Collective and Intergenerational Trauma Therapist, Facilitator, Trainer and ResearcherCollective Change Lab
Dr. Laura Calderón de la Barca is a psychotherapist, linguist, consultant, educator and cultural analyst, specializing in collective, intergenerational and attachment trauma. Her passion for collective healing started with her own healing journey, as a Mexican mestiza, of Indigenous and Spanish roots, which took her from England (2000) and Australia (2004-8) to the mountains of Oaxaca (2004, 2005). As a result of that exploration, she discovered in herself and her country the impacts of shame and collective trauma from colonialism, and wrote a pioneering PhD thesis (2007) which was a written psychotherapeutic session for her country of origin, Mexico. In addition to her private therapeutic practice, Laura has worked with contemporary mystic Thomas Hübl, at the Academy of Inner Science and the Pocket Project, facilitating support groups for people of color and Spanish speakers, and is one of the hosts of the annual Collective Trauma Online Summit, bringing the collective wisdom of Latin American healing voices, to the over 430,000 participants in the 5 editions of the Summit. Laura also works as a consultant and researcher with The Collective Change Lab, where she collaborates on research for The Wellbeing Project, on the presence of trauma in social change systems, and how we can turn them into healing systems. She has also worked in Mexico, Kenya, Bolivia, Colombia and Canada with diverse populations on healing from the collective trauma of colonialism. With Flavia Valgiusti and Gabriela Martínez, she is currently preparing a training on healing from colonialism in Latin America.