Collective Trauma and the Healing Work Wars Demand of Us with Nikola Jurisic
About This Episode
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ikola is a cultural transfiguration catalyst, who relishes in building values driven systems, organizations and communities at scale. In this episode, we speak into the nuances of collective trauma and ancestral trauma, and how these often intersect – especially where major societal upheavals existed, particularly in times of war. We speak into the four fundamental collective traumas – from (a) the collective trauma of splitting the spirit world from science and the material world; (b) the collective trauma of patriarchy, and creating an imbalance between the feminine and masculine sides of our nature; and (c) the collective trauma of individualism vs collectivism and the schisms this collective shift has caused in society; and finally (d) the collective trauma of separating the individual human from the (mother) Earth and Nature herself. We dive in deeper to the current realities of the Holy War being fought in Gaza today, thirteen months in – and what that conflict means from a collective trauma lens. We get vulnerable and ask the uncomfortable questions so many of us are thinking about, but perhaps haven’t dared to speak into publicly. Let’s have THAT conversation.
Time stamps
- 00:00-06:50 – Introduction
- 06:51-08:48 – What’s Moving Nikola today
- 8:49-16:03 – The History of Collective Trauma in the Balkans
- 16:04-19:17 – Individual, Collective, and Ancestral Trauma
- 19:18-20:34 – The 4 Major Disconnections in Collective Trauma
- 20:35-27:25 – The Collective Trauma of the Patriarchy
- 27:26-32:54 – Trauma from Disconnecting Spirit from the Material
- 32:55-34:55 – What are the Consequences of the Material World overpowering the Spirit World?
- 34:56-39:00 – The Inner Development vs Outer Development Disparity
- 39:01-47:05 – The Collective Healing Process in a Hot Trauma
- 47:06-49:00 – Why Choosing Sides is Problematic in Conflict (but understandable)
- 49:01-51:25 – Why The Israel-Gaza War feels Like a Holy War
- 51:26-58:44 – How Superiority is a Violent Energy at the Root of all War
- 58:45-01:00:59 – What Can We Do (Individually)?
- 01:01:00-01:05:36 – Connect with Nikola and his Work
Special Guest Profile
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ikola is a spiritual warrior, cultural transfiguration catalyst and a leading global expert in building values driven systems and organizations at scale. He brings a career of experience working on culture with hundreds of organizations and systems around the world, blending more structured organizational approaches with more intuitive work. He is the Managing Partner of Transfiguration Advisory, where he works with corporations and institutions on broad systemic and cultural change. Prior to building his own consultancy, Nikola lead McKinsey’s culture and change work across more than 90 countries in Eastern Europe, the MIddle East and Africa (EEMA). Nikola is also the Founder of Project Light, a non-profit organization focused on processing collective trauma and supporting the collective healing work within the Balkans, where he was born and raised. He brings a wide range of divergent perspectives, and weaves them together as a self-described ‘free radical’. His top three values are learning, fun and adventure, and excellence. Nikola also takes private one-to-one clients from the executive leadership space.