An Evolving Man Podcast #48 (AEM #48) – Matthew Green – Climate Change, Wounded Leaders & Collective Trauma Healing. What Can We Do?
What does trauma have to do with our current global challenges? Is there a link between trauma and the difficulties that we currently face? Today I speak with Matthew Green who is a climate news journalist with an interest in collective trauma healing. What is the Collective Trauma Healing movement which was founded by Thomas Hubl? How do we heal?
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Matthew Green is a former Reuters climate and Financial Times correspondent and has reported from more than 30 countries.
He is now global investigations editor at DeSmog, a nonprofit climate news service. He is also a co-host of the Collective Trauma Summit 2022 and a student on Thomas Hübl’s two-year Timeless Wisdom Training program. He writes the Resonant World newsletter on healing collective trauma. He is also the author of the book Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace.
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Questions and topics to talk about:
1. I would love for you to share some of your journey and how you got passionate about climate change and collective trauma healing?
2. Could you speak a little about climate change and what you have seen unfolding over the past few years?
3. What is collective trauma healing? And how do you feel that links into some of the issues we face as a species?
4. Having just read Nick Duffell's book, Wounded Leaders, have you any further thoughts into the current climate crisis, the leaders, boarding school and how that links into collective trauma?
5. Some topics to talk about (excerpts from Matthew's brilliant article [ Ссылка ]):
1. “The impact of events that took place decades or even centuries ago, can cascade through generations, silently shaping the destiny of communities, cultures, and nations.”
2. How when we suppress the vulnerable parts of ourselves that we don't take care of the vulnerable in society. Could the vulnerable also be seen as the environment?
3. “The industrialized world’s failure to mount a meaningful response to climate change is itself a symptom of collective trauma, rooted in patterns of exploitation handed down over generations.”
4. “People who suffered early adversity often resort to self-medicating their pain to society’s pursuit of endless, fossil fuel-powered economic growth.”
5. “Could politicians’ apparent paralysis in response to the threat mirror the way individuals with significant trauma may go emotionally numb, or avoid potential triggers, rather than acknowledge their deepest hurt?”
6. “The climate crisis is the consequence of a mindset: The mindset that people can be oppressed, that you can go to new territories, loot them, appropriate them, and get rich from them,” Xiye Bastida. I would argue that this began with the Empire and boarding school. What do you feel?
7. “The kind of grandiosity, manipulation, and blame-shifting that can emerge as defences against childhood trauma are so often evident among leaders in politics, business, and finance.”
8. The power of community to heal
9. The power of leaders becoming trauma informed
10. Humanity's greatest threat is also the greatest opportunity
11. PTSD / First World War and how it was noticed that those who went to boarding school had learned to suppress emotions.
6. Anything else that you would like to share?
#climatechange #climatecrisis #collectivetraumahealing #woundedleaders
To read more of Matthew's work please visit his website here: [ Ссылка ]
To join the Resonant World email list on Substack: [ Ссылка ]
To buy Matthew's bestselling book called Aftershock about PTSD: [ Ссылка ]
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