leading in Times of Complexity
May 24, 2022 Thomas Hübl
- Exploring the nature of individual, ancestral and collective resilience and trauma
- Reflecting on the nature of complexity and our purpose as leaders
- Learning about vision and engagement as two core activities of leaders
Module 2: Leadership & Personal Resilience
May 31, 2022 - Thomas Hübl
- Accessing our sources of resilience to lead from a place of clarity and compassion in times of crisis
- Reflecting on the nature of personal trauma and how our inner work builds a solid foundation for our outer work
- Understanding how the qualities of vulnerability and strength can combine in our leadership
Module 3: Basic Competencies for Self- & Co-Regulation
June 7, 2022 - Kosha Joubert
- Cultivating presence & relating in our service to the world
- Gathering our toolkit of basic competencies for inner resilience, resourcing and trauma recognition
- Exploring topics of self-care and group coherence
Module 4: Leadership & Organisational Resilience
June 21, 2022 - Thomas Hübl
- Looking at the past and acknowledging what happened to your organisation that was traumatising
- How can rapid learning loops be initiated that help the organisation to move towards trauma sensitivity and trauma integration?
- What is needed for a process of integration and restoration that leads to ongoing organisational resilience?
Module 5: Leadership & Team Resilience
July 5, 2022 - Jens Riese
- Accessing sources of resilience for teams
- Expanding our capacity for trauma recognition and trauma-informed collaboration within our teams
- Exploring the significance of our influence as a leaders
Module 6: Leadership & Collective Resilience
July 12, 2022 - THOMAS HÜBL
- Acknowledging the larger cultural and historical dynamics of collective resilience and trauma which your organisation is working within
- Assessing the effects of the fields of trauma that you are addressing as an organization on your team and structures
- Strengthening your contribution towards societal and cultural trauma sensitivity and trauma integration
Module 7: Racialized Trauma & Resilience
July 26, 2022 - Karen Simms
- Exploring the signs and symptoms of racialized trauma and how it impacts a team’s climate and culture
- Adopting essential elements to respond to those impacted by racialized trauma and avoid further traumatization
- Understanding how to identify and embrace cultural diversity as a strength to foster and build
Module 8: Leading from the Future
Aug 16, 2022 - Robin Alfred
- What is the nature of the future and how might it resource us for our journey?
- How can we create the inner conditions and outer practices to distinguish the whisper of the future from the habits of the past?
- How can we innovate as individuals, teams and organizations?
Module 9: Cultivating a Healing Architecture
Sept 13, 2022 - Thomas Hübl
- Contextualising ‘Guidelines for Trauma-Informed Practice’ for communities and organizations
- Adopting essential elements to respond to those impacted by trauma and avoid further traumatisation
- Understanding how to identify and embrace cultural diversity as a strength to foster and build
+ 3 Advanced Sessions for those who have completed TILC-I.
+ 3 Integration Sessions – 2 Aug, 23 Aug, 6 Sept – 19-21:00 CET
+ 2 Sessions in Affinity Groups – dates to be announced
COURSE REGISTRATION
*Payment for the course is in Euros. The price in dollars will depend on the conversion rates on the day on which the payment is being made.
All income from this course will support the non-profit work of the Pocket Project!
Scholarships
We are offering full scholarships for the Trauma-informed Leadership Course to People of Colour from the ‘Global South’ and/or Ukrainians. Alternatively, if you don’t have the resources to cover the costs of the course, you can apply here for a 50% reduction. Welcome!
The team

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.

Kosha Anja Joubert
serves as CEO of the Pocket Project. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, curriculum development and intercultural collaboration. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to the healing of divides and collective trauma ever since. Kosha has received the Dadi Janki Award for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award for her work with the Global Ecovillage Network. She serves as host and mentor on Thomas’ online courses, co-moderated two Celebrate Life Festivals and was a co-host of the 2019 and 2020 Online Summit on Collective Trauma.

Robin Alfred
is an organisational consultant, facilitator, trainer and executive coach – and a Senior Programme Director for Olivier Mythodrama. Robin worked in criminal justice in London, before moving to the Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland in 1995 where he founded Open Circle Consultancy. He has extensive experience of leading and developing groups and individuals across all sectors – corporate, public, and third sector. His facilitation work is designed to cultivate the self-organizing principle in groups and individuals and to support the emergence of transformational fields. Robin is a registered facilitator for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Robin has been studying with Thomas Hübl for the past 12 years. He has served as a host and mentor for almost all of Thomas Hübl’s online courses, co-moderated two of the Celebrate Life Festivals and was a co-host of the 2019 and 2020 Online Summit on Collective Trauma.

Karen Simms
is an extremely skilled trauma-informed coach, community leader, organizational founder and deeply loving soul. Her consummate skills, clear vision and commitment to trauma-informed communities and healing including racial equity, generational wounding and community healing from a heart of love.

Jens Riese
works as transformational coach, trauma therapist, leadership trainer and social change facilitator. He has been supporting government, NGO and company leaders, as well as communities through transformations for 20 years. As Senior Partner at McKinsey he co-founded and led practices for sustainability, economic development and centered leadership. Jens supported more than 20 countries and 50 companies in designing and implementing plans for a more sustainable and resilient economy. He pioneered the use of lab approaches to engage diverse stakeholders from all sectors in social change and crisis recovery, incl. in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. Jens has been studying intensively with Thomas Hübl and has hosted some of his online events. His therapeutic training includes IFS, NARM, NLP, LCP, somatic and team coaching. He has a PhD and research background in developmental and evolutionary biology as well as environmental management.

Laura Calderón De La Barca
is an integral-intuitive psychotherapist , cultural analyst and collective healing researcher who lives in Mexico City. Her engagement with collective trauma led her to write in 2007 a PhD thesis that analyzed her home country, Mexico, in an imagined psychotherapeutic session. She has studied with Thomas Hübl since 2016, and is a graduate of the Pocket Project training which completed in 2018. She has conducted online therapy sessions with people in English and Spanish since 2012, presents on psycho-education, and carries out “Healing from Colonialism” workshops with Indigenous communities in Mexico and other countries. She is on the Steering Committees for Research, Colonialism and Writing groups for the Pocket Project
