HEALING-CENTERED SYSTEMS CHANGE JOURNEY: A COURSE BY THE COLLECTIVE CHANGE

There is a movement toward healing and restoration underway across the world. We see this as a journey – first becoming trauma informed to see where and how trauma impacts our systems, and then moving to becoming healing orientated, building the capacities for healing-centered work. We at CCL believe that “Healing Centered Systems Change” is now vital in creating systems where all beings and our planet can flourish.

Part 1 of our learning series will focus on Trauma-Informed Systems Change, introducing healing inclined practitioners to the ways in which trauma manifests in our systems and holds progress back on our most entrenched social and environmental challenges. This experiential learning journey will give practitioners practical tools and frameworks to see how social change work often sits on top of hundreds of years of trauma entanglements, and without working with those entanglements they can often begin to have a fragmenting impact on the work. This is why we say trauma often leads a system and trauma needs to be healed, not followed.

This series will be co-led by three world-leading trauma and systems experts. Louise Marra, Laura Calderon de la Barca, and John Kania, all internationally recognized leaders on trauma healing and systems change, will be sharing applied wisdom at the heart of healing-centered systems change theory and practice. Louise brings with her significant wisdom and experience in incorporating Indigenous and nature-centric practices into conventional western social change strategy development. She is both a strategist and a “systems healer” that has worked at senior levels of government, philanthropy, nonprofits and business in both the Global North and Global South. Laura is a psychotherapist who specializes in collective and intergenerational trauma, as well as is a collective healing researcher, educator, consultant, linguist and cultural analyst. Together, they reflect the forefront of systemic healing theory and practice. Complimenting the deep trauma healing expertise will be John, author of numerous publications on systems change and a global leader on helping collectives and social change practitioners deepen how collaboration happens. Together, these three world-leading practitioners will guide the learning journey, imparting timeless wisdom and applied knowledge to all participants.

Registration includes access to the 5 part learning series, as well as access to an array of education content, including post-training recording and presentation material.

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Learning Series Faculty

Louise Marra: Louise Marra is from the Ngai Tuhoe Maori tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand and also from several Celtic ancestral rivers – Scottish, Irish, English. She describes herself as a braided river. She is an author, movement maker and systems healer. Her leadership experience has spanned all sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, private sector, philanthropy and NGO sector.

She has studied for many years individual, transpersonal, somatic and collective and intergenerational trauma and how these might be applied to healing systems.

Louise’s passion and purpose is to help build the next era of conscious leaders, innovators, activists and organisations robust enough to enable radical innovation for an emergent, healing and evolutionary approach to personaland systemic change. Her approach is around building collective, connected, and grounded relational fields of high coherence to enable healing.

She is the author and founder of the social enterprise ReRoot, founder of Unity House , co-founder of the Pakeha Project and an associate of the Centre for Social Impact.

Laura Calderon de la Barca: Laura Calderon de la Barca is a psychotherapist specialized in collective trauma, as well as a collective healing researcher, educator, consultant, linguist and cultural analyst. Beside her private therapeutic practice, she collaborates with research and facilitation in the Academy of Inner Science and the Pocket Project, both founded by contemporary mystic Thomas Hübl, in collective healing courses and programs, such as the Collective Trauma Summits, where she participates as a panelist and host, bringing the wisdom of Latin American voices to thousands of people in a global audience. She also facilitates groups for Global Majority participants in the Collective Healing Journey, Trauma-Informed Leadership Course, and Timeless Wisdom Training. She leads her own workshops on trauma healing, has worked in Canada and Mexico with Indigenous Communities, and consults for a diversity of NGO’s and institutions on trauma healing. She provides mentoring for therapists, and is currently preparing a book on collective trauma healing based on her PhD thesis, a written therapeutic session for Mexico, her country of origin, and she is also preparing a trauma healing training for therapists in Spanish.

: John Kania is a practitioner, researcher, writer, teacher, and speaker on how organizations and people can achieve change together. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Collective Change Lab. Prior to that, he ran FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm and think tank working globally across issues and sectors to support social and environmental changemakers. From 2018 to 2020, he served as an Executive-in-Residence at national venture philanthropy New Profit, co-leading the launch of a systems change practice. John has explored with increasing depth what it takes to achieve change collectively. In 2011, he co-authored the article “Collective Impact,” which remains Stanford Social Innovation Review’s most-read article ever. The theory and practice of collective impact has spread across the globe, honed and enhanced by thousands of practitioners and initiatives. More recently, John’s practice, research and writing have focused on systems change, helping clarify for practitioners how to “shift the conditions that hold a problem in place.” John’s much-referenced article, ““The Water of Systems Change,” (which includes the “Six Conditions of Systems Change” framework) is being used around the world today to bring clarity to systems change and to help people achieve collective potential.

Registration Details

To Register: Visit our Eventbrite page to register for this workshop.

Series Rates: Individual registration is $495, plus Eventbrite fees.

Group Rates: For groups of 5 or more people interested in registering for the workshop, there is a 10% discount. Please contact Lian Zeitz at [email protected] to access this discount.

Registration Deadlines: The last day to register for this workshop is Friday, January 31, 2025.

Scholarships: A limited number of reduced-price registration scholarships are available for this workshop. This scholarship covers most of the cost of participation and we will ask participants to pay what they can. To apply for a reduced-price scholarship, please complete the scholarship application by January 15 2024.

Cancellations and Refunds: Refunds are available, minus a 10% admin fee, as long as registrants contact us in writing ahead of the cancellation deadline of January 15, 2025.

Host or Publisher Collective Change Lab Inc,