The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by J'aime Rothbard, Kevin Young & Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
What happens when you look back at a hundred conversations, a hundred faces, and a hundred stories? We're celebrating two years of The Gifts of Trauma with a taster menu; twenty-five small bites pulled froPlem our most listened to episodes. An astonishing range of topics have been covered; from math anxiety to menopause, to addiction and neurodiversity, war and racism to colonization/invasion, grief and wounds to diseases, relationships, masculinity and fatherhood, to adoption and childhood trauma, and so much more. We'd also like to acknowledge Diana Gharib for participating in an interview from the frontlines in Beirut, while drones were flying overhead. [Episode 87]
In this special compilation episode, Rosemary, Kevin and J'aime reflect on:
- Why each episodes focuses on the gifts trauma reveals, not just the trauma itself
- Two beloved guests who passed shortly after their episodes published
- The deep wisdom being shared in Spotlight Episodes by community members
We all agree that the glory belongs to our guests: the people who showed up and shared their work, their compassion and their humanity. And as Sat Dharam says when this episode opens, sometimes arriving at the destination simply means one person, somewhere, realising they're not alone.
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 to learn more.
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:
Compassionate Inquiry® Podcast, All Episodes
Our Taster Menu: In Order of Appearance
Episode 1: Gabor Maté, MD "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with anybody... the wounds that you carry can be healed."
Episode 10: Sat Dharam Kaur, ND "I'm allowing something bigger to carry this whole ship... to make the impossible possible."
Episode 2: Rhonda Nelson "I had this ability to drop the cane when I was around my family."
Episode 5: Stephen Brown "I knew I was in the wrong place," on walking into a Protestant enclave in Belfast as a teenager during the Troubles.
Episode 86: Rosemary Wanganeen "I had to empty my physical body of all that grief energy for my spirit to feel safe enough to come home. And between my physical body and my spirit, we've been able to sustain that connection." 
Episode 55: Reggie Hubbard "I grew up in a land that saw me as a threat when all I wanted to do was be a blessing." 
Episode 63: Juliano Innocenti "Most of humanity is our tribe. We just are taught to see difference and separate. We're not different. We've just been pulled apart." 
Episode 18: ⁠Vimalasara Mason-John "When did you lose your play? When did you lose your aliveness? When did you stop being enchanted by your own story?"
Episode 25: Sat Dharam Kaur "What happened to you... what happened to your ancestors... you're not what happened to you."
Episode 3: Luke Sniewski "I didn't even know what an emotion was until I turned 30."
Episode 73: Silva Neves, Diana Safta "There are so many things about sex that people believe to be true [that] are just constructs that have [their] origins in religion." 
Episode 36: Wen Harper Harris While sitting at a stoplight in LA, scrolling, "There was no time to stop and pause and do nothing and be."
Episode 11: Jordan Decker "Shame is a shortcut to change with long-term consequences, whereas love is a long road that ends in resilience."
Episode 28: Dr. Louise Taylor "That would have possibly been quite handy to know prior." [On being diagnosed dyslexic in the final stretch of her PhD.]
Episode 13: Sara Easterly "We live in a culture that tells us adoption is beautiful. ​And yes, it can be. ​But I also have a lot of really hard parts of my story. There's grief, there's loss that don't get acknowledged."
Episode 29: Gordon Neufeld "We've never had more books... and we've never been so dumbed down."
Episode 22: Matthew Green "The real edge of this is asking what role journalists can play in recognizing the role of trauma underneath the crises that we see in the news."
Episode 85: Dr Kenneth Doka, Maria Estrada, Ellie Davis "Acknowledge life even with grief. There's lots to live for, lots to learn, lots to know." 
Episode 96: Efu Nyaki, Rennet Wong Gates "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
Episode 16: Allison Creech "I have a visceral, felt sense awareness of that presence... I love that space."
Episode 77: Zach Bush, MD, Eva Dalak "More so than the victim or the perpetrator, the savior is actually the one going in to poison the system and see who can survive." 
Episode 50: Inés Zabalaga "We've got you, honey bunny, we've got you... you don't have to do it alone."
Episode 66: Kate Hazlitt, Inés Zabalaga "I'm pruning not just for myself, but for everyone that is coming up before me and after me."
Episode 35: Fredrick Wretman A client, mid-session said: "You are a copy of my abuser." And six months later: "Being able to feel safe with you has made my relationship to men in general much better."
Episode 89: Joe Baldock, Bret Hunt, MD "There are no 'others.' These violent or traumatized men aren't 'other' from us. And that is not a very popular line of thought." 
And… We're Just Getting Started

Hosted by Kevin Young and Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
Authenticity isn't something we build, but something we've always carried and spend our lifetimes learning to trust. Sat Dharam defines authenticity as fidelity to one's own personality, spirit and character, and traces hers back to early childhood where she showed up as; the leader, the organiser, the person who 'got things done'. But her path to trusting led her on a healing journey through shame and the fear of rejection. That healing, she says, is what Compassionate Inquiry offers at its core.
In this wide-ranging and delightful conversation, Sat Dharam explores:
- What it means to be true to one's personality, spirit and character, across a lifetime
- Why shame is so corrosive, and how being accepted and received can loosen its grip
- How safety, confidence and repetition build the capacity to act with authenticity
- The balance between masculine boundary-setting and feminine collaborative trust.
This is a conversation about gardens, weevils, bumblebees and Yellowstone wolves… all of which takes us back to what it takes to become fully ourselves.
About Sat Dharam Kaur, ND
Compassionate Inquiry® Co-Director, Training Facilitator, Circle Leader, Certified Practitioner
A practicing naturopathic doctor (since 1989) with a focus on women's health, cancer and mind-body approaches to healing, since 2012, Sat Dharam has been studying, working and teaching with Dr. Gabor Maté. She structured his work in the Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Online Training, and since 2019, she has incorporated it into her naturopathic practice. 
Sat Dharam holds a BA (Psychology & English Literature) and a BSc (Biology). She completed her postgraduate studies at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine where she also taught stress management and women's health for 10 years. 
The author of multiple *books on women's health, Sat Dharam also presents at global events, including Oxford 2025, Europe's largest trauma, mental health and wellbeing conference.
An expert instructor in Kundalini Yoga, which she has practiced and taught for over 45 years, Sat Dharam has developed yoga-based curricula in addiction recovery, trauma, and breast health; specialties in which she offers training to teachers around the world.
Sat Dharam and her husband live in an off-grid home on 105 acres of beautiful land where she nurtures fruit trees and a large garden. She enjoys hiking, cycling, and communing with plants. She has three adult children and two grandchildren.
Promotional Messages:
3rd Compassionate Inquiry® 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. 
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 
Websites:
Professional Site
Compassionate Inquiry Profile
Related Links:
Wolf Reintroduction in Yellowstone
Courses:
Beyond Addiction
Compassionate Inquiry
Presentations:
Oxford 2025
Books:
*The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Women's Health
*A Call to Women: The Healthy Breast Program & Workbook
*A Naturopathic Guide to Preventing Breast Cancer
*The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer
Podcasts:
Sat Dharam, Your Addiction Reveals Your Hidden Pain
Sat Dharam, Compassionate Inquiry Training: The Origin Story
Sat Dharam, Healing Addiction and Codependence in Community
Sat Dharam, I'm All I Wanted to Be, Now What?
Sat Dharam, Technology & AI: Benefits & Hazards
Sat Dharam, Bridging the Gap
Diana Gharib & James Gordon, MD, When Survival Usurps Grief
Quotes:
"Shame can only be reduced when we're accepted, we're received, we're understood, we're loved." - Sat Dharam Kaur
"Confidence comes from safety, repetition, positive feedback and the support of peers. The greater the confidence, the greater the authenticity. So they work together, don't they?" - Sat Dharam Kaur
'With our mind we create the world.'- Buddhist Philosophy
"Before we can create the world, the world creates our minds." - Gabor Maté
"When we can feel safe, authenticity is allowed to blossom and bloom. Diversity is allowed to blossom and bloom. People who have a natural inclination to work in small or big teams, to be creative in different ways, all of that is supported, encouraged, and allowed, naturally/". - Kavin Young
[Global regeneration] "It's not only possible, but I see it happening. Diana Gharib is practicing Compassionate Inquiry on the front lines in Beirut. We're taking calm, we're taking kindness, we're taking compassion into areas of chaos and unimaginable cruelty, horror and destruction. So it's already happening". - Rosemary Davies-Janes
As A Man Thinketh
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.  - James Allen.
Social Media: 
Instagram

For those of us who have never quite fit in the environments where we found ourselves, the search for home can extend beyond geography. Stephanie Sheng knows this intimately. Born in the US to a father from China and mother from Hong Kong, she belonged fully to neither culture. At age 10, when her father was diagnosed with stage four cancer, big questions arrived and never really left. 
A Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner, Yoga Guide and Psychedelic Integration Specialist, Stephanie has spent years supporting others in finding their way back 'home' to themselves.
Drawing on her own path which was shaped by displacement, loss, grief, and a decades-long inquiry into what it means to truly belong, in this thoughtful conversation, she reflects on:
- How growing up between cultures, and her father's last 10 years, seeded her life's work
- The moment in a Colombian Maloka that transformed her understanding of 'home'
- Why homecoming is less a destination than a practice of returning to what we already are
- How it can look and feel when we're  longing for home, but don't know it
If you have ever felt like a stranger in your own life, this episode shares gently profound wisdom. It often turns out that the way back home is not as far as it seems.
About Stephanie Sheng, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Coach, Nondual Tantra Yoga and Somatic Movement Facilitator 
Stephanie's work explores the intersections of somatics, Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed and trauma-informed therapeutic support, expanded states of consciousness, spirituality, and the wisdom and practices of indigenous and earth-based cultures. Currently based between Germany and Mexico, of Chinese and Cantonese ancestry, she was born in the US and primarily raised there, while also spending several years in Hong Kong. 
When she was 10, Stephanie's father was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. He navigated this for ten years before passing away. Accompanying her father through his process of embracing death opened her to a spiritual path and nudged her to begin learning, at an early age, how pain can be transformed into wisdom and healing. These formative experiences also laid the foundation for her lifelong exploration of home, belonging, death, life, and beyond. Through these explorations, she came to understand home as something far deeper than just a physical place.
Inspired by her own path of homecoming, Stephanie's work offered through The Way Back Home, is devoted to accompanying others on their journey back home—home to what it means to be fully alive as a human on this earth; home to our fully felt, expressed, soulful, and authentic selves; and home to the essential depth of who and what we are beneath it all. 
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.
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:
Website:
Stephanie's Professional Website 
Stephanie's Compassionate Inquiry Profile
Books:
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Chapter 9: Homing) 
Braiding Sweetgrass
To Bless the Space Between Us
The Wayfinders
I Am That
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi 
Podcasts:
On Being Episode with John O'Donohue
On Being Episode with David Whyte
For The Wild
Poems:
By David Wagoner (audio reading)
Lost 
By John O'Donohue
Belonging
For Presence
By David Whyte
Everything Is Waiting for You
The House of Belonging
Sweet Darkness
By Mary Oliver
Wild Geese
Why I Wake Early
By Rumi
There is a Candle In Your Heart 
Meditation:
With Tara Brach, Realizing Our True Nature with Tara Brach 
Trainings, Retreats & Programs: 
Authentic Flow with Satu Tuomela 
Acer Integration
Compassionate Inquiry
Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats and Yoga Modules
Quotes:
"Home is where we can come back to being fully ourselves, remembering, recognizing the fullness of who and what we are." - Stephanie Sheng
"Safety is such a big aspect of why we turn away from ourselves, cut off parts of ourselves, don't allow our full expression, or don't allow ourselves to choose authenticity."  - Stephanie Sheng
"Things are good, life is good, but it feels like I'm not in connection with something that's just under the surface, that's wanting to be explored, to be seen, to be touched upon."  - Stephanie Sheng
"We're here to be in connection, to bring out the fullness of life."  - Stephanie Sheng
"Your deepest longing has already been fulfilled. And you were the last to know. Everything you have ever longed for is already present here and now. Which is the last place you'd ever look. The miracle to end all miracles is happening. And it is this moment, exactly as it is… You've only been seeking yourself." - Jeff Foster
Social Media:
IG: @theway.backhome
Telegram group community
Substack

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
What is the body actually holding, and how does it release it? While every Wounded Healer episode has touched on this inquiry, this final conversation brings it firmly into focus. Solea Anani, who opened this series with myth, prayer and an invocation to the wound's own intelligence, returns to close the circle. She's joined by Dr Aimie Apigian, a double board certified physician whose Biology of Trauma framework maps what happens at the cellular level when the body stores survival.
Coming from two very different perspectives, they hold aligned understandings on:
- What blocks our bodies from their innate ability to recover fully from injuries or illness
- How to unravel the legacies of epigenetics and its spiritual counterpart, the karmic bundle
- Why the nervous system 'braces', and why healing cannot begin until the brace is released
- What home feels like in the body, and why arriving there, in yourself, is what healing actually is
- What Chiron says about the moment the wound has finished its teaching
Solea opens and closes this conversation ceremonially, holding the container she created in Episode 1. Her closing, an invocation for everyone who is creating new antidotes in a world being birthed anew, brings the series to a quietly luminous end.
About Dr Aimie Aipigian, MD, MS, MPH
A double board-certified physician in Preventive and Addiction Medicine, with advanced training in biochemistry, public health, and functional medicine, Dr. Aimie is known for making trauma healing both precise and deeply human—bridging functional medicine, attachment science, and trauma therapy to show how the body stores survival patterns and what it specifically needs to heal.
Through her Biology of Trauma® framework, she integrates somatic work, parts work, and targeted biology to identify where the system is blocked and restore its capacity for healing through a structured, measurable sequence.
The founder of Trauma Healing AcceleratedTM Dr. Aimie trains individuals and practitioners worldwide to move beyond insight into real, lasting change. She also hosts the Biology of Trauma® Podcast [linked below] and authored the multiple-aware winning book, The Biology of Trauma (foreword by Gabor Maté), a national bestseller featured on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Book list.
 
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® 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 to learn more  
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:
Solea's ANAM Website 
Dr Aimie's Biology of Trauma Website
Related Links:
Ancestral Reverence
Somatic Attunement
Evolutionary Astrology
Solea's Free Somatic Attunement Meditation Classes
Solea's Core Resonance Mentorship Introduction
What is Collective Healing? (Podcast) 
Biology of Trauma Professional Training
The Essential Trauma Release Sequence Guide
The Attachment Trauma Roadmap
Biology of Trauma Podcast
The Biology of Trauma Book
Dr Aimie's YouTube Channel
Quotes:
"It really is an illusion to separate anything, mind from body or emotions from physiology. It is so interconnected that more repair can be made much faster than in any form of siloed approach." 
- Dr Aimie Apigian
"The immune system is in an environment and its response is very normal for the environment it is in."  - Dr Aimie Apigian
"Bracing will block the feelings that we need to feel to be able to move through them and heal." 
- Dr Aimie Apigian
"The healing process actually is arriving in ourselves, in a way that we feel safe and at home." 
- Dr Aimie Apigian
"For me, home is rhythm and being in contact with that rhythm, the unique, essential cadence we were born into… Every human has their own movement and jazz and rhythm…" - Solea Anani
"We're not just dropped into this chaotic existence. We are born with the tools and the skills to unravel it." - Solea Anani
"Healing doesn't fully complete. It has radiuses of information and wisdom that it's continuously bringing into our life form." - Solea Anani
"To proudly carry our wounds and to be with our grief and to be with the places in life that are messy is allowing ourselves to be fully human."  - Solea Anani
Social Media:
Dr Aimie's Facebook
Dr Aimie's Instagram
Dr Aimie's LinkedIn
Solea's Instagram
Solea's LinkedIn

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