Integrating collective trauma with Adrian Wagner

In this episode, Laura speaks with PhD candidate Adrian Wagner, whose research focuses on the integration of collective or community trauma.  He is undertaking his PhD at the Universität Witten/Herdecke, is a research fellow at the European School of Governance, and works as a coach and facilitator for transformational leadership.

 

This episode is for you if you want to hear about:

 

• The long footprint of collective traumas (e.g. wars, covid)
• How we use narratives to make sense of the world (and when that goes wrong)
• Grieving and processing shared traumas
• Links between trauma histories in Germany and reactions to the invasion of Ukraine
• The need to gain emotional insight to tackle the world's big problems

 

Links to learn more:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-wagner-blackforrestconsulting/
• Pocket Project on Collective Trauma Integration: https://pocketproject.org/about/what-is-collective-trauma-integration/
• Research report: https://pocketproject.org/collective-trauma-democracy/
• Publication: https://publications.iass-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_6002593_3
• About the report (in German): https://www.mehr-demokratie.de/projekte/deepening-democracy/forschungsbericht?sword_list%5B0%5D=Trauma&sword_list%5B1%5D=and&sword_list%5B2%5D=democracy&no_cache=1