In Global Social Witnessing calls, we tend to attune to global crises and conflicts that we have learned about in the news. But what happens when we make the people and systems that deliver that news our focus? And what becomes present when we attend to both the media’s capacity for courageous truth-telling and its vulnerability to distortion and lies? 

Join us for a unique Global Social Witnessing call where we will make space to witness the global media system – sensing into the growing risks facing journalists, and the complex interplay between the 24/7 news cycle and our individual and collective nervous systems.

While attuning to the many ways in which parts of the legacy media may remain enmeshed with the trauma architecture of the past, we will also invite the evolutionary updates that could help nurture more emotionally intelligent forms of storytelling in the future.

In this call we will explore:

• Our relationship with the pressures facing journalists 
• How fragmentation in the media impacts the collective body
• What role a trauma-restoring media culture could play in collective healing

We trust that witnessing the media is the subtlest form of intervention we can make to encourage a healing-centred turn in the media industry. Please join us.

Essay by Matthew Green: No Longer Burying The Lead: A New Media Culture for the Metacrisis

James Scurry is a Senior Producer and an Assistant Editor at Sky News. He was previously a Deputy Foreign News Editor at Sky News and has also worked for Al Jazeera English and ITV News London. He began his career in television in 2001 at Channel 9 Australia.

James is also a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist and co-founder and director of the mental health non-profit Safely Held Spaces, which provides editorial mental health training programmes to newsrooms.

Matthew Green is a journalist, author, and broadcaster with more than 25 years of experience. He has participated in multiple trainings with Thomas and co-hosted the Collective Trauma Summit and Climate Consciousness Summit.