Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

What changes when the body is no longer a place of suffering but of joy and presence? How does collective healing shape individual transformation? And how would the world change if women reclaimed their bodies as home?

Animated by these questions, Stephanie Pizarro joined María Troya and Karla Mejía to co-lead a Pocket Project International Lab exploring the theme "Embodying the Feminine" in 2024.

Joined by more than 40 women from 15 countries across Latin America, the year-long exploration helped participants to renew their relationship with their physicality – rooting them in deeper levels of pleasure, wisdom and resilience.

In this episode, Stephanie recounts the process of personal and ancestral healing that helped her begin to release the generations of stress that had accumulated in her system from the many decades of conflict in her native Colombia.

That journey, in turn, fired her passion for working with other Latin American women to dissolve layers of collective and inter-generational trauma – and restore their trust in the underlying intelligence of life itself.

Now focused on serving the wider cause of collective healing by writing a PhD on the qualities of effective facilitation, Stephanie's story will speak to anyone who wants to gain a deeper appreciation of the universal principles of trauma integration – and grasp the essential role that creativity plays in this work.

Further Resources:

Pocket Project

Pocket Project Lab: Inhabiting the Female Body

Academy of Inner Science Research

About Stephanie Pizarro:

Stephanie Renata Pizarro Coy is a Colombian researcher contributing to the evolving field of collective healing in social systems. Her work as an executive coach, author, and certified collective trauma facilitator is grounded in deep transformation, human development, and cultural healing practices. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Ubiquity University, where she researches the quality of facilitation required for collective trauma integration.

In 2024, she co-facilitated the Pocket Project Lab "Embodying the feminine", accompanying over 40 Latin American women through a felt exploration of fragmentation and dissociation in relation to wounded self-contact. The experience honored and reclaimed the cultural and ancestral resilience woven into Latin American femininity. Stephanie is the author of Al baño María: un encuentro sagrado contigo misma —a soulful guide for women seeking deeper self-awareness, inner flow, and personal purpose.