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Laura Calderon de la Barca

Senior AssociateCollective Change Lab

Biography

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 77,000 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.