Can Media heal the traumas it helped to create?

Building a Trauma-Restoring Media System

Matthew Green, author of The Resonant World on Substack and a longtime climate journalist with deep experience at Reuters, DeSmog, and The Guardian, is a chance to explore the inner dimensions of climate collapse, the emergence of new narratives, and the spiritual-emotional undercurrents of ecological awakening.

Matthew’s work helps make sense of the emotional, ethical, and imaginative shifts required for deep systemic change—and connects personal transformation to planetary healing.

Politics, business, finance and world news – legacy media tends to pigeonhole the crises erupting all around us in familiar categories. But what if the chaos is a reflection of the unresolved intergenerational and collective trauma lying latent in the collective psyche? And what if the default way that media organisations cover the news is only serving to reinforce this trauma – rather than helping to address it?

Join Matthew Green, a former international correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, and James Scurry, a senior producer at Sky News, psychotherapist and contributor to the #MediaStrong conference on journalism and trauma, for a lively exploration of what it would take to build a trauma-restoring media system capable of supporting collective healing. Now training as a trauma integration facilitator with Thomas Hübl and team, Matthew is dedicated to supporting the evolution of his industry into a force capable of illuminating the deepest psychological origins of our global crisis – and fulfilling its potential to support the emergence of a thriving future.

Matthew Green is global investigations editor at nonprofit climate news service DeSmog. A former climate correspondent at Reuters, he is also the creator of Resonant World, a newsletter and podcast supporting the global trauma healing movement.