Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
This is an upcoming event, but it’s also the announcement of a substantive project, by one of the Alternative Global’s great allies. Matthew Green used to work for the FT and Reuters as a climate correspondent, but became disillusioned with the limits of their reporting on the worsening environment, and particularly its psychological consequences.
Matthew has been involved with AG’s discussions and explorations - see our incubator - on the need for a new media system. And it’s great to see him taking the initiative with this event. The blurb is below, and go to the end for ticket details:
The limits of legacy media are well-known: News agendas framed by those with the most money and power; a failure to reckon with the depths of the climate and ecological emergency; and a focus on business as usual at the expense of solutions emerging at the margins, to name a few.
Rather than helping heal our collective trauma, much of the media makes it worse.
What if there’s another way? How might we build a media system to heal our collective trauma?
Join journalist Matthew Green for a collaborative session informed by his study of the principles of healing individual, collective and inter-generational trauma to imagine what a new media systemmight look like – one capable of rising to the demands of the moment.
How can we harness emerging insights from the marriage of psychology, neurobiology, and ancient wisdom traditions to design the newsrooms of the future – capable of both documenting the role of collective trauma in fuelling global crises, and supporting collective healing?
Is there an emerging new archetype of the “journalist as healer”? And what new practices can help us come together in community to relate to the news in a way that supports connection and collective intelligence -- rather than burnout and overwhelm?
DATE: Thursday April 11th, 2024. Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm
LOCATION: Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG
£8 Kairos Club Member, £10 Student or Unwaged, £15 Non-member, £20 Supporter. Food and drinks complimentary.
For more info on the event, click here