The Gifts of Trauma

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The Gifts of Trauma
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  • The Gifts of Trauma

    The Teacher's Wound: Beyond the Therapy Room, with Allison Creech, Rachèl Hughes & Dr Mays Imad

    04.06.2026 | 58 Min.
    Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes.  Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
    This fourth episode of the Wounded Healer Series welcomes three educators whose wounds shaped not just how, but why, they teach. Mays, a Palestinian-Iraqi neuroscientist and educator, lost her home and homeland. She has carried that wound into every classroom ever since. Allison, a teacher and naturopathic doctor worked through her shadows and learned, in her graduate classrooms, what it means to teach from a place of security. Rachèl Hughes, a trauma-informed educator, came to teaching through personal tragedy and found that the most meaningful lessons she offers her students have nothing to do with their curriculums.
    Together our three guests discuss:
    - The nature of the teacher's wound
    - Why the classroom, at its best, is a sanctuary, and what the costs is when it isn't
    - What the brain does differently when a student feels seen, through the neuroscience lens
    - Why resiliency is a double-edged sword
    - The difference between delivering content and being present to who is in the room
    What does it mean to teach from a wounded place? And what becomes possible when a teacher stops delivering content and starts presencing themselves? Join us, if these questions resonate with you.
    About Allison Creech M.ED, ND
    As a licensed naturopathic doctor with 20 years of experience, Allison's work focuses on empowering people to establish healthy mind-body patterns that support whole-being wellness. She is a professor at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and a Certified Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner with advanced training in somatic, relational, and psychedelic therapies.
    Allison is also a member of the Compassionate Inquiry educational team supporting the work of Gabor Maté, MD. She facilitates the year-long Compassionate Inquiry professional program and provides mentorship for practitioners looking to deepen their practice. 
     
    About Rachèl Hughes, BA Psyc, B.Ed, OCT, CT.
    Rachèl works with students at secondary and post-secondary levels, drawn to the places where trauma, identity, belonging and human development intersect and open opportunities for genuine learning and healing. 
    A Certified Compassionate Inquiry (CI) Practitioner, CI Circle Leader, Mindfulness Facilitator and Counselling Therapist (practising under the ACTA framework)  Rachèl offers private sessions and mentorship to individuals seeking meaningful support. She also contributes to curriculum development and educator support initiatives aimed at bringing trauma-informed practices into schools and learning communities, both in person and online.
    Over the years Rachèl has come to believe that our tender places, when we stop hiding them, can become our most generous gifts—to the students we teach, the people we mentor, and the wider circles we are privileged to hold. The conviction that sits at the heart of her work: Feeling truly seen is not a luxury in learning or healing, but the very ground from which both become possible. 
    About Mays Imad, PhD, Associate Professor and Neuroscience Program Director, Connecticut College
    An educator who deeply believes in and is committed to education as a path for healing, liberation, and transformation, Mays is interested in understanding the social determinants of student well-being and success. She conducts research on biofeedback, stress and burnout, and trauma-informed care. 
    With fervor, she advocates for institutions to tend to intergenerational trauma and to prioritize repair, healing, and intergenerational well-being. 
    An Associate Professor in the biology department and the Neuroscience Program Director at Connecticut College, Mays serves as the Association of American Colleges & University Senior STEM Fellow, as a scholar in residence at the Red House at Georgetown University and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University. 
     
    Promotional Messages:
    3rd Biennial CI Conference—Vancouver 2026
    If you've completed, or are currently enrolled in Compassionate Inquiry® training, you're invited to attend the third international CI Conference in Vancouver, Canada from October 30 to November 1. Dr Gabor Maté is returning as our keynote speaker and master class presenter. Enjoy engaging workshops and inspiring demonstrations with Sat Dharam Kaur, CI Facilitators and Practitioners. Whether you join us in person for three days of shared inquiry with CI cohort partners, and colleagues from around the world, or attend virtually to focus on the teachings, tap this link to learn more and secure your place. And yes—there will be dancing. 
    Spotlight Episodes
    Your journey with Compassionate Inquiry® matters. Your work in the world matters. If you have a story to share about bringing Compassionate Inquiry into the world, we'd like to amplify your voice. Spotlight episodes are full length Gifts of Trauma podcast interviews offered exclusively to CI community members. You'll not only share your story with 55,000 healing professionals across all platforms, you'll receive a pre-interview strategy session plus three promotional video clips. We're offering only 10 Spotlight episodes per year and production realities require a financial contribution. Follow the links to access full details and express your interest. Spotlight Episodes   |   Sponsorships
    Websites:
    Allison's Professional Site
    Rachèl's Professional Site      
    Mays' Professional Site
    Mays' Personal Site
    Related Links:
    Compassionate Inquiry
    Dr Bea Bleile's Interview 
    Bell Hooks
    Mays on Witnessing & Wonder; Moral Wounds in Higher Education
    Mays on Higher Education
    Mays on Teaching & Learning
    Mays on Trauma & Repair
    Quotes:
    "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop." - Rumi
    "I can track my movement through different layers of shadow to a place that feels like security in myself and much more permission to be authentic." - Allison Creech
    "Resiliency means there's a chronic presence of adversity. Thriving is a different kind of energy."
    - Allison Creech
    "Teaching is a relational field, not just a knowledge delivery system." - Rachèl Hughes
    "'Having a teacher who cared about my feelings, and knowing tears did not diminish your view of me, made me feel comfortable.' When I have doubts, that sentence is all that matters. That's why we do it."
    - Rachèl Hughes
    "I am an agent of the system and I fully believe in its power to liberate us, them and the world."
    - Dr Mays Imad
    "Sometimes it's been a stranger's nod that realigns me, helps me remember where I come from. These are glorious glimmers." - Dr Mays Imad

    Social Media: 
    Allison's LinkedIn
    Allison's Instagram
    Allison's Facebook
    Rachèl's LinkedIn
    Rachèl's Facebook
    Mays' LinkedIn
    Mays' X
  • The Gifts of Trauma

    The Therapist's Wound: Healing Through Shared Humanity, with Efu Nyaki and Rennet Wong-Gates

    28.05.2026 | 53 Min.
    Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
    The therapist's wound is rarely just one thing. Our guests today shared that for them, it's been a mix of childhood, educational, religious, ancestral, racial, colonial, cultural and systemic wounds, seeded through a lifetime. What turned these wounded humans into wounded healers is how they related to their wounds.
    This third episode of the Wounded Healer Series is profoundly relational. Born in Guyana, Rennet Wong arrived in Canada at 17, carrying Russian, Japanese, Chinese, West African, Irish, Portuguese and Aboriginal ancestry into a country that didn't know how to see her. Born in Tanzania and raised as a natural healer, Efu Nyaki carried her ancestral traditions into institutions that had little room for them. Undeterred, she travelled to Brazil, founded a holistic healing centre, and today travels the world to share her gifts of healing. 
    Their discussion of shared humanity in the therapeutic relationship explores:
    - Why the wound alone doesn't make a healer, and their relationship to it does
    - What it means to sit in front of someone, and simultaneously, their 4,000 ancestors
    - The difference between being resilient and being allowed to rest
    - How colonial and racial wounds live in the body
    - Humility, humanity and the healing power of presence
    This episode closes with a poem written by Rennet for this conversation.Her words precisely capture what it actually means to tend a wound—our own, or another's.
    About Rennet Wong-Gates, 
    MSW, RSW, RP, SEP
    A Trauma Therapist, Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and Organizational Consultant, she has spent over 20 years supporting individuals, families, groups, and frontline organizations through complex trauma, relational wounds, grief, burnout, emotional eating, binge eating, and nervous-system dysregulation.
    Rennet's clinical work integrates EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, Brainspotting, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, IFS-informed parts work, Compassionate Inquiry®, Polyvagal-informed practice, mindfulness, and anti-oppressive approaches. She helps clients understand the protective wisdom beneath symptoms, reduce shame, reconnect with the body, build greater safety, choice, dignity, and self-trust.

    In addition to her clinical practice, Rennet provides trauma-informed consultation, supervision, and resilience training for organizations supporting survivors, frontline workers, and communities impacted by systemic stress and trauma.
    About Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki, MEd, Therapist & Professor of Trauma Healing 
    Born in Tanzania, and raised as a natural healer, Efu is a Somatic Experiencing® faculty member and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy. 
    For the past 3 decades, she has been living in Brazil, facilitating trauma healing therapy and training, both in-person and online. 
    In 1998, she co-founded AFYA, a Holistic Healing Center in northeast Brazil that provides holistic healing methodologies to people from the local community and international individuals who come seeking support. 
    Efu also travels to India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Tanzania, Philippines, Hong Kong, USA, Poland, Kenya and Sweden to facilitate trainings, workshops, summits, webinars, podcasts, conferences, individual therapy sessions and case consults. 
    In 2023 Efu authored, Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic
    Experiencing. The foreword was written by Dr Peter Levine.
    Promotional Messages:
    Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training
    If you've been listening to our podcast and are curious about the Compassionate Inquiry approach developed by Doctor Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur, consider joining the Professional Training Program. It's open to all healing professionals, including naturopaths, physicians, body workers, coaches, and therapists. In addition to learning how to use compassion to support your clients in their most vulnerable moments with greater empathy and authenticity, you'll also deepen your own internal process. If you're interested, tap this link.
    Compassionate Inquiry® Blog Library
    Did you know that Compassionate Inquiry offers a free public blog library with over a thousand short posts written by our practitioners and facilitators?  Each is only a 5 or 6 minute read, and topics range from connecting with authenticity to overcoming food addictions to understanding epigenetics, rethinking drug use, CI & Psychedelics, and much, much more. You can also read excerpts from podcast guests' interviews. Tap this link  to access our helpful, enlightening and inspiring blog library.
    Resources:
    Websites:
    Efu's Professional Website
    Efu's AFYA Site
    Rennet's Professional Website
    Related Links:
    Compassionate Inquiryy®
    Somatic Experiencingy®
    Family Constellations
    Healing Asthma in Adults (Podcast) 
    Somatic Experiencing and Family Constellation Healing (Podcast)
    Branches of Wisdom (Podcast)
    Rennet's 2024 Interview (Podcast)
    Books:
    Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing
    Quotes:
    "My wounds didn't make me a healer… my relationship to my wounds did." - Rennet Wong-Gates
    "Oppression is not a gift. The gift is what we reclaim from it." - Rennet Wong-Gates
    "I do not come untouched. I come with places in me that have known silence, loss, and the ache of becoming." - Rennet Wong-Gates
    "The wound is not the gift; the tending is, the compassion is, the humility is. And perhaps this is healing, not arriving whole, but arriving honest."  - Rennet Wong-Gates
    "When I meet the other person, as I sit in front of them, holding the space for them, I'm able to see what they are bringing up. I know they have touched my wound and it helps me to become more compassionate because I know what they are talking about, not just from my cortical brain, but with my whole being and my soul. Then we both come up with the intuitive way of finding healing together. So the word I would like the public to hear is humility." - Efu Nyaki
    "I'm not going to fix you. I'm sitting here with you so that you can learn something from me as I learn something from you." - Efu Nyaki
    "You heal one, you heal all." - Efu Nyaki
    "Humanity, humility, and the healing power of presence." - Rosemary Davies-Janes
    Social Media:
    Efu's Instagram: @afyaorg 
    Efu's Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/efu.nyaki/
    Rennet's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rennetwonggates/
    Rennet's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RennetWongGatesPsychotherapy
    Rennet's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rennetwonggates
  • The Gifts of Trauma

    The Physician's Wound: Medicine as Sacred Practice, with Karenna'onwe (Dr Karen Hill), Dr Gareth Patterson, & Ben Court, Registered Osteopath

    21.05.2026 | 1 Std. 9 Min.
    Hosted by Kevin Young and Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard
    What becomes possible when a wounded healer acknowledges their wound? To address this question, we brought together three diverse medical professionals whose practices and traditions span indigenous, osteopathic and allopathic realms. As they move from consulting room to ceremony, from the body's symptoms to the soul's message, from protocol to empathic presence, each reflects on the wounding that brought them into medicine, and the inner work that transformed how they practice it.
    Together they explore: 
    - What it means to practise medicine as a sacred act
    - How the body communicates what the soul cannot say
    - What happens when a medical practitioner brings all of themselves to their practice
    - How the healer's own wound shapes the care they offer
    - What becomes possible when two ways of healing are brought together rather than kept apart
    This episode offers moments of deep vulnerability as our guests share their own stories of the personal healing they experienced when they finally turned toward their wounds.
    About Karenna'onwe (Dr Karen Hill) 
    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
    A Mohawk physician from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Karen is the mother of two sons and step mother of five daughters. 
    She completed medical school in 2003 and Family Medicine Residency in 2005, both at McMaster University. Her passion is to see Traditional Indigenous Knowledge return to the centre of life and healthcare for Indigenous people across Canada. 
    In 2015 Karen became the first recipient of the Thomas Dignan award for Indigenous Health conferred by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, That same year she also received The College of Family Physicians Excellence Award for leading the way in Indigenous collaborative care in primary practice. In 2016, McMaster University honoured her with a Community Impact Award.
    In early 2020 Karen partnered with Mohawk filmmaker Paulette Moore to create "The Aunties Dandelion" media and research centre, which is focused on supporting Indigenous embodiment of original instructions embedded in the traditional knowledge. Karen continues to practice consultative medicine at Six Nations and works with her colleague Dr. Amy Montour in the Indigenous Health Service at the Brantford General Hospital. She completed a 4 year apprenticeship in Traditional Indigenous Medicine and continues this learning, along with Mohawk language classes; as lifelong commitments.
    About Ben Court, Registered Osteopath 
    BSc (Hons) Osteopathic Medicine 
    Ben's journey into osteopathy began with a fascination for human anatomy, personal experience with osteopathy and a genuine desire to help others heal. 
    Since qualifying in 2006 and dedicating his life to helping patients "get on with theirs," he has expanded his expertise beyond traditional osteopathy. Inspired by and trained under Dr. Gabor Maté, Ben discovered that understanding what was happening in a patient's life when their symptoms started enabled him to pinpoint elusive issues.
    Today, the three complementary approaches he offers (traditional cranial osteopathy, mind-body medicine and somatic psychotherapy) can be delivered individually or in combination, based on a client's specific needs. His integrated approach can be particularly helpful for persistent or complex conditions that have not responded well to conventional treatment alone.
    While his approaches are holistically guided, his treatments remain firmly rooted in scientific research and evidence-based practice. Ben's warm nature and quick smile help patients feel comfortable with whatever level of care feels right to them. A devoted family man, Ben's pride in the wonderful humans that his children are reflects the caring, nurturing approach he brings to all of his patient relationships.
    About Dr. Gareth Patterson, The Irish GP 
    An Irish general practitioner, educator, and health communicator, Gareth is known for his compassionate, patient-centred approach to medicine. Originally from Belfast, his early life was shaped by the social and cultural complexities of a post-conflict society, an environment that fostered both resilience and a deep sensitivity to the unseen layers of human experience. These formative influences continue to inform Gareth's work as a clinician, as he places strong emphasis on understanding not just illness, but the person behind it. He is particularly interested in how psychological and emotional factors intersect with physical wellbeing.
    After completing his medical training, Gareth worked across a range of clinical settings in the UK, developing a reputation for thoughtful, holistic care. He currently works as an NHS GP in a busy West London Family Surgery. His practice is grounded in the belief that trauma, environment, and personal narratives play significant roles in health. 
    Alongside his clinical work, Gareth has built a substantial presence as a public health educator, using digital platforms to translate complex medical information into accessible, engaging content. His work aims to empower individuals to better understand their health while also humanising the role of the doctor.
    Promotional Messages:
    3rd CI Conference — Vancouver 2026
    If you've completed, or are currently enrolled in Compassionate Inquiry training, you're invited to attend the third international CI Conference in Vancouver, Canada from October 30 to November 1. Dr Gabor Maté is returning as our keynote speaker and master class presenter. Enjoy engaging workshops and inspiring demonstrations with Sat Dharam Kaur, CI Facilitators and Practitioners. Whether you join us in person for three days of shared inquiry with CI cohort partners, and colleagues from around the world, or attend virtually to focus on the teachings, tap this link to learn more, take advantage of early-bird discounts and secure your place. And yes—there will be dancing. 
    Spotlight Episodes
    Your journey with Compassionate Inquiry® matters. Your work in the world matters. If you have a story to share about bringing Compassionate Inquiry into the world, we'd like to amplify your voice. Spotlight episodes are full length Gifts of Trauma podcast interviews offered exclusively to CI community members. You'll not only share your story with 55,000 healing professionals across all platforms, you'll receive a pre-interview strategy session plus three promotional video clips. We're offering only 10 Spotlight episodes per year and production realities require a financial contribution. Follow the links to access full details and express your interest. Spotlight Episodes   |   Sponsorships
    Resources:
    Websites:
    Dr Karen Hill's Professional Profile
    Ben's Professional Website
    Ben's Compassionate Inquiry Profile
    Related Links: 
    Incorporating Traditional Healing into Practice (Podcast)
    Two Row Medicine (Podcast)
    The Window of Tolerance (Video)
    Related Books: 
    No Bad Parts: 
    Owning Your Own Shadow
    When Things Fall Apart
    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    An Osteopathic Odyssey
    Dr Fulford's Touch of Life
    Social Media: 
    @theirishgp (Gareth on instagram and tiktok) 
    Instagram: Bencourt_thefamilyosteopath 
    Facebook: The Family Osteopath - Ben Court
  • The Gifts of Trauma

    Relating to Our Wounds: The Medicine of Mythology, with Solea Anani

    14.05.2026 | 50 Min.
    Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes and J'aime Rothbard. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
    Chiron, the greatest healer in the mythological world, could not heal himself, and so became known as, 'the wounded healer.' Solea opens this series with a myth, a prayer and an invocation to the wisdom of the wound. She presences Chiron as a living intelligence that's alive in each of us, shaping both our wounds, and the shadows we can't quite see. 
    Drawing on her training in Jungian psychology, somatic attunement, collective trauma, evolutionary astrology and the wisdom of indigenous ritual traditions, Solea explains:
    - Why the 'unhealable' wound can only be tended in relationship
    - The importance of relationality in shadow work
    - Sincerity as the simplest and most direct path to healing
    - The resources that our 'more-than-human world' offers to us all
    Solea closes with a prayer, an offering to carry listeners through the weeks ahead. Quiet, generous and profoundly grounding, this conversation sets the tone for the episodes that follow.
    About Solea Anani, Spiritual Mentor 
    Solea Anani is the founder and guide of ANAM, a living sanctuary devoted to supporting the emerging human in deep relationship with the intelligence of the Soul. Her work is rooted in the interwoven lineages of Animism, Depth Psychology, and Mysticism, offering a path that bridges the inner and outer worlds through embodied awareness and relational attunement.
    Born of Taíno, West African, Chinese, and Spanish ancestry, Solea's work is informed by a reverence for ancestral wisdom and the living world. She walks as a practitioner of Animism, perceiving life as a field of relationship with both human and other-than-human beings—earth, elements, ancestors, and unseen realms.
    Through ANAM, Solea offers mentorship, somatic attunement practices, ancestral reverence work, and evolutionary astrology as pathways into deeper coherence, relational intelligence, and embodied wholeness. She accompanies individuals and groups in the sacred process of becoming—where soul, body, and cosmos meet in living co-creation.
    Promotional Messages:
    Compassionate Inquiry® Short Course
    If you're drawn to Dr Gabor Maté's teachings and books, you might like to know about the Compassionate Inquiry Short Course. It provides an introduction to the powerful therapeutic trauma healing approach created by Dr Gabor Maté and developed by Sat Dharam Kaur. The Short Course delivers 30 hours of video and narrated powerpoints, plus PDFs that together, will not only help you understand the origins of trauma and how it can be healed, but also how trauma is linked to mental and physical illnesses. Tap this link to learn more about this program that's priced and presented to make it accessible to all. 
    Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioners' Directory
    If you're interested in experiencing Gabor Maté's trauma healing approach, consider working with a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. Access healing support for mental, emotional and physical symptoms, unresolved trauma, relationship issues,  addictions, and more. Use this link to access our global directory of multilingual certified professionals. In addition to their years of CI training and regular Certification reviews, our Practitioners bring the depth of their own personal lived experiences and skills in additional, complementary therapeutic approaches. 
    Resources:
    Website: 
    ANAM: Solea's Professional Website 
    Free Somatic Attunement Meditation Classes
    Core Resonance Mentorship Introduction
    Related Links:
    Ancestral Reverence
    Somatic Attunement
    Evolutionary Astrology
    What is Collective Healing? (Podcast) 
    Compassionate Inquiry Training
    Quotes:
    "If you enter true intimacy with the wound, the wound will speak, the wound will guide you."
    - Solea Anani
    "Wounds have a shape-shifting dynamic, and in the change, space is created." - Solea Anani
    " I've noticed that the wounds I inherited and the wounds that were created along the way have really deepened my humanity. " - Solea Anani
    "Turning towards the shadow and turning towards what's rigid, what's inconsistent, what's hard to look at, it's really necessary. But in order to turn towards the shadow, we need a resource." - Solea Anani
    "What I call the evolutionary pressure of living with pain means that you always have something consistently asking to be witnessed and asking to be tended to." - Solea Anani
    Social Media:
    Solea's IG
  • The Gifts of Trauma

    Giving What We Didn't Get: Reimagining Father & Son Relationships, with Luke Sniewski & Warren McCaig

    07.05.2026 | 1 Std. 1 Min.
    Hosted by Kevin Young and J'aime Rothbard.  Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
    The Men in the World series began by asking, "What happened to men?" It concludes by offering some honest perspectives on what becomes possible when men find their way back to themselves.
    Kevin, Warren and Luke are men who have done the work, are still doing the work, and have built their lives around supporting others to do the same.
    With J'aime holding space, the three men  explore:
    - The affirmation economy: What happens when a man builds his entire life on other people's approval
    - Why it's important to reinstate lost rites of passage
    - The manosphere as a poorly fitting band-aid for boys who don't know what else to do with their pain
    - Catalysts of Change, and why single moments alone aren't enough
    - What it means to heal together alone…  And the value of community
    This conversation closes the series in the best way possible, with the sense that change is possible, that men are finding their way, and that the work is worth doing.
    About Luke Sniewski, Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner, Mentor & Facilitator, Wellbeing Coach and Somatic Therapist
    Luke has integrated a wealth of personal, academic, and professional experiences into a distinctive methodology that Integrates Compassionate Inquiry, somatic practices and healthy lifestyle strategies. His approach empowers his clients to expand their vitality, authenticity and inner peace.
    Influenced by a meditation practice and esteemed teachers such as Gabor Maté, Rupert Spira, and Graham Mead, Luke has learned that true transformation begins with silence, stillness, and the courage to look inward. 
    While this introspection may sometimes reveal uncomfortable truths, Luke believes genuine change happens through engaging deeply with one's body. 'The Inner Work' is central to Luke's approach, fundamentally altering how clients relate to their minds, bodies, and the world around them. 
    This process demands ruthless honesty, radical self-acceptance and extraordinary patience. However, the awareness of the present moment remains the greatest asset one can bring to any relationship.
    Currently, Luke is a dedicated practitioner, mentor, facilitator, and lifelong learner of Compassionate Inquiry, a method that helps individuals uncover the root causes of their suffering and break free from self-destructive cycles.
    About Warren McCaig
    Compassionate Inquiry® and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Researcher/Practitioner
    Warren believes deeply in the transformative power of community. Trained as a counsellor and currently studying in one of the world's top-ranked neuroscience departments, he has spent over two decades working in community development. After co-founding a multi-national charity, Warren has transitioned into providing therapy and psychedelic assisted therapy for individuals, couples and families affected by trauma and addiction.
    Shaped by his own healing journey, Warren focuses on trauma-informed compassionate approaches to healing. A Compassionate Inquiry® facilitator, he has guided more than 1,100 psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions worldwide, worked in more than 11 countries and supported clients from over 35 countries. He also leads a global focus group of over 300 therapists training in psychedelic- assisted therapy and offers both training and apprenticeship opportunities for healthcare professionals.

    Promotional Messages:
    3rd Biennial CI Conference, Vancouver 2026
    If you've completed, or are currently enrolled in Compassionate Inquiry training, you're invited to attend the third international CI Conference in Vancouver, Canada from October 30 to November 1. Dr Gabor Maté is returning as our keynote speaker and master class presenter. Enjoy engaging workshops and inspiring demonstrations with Sat Dharam Kaur, CI Facilitators and Practitioners. Whether you join us in person for three days of shared inquiry with CI cohort partners, and colleagues from around the world, or attend virtually to focus on the teachings, tap this link to learn more, take advantage of early-bird discounts and secure your place. And yes—there will be dancing. 
    Spotlight Episodes & Sponsorship Opportunities
    Many of you are certified Compassionate Inquiry® practitioners and CI trained community members, bringing this work into the world in beautiful, unique ways. If you're interested in expanding your practice, the Gifts of Trauma Podcast is now offering spotlight episodes and sponsor opportunities exclusively to members of the Compassionate Inquiry® community. Spotlight episodes are full length interviews. Sponsors receive a custom scripted promotional message that airs across multiple episodes plus hosts, mentions and show notes. Placements with links to your website and special offers. Both gain exposure to our internal audience of 55,000 people across all CI platforms. This is CI promoting its own, amplifying voices that genuinely embody the approach. These opportunities are limited to 10 per year and production realities require a financial contribution. Follow these links to access details and express your interest. Spotlight Episodes   |   Sponsorships
    Resources
    Websites:
    Warren's Professional Website
    Warren's Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner Profile
    Luke's Professional Website
    Luke's Profile, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner Directory
    Related Links:
    Somawise
    Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
    Stillness Experiment
    Community Catalyst Platform
    Community Abundance Canadian Non-ProFit Foundation
    Off Grid-Self Sustainable Eco Lodge and Retreat Space
    Quotes:
    ""You should be afraid and comply, and hide everything else." That's a pretty rough message to get about dealing with maleness, especially when you are one."  - Warren McCaig
    "A lot of men come through my doors that are very low on self worth and hard at work trying to compensate for that with whatever they've been told success looks like, accumulation of wealth, accumulation of power, accumulation of romantic partners, take your pick. Trying to backfill with external achievement from a  wounded sense of self."  - Warren McCaig
    "Men are disproportionately represented in 'deaths of despair.' Men are in despair, and despairing men are creating a despairing world." - Warren McCaig
    "I essentially taught my family how to say 'I love you' to each other." - Luke Sniewski
    "My son became this catalyst for healing between generations. It was a really powerful moment."
    - Luke Sniewski
    "The greatest gift of being a dad is seeing your son grow up as a compassionate and loving human being." - Kevin Young's Father, quoted by Kevin
    "You are deeply, tremendously, infallibly lovable as you are, who you are. You deserve to be loved. You deserve to live in a world of love." - J'aime Rothbard's message to all men
    "I felt tears when you said that. That's how much men need that message." - Warren McCaig (Responding to J'aime)
    Social Media:

    FB: Warren's Facebook
    FB Luke's Facebook
    IG: Warren's Instagram
    IG: Luke's Instagram
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Presented by Compassionate Inquiry®, the Gifts of Trauma is a weekly podcast that features personal stories of trauma healing and the gifts revealed on the path to authenticity. Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants.Join us to hear what it was like for our guests to live with the tension of trauma, and what happened when they turned inward with compassionate curiosity. These highly relatable stories illustrate how they transformed their trauma generated fear, anger, pain or shame triggers into understanding, acceptance and love. www.compassionateinquiry.com
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