Thomas Hübl

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Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl, 2021
Born
Thomas Hübl

1971 (age 52–53)
Occupations
  • businessperson
  • teacher
  • author
Notable work
  • Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World[1]
  • Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds[2]
SpouseYehudit Sasportas
Websitethomashuebl.com

Thomas Hübl (born in 1971) is an Austrian teacher and author. He is a collective trauma expert,[3] trauma-informed leadership advisor, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute.[4][5][6] He is also the founder and owner of the Academy of Inner Science.

Biography[edit]

Thomas Hübl was born in Austria. He worked as a paramedic while studying medicine at the University of Vienna.[7] As a student at the university, he started practicing meditation.[8][6] During his studies, Hübl was introduced to the works of Wilhelm Reich and to the teachings of spiritual teachers such as Ken Wilber and Ramana Maharshi.[8] He later began to practice various methods of yoga, meditation and introspection.[8] At age 26, he decided to devote himself to introspection in a 4-year-long independent retreat, in the Czech Republic, where he would meditate for long periods and investigate the nature of consciousness.[8][6] According to Hübl, it was a time for self inspection and purification.[8] In the early 1990s, he left his studies at the university to focus on teaching meditation and mindfulness.[8][7] In the early 2000s, he held meditation and mindfulness retreats both in Austria and Germany.[7] These included large-scale healing events for Israelis and Germans to address the collective wounds of The Holocaust. When he began holding these retreats, he noticed that many participants began to voice some of their deeply held intergenerational wounds stemming from the second World War.[6] As these programs evolved over the next two decades, he developed the Collective Trauma Integration Process[9] for working with individual, ancestral, and collective trauma. This model promotes a safe exploration of sharing and reflection, guided by a facilitation process that supports radical openness, transparent communication, mindful awareness, and refined relational competencies.[7] For over 20 years, he has been teaching people how to understand and integrate both the subtle and more acute forms of trauma that impact societies[10] and has helped hundreds of thousands of people spark dialogue and work toward restoring some of humanity’s worst transgressions such as colonialism, gender traumatization, and racism, among others.[11]

In 2008, he founded the Academy of Inner Science.[8] Along with his wife, Yehudit Sasportas[7] he also founded of the nonprofit The Pocket Project in 2016, [12] which educates the public on the impact of collective traumas and trains professionals to facilitate events focused on healing.[11]

Hübl currently lives in Israel.[8]

Books[edit]

  • Hubl, Thomas (12 September 2023). Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1649631565. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  • Hübl, Thomas; Jordan Avritt, Julie (17 November 2020). Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1683647379. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  • Hübl, Thomas; Breidenbach, Stephan (27 February 2022). Modern Mystic - Principles for living consciously: Thomas Hübl In conversation with Stephan Breidenbach. Independently published. ISBN 979-8782899370. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hubl, Thomas (12 September 2023). *Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1649631565. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  2. ^ Hübl, Thomas; Jordan Avritt, Julie (17 November 2020). Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1683647379. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. ^ Wachob, Jason. "A Generational Trauma Expert's 3 Actionable Tips To Heal Ancestral Wounds". MindBodyGreen. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. ^ Inam, Henna (18 September 2023). "To Lead And Influence Powerfully In Complexity, Practice Attunement". Forbes. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  5. ^ DuLong, Jessica (30 July 2023). "Let go of past pain: A mind-body approach to healing ancestral trauma". CNN. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d "Helping Germans and Israelis Overcome the Past - via Meditation Journeys Podcast". Haaretz. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Thomas Hubl - About". thomashuebl.com. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Freiman, Amir (29 January 2010). "The Messenger: Debut Interview With German Teacher Thomas Hübl" (in Hebrew). Makor Rishon. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  9. ^ Hübl, Thomas; Shridhare, Lori (30 November 2022). "'Tender Narrator' Who Sees Beyond Time:: A Framework for Trauma Integration and Healing". Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change. 2 (2): 9–27. doi:10.47061/jasc.v2i2.4937. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  10. ^ Barlow, Ellen. "Silver Linings in Challenging Times". Harvard Catalyst. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  11. ^ a b Shridhare, Lori (3 December 2020). "Collective action for collective healing". The Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  12. ^ Shridhare, Lori (2020-05-26). "'I have to take care of myself first': the online support group helping doctors deal with trauma". Positive News. Retrieved 2024-01-09.

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