DAY 3

Matthew Green

Building a Trauma-Restoring Media Culture.

Matthew Green is a co-host of What Is Collective Healing? a podcast presented by the Pocket Project exploring how people from diverse cultures are pioneering new ways to heal collective and inter-generational trauma. Matthew previously spent 14 years as an international correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters, reporting from across Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has since trained as a collective trauma facilitator with Thomas Hübl. He writes Resonant World, a newsletter serving the global healing movement, and co-founded the Resonant Man international men's initiative, developing a new vision of scared masculinity in the context of the metacrisis.

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What you will learn:

• What a “trauma-restoring media culture” means.
• Matthew's experience as a journalist and as an inheritor of family trauma.
• The scientific evidence for inherited trauma.
• What is missing in the way legacy media approaches the news.
• How a trauma-restoring media system would do things differently.
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Jessica Eastman 

Managing Your Energy to Avoid Burnout 

Jessica Eastman Stewart helps people get organized at work and home. Through her online and in-person workshops and courses, she helps leaders create professional and personal systems to increase productivity, joy, and ease across all aspects of their lives. She’s been featured in Real Simple, Forbes, and Woman’s Day magazine. She lives in the Bay Area with her family and remains deeply committed to supporting the people who do the hard work of strengthening our communities

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What you will learn: 

• Understand how difficulty with prioritization can become a hidden driver of burnout and why trying to do everything leads to exhaustion
• Discover the key question to ask yourself when reviewing your to-do list to create clarity and focus
• Learn the difference between time management and energy management and why energy matters more for avoiding burnout
• Gain insight into stress and recovery cycles (“oscillation”) and how to balance them for sustained performance
• Explore what it means for leaders to model sustainable behavior and why it’s both difficult and essential

Veronica Monet

How to Create Connection to Self in Stressful Times

As an Internal Family Systems Trained (IFS) Relationship Coach, Certified Sexologist, Anger Specialist and Trained Rape and Domestic Violence Counselor, Veronica Monet brings a rich array of expertise to her coaching practice. And as a sex positive activist she has been featured on a variety of platforms including CNN, FOX, Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect, Yale, Stanford and the New York Times. Her first book, Sex Secrets of Escorts (Penguin 2005) has been translated into four languages. Her memoir is in the works. Veronica also enjoys filmmaking and is the Creative Consultant for the award-winning documentary, Love Over Money (2024).

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What you will learn: 

• How having multiple inner parts explains our own and others' inconsistent behavior.
• Why we do things we wish we wouldn't.
• Why people we love can also harm us.
• The role time in nature plays, and how urban dwellers can access nature.
• The Internal Family Systems (IFS) concept of Self, and why it matters.
• Somatic practices that can help us connect to our wiser Self.
• How shame leads to worse behavior, by people and by countries.

Content warning: 

This interview includes non-vivid references to sexual assault, domestic violence, and suicidal ideation.