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

Are we approaching trauma work upside-down?

For years, Steven Hoskinson followed conventional psychotherapeutic wisdom by making a person's distress and difficulties the focus of his sessions.

But there came a point where he realised there was a better way.

By guiding people to notice cues of orientation, enjoyment, pleasure and wellness, Steven discovered that he could help them to activate their capacity for self-healing.

This insight led to the development of Organic Intelligence (OI™), an increasingly popular therapeutic modality employed by thousands of practitioners around the world.

In this episode, Steven and Matthew explore the essence of Steven's approach and how it's contributing to the broader trauma healing movement. Grounded in the awareness of our sense-experience — or orientation — and recognition of a clients' latent resources, OI recognises how innate wholeness emerges in what Steven calls Post-Trauma Growth.

"Our attention has been therapeutically directed toward what the problem is, what the conflict is, what the unconscious dysregulation is," Steven says. "And it is all negatively valenced: It's all about the problem, the challenge, the neurosis, the difficulty that's there. The discovery that I've made after being an orthodox therapist and a somatic trainer in trauma therapy is that that is not the preferred biological method. Instead, we are growing capacity or growing the cup."

Rather than exclusively focus on the negative emotions, which amplifies the human "negativity bias", Organic Intelligence activates the mind-body system's natural impulse to restore and rebalance after trauma. This is achieved by supporting people's awareness of sense-connections and the 'window of enjoyment' – the daily experience of simple human pleasures in the here-and-now, despite the pain from the past.

"We train to recognize our self-healing capacities, and our coaches identify those for their clients," Steven says. "They reflect those back to the clients in a specifically attuned way that then simply does the work."

By providing an accessible introduction to Organic Intelligence, and the journey of discovery that has informed Steven's work, this episode aims to inspire anyone interested in learning more about how committed practitioners are evolving new ways to heal humanity's oldest wounds.

"What does it mean to entirely revamp the idea of what trauma healing might really be?" Steven asks. "And how do we begin to implement this on a broader scale?"

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Organic Intelligence

About Steven Hoskinson:

Steven Hoskinson is an internationally recognized teacher, author, and innovator in Post-Trauma Growth (PTG). For over 20 years, he has been a presenter and professional trainer on the global stage, empowering thousands in response to large-scale societal needs. Steve's work at Organic Intelligence® has included teaching as Adjunct Faculty for JFK School of Psychology, Advisory Board Member for The Trauma Foundation, and a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) National Steering Committee. He has been featured in Dr. Mark Hyman's "Broken Brain" docu-series, the 2019 Plum Village Neuroscience Retreat in France and has provided numerous professional conference presentations and keynote addresses. As Director of Education, he has developed the science-backed OI Trajectory™ professional training programs and continuing education in Post-Trauma Growth.

Since founding the Kufunda Learning Village in Zimbabwe in 2002, Maaianne Knuth has undertaken a profound journey into the heart of collective healing.

Born of Danish and Zimbabwean parents, Maaianne wanted to create a sanctuary that would support Zimbabweans — especially women and youth — to reclaim the depth of their brilliance, wisdom and sense of belonging.

Nestling amid granite boulders and msasa woodlands on the site of her parents' farm, Kufunda has since emerged as a beacon of biodynamic agriculture, Waldorf-inspired progressive education, and transformative programmes to nurture leadership, healing, and resilience.

In this episode, Maaianne speaks about the hard-won lessons she has learned in following her call to support rural Zimbabweans to undertake a "journey of remembering who we are and what we have."

"Within a few years, we realized we have to live it. We have to be in the remembering. We have to be in the waking up to what it is to create healthy community," Maaiaane says. "And I think the work of the community is: How can we support each one to become more fully who they are?"

Maaiaane shares about the moments of crisis Kufunda has faced as echoes of Zimbabwe's collective trauma patterns erupted among participants. She also describes how meditation and the School of Movement Medicine dance practices she studied with Ya'Acov and Susannah Darling Khan helped shift old stories and open intuitive channels.

"It is actually a portal to keep connected to the future arising through us in each moment," Maaianne says. "So the past isn't holding onto us and our unconscious, but it becomes material out of which the new can be born."

Maaianne also describes profoundly moving scenes of how Movement Medicine helped rural Zimbabwean women reconnect with an archetypal sense of queenly power and splendour — and how this process helped her dissolve limiting scripts subtly internalised in her own system.

This episode offers a potent distillation of the embodied wisdom Maaianne has earned through decades of community-building experience. It also provides inspiring insights into the many forms in which collective healing can mend frayed connections and build a more luminous world.

"It's really to be hosting each other into a shared remembering of our dignity, of our grace, of our gifts." Maaianne says. "We have to be willing to embrace someone — ourselves included — in our wounding as well as in our light."

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About Maaianne Knuth:

Maaianne is the co-founder of Kufunda Learning Village, a learning center and eco-village in Zimbabwe dedicated to cultivating locally rooted pathways to community self-reliance. At Kufunda, communities engage their own imagination, collaboration, and cultural wisdom to meet challenges in education, health, and land stewardship.

Together with villagers from across Zimbabwe, Kufunda has: Founded a Waldorf-inspired school serving over 140 children from surrounding communities, where learning with head, heart, and hands is foundational; deepened into biodynamic farming, working alongside local farmers to restore relationships with the soil; hosted transformative programs for women, men, and youth — nurturing leadership, healing, and community resilience.

At the heart of it all is a living commitment to learning our way into the futures we long for. Maaianne is also a teacher of Movement Medicine, a conscious dance practice that supports people in becoming more whole — in service of a more just and beautiful world.

Maaianne has facilitated multi-stakeholder processes and participatory leadership programmes across Africa and internationally, drawing on the Art of Hosting, embodied practice, and over two decades of learning at the intersection of community healing, cultural reclamation, and collective becoming. She holds a master's degree from Copenhagen Business School and earlier co-founded Pioneers of Change, a global learning community for young changemakers. She lives between Zimbabwe and Cape Town.

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

How can collective healing work help nonprofits, educational establishments and communities worldwide achieve greater impact in the face of growing global chaos? And what role can trauma-informed leadership play in building institutional cultures of care?

Maria Leister walks these questions every day in her role as consultancy director at the Pocket Project, where she leads consulting and coaching programmes designed to help partner organisations transform from the inside out.

In this episode, Maria and Matthew explore how the Pocket Project's trauma-informed approach differs from more conventional forms of consultancy and unpack how this work cultivates greater resilience among leaders, organisations and teams.

Maria's career has equipped her with a unique combination of perspectives to bring to this task: her role at the Massachusetts General Hospital–based Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, where she focuses on the ethical, legal, and health dimensions of forced migration. Her perspective is informed by prior leadership in legal education at Harvard Law School and earlier experience in organizational strategy and consulting, which together continue to shape her multidisciplinary approach to addressing trauma and displacement.

By drawing on all these streams of experience, Maria supports the Pocket Project team to work with leaders to build "healing architectures" capable of supporting more grace, generosity, compassion and empathy to flow through their workplaces, and achieve their organisational goals.

"Bringing a trauma-informed approach doesn't start with bringing a wholesale approach to the broad organization," Maria explains. "You can't start with the big changes without starting with the individual relationships and this is why I say the coaching is so critical here."

Rather than imposing some preconceived idea of how an organisation should change, the goal is to work with leadership to identify and unlock latent capacities within existing teams.

"We shouldn't see interventions like these as being outside-in," Maria says. "And what I mean by that is recognising the capacity for resilience within individuals and the capacity for resilience within communities: That is where the magic is; that's where the medicine is. It's there and we're just partnering with them to bring it out."

Maria and Matthew also discuss their personal experiences of challenging workplace situations – and how to transmute these into fuel to build more enlightened collaborative environments. Maria also shares about her own early trauma history – and how this shaped her lifelong commitment to ethical practice and supporting marginalised communities.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants to learn more about cutting-edge approaches to placing collective healing work at the service of systemic change by transforming the cultures in the places we work.

To find out more about the Pocket Project's consulting and coaching services, please click here.

Coming up at the Pocket Project:

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Maria Leister on LinkedIn

About Maria Leister:

Maria Leister is a dynamic leader committed to ethical responsibility, human dignity, and the cultivation of collective care and regenerative futures. She designed and leads the Pocket Project's consultancy and coaching initiatives, developing frameworks that support organizations and leaders in building resilient, care-centered systems. She also brings experience from management consulting, where she created and delivered leadership development programming focused on organizational change and executive capacity building. Maria serves in a leadership role at Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Global Psychiatry's Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, where her work focuses on the ethical, legal, and health dimensions of forced displacement and the needs of displaced and marginalized populations. With a background in law, including directing one of Harvard Law School's student practice organizations, she has extensive experience in legal advocacy and U.S. immigration law. Across her work, Maria is driven by a commitment to ethically grounded impact that centers care, accountability, and the lived realities of those most affected by displacement and trauma.

In this special guided practice, Kosha Joubert, CEO of the Pocket Project invites us to pause, unplug, and return to the intelligence of our bodies and the natural world.

In times of increasing complexity and as we gain awareness of the personal, ancestral, and collective layers of experience are constantly moving through us, this meditation offers a simple yet profound reset. Rooted in the wisdom that the body is our closest connection to nature, this journey gently guides you back into embodied presence, inner stability, and relational connection.

This is not about doing more. It is about remembering how to be.

Through the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space, you'll be guided into an embodied experience of presence - supporting you to release tension, restore balance, and reconnect with your inner resources. As shared earlier this month in our conversation with Deb Dana, if we want to bring more peace into the world, self-care is a not optional - it's a biological necessity. This week, we offer you this gift as a tool to support you in staying resourced, regulated, and open.

This welcomed pause is a reminder that as we say yes to embarking on the journey of collective healing integration, the invitation is to come home to ourselves.

If you'd like to deepen this work, the Pocket Project is offering its Resilience Training Program starting this May: supporting practitioners and leaders to cultivate inner stability, relational capacity, and trauma-informed presence.

Register for Phase 1 of the Resilience Program: Become part of a global network committed to nurturing resilience, coherence, and healing across societal spaces in this practice-based training.

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

Opening song by Lila June, daughter of Pat McCabe.

What would it mean to realign ourselves with the Earth's original economy: radical abundance and fearless generosity? And what can the humpback whale and the beaver teach us five-fingereds about how to live in reciprocity with the whole?

Drawing from her deep knowledge of Diné and Lakota traditions, Woman Stands Shining Pat McCabe invites us to connect with our breath as a portal to bring our nervous systems into deeper relationship with the living planet.

"Every other life form on this sacred hoop has been at it longer than we have and has figured out how to live your life in such a way that you're augmenting and benefiting and blessing everything around you," Woman Stands Shining says. "I feel like that would be a noble goal for our kind, for our five-fingered ones, for our species."

Woman Stands Shining also speaks about the braided spiritual lineages that inform her practice and her work to heal the inter-generational and collective trauma inflicted on her parents and grandparents by the residential boarding school system created to sever Indigenous peoples from their cultural roots.

These traumas found echoes in Woman Stands Shining's own experience of being sent to a prestigious preparatory boarding school when she was 14 – where she rapidly learned to suppress her authentic self to survive.

Sharing about her recent trauma work to begin to integrate those parts of herself that felt a constant need to perform to earn the right to belong, Woman Stands Shining explains how her cultures' communal approach to restoration can help us "reenter the womb of original beauty."

This episode offers a moving and relatable transmission of Indigenous cosmology delivered with Woman Stands Shining's characteristic blend of warmth, humility, wisdom and humour. It will be a nourishing listen for anybody ready to rediscover our inherent potential to serve as blessings for each other —- and who wants a practical introduction to applying principles handed down via Indigenous lineages over millennia to trauma healing work.

This conversation was recorded as part of Radical Abundance & Fearless Generosity – Earth's Way, Our Calling. a Regenerative Masterclass offered by Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe on January 20, 2026. To enroll in a self-study version of the course, please click here.

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Pat McCabe's website

Radical Abundance & Fearless Generosity – Earth's Way, Our Calling. A Regenerative Masterclass with Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe.

About Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe:

Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe, is of the Diné Nation (Navajo), adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life. She is a mother and grandmother, an international speaker/teacher, a global ceremonialist, radical bridger, and a listener for radical proposals from Spirit. Her current work is around trauma healing as a renaissance for human presence on the planet, restoration of the Sacred Masculine, reimagining money to protect the sacred, and participating in Earth's movements through "Land Back" or Land Reunion — in which entrenched narratives and beliefs are being disrupted through the return of land to Indigenous sovereign relationship.

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

Deb Dana is a pioneering clinician who has helped thousands of people to understand how our nervous systems shape our capacity for healing, connection, safety and peace.

In this episode, Deb shares how we can learn to notice when we're receiving the cues of unsafety that cause us to withdraw. This first step can support us to consciously choose to connect with the resources that allow us to stay related to people or situations that might otherwise cause us to turn away.

As host Kosha Joubert explains, at a time when so many people are living with stress, trauma, and uncertainty, Deb's work reminds us that peace does not begin only in institutions or negotiations — it begins in our capacity to feel safe enough to connect with one another.

The first part of the conversation provides practical guidance on how we can befriend our own nervous systems and grow our ability to respond rather than react when we feel triggered or challenged.

Deb also shows how the work we do to regulate ourselves forms the foundation of effective work to transform our family systems, communities, and old societal structures that now need to evolve into something new.

"We can create the conditions that help us come into connection," Deb says. "From there, we can begin to build more peace in the world. It's only through feeling safe enough to be here in my full presence and to reach out to you that we can be peace-builders."

This conversation was recorded at a Pocket Project community call held on International Women's Day – March 8, 2026 – to explore women's power to stand for peace.

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The Peace Lessons are a gentle yet powerful invitation to walk this question together. These lessons bring to you the nuggets of gold and distilled wisdom of the World Women Summit.

Beginning on Easter Sunday, you will receive 7 daily emails, each offering a condensed and easily digestible inspiration from the Summit, designed to support you in walking your path to inner and outer peace every day. Together, we grow a field of presence, connectedness, and groundedness in times of upheaval and rupture. Register Here.

Further Resources:

Rhythm of Regulation, Deb Dana's website

Befriending our Nervous System, Creating Spaces of Safety Within & Without (Pocket Project Self-Study Masterclass with Deb Dana)

Pocket Project World Women Summit 2026: Women Rising for Peace

About Deb Dana:

Deb Dana, is a clinician, consultant, and author. She is a founding member of Polyvagal Institute, consultant to Khiron Clinics, and advisor to Unyte. Deb is well known for translating Polyvagal Theory into a language and application that is both clear and accessible and for her significant contribution pioneering Rhythm of Regulation® methodology and practices which open up the power of Polyvagal Theory for professionals and curious people from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life.

Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices, Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety, Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy Through Guided Explorations, Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies, and creator of the Polyvagal Flip Chart and the Polyvagal Card Deck.

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

When Dr. Ntombiyethu Biase was on a retreat led by Thomas Hübl in the United States, one of the participants invited her to join a ritual to honour the memory of enslaved people buried at a nearby mass grave.

On her return to her native South Africa, Ntombiyethu felt an impulse to step outside the airport, scoop up some soil, rub it between her hands and say: "I'm home."

"The minute I did that, I had this feeling of awe. I looked up at the sky with amazement and wonderment because it was so beautiful," Ntombiyethu says. "And then it clicked: I was a courier. I had carried those people back and this was the first time they'd been home to rest."

In this episode, Ntombiyethu opens up about the extraordinary path she's traversed to integrate her Western medical training with forms of energetic and ancestral healing rooted in her African heritage.

Her journey has taught her that we can all be vessels of healing if we are prepared to surrender to the flow of emergent intelligence that's continually seeking ways to express itself through us — provided we don't allow our attachment to striving and struggling to get in the way.

Ntombiyethu and co-host Kosha Joubert reflect on South Africa's largely peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, celebrating the achievements of the country's truth- and reconciliation-based approach, while acknowledging the deep layers of unhealed trauma that remain.

With her studies with Thomas and the Pocket Project expanding her capacity to work with individual, ancestral and collective trauma, Ntombiyethu is modelling what it means to integrate knowledge from multiple traditions into inspiring new approaches to systemic change.

"Truth and reconciliation opened the door, but healing cannot end there," Ntombiyethu says. "If we can initiate systems that help people understand and work with their trauma, even within imperfect systems, we can create real change."

This episode will inspire all those interested in integrating the modern scientific paradigm with other ways of knowing — and the kinds of possibilities that open up when we recognise our innate capacities as catalysts for healing.

This dialogue was recorded for the World Women Summit 2026.

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Further Resources:

Dr. Ntombiyethu Biase on LinkedIn

About Dr. Ntombiyethu Biase:

Dr. Ntombiyethu Biyase is a South African medical doctor specializing in anaesthesiology and critical care, rooted in a long lineage of Indigenous healers. Alongside her clinical practice, she has been initiated and trained in energetic healing traditions. Her personal development includes training in Thomas Hübl's two-year Timeless Wisdom Training, participation in the Pocket Project Trauma-Informed Leadership program, and exposure to polyvagal theory and family constellation work.

Ntombiyethu understands the human being as a multidimensional system in which visible physiology and invisible energetic, relational, and trauma fields interact. For healing to be truly holistic and transformative, all dimensions of the person must be acknowledged, engaged, and integrated.

Hosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

What's the impact on women when men bring the war home? And how might military veterans, their families, and the societies that sent them to fight engage in collective healing?

As a journalist, Matthew Green spent years reporting from conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across Africa before returning to his native Britain to write Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace, a book documenting the struggles of former combatants and their families to find new ways to heal from psychological scars of war.

In this episode, Matthew and Kosha Joubert, the Pocket Project's CEO, explore the dilemma so many women face when the task of caring for husbands or partners suffering from post-traumatic stress makes it impossible to stay – but equally impossible to leave.

Matthew and Kosha go on to reflect on the ancestral dimension of war trauma — including how traditional concepts of masculinity have long been used to stigmatise expressions of vulnerability, and the enduring impact of the World Wars on the collective male psyche. The dialogue also explores Matthew's work in the Resonant Man, a visionary men's initiative he co-founded with Jacob Kishere, which grew in part from their shared call to address these unacknowledged wounds.

Matthew wrote Aftershock before he discovered Pocket Project co-founder Thomas Hübl's work on collective and inter-generational trauma. In the light of these new perspectives, Matthew and Kosha ask how a more collectively oriented approach might help many more military families to integrate the burdens they carry on their nations' behalf, and what role the Pocket Project might play in making this work more accessible to veterans and their loved ones.

With Aftershock soon due to be translated into Ukrainian thanks to a grant from the Peterson Literary Fund, Matthew and Kosha, building on recent Ukraine-focused episodes of What Is Collective Healing? also imagine what new possibilities there may be to expand the Pocket Project's

Ukraine Trauma Relief Project.

"Ultimately, I think it is our destiny individually and collectively to become catalysts for healing. We've forgotten who we are through centuries of war, of oppression, of all the systems that we know so well that are dividing us from one another," Matthew says. "[But] if we can remember our true identity underneath all these layers of conditioning, all of these historical injustices, all of the stories, we are exactly the medicine that each other needs."

This episode will be a resource for anyone who wants to understand how the trauma of war travels into the heart of the family, and the nuanced ways in which victim and perpetrator identities so often collide in individual soldiers. With military families left to carry these wounds alone for generations, this conversation will also inspire all those ready to explore the new potentials that emerge when we recognise that just as we're all shareholders in the systems that wage war, we all have the potential to serve as agents of healing.

This dialogue was recorded for the World Women Summit 2026.

World Women Summit 2026: Registration is Open

Pocket Project World Women Summit 2026

Further Resources:

Resonant World (Matthew Green's Substack newsletter)

Resonant Man

Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace

Peterson Literary Fund

The Enemy Within (Audio Documentary by Falling Tree)

DeSmog

About Matthew Green:

Matthew is a journalist, author and co-host of What Is Collective Healing? He is also co-founded of co-founder of the Resonant Man visionary men's initiative.

In a former career, Matthew spent 14 years as an international correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters, covering conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and reporting from countries across Africa. His book Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace documents the stories of military veterans and their families seeking new ways to heal from the psychological scars of war.

Today, he is deepening his exploration of trauma-restoring forms of media as global investigations editor at DeSmog and creator of Resonant World, a newsletter serving the global trauma healing movement. He lives in London with his wife Genevieve and their daughter Matilda.

Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

How can we heal collective trauma when war is creating fresh trauma day after day? And what are the resources that can sustain us even in the most painful of circumstances?

In this episode, Daria Yemets, a psychologist who runs the Pocket Project's Ukraine Trauma Relief Project , speaks about the organisation's work to support for her fellow Ukrainians since Russia's invasion in February, 2022.

Daria explains that the Pocket Project began by offering more than 100 Ukrainians scholarships to courses in trauma-informed leadership, and then expanded to provide one-on-one and group sessions to those experiencing psychological trauma. Then the Pocket Project introduced a form of peer-led, community-based space known as a 'resilience circle' to rapidly scale the programme's reach.

"What I sensed living in Ukraine at that time is that war is insanely isolating and it just locks you in your own space," Daria tells co-host Sonita Mbah. "So we sensed this need for safe spaces for people to connect. And this is what we've been doing with resilience circles."

Daria speaks powerfully about her commitment to cultivating an interior peace that has allowed her to stay related to herself and others despite the frozenness and numbing caused by the immense toll of death and destruction inflicted by the war.

"Everything can be taken away from me apart from this space inside me that I create for myself by really putting in thought, time, and attention — we could also say energy, love, care, beauty," Daria says. "I'm like a bird creating a nest from different twigs with such care and precision, creating that nest inside me, creating that garden. I try to create my inner space that cannot be taken away under any circumstances."

Daria also speaks about her deep sense of connection to Ukraine's forests and steppes, the grief she feels at how much damage the natural world has also suffered from the war, and her commitment to supporting her homeland to heal.

This episode is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand more about how trauma-informed approaches are being used to provide support to people suffering some of the most difficult circustances imaginable.

Daria's testimony about her personal process is also a powerful reminder of the possibility we each carry of cultivating a sanctuary of inner peace to sustain us through the challenges of an increasingly uncertain world.

World Women Summit 2026: Registration is Open

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Further Resources:

Ukraine Trauma Relief Project

Pocket Project Report: Ukraine Resilience Project 2025 - 2026

Donate to the Pocket Project's Trauma Relief Projects

About Daria Yemets:

Daria Yemets is a psychologist and researcher, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She works in the field of collective and transgenerational trauma and maintaining historical truth in Ukraine. Daria leads the development of the Pocket Project Ukraine Support Project. Since the Russian invasion in 2022, she has been coordinating international support for Ukrainian therapists and healthcare specialists.

Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

Ahead of the Pocket Project World Women Summit 2026,

Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) are hosting two events:

• Relational Alchemy: Healing the Gender Wound for Global Peace (A community call on March 4)

• Bringing Peace to Intimate Relationships (A three-day Regenerative Masterclass launching on March 11)

In this episode, Cynthia and Will draw on their decades of working with the ancient wound of gender dysfunction to give a foretaste of these events — and set forth their vision of a new era of reconciliation between genders.

Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) creates spaces for participants to share the deepest truths of their experiences as women, men and non-binary people. Through their work with GERI, Will, Cynthia and their global collaborators facilitate a form of "collective alchemy" that builds community by dissolving longstanding barriers to mutual understanding and empathy.

"One of the deepest patterns we've noticed in our 34 years of this work is that untold stories keep gender oppression both invisible and intact," says Will. "We are all living in cultures and in communities where most of us have very little awareness of the real truth of the experiences of people of the other gender categories in our family, in our communities, in our workplace, in our towns and cities."

While men are often shocked to hear women's first-hand accounts of suffering, discrimination, harassment and violence, women are often equally amazed at the breadth and depth of the pain men carry and have been taught to repress, Cynthia says.

"And then both women- and men-identified people are very surprised to see what our LGBTQ+ siblings go through in their lives as well," Cynthia says. "We move through the fire in this work, but we do it as a community holding each other to be able to transmute those difficult experiences and move to the other side."

Cynthia and Will believe that the gender wound is a root cause of virtually every manifestation of destructive human drama — from the intimately personal to the global. Their work with GERI aims to address societal problems at every fractal scale and establish a new form of civilisation of beloved community, rooted in the heart.

"I believe that together, we can rebirth humanity by healing this wound," Will says. "That's my conviction based on what we've seen in these groups. And so our mission is to take it to scale at a larger level."

This dialogue will be an inspiring source for anybody seeking to bridge the gulf that so often divides men, women and non-binary people. It also provides invaluable insights from two practitioners who have dedicated their lives to addressing one of humanity's oldest and most consequential wounds.

Further Resources (Pocket Project):

Relational Alchemy: Healing the Gender Wound for Global Peace, a Community Call with Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin

Bringing Peace to Intimate Relationships, a Regenerative Masterclass with Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin

Pocket Project World Women Summit 2026

Further Resources (Gender Equity and Reconciliation International):

Facebook Page

Facebook Group

Instagram

LinkedIn

YouTube

Satyana Institute

Closing the Gender Gap: Women and Men Creating Social Change Through Dialogue

Healing the Heart of Humanity: The Outer and Inner Alchemy of Reconciliation between Masculine and Feminine (forthcoming book)

Upcoming Workshops (Gender Equity and Reconciliation International):

The Alchemy of Reconciliation: Awakening to the Mystery of Love between Masculine and Feminine.

Grand Rapids, MI. Four-day, in-person workshop .April 9 – 12, 2026. Register.

Healing the Divide. Cape Town, South Africa. April 22-23 For more info: [email protected]

A Call to Wholeness: The Alchemy of Reconciliation between Masculine & Feminine Tavira, Portugal. Four-day, in-person workshop. May 15-17, 2026. Pre-registration.

About Cynthia Brix:

Rev. Cynthia Brix, Ph.D. (hon) is co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. An ordained interfaith minister with a background in women's issues and racial diversity, she co-organized seven international conferences on interspirituality, including two on women's spiritual leadership across diverse religious and indigenous traditions. Cynthia holds an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies, M.A. in wellness and gerontology, M.Div., and is certified in Grof Breathwork. She is an Evolutionary Leader, and co-author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men, and Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere.

About Will Keepin:

William Keepin, Ph.D. is co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, and Satyana Institute. A mathematical physicist with training in contemplative spirituality and transpersonal psychology, his research on global warming and sustainable energy influenced international environmental policy. He has published widely on environmental science, quantum physics, ecology, archetypal cosmology, comparative mysticism, divine feminine theology, and principles of social change leadership. He is an Evolutionary Leader, a Findhorn Foundation Fellow, and Board member of the Grof Legacy Project. His previous books include Divine Duality, Song of the Earth, and Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, and a Universal Path of Divine Love.