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How does unprocessed trauma shape our economy, leadership, and collective decision-making? In this episode of Next Economy Now, Thomas Hübl, PhD, explores the deep connection between trauma and our broader societal and economic systems.
As a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator, Thomas shares insights on how historical wounds create fragmentation, polarization, and unconscious patterns that influence everything from corporate social responsibility to environmental policies. He explains how developing individual and collective healing capacities can lead to more sustainable business practices and regenerative economic models.
By recognizing trauma’s role in shaping societal structures, we can move beyond short-term solutions toward a more resilient, interconnected future. Tune in to learn how integrating social impact strategies with personal and collective transformation can help build a new, more just economy!
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Key Points From This Episode:
Thomas’s work and training in healing collective trauma. [0:01:36]
How collective trauma impacts the world and economy. [0:04:51]
Understanding the complexity of the trauma response, individually and collectively. [0:11:31]
The polarizing, fragmenting force of trauma; how it informs the backlash to progressive agendas. [0:22:06]
Insights into how we can learn a new collective competence. [0:25:35]
Reflections and strategies for nervous system regulation and building your capacity. [0:29:13]
Creating more possibilities as leaders by being willing to navigate uncomfortable situations and the power of post-traumatic learning. [0:33:28]
Why finding a new collective competence is vital for a new economy and society. [0:37:40]
Where you can learn more about Thomas and his work. [0:43:55]
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Quotes:
“The definition of trauma is not the experience. It's not what happens to us. It’s the – response in our body to that experience.” — @ThomasHuebl [0:04:59]
“Healing trauma is one part, owning transgressions is another part, and growing back together as a social fabric needs both. Melting the trauma, owning transgressions when they happen, so that we can become one fabric, one tissue – the self-healing mechanism needs it.” — @ThomasHuebl [0:21:04]
“Our ancestral tendencies, they're also alive in many of us, in our psyche; and then the collective history, the Civil War, or other things that happened. There are wounds that unconsciously produce effects.” — @ThomasHuebl [0:26:07]
“We as citizens, no matter where we live around the world, have to learn skills, how to integrate the legacy that we were born into.” — @ThomasHuebl [0:26:30]
“As long as life is frozen in the past, we inevitably are reproducing past ways of behaving.” — @ThomasHuebl [0:37:50]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Thomas Hübl — https://thomashuebl.com/
Thomas Hübl on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashuebl/?originalSubdomain=il
Thomas Hübl on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/thomashuebl/
Thomas Hübl on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Thomas.Huebl.Sangha/
Thomas Hübl on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/user/thomashuebl
Thomas Hübl on X — https://x.com/thomasHuebl
Point of Relation Podcast with Thomas Hübl — https://pointofrelationpodcast.com/
Collective Trauma Summit — https://collectivetraumasummit.com/
Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma — https://www.attunedbook.com/
Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and
Cultural Wounds — https://www.collectivetraumabook.com/
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