How do we heal from trauma and integrate collective healing practices into the work of systems change?
Broader awareness of historical, intergenerational, and collective trauma in our systems could be transformative for mainstream social and environmental problem solving efforts. Yet trauma healing remains almost entirely absent from the discourse and the practice of systems change.
Over the past year, we have been working with a multidisciplinary coalition of partners led by The Wellbeing Project and Georgetown University to apply insights from the burgeoning field of trauma healing to the practice of systems change. Dozens of social change leaders, indigenous leaders, and community leaders working in different systems in geographies as varied as Sri Lanka, Romania, Australia, Canada, Colombia, India, and the US graciously offered their time and experience with us in the hopes of helping the social sector forge a common language around trauma and advocate for collective healing as integral to work of systems change.
Healing Systems
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
Watch the three-part webinar series on collective healing for systems change, in partnership with The Wellbeing Project, here.
Short on time? Check out the highlight video and webinar quotes here.
The Collective Change Lab and The Wellbeing Project recently co-hosted a series of webinars on collective healing for systems change. Read through the quotes and stories shared by renown social change leaders who participated in the webinar series.
Quotes & Insights
Healing from Trauma
In this episode of "It's Not Your Money," Capital Collaborative Senior Advisor Jessamyn Shams-Lau sits down with CCL’s John Kania & Katherine Milligan to discuss the topic of trauma, how it shows up in philanthropy, how to integrate collective healing practices into the work of systems change, and how to get the conversation started.
Collective Healing & Systems Change
What do we learn when we integrate the perspectives of trauma and systems change? Why is a trauma-informed lens absent from the mainstream discourse about social and environmental problem solving and what changes when we bring that lens from the periphery to the mainstream?
This episode of Resiliency Within dives into an exploration of how trauma shows up as a force to be reckoned with in systems that touch our lives.
