What is Collective Healing?

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

Born in the former East Germany, Nadja Lichtenhahn started her career as a legal and business strategist, serving 20 years in leadership positions in the film and media industry.

In the past decade, Nadja has honoured a deep sense of calling that took her in a new direction: serving as a transformational coach, guide, and facilitator for individuals and organisations.

In this episode, Nadja describes how the Pocket Project, and the Timeless Wisdom Training and Collective Trauma Facilitator Training led by Thomas Hübl, has helped her refine her capacity to work with the "reciprocal living field" that unites all life – a core principle of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma.

"I've come to a deeper understanding that this very moment carries all the information that we need," Nadja says. "And often what I experience in our group work is that we get reflections back of our own light, of our own authenticity, that we often cannot see ourselves."

Nadja speaks candidly about her lifelong quest to establish a secure sense of belonging after moving to West Germany — tracing the roots of her sense of dislocation and inner-outer divide through her homeland's collective experience, and her own soul path.

Nadja also opens up about the sometimes challenging process of embracing greater visibility and sharing her authentic voice in her collective healing work — exploring the struggle many practitioners face in publicly owning their gifts as facilitators as they transition from more conventional careers.

The unique quality of Nadja's transmission will serve as an inspiration to anybody seeking a deeper understanding of how to tap into the power of collective intelligence to change their own life – and the lives of the people around them.

Further Resources:

Pocket Project

Nadja Lichtenhahn

LinkedIn

Instagram

About Nadja Lichtenhahn:

Nadja is a coach, guide, and facilitator committed to the responsible stewardship of human life force. She supports individuals, groups, and organizations to navigate complexity by reconnecting with the underlying intelligence of their systems and fostering inner and outer coherence, trauma-restorative presence and integration.

Born in former East Germany, Nadja spent the first two decades of her career as a legal and business strategist in leadership positions in the film and media industry. Her passion for human and systemic transformation eventually led her to expand into coaching, and facilitation. For nearly a decade, she has been guiding and facilitating transformative processes across personal, organizational, and collective levels. Nadja bridges strategic clarity with deep presence and energetic attunement, helping clients restore authentic agency while strengthening their connection to the collective field and integrating polarities within. She is a graduate of the Timeless Wisdom Training and Collective Trauma Facilitator Training led by Thomas Hübl and his global team.

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 02:32 Nadja Describes Collective Healing 04:11 The Reciprocal Living Field 06:41 The Role of Group Awareness 09:57 Personal Healing Journeys 15:53 Meeting & Training with Thomas Hübl 19:30 Each Moment In Time Contains All Information 22:06 Nadja's Personal Healing Process 27:00 How Thomas Hübl Describes Fragmentation 34:00 Collective Patterns of Hiding & Invisibility 39:10 Nadja's Work with Women's Groups 41:50 Bridging Personal and Universal Experiences

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

Kosha Joubert, chief executive of the Pocket Project, sees Global Social Witnessing as one of the most potent tools for helping people to access a greater sense of presence, sensitivity and agency in relation to the many crises on our news feeds.

In this episode, Kosha, one of the co-hosts of the What is Collective Healingis podcast, describes how her own relationship to the practice has evolved since her first remarkable experience with Global Social Witnessing a decade ago, in a workshop run by Thomas Hübl.

With the Pocket Project launching Phase Two of its Global Social Witnessing facilitator training on September 3, 2025, Kosha explains how this work is helping to birth a new way of being in the world – where we experience our innate inter-dependence in a more intimate, tangible way.

Global Social Witnessing can also help prepare the ground for working with layers of collective and inter-generational trauma, Kosha explains, by helping people to slow down and recognise "the one sacred thing" that they feel called to do next.

"And the beautiful thing is that as we meet the world more deeply out there, we also meet the world more deeply in ourselves. More intimacy arises within and without," Kosha says. "And that to me is a miracle."

To find out more about regular Global Social Witnessing calls hosted by the Pocket Project, please click here.

Further Resources:

Pocket Project

Phase Two of the Global Social Witnessing facilitator training

Self-Study Course: Holding Space for a World in Transition

Global Social Witnessing Calls

Global Social Witnessing Episode with Manda Johnson

About Kosha Joubert:

Kosha Joubert is the CEO of the Pocket Project, where she works closely with Thomas Huebl and a global team to grow a culture of trauma-informed care. Kosha is an expert facilitator, coach and organisational development facilitator who has worked on systems regeneration, trauma-informed leadership and post-traumatic growth in more than 48 countries. Kosha has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents.

00:00 Introduction to What is Collective Healing 03:25 Exploring Ancestral Connections 05:45 Embracing the Unknown 11:07 The Concept of Collective Healing 12:18 Roots of Collective Healing in South Africa 16:44 Global Social Witnessing: An Overview 17:53 The Birth of Global Social Witnessing 20:18 Personal Experiences with Global Social Witnessing 22:34 The Power of Collective Witnessing 34:00 Discerning Your One Next Step 36:15 Practical Impacts of Global Social Witnessing 47:15 How to Get Involved - Join or Train as a Facilitator 51:53 Conclusion : What is Collective Healing

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

The Great Famine in Ireland – also known as an Gorta Mór, or the Great Hunger – claimed the lives of a million people, or one in eight of the population. More than a million more only managed to escape starvation by emigrating, many of them children who undertook the gruelling voyage to the United States or Canada, never to see their parents again.

In 2024, Simon Courtney, Bill McCart and Kathy Scott led a year-long Pocket Project International Lab to support people of Irish descent – whether living in Ireland or the diaspora – to explore the legacy of the 1845-1852 famine, and how it echoes into Irish lives in the present.

In this powerful episode, Simon recounts the deep sense of calling that led him to this intimate work, and how the Lab allowed participants to begin to unearth and integrate what their Irish ancestors were unable to heal in their own time.

The Lab explored the impact of British colonial policies that led to enormous avoidable suffering and death during the famine years. In a moving exchange, Simon and Matthew (a British citizen), recognise their shared hope that more people from their respective nations will find opportunities to explore what so often remains unspoken between them – and establish deeper connections.

This episode will be hugely valuable for anyone with an interest in collective and ancestral healing, and all those inspired by Simon's mission to create more spaces for Irish people to embrace new futures by integrating the most painful chapters of their shared past.

(You can read more about the Pocket Project Lab on the Great Famine and other Pocket Project International Labs here.).

Further Resources:

Report on the Pocket Project Lab on the Great Famine Sacred Storybook: A Tapestry of Healing and Renewal

About Simon Courtney:

Simon is a trauma-informed psychotherapist and coach with a deep reverence for the healing potential of group work and relational facilitation. His approach integrates individual, ancestral, and collective dimensions of healing, grounded in a somatic and systemic understanding of trauma. He is especially drawn to the power of shared space, where witnessing, resonance, and presence can restore what was fragmented and reawaken the soul's inherent capacity for belonging. PROMOTIONAL LINK : The Global Social Witnessing Facilitator Training offers a profound journey into embodied witnessing – cultivating our ability to attend to world events with inner spaciousness and relational depth. This training supports the emergence of a culture of ethical presence, where attention becomes a healing force and leadership is rooted in coherence. https://pocketproject.org/global-social-witnessing-training-phase-2/ 00:00 Introduction to Irish Suffering and Historical Context 00:50 The Role of the Irish Diaspora in Healing 01:53 Collective Healing and Personal Reflections 02:04 Exploring the Great Famine's Legacy 05:50 Understanding Collective Trauma 07:42 Personal Journey into Collective Healing 09:21 Engagement with Thomas Hübl's Work 12:49 Deep Dive into the Great Famine 17:00 The Collective Trauma Integration Process 24:34 The Emotional Weight of the Great Famine 32:35 Modern Implications and Reflections 34:20 Irish Refugees and Modern Immigration Issues 35:38 The Deep Impact of an Gorta Mor 36:39 Personal Revelations and Historical Grief 40:11 British Colonialism and Irish Suffering 42:30 Healing Through Collective Trauma Work 45:23 Intimacy and Ancestral Connections 51:20 Practical Impacts on Family and Relationships 01:00:37 Concluding Thoughts and Future Potential

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Growing up in her native Romania, Teodora Rădulescu was taught that the path to success lay in acquiring enough education and resources to leave the country, and join the millions of her compatriots seeking a better life in Western Europe.

In this deeply moving episode, Teodora speaks about her process of reckoning with the painful legacy of the East-West divide, and her commitment to reclaim the land-based Indigenous practices that makes Romania such a rich repository of culture, kinship and community.

Training in the principles of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma with Thomas Hübl and his global team of practitioners, Teodora began to confront the many ways in which Eastern Europe seemed to have been forgotten by the West – as if wrapped in an "invisible dark cloak."

As she worked through layers of grief, fear and anger related to the role Austria had played in Romania during the First and Second World Wars, Teodora discovered a new impulse to connect with people from a country she had long regarded "in my blood and in my bones" as an enemy.

The transformation she experienced – and the network of new connections she began to weave as a result – are a powerful testament to the many ways collective healing can resolve inter-generational wounds, and open a path to a more collaborative future.

And don't miss the moment where Teodora – drawing on her love of Romanian folklore – calls in the benevolent female spirits who roam the fields at sunset, ready to extend their protection to those women who can still sing the songs of old.

Further Resources:

Teodora's website

Teodora's Instagram

Pathways Collective

About Teodora Rădulescu:

For over a decade, Teodora has lived, worked, and facilitated in intentional communities across Europe. Whether she's training facilitators in climate dialogue, hosting emotionally charged processes on war and justice, or supporting people in reclaiming their voice and vitality, her work is grounded in compassion, fierce truth-telling, and embodied presence. She is a founder of Pathways Collective, supporting the next generation of Earth-Based Leaders; a certified Trauma-Informed Coach and Facilitator; a Global Ecovillage Network Europe Council Member & Community Builder; and creator of Transform your Triggers.

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:24 Matthew Green's Conversation with Teodora 01:51 What has shaped Teodora's Perspective on Romanian Trauma 04:02 Understanding Collective Healing 06:28 Teodora's Journey into Collective Healing 08:05 The Impact of Eastern European History 12:21 Challenges and Resilience of Eastern Europeans 22:59 Ancestral Trauma and Healing 29:25 The Power of Ancestral Healing 30:30 Historical Context: Romania and Austria 32:16 Personal Journey of Reconciliation 41:38 Connecting with Indigenous Practices 49:30 Facilitating Collective Healing 56:41 Final Reflections and Gratitude

This week we feature a complimentary 11 minute attunment for our listeneners:

This bonus episode offers a guided attunement to support you in connecting to your own internal resourcefulness through an embodied awareness of the resourcing that is always present within your body.

Listen to the full episode with Jaden Ramsey here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EkFTdNdMxVmh2ddAkMva1?si=aa02e7c0d2bc4ed5

In last week's episode, Jaden shares his perspective on collective healing as a natural, life-affirming process that unfolds when we create spaces of safety, presence, and connection. Through his facilitation of open group sessions, he emphasizes the importance of attunement and resourcing—helping individuals recognize and access the internal and communal resources that are already present but often outside of awareness. Jaden speaks to the gentle power of relational spaces that allow the nervous system to settle, the body to open, and shared experiences to be witnessed and held. In doing so, participants experience a sense of belonging, resilience, and capacity to meet life's challenges.

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

Intensely dedicated to a daily spiritual practice, Jaden Ramsey noticed that his search for transcendence seemed to be taking him further away from the world – rather than rooting him more deeply in it.

Drawn to the idea of engaging in community, Jaden joined the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training led by Thomas Hübl and team, and began to learn the principles of integrating individual, inter-generational and collective trauma.

That process brought Jaden into contact with the many ways in which growing up without his biological father had shaped his life – and prompted him to begin writing letters to the man who had left his mother before he was born. The letters – which Jaden knew his father would probably never read – grew into an ongoing book project that has helped him recognise his story as part of a larger, collective wound.

In this deeply moving episode, Jaden speaks about how reckoning with the impact of his father's absence deepened his capacity to create collective healing spaces, particularly for the Black community. These include Reparations Cafés, run in collaboration with Antoinette Cooper (who featured on Episode Six of What Is Collective Healing?). Jaden speaks about how the sense of belonging fostered in such contexts can unlock the renewed sense of agency needed to drive lasting change – and transcend the sense of separation that keeps old structures stuck.

This is an essential listen for anyone interested in healing the wound of the absent father; the relationship between collective healing and systems change; and how the gifts people find wrapped in their deepest traumas can help them to serve their communities in new and more potent ways.

Further Resources

Jaden's website

Jaden's Awake in the Dream newsletter

Reparations Cafés

Jaden's Instagram

About Jaden Ramsey Jaden is a bodyworker, somatic coach, and facilitator trained in Collective Trauma Facilitation. Through his work weaving artistry with trauma-informed embodiment practices, he creates spaces of restoration where wholeness can emerge. His commitment to collective repair processes is fueled by a deep social curiosity and what becomes possible when we're in touch with Being. He lives, works, and studies in Northern California. 00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:51 Meet Jaden Ramsey: A Journey of Self-Discovery 03:34 Exploring the Concept of Collective Healing 05:13 Jaden's Path to Collective Healing 10:16 The Impact of Absence and Personal Healing 12:08 Writing Letters to an Absent Father 15:05 Connecting with Ancestral Roots 24:28 The Role of Collective Healing in Personal Growth 29:20 Reparations Cafe: Healing the Black Community 35:19 Rediscovering the Intelligence of the Body 36:15 The Body as a Storage of Ancestral Wisdom 37:56 Collective Embodiment Practices 40:22 The Role of the Body in Healing Trauma 44:03 Creating Safe Spaces for Black Bodies 48:19 The Impact of Colonialism and Collective Healing 53:10 Personal Healing and Collective Transformation

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

Despite building a highly successful career as tech start-up entrepreneur, Claude Terosier could sense that something in her life wasn't working.

In this episode, Claude describes how new pathways began to open up when she began to reckon with the previously unacknowledged complexities of her mixed race identity as the daughter of a white French mother and Black father from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

Through years of training with Thomas Hübl and his team, Claude worked steadily to integrate the ancestral trauma suffered by her enslaved ancestors, the perpetration committed by forebears who had owned slaves, and the collective harms caused by centuries of French colonialism.

Deeply painful at times, as well as profound, this still-unfolding process has inspired Claude to pursue a new professional path. She now offers collective healing spaces for people of mixed race, and works with the collective trauma of colonialism, racism and slavery, running groups in France, Guadeloupe and internationally. This deeply intimate and inspiring episode will be of value to anybody who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the principles of healing individual, ancestral and collective trauma – and how this work can take our lives in entirely unexpected directions as we seek to put what we have learned into service for the whole.

About Claude Terosier

Born and raised in Guadeloupe, Claude started out in IT consulting and telecoms leadership before founding an EdTech startup in France that empowered young people by teaching them to code. Passionate about collective intelligence and healing, she has since forged a new career as a coach, facilitator, and writer exploring mixed-race identity, colonial trauma, and how to unlock individual, organisational and collective potential.

Further Resources:

Claude's LinkedIn

Claude's Exploration (Substack in English)

Les Explorations de Claude (Substack in French)

To Be Black and to Succeed – Part 1

To Be Black and to Succeed – Part 2

To Be Black and to Succeed – Part 3

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:29 Personal Journey and Background 03:09 Defining Collective Healing 05:32 Exploring Ancestral and Collective Trauma 09:26 Professional Life and Realizations 12:51 Confronting Internal and External Barriers 15:16 Stepping into Collective Healing 20:23 Understanding Roots of Stress and Trauma 25:37 Struggles with Parental Connection 26:25 Legacy of Slavery and Family Bonds 28:54 Personal Identity Crisis 29:34 Embracing Mixed Heritage 30:47 Victim and Perpetrator Dynamics 34:56 Collective Healing and Group Support 38:53 Writing and Sharing Personal Stories 46:45 Future Aspirations and Collective Spaces 52:18 Final Reflections and Gratitude

Hosted by Matthew Green. Produced by J'aime Rothbard

Solea Anani sees the collective healing work taking place in the world today as the answer to prayers offered long ago by our ancestors.

In this powerful dialogue, Solea opens a unique window into ancestral healing work – drawing on her roots as a member of the red-skinned Taino people of the Dominican Republic, who know the island as Quisqueya, or Mother of All Lands. Solea describes how the grief, fear and isolation she experienced as a child when her socialist parents moved their family to the United States as illegal immigrants served as a catalyst for her deepening connection with spirit. Blending the legacy of ancestors including the rice field tenders of China, the voyagers of Western Spain, and the rhythm keepers of West Africa, Solea offers an expansive, mystically-informed vision of trauma healing. She describes how we can invite multiple forms of intelligences to "co-abide" in our consciousness – and describes the transformations this profound work can unlock. This is an exceptional conversation that will speak to anybody who wants to gain a clearer understanding of ancestral healing, and how the exeprience of migration and motherhood can catalyse a deeper connection with the unseen realmsAbout Solea Anani

Solea Anani is founder of Anam — ​a living sanctuary devoted to supporting the emerging human align with Soul​. Drawing from the wisdom of animism, depth psychology, and mysticism, Solea offers group mentorships in ​Ancestral ​Reverence, ​individual ​Somatic ​Attunement​ mentorships, body-based meditation classes, and ​Evolutionary Sidereal Astrology readings.

Further Resources

Solea Anani

Anam

Ancestral Reverence

Somatic Attunement Evolutionary Astrology 00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 00:56 The Power of Solea's Teaching 03:06 Exploring the Concept of Collective Healing 10:09 The Role of Ancestral Healing 11:22 Personal Journey and Early Influences 17:24 Challenges of Immigration and Family Struggles 22:48 Connection to Land and Ancestry 28:35 Becoming a Mother and Its Impact 33:41 Engaging with the Ancestral Plane 45:16 Influence of Thomas Hübl's Training 51:37 Vision for Humanity's Future 56:44 Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

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

In her new book of documentary poetry UNRULY, Antoinette Cooper braids her experiences of medical trauma and sexual violence with the stories of the "Mothers of Gynecology" – enslaved Black women who were subjected to medical experiments by 19th century gynecologist J. Marion Sims, who appears in the book under the pseudonym Father Butcher.

In this deeply moving and intimate conversation, Antoinette speaks about the generations of shame that made it so difficult to share her experiences, and the fear that others would not be able to hold the depth of the pain she was carrying. Her commitment to telling her story was not only an artistic endeavour – but an existential struggle. "I was writing to save my life," Antoinette says.

Antoinette reframes resistance to this work as a matter of being unskilled rather than unwilling, while sharing her journey of turning towards the trauma held in the sacral chakra of the collective Black body.

This is a transformative conversation that will speak to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the relationship between trauma integration and truth-telling; the erasure of the collective and ancestral trauma carried by Black women; medical racism; the necessity of developing capacity to witness rather than bypass; and the many paths individuals can walk to transmute their most harrowing experiences in service of collective healing.

About Antoinette Cooper:

Antoinette Cooper is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and organizer with over 20 years of experience. Her work focuses on healing collective trauma through the arts, ancestral wisdom, and embodied practices. Antoinette is also the founder of Black Exhale, a nonprofit dedicated to creating sanctuary spaces for the liberated Black body. Her documentary poetry collection, UNRULY, was published January 2025.

bio.site/antoinettecooper

Professional Website

Black Exhale

Purchase Unruly Bookshop.org

Purchase Unruly via Amazon

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:46 Matthew Green's Encounter with Antoinette 03:28 Defining Collective Healing 05:57 Antoinette's Personal Journey and Writing 'Unruly' 10:31 The Power of Sharing and Collective Healing 24:17 The Mothers of Gynecology and Historical Trauma 38:05 The Power of Sharing Stories 39:10 Publishing the Book: A New Beginning 40:08 Embracing Public Journey 42:00 Discovering Health Humanities 43:52 Challenges in Collective Healing 45:38 Timeless Wisdom Training Experience 52:40 The Importance of Language in Healing 58:00 Collective Healing and Support 01:02:00 Final Reflections and Gratitude

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

Yocheved Sidof traces her ancestry back 2,500 years, to the Babylonian exile from Jerusalem. This pivotal event in Jewish history forced her forebears to seek sanctuary in new lands, and they ultimately established a community in Mashhad, in present-day Iran. In the 1970s, Yocheved's parents emigrated to the Midwestern United States, where she was raised in an Orthodox Jewish community steeped in Hasidic practice and Jewish mysticism.

In this extraordinary dialogue, Yocheved and Matthew explore how collective healing work led by Thomas Hübl and team brought her into contact with both the fears and the strengths she inherited from her female ancestors, who risked their lives to preserve their faith underground for 120 years in Mashhad after a pogrom and forced conversion in 1839. She also describes her sense of being invited into a new form of embodied feminine spiritual leadership by her great-grandfather, who was a prominent rabbi in Tehran.

Matthew and Yocheved discuss how these processes informed her decision to begin leading annual pilgrimages to the sites of concentration camps in Poland, and how these contribute to collective and ancestral healing, across space and time.

About Yocheved Sidof

Yocheved is a spiritual and community leader, activist, writer, mystic, and guide. She harnesses decades of social entrepreneurship, leadership in progressive education, certifications, and lived experience — including her own wounds and healing — into the sacred and contemplative space she weaves at Ohmek, a community for women and men pursuing deeper ways of being.

Resources

Ohmek

Underneath the Underneath (Podcast series of Yocheved's teachings)

The Witnessing Journey

The Marranos of Mashhad: The Story of a Jewish Community That Led a Double Life for 120 Years

Recording Date: 12 February 2025

00:00 Introduction to Collective Healing 01:35 Yocheved's Journey of Vulnerability and Belonging 08:45 Exploring Ancestral Roots and Identity 16:25 The Path to Spiritual Leadership 32:01 The Power of Community and Healing 38:08 The Witnessing Journey to Aushwitz in Poland 48:43 Future Aspirations and Closing Reflections