Collective Trauma Integration

What are the after-effects of massive societal crisis such as Apartheid, the Holocaust, Slavery, decades of conflict in the Middle East, Columbia, or centuries of Gender Inequality? How are societies re-built and formed in the wake of unspeakable atrocities? How does trauma, buried deep in our collective unconscious, shape our brains, our bodies, our psyches, our relational capacities and those of succeeding generations? Psychologists, Neuroscientists and Epigeneticists, amongst others, are beginning to answer these questions. The Pocket Project seeks to bundle these scientific insights with the wisdom of ancient mystical traditions.

So how can we restore collective health and well-being in communities and nations in the after-math of grave societal crisis? This question drives the mission of the Pocket Project, to stop the vicious cycle of recurring collective trauma and ultimately integrate and reduce its effects on our global culture.

Our “Training in Collective and Intergenerational Trauma Integration” trains the competencies in facilitators to do collective healing work in multiple contexts, specifically to:

· Develop a new understanding of collective trauma and   its symptoms
· Build healing and integration competencies
· Explore large-scale group facilitation

The leading facilitator and modern mystic Thomas Hübl brings 15 years of personal experience in collective trauma restoration to the training.

We have so far received 86 training applications from 30 countries. Our wish is to be especially effective in poorer regions of the world, which have been subject to great conflict. With this campaign, our aim is to support at least six candidates from countries like DR Congo, Columbia and Namibia with a Local Empowerment Scholarship for the training. Please see our first two candidates below. With your support, we can add more candidates soon.

Trained candidates will go on to take on expanded leadership roles in their communities with the focus of restorative healing in previously conflicted areas, thus shifting awareness on the effects of collective trauma and its integration. They are also eligible to found local Pocket Groups, bringing together experts from various disciplines with a focus on collective trauma integration, thereby creating ever-more “Pockets of Trauma Integration”.

In contributing to the training of highly-skilled facilitators of collective healing, you are therefore potentially contributing to the healing of entire communities.

The Scholarship will pay for the cost of travel, room and board for the two five-day, in-person trainings in Israel 2017/2018. The course fee is waved in favor of a symbolic amount according to the means of the candidates. The remainder of the training takes place online.


Gabriela Martinez, a Columbian clinical psychologist with a special interest in collective trauma, created Corasoma, an NGO with the mission of offering trauma-informed-care and interventions to vulnerable communities.

She says „Colombia is going through a very special moment, since we are starting a post-conflict process, after the Peace Agreement with the Guerrilla was recently signed. Our country has been very wounded by a history of over 50 years of armed conflict. New and sustainable approaches to deal with the consequences of this violence need to be implemented on the individual and collective levels“.


Rosalinda Visolela Namises was born on 20 April 1958 as one of nine children to an Angolan father and #Nu-Khoen mother in the Old Location of Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. Rosa spoke up against the torture of South West African People Organization members in exile by breaking the “Wall of Silence”, of which she was a founding member and chairperson. She is passionately known as a social, gender equality and human rights activist. She is founding member and currently director of Women’s Solidarity Namibia – a women’s organization fighting against gender-based violence. Rosa served as a Member of Parliament from 1999-2005 and again in 2010, becoming a vital part of the law-making process.“Ousie Rosa”, as she is passionately called by the #NuKhoen people of Namibia, was inspired and connected to mother earth through her cultural heritage and the power of the ancestors through which she now lives a very conscious life and practices healing for the communities in Namibia, especially the #NuKhoen. She has done initiation, healing and the sacred dance ceremonies for both the Namibian and international communities. She has knowledge of traditional and herbal medicine and is an active member of the GEN-Africa and -European Network, serving on its advisory board. She is currently a member of the traditional group from the Old Location and the #NuKhoe Kings Council.