In Cooperation with Thomas Hübl, PhD, Academy of Inner Science

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in COLLECTIVE TRAUMA INTEGRATION PROCESS (CTIP)

Jens Riese has a long-standing passion for nature and social change, and has approached that calling through diff erent modalities, his fi rst approach was an academic one. He studied biology and environmental management and spent 5 years as a researcher. Then he was called out of the ivory tower of academia into the “real world” and worked as a consultant to many companies, NGOs and 20 governments around the world on sustainable development.During that work he saw what works and especially what doesn’t, and got more and more interested in the inner aspects of change. He trained as a coach, trauma therapist, and workshop facilitator, which is his primary work now.His key interest remains our re-connection to the living planet. And the question of how to sense and align ourselves with the evolutionary impulse of our time.

Karen Simms is a seasoned consultant, trainer, facilitator, and coach with over 30 years of experience in building trauma-informed, healing-centered, and equitable systems and communities. She is the founding director of the Trauma & Resilience Initiative, a nonprofit focused on promoting resilience and justice through education and advocacy. Additionally, Karen leads Meridian K Consulting & Coaching Services, providing trauma-informed coaching and consulting to individuals, organizations, and communities. She is also a founding director of the MindShift Center, offering counseling services and training focused on complex trauma. Karen is dedicated to helping healers, activists, and leaders flourish and stay well while addressing deep-rooted challenges within systems and communities.

Robin Alfred is an organisational consultant, facilitator, trainer and executive coach – and a Senior Programme Director for Olivier Mythodrama. Robin worked in criminal justice in London, before moving to the Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland in 1995 where he founded Open Circle Consultancy. He has extensive experience of leading and developing groups and individuals across all sectors – corporate, public, and third sector. His facilitation work is designed to cultivate the self-organizing principle in groups and individuals and to support the emergence of transformational fields. Robin is a registered facilitator for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Robin has been studying with Thomas Hübl for the past 12 years. He has served as a host and mentor for almost all of Thomas Hübl’s online courses, co-moderated two of the Celebrate Life Festivals and was a co-host of the 2019 and 2020 Online Summit on Collective Trauma.

Manda Johnson is a therapist, group process facilitator, a multifaceted artist, and a key member of the Pocket Project’s Global Social Witnessing team. Manda Johnson has been passionate about Global Social Witnessing since it was introduced in 2017. She co-leads regular GSW practice groups as well as larger witnessing events. She co-created and co-teaches "Witnessing the World in Me and Me in the World", teaching the principles and practice of GSW. She co-founded World Witnessing (http://www.worldwitnessing.org), a GSW practice and learning community, partnering with the Pocket Project to grow witnessing as an essential practice for the times we are living in.

Robert Buxbaum is a certified coach, social activist, former leader of large-scale public and private organizations, and a key member of the Pocket Project’s Global Social Witnessing team. Since 2017, when Thomas Hübl first introduced Global Social Witnessing, Robert Buxbaum has worked to develop and refine the practice. He co-created and co-teaches "Witnessing the World in Me and Me in the World", a six session training that teaches the principles and practice of GSW, and he regularly co-facilitates GSW Practice Groups and larger public witnessing experiences. Robert co-founded www.worldwitnessing.org, a GSW practice and learning community and is passionate about sharing Global Social Witnessing and the transformative effect it has on individual and collective consciousness, as widely as possible.