The Global Legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland
Healing the Wounds of An Gorta Mór & Exploring What it Means to be Irish Online | English
What will we be exploring in this Lab?
Our lab will explore the legacy of the Great Famine (1845-52), in which more than 1 million Irish died. More than 1 million emigrated during this time, and there were successive waves of emigration that created an Irish diaspora that today numbers more than 44 million. The lab is not so much about the history but about people’s experience of that history. What did the Irish have to do to survive the Famine? How does the Famine echo into our lives in the present? How is legacy of the famine different for those who left and those who remained?
Who is invited to participate?
The lab is intended for people of Irish descent, whether in Ireland or in the Irish diaspora. Some understanding of trauma is necessary, as is the willingness to look deeply into our individual lives and our ancestry. But most important is the desire to uncover and heal what our Irish ancestors couldn't heal in their own time.
More about the journey of the Lab
The lab will follow Thomas Hübl's Collective Trauma Integration Process (CTIP). We will create a safe container for exploring how the Famine trauma response still lives in us and how it affects our very being. Painful moments will certainly arise in this work but the process will be guided with compassion, care, and respect. And with a deeper understanding of the legacy of the Famine, we can begin individually and collectively to form a new sense of Irishness.
When will we be meeting?
The lab will meet on the Zoom platform. The first meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Thereafter, the meetings will be on the second Tuesday of the month: Feb. 13, Mar. 12, Apr. 9, May 14, June 11, July 9, Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, and Dec. 10. All meetings are for two hours, starting at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern/7pm Ireland.
Link to webpage for registration: https://pocketproject.org/international-labs/the-global-legacy-of-the-great-famine-in-ireland/
Lab Team
BILL MCCART has been studying with Thomas since 2011. He has taken many of his online courses, completed the Timeless Wisdom Training in 2017, and been in Core Group since then. He completed the Practice Group Leader Training in 2021 and has been co-facilitating a group starting later that year. Thomas’s work has had a profound impact on his life, how he relates to life and its challenges, and how he contributes to life. He is deeply grateful for this and happy to support others on their spiritual and healing journeys.
SIMON COURTNEY is a trauma-informed psychotherapist from Ireland. His initial curiosity and calling to explore collective trauma, and an embodied spirituality, brought him to the first Pocket Project training with Thomas Hübl in 2017. An increasing awareness for the need to turn towards our undigested past individually has been greatly influenced by his interest in the ancestral and collective dimensions of healing, using a somatic-based and relational approach in his work, where he is following the inner impulse to work more with smaller and emergent group processes.
KATHY SCOTT is a cultural activist and creative entrepreneur dedicated to creating provocative experiences that animate the spirit of our times. Her greatest mission is to nudge humanity forward by inspiring people to rise and lift each other up along the way. She is creative director of The Trailblazery, which was founded as a response to a need for deeper human connection and belonging in our world. She is also founder of The Hedge School – an award-winning cultural project rooted in Ireland that invites people on a collective (un)learning experience to find our shared humanity.
