Resonant World #169
A very happy new year to all readers of Resonant World!
May we receive precisely the inspiration, support, blessings, and grace that will serve our highest evolution and service in the year ahead.
I also want to say a huge thank-you for your engagement with Resonant World — your curiosity and resonance is a huge source of encouragement in my mission to retool my media skills to serve the global movement to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma, and lay the foundations of the trauma-restoring media system of the future.
I’m taking a break with my family in the east of England before returning to London to re-engage with key projects in 2026, which I share about in the above four-minute video. For anyone who’s keen to find out more or get involved, here are further details:
DeSmog
As global investigations editor, I intend to renew the various climate accountability reporting projects I’m running, including shining a spotlight on the role the advertising and public relations industry plays in defending fossil-fuel business as usual, and the struggles taking place in counties across the United States against the AI data centre boom. (You can sign up to a separate DeSmog newsletter here).
Resonant Man
I’m delighted to report that the Resonant Man, the international men’s initiative that I co-founded with Jacob Kishere, is going from strength to strength, with two weekly circles now meeting online (Thursday 5pm UK / Sunday 7pm UK). We’re offering a chance for men who may be interested in participating a chance to attend a month of sessions for free before deciding whether to commit. Drop me a line if you’re interested or visit the new Resonant Man website. We also have The Resonant Man weekly Substack. We will soon be opening up early bird tickets for our Soulstice summer retreat at Pitchcott Farm in Buckinghamshire from June 19-21 2026. Hope to see you there!
What Is Collective Healing?
I couldn’t be more delighted with the evolution of What Is Collective Healing?, the weekly podcast I co-host on behalf of the Pocket Project with Kosha Joubert and Sonita Mbah. With the visionary support of producer J’aime Rothbard, the podcast has rapidly developed into a living library of profound conversations sharing universal principles of collective and inter-generational trauma integration via the first-hand experiences of people from many backgrounds and cultures. What Is Collective Healing? has also opened a new window into the many strands of trauma healing work offered by the Pocket Project since we launched in May. Here is our latest episode:
Being British Integration Lab
Registration has opened for the 48 year-long online Integration Labs the Pocket Project is hosting in 2026, each approaching collective and ancestral trauma through a different geographic, cultural or thematic lens. I’m very excited to be running a Lab with Manda Johnson called Being British: Colonised and Colonisers. Exploring our Roots, Cultural Conditioning and Potential as Catalysts for Healing. (Manda was my guest on Episode Two of What Is Collective Healing?). Registration is open until January 20.
Witnessing the Global Media: Towards the Emotionally Intelligent Storytelling of the Future
I’m super-excited to be working with Manda, Robert Buxbaum and my long-time collaborator James Scurry, a psychotherapist and senior producer at Sky News, and one of the conveners of the MediaStrong annual conference on journalism and trauma, to be staging a Global Social Witnessing event on January 7 on the global media system. This will build on some of the themes I explored in this essay for Emerge: No Longer Burying the Lead: A New Media Culture for the Metacrisis.
Centre for Climate Psychology
I’m very much looking forward to deepening my collaboration with Steffi Bednarek at the Centre for Climate Psychology to stage impactful events in 2026. You can follow Steffi Bednarek on Substack or sign up to the Centre for Climate Psychology newsletter here.
In Dialogue with Thomas Hübl
It’s been a great source of inspiration to engage in two dialogues with Thomas Hübl for his Point of Relation podcast, the first of which was published last month.
In this episode, Thomas used my story of the shock I experienced at unexpectedly having to serve as midwife during my daughter’s homebirth as a jumping off point to speak about the many ways ‘generous’ communities can resource us to face these kinds of initiatory challenges.
I also shared about the ancestral echoes that underpinned my commitment to covering wars in my early journalistic career — echoes that were revealed during my participation in the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training with Thomas and his team.
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