Bio

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Heather Wokusch is a global educator and public speaker, psychotherapist and multimedia storyteller. She ist a human rights advocate, community-building strategist and the founder of MESPERO: Impact for Resilience (building mental-health capacity across various settings) and SDG2030.me (scaling innovations for the Sustainable Development Goals).

The theme "Balancing Polarity" resonates in every aspect of Heather’s work, whether in conflict mediation, intercultural consulting, or multilateral organizing. On a personal level, she is especially focused on exploring the hidden polarities and intersectionalities of war – with the aim of identifying shared paths to peace. This pursuit has led her to conduct dozens of interviews with war survivors ranging from atomic bomb witnesses to refugees from contemporary conflicts, along with military members and political decision-makers across the world.

In her TEDx Talk, Heather shares an interactive matrix of her findings about wars’ unspoken areas of ‘collateral damage’ – and ideas for how each of us can impact the narrative for positive change.