Laura Calderón de la Barca

Integral-Intuitive Psychotherapist, Cultural Analyst & Collective Healing Researcher

Coming Together to Heal Together – Allowing our Vulnerability to Show the Way

Highlights from this session:

Laura Calderón de la Barca explores the path forward in solidarity and care, addressing the deep wounds of colonialism, racism, and slavery. She talks about the personal and societal impacts of trauma, shame, and violence, emphasizing the need for a culture of radical care and emotional maturity. Laura shares her intimate passion, as a woman of mixed descent, for building bridges between the polarizing parts of our stories, and finding one's place in the world. She expands on her journey from overcoming traumatic experiences and toxic shame to becoming a psychotherapist dedicated to collective healing, illuminating the importance of creating safe spaces for healing, particularly in intercultural contexts scarred by colonialism. She underscores the necessity of nurturing feminine energy, reconnecting with the earth, and fostering creativity as vital components of the global healing movement.

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Laura Calderón de la Barca

Dr Laura Calderon de la Barca is a Psychotherapist, Consultant and Cultural Analyst specialising in individual, intergenerational, collective and systemic trauma. Senior Associate at the Collective Change Lab (CCL), where she explores the presence of trauma in systems and how to address it through Healing Centered Systems Change. She co-authored the article ‘Healing Systems’, published by Stanford Social Innovation Review in February 2024, which has over 78,000 views within a year of publication, and was the most viewed article on SSIR in 2024. Beside her private practice, she leads webinars and online workshops on trauma and healing colonialism. She has given workshops on these topics in Mexico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya, Canada and online. She facilitated support spaces for people of colour and Spanish-speaking people for spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl at the Academy of Inner Science and the Pocket Project; she also participated as a panelist and host of their Collective Trauma Online Summits from 2019-2023.

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