
Mind & Life Trauma and Healing Systems – Laura Calderon de la Barca, Kazu Haga, and Thomas Hübl
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May 8, 2026 Thomas Hübl, teacher and facilitator bridging contemplative practice with systems science; Kazu Haga, educator and restorative justice practitioner focused on embodied activism; Laura Calderón de la Barca, psychotherapist studying collective and intergenerational trauma. They explore trauma as a nervous-system and collective phenomenon. They discuss embodiment, community rituals, scaling facilitator training, research gaps, and integrating healing into social change.
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Trauma As A Nervous System Survival Strategy
- Trauma is a nervous system survival response that fragments experience when resources are insufficient, leaving memories held in the body rather than integrated.
- Laura Calderón de la Barca cites polyvagal theory and explains fight/flight/freeze mobilization and loss of social engagement as core mechanisms.
Trauma Spans Generations Through Epigenetics
- Trauma transmits across generations via biological mechanisms like epigenetics, but resources and healing also transmit forward.
- Laura emphasizes that ancestral and historical/systemic traumas (e.g., colonization) embed in bodies and must be addressed systemically.
Do Retroactive Emotional Reprocessing With Support
- Revisit past overwhelming moments with greater resources now to retroactively feel, integrate, and release frozen emotions.
- Kazu Haga describes using slowness, grounding, and support to allow cries, wails, and bodily release his head previously repressed.





