Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds - Hardcover

Hübl, Thomas; Avritt, Julie Jordan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683647378 ISBN 13: 9781683647379

Publisher: Sounds True, 2020

Synopsis

A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Healing Shared Trauma

What can you do when you carry scars not on your body, but within your soul? And what happens when those spiritual wounds exist not just in you, but in everyone in your family, community, and even beyond?

Spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl has spent years investigating why it is that old and seemingly disconnected traumas can seed their way through communities and across generations. His work culminates in Healing Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Thomas combines deep knowledge of mystical traditions with the latest scientific research. “In this way,” writes Thomas, “we are weaving a double helix between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding.”

Thomas details the Collective Trauma Integration Process, a group-based modality for evoking and eventually dissolving stuck traumatic energies. Providing structured practices for both students and group facilitators, Healing Collective Trauma is intended to build a practical tool kit for integration.

Here, you will learn:

• The innumerable ways trauma shapes our world―from identity and health to economy, geopolitics, and the state of the environment
• The concept of “trauma loyalty”―unconscious group bonds based in a pain narrative
• How the climate crisis is both a manifestation of humanity’s collective trauma and an opportunity to heal
• “Retrocausality”―how the power of presence can reshape the past and make new futures possible

Including essays contributed by experts such as Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Otto Scharmer, Dr. Christina Bethell, and Ken Wilber, Healing Collective Trauma offers not just an advanced look at community trauma but also a hopeful glimpse of the future. As Thomas declares, “Together, I believe we can and must heal the ‘soul wound’ that marks us all. In so doing, we will awaken to the luminous possibility and profound potential of our true, mutual nature as humankind.”

About this title

About the Authors

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating modern science with the insights of humanity’s wisdom traditions. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on collective trauma. He is the author of Healing Collective Trauma and Attuned, a coach for executives and leaders, and a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard. He is the cofounder of the NGOs The Pocket Project and Global Restoration Institute, which facilitate dialogue around collective trauma, conflict resolution, and collective healing for organizations and governments worldwide.

Julie Jordan Avritt is a professional ghostwriter, author collaborator, content advisor, and integral thinker working with global changemakers on a mission to inspire humanity in a time of great transition. She coauthored Healing Collective Trauma and Attuned with Thomas Hübl.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683647378
• ISBN 13: 9781683647379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304