Keynote Conversations
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Humanity’s Movement to Maturity – Healing Collective Trauma as a Response to the Climate Crisis
with Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl explores how unintegrated trauma drives our collective disconnection from the Earth. He explains that trauma fragments both individual and societal nervous systems, distorting perception and limiting our ability to respond to the climate crisis. Hübl emphasizes the need for collective healing, local grounding, and global maturity, integrating Indigenous wisdom with modern science to foster resilience and coherence. Together, they envision a new phase of human evolution rooted in emotional integration, relational awareness, and systemic healing for planetary regeneration.
- Unintegrated trauma fragments our collective capacity to respond to ecological crises
- Integrating Indigenous wisdom with modern science fosters systemic and planetary healing
- Local grounding and global maturity are essential for humanity’s next evolutionary step
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Rooted in Renewal – Transformational Resilience in Climate Activism
with Britt Wray
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- The need for collective care, system action, and spiritual introspection in addressing the climate crisis and its psychological effects
- A new model of resilience that focuses on growth and continuous collective adaptation to changing conditions
- How intergenerational connections and conversations can fuel youth activism and combat climate distress and despair
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Inner Capacities, Outer Impact – Transforming Consciousness for Climate Healing
with Elizabeth Wathuti
Elizabeth Wathuti, Kenyan environmentalist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, speaks to the deep link between caring for nature and inner healing. She emphasizes community resilience, especially led by women and youth, and calls for fair representation and accountability in global climate decisions. Her message is a reminder that every person has a role in restoring the planet.
- Locally led climate solutions, especially by women and youth, must be uplifted
- Nature connection strengthens healing, resilience, and sustained action
- Everyone has a responsibility to act and hold leaders accountable
Practice for Personal Balance & Agency
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Transforming Inner and Outer Consciousness: Living as a Healing Presence
with Markus Hirzig
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with Thomas Hübl
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Live Event
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SUMMIT OPENING: Title
with Matthew Green, Sonita Mbah & Kosha Joubert
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Nature Inspiration
DAY 7: Wolves in Yellowstone – Restoring the Song of Balance
When gray wolves (Canis lupus) were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, they triggered one of the most remarkable ecological recoveries ever recorded – a living lesson in systemic intelligence. For decades, elk populations had grown unchecked, overgrazing riverbanks and suppressing tree regeneration. The wolves’ return changed not only numbers but behavior: elk began avoiding open valleys, allowing willows and aspens to recover. This regrowth stabilized riverbanks, cooled streams, and invited back beavers, songbirds, and fish. What emerged was a trophic cascade – a chain of feedback loops showing how balance arises when relationships, not dominance, guide the system. The wolves did not “control” Yellowstone; they reconnected it.
Reflection questions
- What roles or principles have been “removed” from my life or community that, if reintroduced, could restore balance?
- How can I act as a restoring force – not by controlling, but by reconnecting what has fallen apart?
- Where might I trust natural feedback and relationship more than imposed order or dominance?
- What does it mean to live as a healing presence – to move through the world as part of its renewal?
