What is Collective Healing?
The Conditions for Collective Trauma Map – From Data to Deeper Awareness, with Thomas Hübl & Max Roth
You are warmly invited to join Kosha and Adrian Wagner of the Pocket Project's research team, who has been deeply involved in the Conditions for Collective Trauma Map, for a live presentation: Register for the community call Mapping the Conditions for Collective Trauma – From Data to Deeper Awareness on October 8 Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard. We're joined by Pocket Project co-founder Thomas Hübl and technologist, facilitator and researcher Max Roth to explore the new Conditions for Collective Trauma Map, which goes live on October 8. Please sign up for an event introducing the map here . Developed by the Pocket Project in collaboration with Max's organisation Connecting Intelligence , this three-dimensional visualisation draws on dozens of datasets to make the conditions associated with collective trauma – such as conflict, interpersonal violence, environmental degradation and forced migration — more visible. The map also points to societal resilience by representing factors such as democracy, peace, gender equality and wellbeing. The aim is to support a wide range of actors — from policymakers, researchers and philanthropists to governments, international organisations and relief agencies — to locate their work in a wider landscape, and recognise the need for integrated approaches. A wealth of data embedded in the map can also be used to support public dialogue on how to address the lasting legacy of collective trauma fields like colonialism, slavery and resource extraction. As Thomas and Max explain, the Conditions for Collective Trauma Map does not attempt to measure how traumatised a society is: It offers a landscape for inquiry, intended as a starting point for asking deeper questions. Their conversation with Kosha explores themes including: Genesis of the vision for the map What data can reveal, and what remains beyond measurement The challenges of mapping victimisation, perpetration and resilience How the map can support policymakers and organisations Mapping changing national boundaries and Indigenous territories Welcoming collaboration to help the map continually evolve How developments in AI made the project possible Recognising ourselves as a unified field of intelligence To hear more from Adrian about how the Pocket Project is developing data-based research into collective trauma healing, listen to this previous episode featuring him in dialogue with Kosha: Tending the Sacred Tapestry: What Happens Inside an Integration Lab, with Adrian Wagner More From Thomas Hübl: Thomas Hübl's website More From Max Roth: Connecting Intelligence Max Roth on LinkedIn Pocket Project Links: Pocket Project Global Social Witnessing Calls Pocket Project About Thomas Hübl: Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. His new book, co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is called Releasing Our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma. Thomas is also the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. About Max Roth: Max Roth is the founder of Connecting Intelligence , working at the intersection of organizational development, collective intelligence, leadership, inner development, and technology. With a background in physics, he is researching how people and organisations build trust, coordinate under uncertainty, and develop the human and cultural conditions needed to navigate complexity well. He supports teams and leaders in high-stakes environments through facilitation, coaching, and participatory culture work. Rather than approaching culture as something designed from the top down, Max is interested in how social architectures can be co-evolved from within, the patterns of relationship, power, attention, communication, and decision-making that shape how a group actually functions. His work explores how these patterns can create greater conditions for safety, aliveness, coherence, learning, and meaningful coordination without eliminating difference or uncertainty. A particular focus of his work is the human side of responsible and deeply aligned AI: how trust can scale, how collective intelligence can be strengthened, and how teams working on difficult technological problems can remain reflective, adaptive, and ethically grounded. Through Connecting Intelligence, Max also develops custom software for mission-driven organizations, especially where technology can support more complex forms of participation, reflection, and coordination. Most recently, he built the Conditions for Collective Trauma Map for The Pocket Project, an interactive exploration of the conditions that shape collective trauma. Across his work, Max is researching human alignment, embodied ethics, resilience, trust, and playful collaboration and how these capacities might help groups meet difficult problems with greater depth, intelligence, and responsiveness.
