Climate Consciousness Summit 2023
1-10 December 2023
Join us as we grow a trauma-informed approach to healing our climate and initiate the inner and outer transformation needed for true climate action to emerge.
For every sign up, a tree will be planted. For every friend or family member you invite, two more trees will be planted, one for you and one for them. In this way, while sharing inspiration, we are also growing a forest together.
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The Pocket Project is developing the annual Climate Consciousness Summit for the coming cycle of 7 years until 2030. We aim to initiate the inner and outer transformation needed for true climate action to emerge.
We bring a trauma-informed approach to climate consciousness and action, acknowledging that trauma lies at the root of our inaction in the face of Climate Change. Trauma symptoms of numbness, apathy, hyper-activation and fragmentation dramatically slow down our ability to respond adequately and implement climate agreements. Our lack of relationship to the crisis is part of the crisis.
- Free Exclusive Access: Enjoy inspiring interviews, mindfulness practices + the screening of the documentary Uncharitable from Dec 1-10, 2023.
- Gain insights into trauma-informed solutions to the climate crisis, rooted in the Pocket Project’s Collective Trauma Integration Process (CTIP)
- Engaging Speakers: Hear from esteemed speakers such as Thomas Hübl, Bayo Akomolafe, Nora Bateson, Satish Kumar, Vanessa Nakate, Deb Dana, Chief Phil Lane Jr., and many more.
- Connect with a diverse community of over 20,000 participants worldwide, including climate experts, cultural influencers, policymakers, and grassroots leaders
- Connect with real climate stories from vulnerable communities: listen firsthand to what it is like for those in the frontlines and interact with them through our live Global Social Witnessing sessions.
- Be the first to hear directly about emerging COP28 developments: hear what is happening from voices on the ground in Dubai, gain insight into the negotiations and its hopes and failures.
- Interactive Sessions: Participate in live online events, including on-the-ground coverage, Global Social Witnessing sessions with community leaders, panel discussions, poetry readings, and more.
- Understand the urgency of the next seven years, recognized as pivotal in preventing irreversible climate damage by 2030, and discover your role in shaping a regenerative future.
- Healing Personal and Collective Trauma: Delve into the potential for healing personal, intergenerational, and collective trauma as a key component of addressing the climate emergency.
- Environmental Impact: Contribute to reforestation efforts as the Pocket Project plants a tree for every participant, collectively growing a forest in alignment with the summit’s commitment to sustainable action.
Keynote Conversations
Thomas Hübl
Teacher I Author I Founder of Academy of Inner Science & Pocket Project
Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change by integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.
Bayo Akomolafe
Poet | Philosopher | Psychologist | Professor
Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated speaker, posthumanist thinker, Yoruba poet, teacher, author and founder of the planet-wide initiative The Emergence Network, which is helping communities find new ways to respond to the challenges we face as a species.
Deb Dana
Clinician | Trauma Consultant | Author | Speaker
Deb Dana specializes in complex trauma, using the principles of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in our lives. Her Rhythm of Regulation training courses delve into the intricacies of how to use the principles to change the ways we navigate our daily lives.
Vanessa Nakate
Climate Justice Activist | Author | Founder of the Rise Up Movement
Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate justice activist and the founder of the Rise Up Movement, which seeks to amplify the voices of climate activists in Africa. In 2021 she was featured on TIME magazine's list of the world’s most influential emerging leaders.
Jojo Mehta
Co-Founder & Executive Director Stop Ecocide International
Jojo Mehta is a passionate advocate for climate justice and co-founder of the Stop Ecocide campaign. She strives to hold corporations accountable for environmental destruction, and her efforts both inspire change and pave the way for a more sustainable and equitable world.
Margarita O. Zethelius
Biologist | Activist | Founder of the UBUNTU Center
Margarita is a biologist, activist for life and representative of the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America CASA in the Global Ecovillage Network GEN. She creates places, programs and life changing experiences that bring together care for Mother Earth and the wellbeing of humanity.
Annika Kessel
Founder and Board Chairman Cosmiq Universe AG
Annika Kessel is the founder and CEO of Cosmiq Universe, a transmedia business giving life to avatar-driven story worlds, She also worked as a consultant for the United Nations and, as a digital executive at the interface of business development, technology and sales in the field of e-commerce.
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary | UN Climate Change Convention | Diplomat
Christiana Figueres is a transformational climate change leader who is recognized across the globe for her work spearheading international negotiations on climate change and successfully addressing climate challenges.
Aunty Puna Kalama Dawson
Hawaiian Elder | Wisdom Keeper | Community Organizer
As a cultural ambassador, Aunty Puna Kalama Dawson has traveled the world to share the indigenous wisdom and traditions of Hawaii. She is one of the founders of Kanuikapono Charter School and has been involved in spearheading numerous community organizations.
Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum | Professor of Sustainability Leadership | Syntropic Agroforester | Singer-songwriter
Jem Bendell
Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum | Professor of Sustainability Leadership | Syntropic Agroforester | Singer-songwriter
Jem Bendell is a world-renowned scholar on the breakdown of modern societies due to environmental change and known for his paper on Deep Adaptation. For decades he worked on Sustainable Development as a researcher and NGO manager, as well as a consultant to businesses, political parties and UN agencies.
Executive Director of Kaua’i-based Coherence Lab | Social Entrepreneur | Business Consultant
Prajna Horn
Executive Director of Kaua’i-based Coherence Lab | Social Entrepreneur | Business Consultant
Prajna is social change strategist, social entrepreneur, business consultant, community organizer and Executive Director of Kaua’i-based Coherence Lab, a non-profit organization advancing whole-systems solutions by uniting Indigenous Wisdom, Earth Systems Science and by bringing people together to act coherently for the good of the whole.
Maria Leister
Education Director at Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma | MSc Bioethics
Maria Leister is an advocate for the well-being and integration of trauma-affected refugees and newcomers. She stands at the forefront of endeavours aimed at creating enduring positive impacts in the lives of vulnerable communities.
Award-winning doctor | Trauma-informed life coach | Social entrepreneur | Speaker | Campaigner
Rola Hallam
Award-winning doctor | Trauma-informed life coach | Social entrepreneur | Speaker | Campaigner
Rola Hallam is an award winning frontline doctor and campaigner who spent a decade responding to the humanitarian crisis in war torn Syria. Rola is also a transformational speaker and her online talks have been viewed over 11 million times, inspiring thousands to become changemakers.
Ruby Mendenhall
Professor in African American Studies, and Urban and Regional Planning
Ruby Mendenhall is a professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work. Her research focuses on issues of social inequality over the life course and the role of public policy and individuals’ agency in facilitating social and economic mobility.
Peace-Pilgrim I Life-long Activist & Former Monk I Inspiring Global Change for Over 50 Years
Satish Kumar
Peace-Pilgrim I Life-long Activist & Former Monk I Inspiring Global Change for Over 50 Years
Satish Kumar is a renowned peace-pilgrim, activist and former monk who has dedicated his life to inspiring global change. With over 50 years of experience, he has campaigned for ecological regeneration, social justice, and spiritual fulfilment. His impactful work has earned him numerous accolades and honorary doctorates, and he continues to inspire through his writing, teaching, and international talks.
Nora Bateson
Award-winning | Filmmaker | Writer & Educator
Nora Bateson’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems while looking at the inter-relational processes between and among them.
Karen O'Brien
Professor | Climate Change Researcher | Author
Karen O'Brien is a professor of sociology and geography, researching the social and human dimensions of global environmental change. Her book You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World introduces a radically different way of thinking about climate change.
John D. Liu
Filmmaker | Ecologist | Lecturer | Researcher
John D. Liu is a renowned environmental filmmaker and ecologist who has dedicated his life to restoring degraded ecosystems, all the while inspiring a global movement of everyday people who are reversing ecological destruction across six continents.
Film & Television Director I Writer | Producer | Founder of the Identity Development Institute
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Film & Television Director I Writer | Producer | Founder of the Identity Development Institute
Stephen Gyllenhaal is a film and television director, writer and producer. In 2017, he founded the Identity Development Institute, which is building a vibrant community of practitioners, researchers and educators across North America who are aware and informed about early trauma.
Emelina Corrales
Marine Biologist I Environmental Finance Consultant I Coach
As a marine biologist Emelina Corrales has conducted conservation project management and research on four continents. She is also an executive coach and one of the vision bearers of the Sacred Earth Council, a group that performs ceremonies to heal and raise the energy of the earth as we evolve as a planet.
Thomas Legrand
Wisdom Seeker | Social Scientist | Sustainability Practitioner
Thomas Legrand works in the field of sustainability, focusing on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, leadership and how to cultivate inner capacities for systemic transformation. His spiritual search, social scientist background and professional experience have converged on the importance of spiritual wisdom in humanity’s ongoing transition.
Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam
Catholic Priest | Author | Philosophical Scientist
Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam is coordinator of Ecology and Creation at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He is also a prolific author and the chair of Philosophy of Science and director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University.
Brother Spirit
Zen Buddhist Monk | Musician | Mathematician
Previously a Cambridge mathematician and professional musician, Brother Spirit teaches applied mindfulness to climate activists, business leaders, artists and scientists and explores how meditators and scientists can help each other progress on the path of understanding and discovery.
"Embodiment is the foundation for healing. Without embodiment, we have no instrument to receive the world and to ground the energy of anxiety, fear and trauma. Our body is the instrument that allows the energy to return and become fertile soil for the future."
Kosha Joubert
CEO Pocket Project
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Program Overview
KEYNOTE CONVERSATIONS
With a wonderful selection of inspirational speakers and solution-holders, we will explore the importance of trauma-informed care to step out of hyper-activation, out of apathy, and into truly transformative climate action.
COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONTLINES
We listen to voices from the frontlines of the Climate Crisis, bringing our embodied care and witnessing capacity and shifting from being bystanders to responding from our hearts, minds and bodies.
UPDATES FROM COP28
We will hear from those deeply engaged on the ground at the UN Climate Conference COP28 gaining exciting and personable live updates about what is happening in the negotiations in Dubai.
MINDFULNESS PRACTICES
Every day, we are accompanied by one mindfulness practice that helps us grow our toolkit to balance ourselves and restore our collective sensitivity. Together, we are unfolding compassion and possibility.
MOVIE SCREENING
During the full 10 days of the summit, the movie ‘UNCHARITABLE’ will be screened for free. Everything you know about change is about to change! Meet the director, Stephen Gyllenhaal, live on Friday, 8 December.
Communities on the Frontline - Global Social Witnessing
Robin Lim
BirthKeeper | Founder of the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation
Ibu Robin Lim is a Certified Professional Midwife and devotes her life to Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation), a not for profit organization with clinics in Bali, Aceh, Papua and the Philippines. She is also the author of twenty-two books, and the mother of eight children.
Linda Kabeira
Sustainability Educator | Food Grower | Systems Designer
Linda is a passionate regenerative food grower, environmentalist, and sustainable food systems designer with two decades of implementing sustainable and regenerative food systems initiatives with communities. She works in the fertile intersection between education, transdisciplinary research, agroecology practice and climate change.
Wenderson Araujo
Activist | Musician | Indigenious Youth
Wenderson Araujo is a student of arts and humanities and an indigenous of Mura Etnia from Manaus, Brasil. He loves to sing, play and compose music, protect and fight for social rights, mainly the right of his indigenous people, the Pindorama (Brasil) People.
Vanda Witoto
Climate Activist | Indigenous Leader | Nurse
Vanda is a leader of the Witoto people. She incorporates her role as a speaker, political educator and director of social politics. She has become a responsible leader in Latin America especially through her role as environmental and climate activist.
Aboubacry Ly
Chief | Educator | Community Development Leader
Aly Ly is a passionate community leader and development expert who, in addition to his long teaching career, has spearheaded vital socioeconomic and environmental efforts in Mauritania, and become the country’s focal point for the Network for Emergence and Development of Ecovillages in the Sahel.
Claudelice dos Santos
Brazilian environmental and human rights activist
Claudelice Silva dos Santos is a Brazilian environmental and human rights activist. She leads campaign against illegal logging for charcoal production and ranching in Amazonian settlements and was nominated by the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thoughts in 2019 in recognition of her work.
Ousmane Pame
Professor | Ecovillage Designer | Community Leader & President of GEN Africa
Ousmane Pame is a professor of literature and former mayor of the eco-town of Guede Chantier in Senegal. He is also the president of GEN Africa, working in the regeneration of sociocultural and natural environments in the Sahel while striving to promote ecological education, peace and cooperation between communities.
Permaculture Educator I Coordinator of Schools and Colleges Permaculture (SCOPE)
Chifundo Jean Khokwa
Permaculture Educator I Coordinator of Schools and Colleges Permaculture (SCOPE)
Chifundo Khokwa has over 14 years experience in permaculture and land design and is dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture, permaculture, and participatory community development. Her work in Malawi involves supporting school communities to achieve healthy productive landscapes through low input, high impact techniques.
Updates from COP28 - Voices from the Ground
Mariama Williams
Feminist Economist | Author | Senior Advisor
Mariama Williams Ph. D., is a feminist economist with over 20 years’ experience working on economic development, macroeconomic, trade external debt and finance issues, with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment, social equity, sustainable finance and development and climate change issues.
Abigael Kima
Climate Activist | Podcast Host | Energy Expert
Abigael Kima is a young energy enthusiasm and climate justice advocate from Kenya with a background in Environmental Science . She is the producer and host of the new Hali-Hewa podcast (Hali-Hewa is a Swahili term for ‘climate’), profiling African activists and climate experts on a variety of themes.
Kaluki Paul Mukutu
Climate Activist | Environmental Educator| Storyteller
Kaluki Paul Mutuku is a Kenya-based young climate advocate and an environmental defender with a key focus on African nature-based solutions, land restoration, reforestation, ecological farming and youth leadership across the spaces. He is also a gifted storyteller and Executive Director at Kenya Environmental Action Network (KEAN).
President of Climate & Sustainability I Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate I Advisor to the UN
Elise Buckle
President of Climate & Sustainability I Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate I Advisor to the UN
Elise is a globally recognized expert, moderator, and public speaker in climate policy, partnership building, and systemic change. She is passionate about empowering the next generation of leaders and citizens to take action for a sustainable future.
Matthew Green
Journalist | Author | Co-host of the Collective Trauma Summit 2023
Matthew is a journalist working to show how an understanding of collective trauma can help solve the climate crisis. As global investigations editor at the non-profit climate news service DeSmog, he leads coverage of the global climate crisis, energy politics and global struggles for environmental justice.
Paul Dickinson
CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project | Author | Green Business Leader & Advisor
Paul Dickinson is a corporate communications consultant and the Executive Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project. He works to create a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental boundaries and prevents dangerous climate change.
Mindfulness Practices
Thomas Hübl
Teacher I Author I Founder of Academy of Inner Science & Pocket Project
Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change by integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science.
Indigenous Leader | Professor | Founder of the Four Worlds International Institute
Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Indigenous Leader | Professor | Founder of the Four Worlds International Institute
Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is a leader in human, community, and economic development.
Om Sunisa Jamwiset Deiters
Ecovillage Co-founder & Trainer | Facilitator | Deep Ecology
Om Sunisa Jamwiset Dieters is the Co-Founder of Gaia Ashram, an eco-learning center in Thailand and a trainer of deep ecology, nature connection, ecovillage design and sustainable living. She divides her time teaching, managing Gaia Ashram and taking care of her kids.
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw
Zen master | Author | Founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw is both a leadership expert and roshi (Zen master) in the Chozen-ji line of Rinzai Zen. She is the author of The Zen Leader, and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She is also the President of Focus Leadership, and has taught and coached in global leadership programs for nearly 20 years.
Emelina Corrales
Marine Biologist I Environmental Finance Consultant I Coach
As a marine biologist Emelina Corrales has conducted conservation project management and research on four continents. She is also an executive coach and one of the vision bearers of the Sacred Earth Council, a group that performs ceremonies to heal and raise the energy of the earth as we evolve as a planet.
Konkankoh Joshua
Indigenous Elder | Social Entrepreneur | Regenerative Educator | Consultant
Konkankoh Joshua is a convener and facilitator in South-North Partnerships between change organizations that work to amplify systems change. He is an indigenous elder, network weaver, and social entrepreneur who combines emergent digital education with Permaculture principles, environmental leadership, and climate resilience to reduce social inequalities.
Grandmother Ejna Fleury
Tribal Peace Ambassador | Spiritual Counselor | Author
Grandmother Ejna Jean Fleury is a mystic, visionary and ceremonialist from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and is their first Tribal Peace Ambassador. She strives to heal the multi-generational and multi-lineal effects of massacre, holocaust and war upon humanity, other species and the earth.
Louise Marra
Systems Healer | Author | Social Impact & Leadership Consultant | Founder of ReRoot
Louise is a ‘systems healer and is deeply committed to dismantling and dissolving dominant paradigms and structures to help heal colonisation and intergenerational trauma within Aotearoa, NZ and abroad.She held many senior roles in government, NGO’s and businesses, and is running her own business.
Summit Hosts
Kosha Joubert
Summit Host | CEO of the Pocket Project | Trainer, | Consultant
Kosha Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, curriculum development and intercultural collaboration.
Sonita Mbah
Summit Host | Regenerative Designer | Permaculture Educator
Sonita Mbah is a passionate food grower, Permaculture designer and facilitator. She is now combining her role as Communications Coordinator at The Pocket Project with her Masters in World Heritage Studies. She is a passionate food grower, Permaculture designer and facilitator.
Sarah Queblatin
Summit Host | Regenerative Design Strategist | Facilitator
Sarah Queblatin is a regenerative design strategist and facilitator weaving collective experiences in peace building, cultural heritage, environmental education, and humanitarian assistance. Her life-long practice is in restoring and re-storying narratives of place and belonging through ecosystem restoration and leadership.
Matthew Green
Journalist | Author | Co-host of the Collective Trauma Summit 2023
Matthew is a journalist working to show how an understanding of collective trauma can help solve the climate crisis. As global investigations editor at the non-profit climate news service DeSmog, he leads coverage of the global climate crisis, energy politics and global struggles for environmental justice.
Together, we are planting a forest in Kenya!
For every sign up, a tree will be planted. For every friend or family member you invite, two more trees will be planted, one for you and one for them.
In this way, while sharing inspiration, we are also growing a forest together and support villages to shift into a cycle of abundance.
The trees will be planted in Kenya by our partner the “Eden Reforestation Projects” as part of the “Bäume für den Wandel” project.
In this way, while sharing inspiration, we are also growing a forest together and support villages to shift into a cycle of abundance.
The trees will be planted in Kenya by our partner the “Eden Reforestation Projects” as part of the “Bäume für den Wandel” project.
