What is Collective Healing?
What is Collective Healing?
Podcast Description
What is Collective Healing? is a weekly podcast exploring how people around the world are finding new ways to heal the individual, inter-generational and collective trauma at the root of our global crises.
Presented by the Pocket Project, the series features deeply personal conversations with practitioners who have trained under Thomas Hübl and other pioneers of collective healing – giving listeners a direct experience of the transformational potential this work can unlock.
Drawing on a wide diversity of voices from different countries, cultures and communities, the series aims to make the universal principles underlying collective healing practices newly accessible to all – and honour the many lineages and traditions informing today’s cutting-edge practices.
In an age of overwhelming complexity and news overload, it’s easy to forget that we’re not meant to carry the weight of the world alone. What Is Collective Healing? is your weekly reminder that not only are we wired to grieve, celebrate and heal together – we’re discovering new ways to transmute polarisation, trauma and despair into the seeds of a more flourishing future. These conversations show us how.
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The podcast delves into themes of individual, inter-generational, and collective trauma, exploring transformative healing practices globally. Topics include Global Social Witnessing, trauma-informed leadership, and community resilience, with specific episodes featuring conversations about the origins of Global Social Witnessing and collective integration.
What is Collective Healing? is a weekly podcast exploring how people around the world are finding new ways to heal the individual, inter-generational and collective trauma at the root of our global crises.
Presented by the Pocket Project, the series features deeply personal conversations with practitioners who have trained under Thomas Hübl and other pioneers of collective healing – giving listeners a direct experience of the transformational potential this work can unlock.
Drawing on a wide diversity of voices from different countries, cultures and communities, the series aims to make the universal principles underlying collective healing practices newly accessible to all – and honour the many lineages and traditions informing today’s cutting-edge practices.
In an age of overwhelming complexity and news overload, it’s easy to forget that we’re not meant to carry the weight of the world alone. What Is Collective Healing? is your weekly reminder that not only are we wired to grieve, celebrate and heal together – we’re discovering new ways to transmute polarisation, trauma and despair into the seeds of a more flourishing future. These conversations show us how.
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:
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
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