Special Event With Danny Cohen
Exploring the 'New Science of Collective Healing'.
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I’m delighted to invite you to join Danny Cohen,
and myself for a free online event exploring the ‘New Science of Collective Healing’ on Wednesday, January 29 at 8pm Berlin/7pm London/2pm New York/ 11am Los Angeles.This 90-minute session will offer opportunities to engage in dialogue on themes including:
What are the key principles of collective trauma and healing?
How can we build ‘healing communities’ to address legacies of unresolved inter-generational and collective trauma?
How can we reframe transformational work from an individual to a collective endeavour?
How can collective healing spaces help respond to the metacrisis?
This 2025 launch event of Jacob’s
is free to attend.As part of an ongoing experiment in developing new mechanisms to grow and sustain the ‘wisdom commons’, SENSESPACE Studio also welcomes donations of any amount from participants.
These will go to support our work to build healing communities via Danny’s Living Heart Work and the
, a men’s initiative facilitated by myself and Jacob. You can read more about SENSESPACE Studio here.Resonant World #124
When I was seeking to break a cycle of bouts of depression years ago, my default solution, like many people, was to seek one-on-one therapy.
Some of the work I experienced was transformational — particularly when I went beyond the limitations of talk therapy, and discovered embodied approaches such as the Comprehensive Resource Model, developed by Lisa Schwarz, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, as practiced by Major (Rtd) Cormac Doyle.
I wrote about these and other pioneers in Aftershock, and I remain an advocate for the expansion of this kind of provision, so more people can access the bespoke support they need.
Without detracting from one-on-one work, I also believe it’s time to revise any cultural tendency we may have to assume that healing is primarily an individual, private endeavour, and recognise the enormous latent capacities we all carry to be conduits for each other’s transformation and grace, when we come together in intentional ways.
As I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the inter-generational and collective dimensions of trauma via the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training led by Thomas Hübl and team, and while training as a collective trauma integration facilitator, I’ve also had many opportunities to experience the power of profound group processes.
With the right protocols, practices and support, gatherings of three, 20 or 200 people can unlock a special kind of medicine, guided by a form of collective intelligence that allows this balm to act on each participant in unique ways.
I feel called to help create more of these spaces — to build the “global healing architecture,” in Thomas’s phrase — so that many more people can experience the profound levels of resourcing, insight and liberation available when we begin to work through our trauma, and align with our authentic future selves, together.
That’s not to say that this kind of collective work is a substitute for the individual therapy many of us need — particularly when we’re in crisis, or taking the very first steps on our healing path.
But I’m now convinced that it’s time for a cultural update.
It’s time to recognise the true extent of our latent capacities to support one another’s emergence and transformation.
It’s time to acknowledge that these capacities can not only release enormous untapped reserves of strength and wisdom to face the gathering storm of global crises — but also help to address the legacy of generations of accumulated trauma that’s fuelling them.
As a former corporate journalist, I believe that the radical implications of this on-board endowment of potential to transform our lives as individuals, and perhaps our trajectory as societies, is the world’s biggest untold story.
And that’s why I’m so excited to invite you to an event exploring these themes hosted by my friend and co-facilitator
’s in collaboration with and our new men’s initiative . (This is a mixed event and all are welcome).We’ll be in dialogue with Danny Cohen, who I got to know during the Timeless Wisdom Training, and who models a level of relational precision, depth and care that has served time and again to remind me how much I still have to learn.
In the introduction to his Living Heart Work, based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication, Danny writes:
“There is an entire generation of people struggling with a sense of being alone on the journey of life, drained by battles with anxiety and the inner critic, waylaid by troublesome thoughts and judgments, tripped by unhelpful emotional patterns, unfulfilled by distant or superficial relationships, and often at a loss for how to move forward in personal life and career from a place of inner congruence. Dreams unfulfilled, hearts and souls out of reach.
“I am on a mission to provide the guidance, transformative change work, and training that leads people to lives rich with intimacy and connection, radiant with aliveness, confidence, and clarity, and flush with the fulfillment that comes when we live close to the heart and soul and live our purpose in the world.”
We’re hosting this free event to support Danny’s mission, and create a space for people to explore the key principles and applications of collective healing work.
SENSESPACE Studio is all about participation — both in terms of deep listening, and engaging in dialogue. You can read more about its spirit and ethos here.
(And if you’re keen to engage more deeply in Danny’s work, check out his new two-month Art of Communication course, based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication, starting on February 2).
Please do drop me a line, or leave a comment below, if you have any questions about our 90-minute SENSESPACE Studio event with Danny on Wednesday, January 29 at 8pm Berlin/7pm London/2pm New York/ 11am Los Angeles.
We very much hope to see you there!
More About the Speakers
Danny Cohen
Completing a degree at the Wharton School of Business in 2010, Danny found something lacking in his education which sparked a deep dive into wisdom traditions, psychotherapy training, extensive meditation practice, systems thinking, mysticism, Nonviolent Communication, and a heck of a lot of experimenting, learning, and living. He’s since shared his insights in trainings with thousands of people around the world and is passionate about a pedagogy that demystifies meaningful relationship and affords transformative learning and growth.
He’s worked as Guiding Teacher at Mindful Schools, as a founder and senior teacher with Or HaLev: Jewish Spirituality and Meditation, as well as with CEOs and business executives as part of the core faculty of the Evolve Foundation. Through this journey, Danny has found consistent principles and competencies across cultures and contexts that open the doors to a more beautiful, effective, and regenerative way of being alive together.
Jacob Kishere
Jacob Kishere is the host and producer of SENSESPACE, a four-and-a-half year podcast project which in 2025 launched SENSESPACE Studio. His transformative practice is centred on Dialogos, bringing dialogue into an unfolding and flowing field of wisdom. He works as an attuned and creative facilitator in the context of the men’s initiative he co-founded The Resonant Man. He is also the creator of Culturepilgrim, a lived journey that’s brought him from Britain, to California, Germany and now Oaxaca, Mexico. Culturepilgrim is a multi-dimensional artistic exploration; publishing acclaimed essays on Culturepilgrim substack as well as performing and releasing conscious rap in collaboration with rappers and producers internationally. Throughout his work he weaves overcoming; finding a sacred beyondness in the everyday and unorthodox; and arriving home in the midst of journey.
Matthew Green
Matthew Green is a husband, father, journalist and student of trauma healing. He began his journey as a reporter in conflict zones, and is the author of two books: on warlord Joseph Kony, and on the trauma journeys of British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Two years ago, he left a global news organisation to join DeSmog, a nonprofit dedicated to exposing climate corruption.
Building on years of exploring spiritual and healing modalities, he’s immersed in studying the psychological and mystical principles of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma with the international facilitator Thomas Hübl. Matthew writes the Resonant World newsletter serving the collective trauma healing movement, and recently launched Toxic Workplace Survival Guy to provide practical guidance to people in dysfunctional work environments. He began co-facilitating men’s groups in 2022 with his great friend the yoga philosophy teacher and author Daniel Simpson, who introduced him to Jacob. Their deep commitment and connection around ancestral healing sparked the development of The Resonant Man.
It’s a huge boost when people become paid subscribers, and support of any amount affirms that my mission to support people to integrate individual, inter-generational and collective trauma has value. Thank you!
Although I am already booked during the time of this gathering I’ll keep my eye out for future opportunities!