An Evolving Man Podcast

On today's podcast we go deep into working with the archetypes. How do we move from the Hero's Journey, more for the transition from boyhood/ girlhood to early manhood/ womanhood to the Sovereign's Journey, for the maturing adult?

What are the ways that we can work with the archetypes?

How do we bring our inner King and Queen online, also known as the Sovereign?

A really fascinating discussion with one of the UK's leading men's work coaches and facilitators.

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Hugh P Newton has been working with men for more than twenty five years. He works as a coach, runs workshops for men and is involved in A Band of Brothers and the Mankind Project.

Hugh is also the author of the book The Sovereign's Journey.

Some of the topics and questions to cover:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you get into the work you now do?
2. Could you please talk about the importance of men's work. Robert Bly in Iron John says that the young men need the support of older men. What is your experience of this? How do we as older men find the younger men to help?
3. Could you please explain what the Sovereign's Journey is? How does it differ from the Hero's Journey?
4. What are the archetypes? (P. 25)
5. What is the collective unconscious?
6. What is the role of the King or the Sovereign?
7. Could you please speak a little about why getting to know your shadows are so important? How does that help us (p. 26)
8. What are some of the practices to help us connect to each of the archetypes in their fullness?
9. Could you please share some of your boarding school experiences? How was boarding school in Rhodesia?
10. How do people learn more about your work or reach out?

To learn more about Hugh's work please visit: https://www.thesovereignsjourney.co.uk

And to purchase his book please visit: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovereigns-Journey-Hugh-P-Newton/dp/B0BMJXR7RV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PHPEWYGS5U0Z&keywords=hugh+newton&qid=1676566640&sprefix=hugh+newton%2Caps%2C676&sr=8-1

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

What does one of the UK leading lawyers into child sexual abuse think about IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse)? 

What does he feel about mandatory reporting? (At the moment there is no law that states that schools or organisations need to report child sexual abuse). 

What does he feel? Is this right? What needs to be done? 

And what about cases like Jimmy Saville, Bishop Peter Ball and John Smythe? 

How did the UK allow these paedophiles to operate and even support them for so many years? 

Dino Nocivelli is a partner in the abuse department at Leigh Day law firm and joined the company in 2022. Dino specialises in actions for child sexual abuse survivors. Dino has appeared in a significant number of media publications providing his expert opinion and commentary, including among others the BBC, ITV and the Guardian. He has also provided evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

Areas to explore:

1. I would love to hear some of your journey and how you got into the work that you are now doing?
2. Could you speak about your work around child sexual abuse (CSA) and some of the cases that you have been putting together?
3. How widespread is CSA in Britain?
4. I would love to hear you speak about the IICSA process. What was IICSA? What were its aims? Did they succeed in these aims? What was the final verdict? 
5. Could you please talk about mandatory reporting? What do you feel about the importance of having mandatory reporting in schools and boarding schools? Has IICSA now made this a requirement by law?
6. Could you talk a little about Jimmy Saville, John Smythe and cases like Bishop Peter Ball.
7. What about boarding schools? What have you found out about boarding schools and CSA? In your opinion should these schools be able to retain their charitable status? 
8. How do people find out more about your work?

To find more about Dino please visit: https://www.leighday.co.uk/about-us/our-people/partners/dino-nocivelli/

To read some of his blog posts about boarding schools: https://www.leighday.co.uk/latest-updates/blog/2022-blogs/malsis-school-convictions-how-was-abuse-able-to-go-on-for-so-long/

#childsexualabuse #csa #abuseawarenessweek #jimmysaville 

Five Leading Child Sexual Abuse Charities: http://www.frsb.org.uk/the-top-5-uk-sexual-abuse-charities/

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

What makes a contented couple? Are there certain keys to having a thriving and loving intimate relationship? What if you didn't have a happy childhood? Can you still have a fulfilling and happy relationship?

Today I am speaking with Annie Power who is a couple counsellor and author. We talk about attachment theory and how that relates to relationships. How important is it to be a securely attached person in a couple? Annie shares different keys that you can cultivate to have a loving relationship, keys that are synonymous with contented couples.

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Anne Power, is a couple counsellor and has taught psychotherapy and supervision on university courses in London. She has published many academic papers on attachment and two books. 

She started her counselling work thirty years ago. Her initial training was as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a special interest in attachment theory. Later she trained in a systemic model and this integration – of attachment and systemic thinking - matches with EFT (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy) which is the model in which she is now developing her practice.

Some of the questions and areas interest:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you arrive at doing what you do now?
2. Would you please introduce us to attachment theory. What is it? Could you talk a little about the different forms of attachment? (p. 15)
3. Could you please speak to how attachment theory relates to relationships?
4. In your research into the book, Contented Couples, what did you find made up a contented couple? You talk about a formula for a contented relationship. What is this? (p.3)
5. What is good-enough marriage? (p. 5)
6. If you have not had a secure attachment as a child (many of my listeners have been to boarding school) can we still cultivate a contented relationship? From those that you interviewed and in your experience how do we go about that? (p.35)
7. If a person enters a relationship and they don't feel that they are loveable and that they can love others, how do they heal this? (p. 3)
8. Could you please talk about how romantic and maternal relationships are similar? (p.46)
9. What makes a relationship work in the long run? (p.146-180)
10. Some other areas to talk about:
    1. Self-care regarding relationships
    2. Boarding school syndrome and attachment theory

For more information about Anne Power please visit: https://www.contentedcouples.com/

Or to purchase her book: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/contented-couples-magic-logic-or-luck/96376/?MATCH=1

Or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contented-Couples-Magic-Logic-Luck/dp/1913494462/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

On today's episode my guest is Rosemary Lamaison. In this podcast she shares her years of experience working as a counsellor with ex-boarders. What are some of the experiences of girls and boys at boarding school? Today Rosemary gives dozens of quotes and examples of how the boarding school education impacts girls and boys and the adults that they become.

A really fascinating and rich sharing from one of the leading therapists in the boarding school syndrome and boarding school survivors world.

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Rosemary Lamaison is a counsellor with 30 years’ experience. She works with adult clients from diverse backgrounds and covers a broad range of issues. These include couples, relationship and marriage guidance, parent and family issues and anxiety, stress, low confidence or low self-esteem. She also works with abuse and boarding school syndrome.

Some of the areas to talk about:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you get into the work that you now do?
2. Can you please talk a little bit about some of the key issues relating to women ex-boarders:
   1. relationships, intimacy difficulties
   2. not having a voice, or being heard
   3. where can their experience be talked about 
   4. femininity
   5. puberty and their move to womanhood being 'uncelebrated'.
   6. education and low expectations - for those who are now in their 50,60,70's. Should I say 'limited' education and being 'taught' to be a good wife ! 
   7. what do they do with their sadness, rage
   8. How do they display their skills / abilities without being seen as 'bossy', 'aggressive'
   9. having to adopt male behaviours in the male working environments
   10. how to parent, having not had the role model that would help 
   11. self esteem and confidence
   12. false self, loss of authentic self.   Appearing confident but hiding their vulnerable self - also a male issue
   13. food, eating disorders - hunger, comfort eating ... long term impact  
   14. where's home [also for men of course]
   15. travelling from overseas, put i/c of younger sibling, missing close contact with, and kindness from, ayahs, staff, 

For more information about Rosemary's work please visit: https://rosemarylamaisoncounselling.com

For Boarding Recovery and a list of registered therapists please visit: https://boardingrecovery.com/

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

In this episode I am talking with leading clinical psychologist and author, Paul DeBlassie III. Paul has worked in the field of psychology for 30 years plus and has mainly specialised in working with religious abuse and trauma. He is also the bestselling author of several books including: Goddess of Everything, Goddess of The Wild Thing, and The Unholy.

I really enjoyed this conversation and loved how relaxed and wise Paul was. He talked about world leaders and the trauma that they carry. He talked about Putin and what he sees there. He also went into some depth about his work with trauma treatment and self-hatred. He went on to speak about self-sabotaging and how we find safety. A really fascinating conversation.

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Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist and award-winning writer living in his native New Mexico, crafting metaphysical thrillers energized with trickster mischief and natural magic. His novels, visionary thrillers, delve deep into archetypal realities as they play out dramatically in the lives of everyday people. Metaphysical dramas set in the mythopoeic realm of Aztlan open vistas of danger, conflict and potential transformation. Good and evil are pivotal arenas for unfolding tales of the supernatural.

Together with visionary/metaphysical novels, he also writes blogs and archetypal essays on trauma, dreams, spirituality, and intuition.

Some of the areas of interest:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you arrive at doing what you do now?
2. Some of the areas to talk about:
   1. Spirituality
   2. Depth psychology
   3. Dreams – how do we connect and understand dreams? How do we integrate the messages that our dreams are telling us? What is the best way to work with dreams?
   4. Trauma and how to treat it
   5. Pain
   6. Archetypes
   7. The shadows
   8. World Leaders
   9. Finding safety 
   10. The culture of the church
3. Some of Paul's quotes: 
   1. "Depth psychologist Robert D. Romanyshyn in his paper, “The World Is a Tissue of Metaphors,” noted that the dream: “is a nightly address to the ego-mind which undoes its fixed positions, a kind of nightly humiliation that humbles consciousness and leads it back into the earth, a journey that re-situates mind in the humus, the soil of the soul. (2011, p. 2)”
   2. “Descent into the underworld, stepping into the Cave of All Knowing, and plunging into the mother sea of the collective unconscious, symbolize immersion into self, leaning into and immersing ourselves in the pulse and beat of the confluence of our inner and outer lives. From such immersion a transformation occurs: what Romanyshyn described as “ordinary epiphanies of the moment that, when we are ready and properly disposed, are momentous epiphanies, festive occasions when the miracle in the ordinary manifests itself, moments that are occasions for wonder and celebration” (2011, p. 4).”https://www.depthinsights.com 2012

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

Today I am speaking with two experts in the field of energy psychology.

There are different forms of energy psychology from Psych-K to EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and from Holographic Repatterning to Matrix Reimprinting.

 As Bruce Lipton PhD writes: "Energy psychology can induce radical changes in behaviour within minutes and in many cases, these changes produce permanent alterations in subconsciously programmed behaviours." 

Today our conversation will be focusing on EFT and Matrix Reimprinting. What are EFT and Matrix Reimprinting?

My guests will also be talking about trauma and how you can use energy psychology to start to heal trauma.

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Suzanne Fageol, is a certified counsellor, spiritual director, craniosacral therapist, somatic trauma release educator and EFT/Matrix Reimprinting coach. She has been educating those in the helping professions about working with people with trauma and stress for the past 10 years and has been an educator of somatic practices and the neuroscience of trauma for over 10 years. 

Dr Craig Weiner has spent over 35 year working in the health care field. He is a certified and accredited advanced practitioner and EFT master trainer of trainers. He is also a trainer of Matrix Reimprinting, co director of the EFT Tapping Training Institute and co director of the Tapping out of Trauma continuing education trainings. He is the co-producer and director of the film, the Science of Tapping. 

He is a popular lecturer and podcast guest and together with his wife and partner Alina Frank are the creators of the podcast, EFT Nation. He is profoundly interested in the underlying emotional and physical connections that stem from adversity and trauma as well as the facilitation of the transformation of trauma to post-resilience and post traumatic growth. More information can be found at EFTtappingtraining.com

Questions:

1. I would love for you to begin by sharing how you both got into the work that you now do.
2. What is trauma? What are the symptoms of trauma? How might trauma show up in adults?
3. How might trauma effect those around them? What if these people were in positions of influence?
4. What are some of the beliefs and patterns that are common in people who have been through trauma?
5. What is EFT and Matrix Reimprinting? What is the science behind EFT and Matrix Reimprinting? How does it work and why is it effective in the healing of trauma?
6. How do people learn more about the work that you do.

To find out more about the work that they do please do visit:

For Craig: https://www.efttappingtraining.com/

For Suzanne: https://www.tappingoutoftrauma.com

For their combined Tapping out of Trauma course for EFT practitioners: https://www.tappingoutoftrauma.com

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

On the podcast today to celebrate the 50th episode I have a very special guest, Michelle Dawn Silcox. 

I have often been asked to talk about boarding school syndrome and relationships. 

Well, today I thought that I would get one of the experts in this field, my wife! 

Michelle is a relationship counsellor and has been interested in psychology and wellness for many decades. 

Today she shares some of her journey of being married to a boarding school survivor and what she advises those who are in relationships with ex-boarders and those ex-boarders themselves. 

Michelle Dawn Silcox is a complementary therapist, spiritual counsellor, and Reiki teacher. In her 20s she worked as a model and then became a complementary therapist and a spiritual and relationship counsellor. In her 30s she had a near death experience which gave her a greater understanding of the work that she was doing. In the 90s she set up a healing centre in Hebden Bridge which is still running to this day. She has also been married to the podcast host, Piers Cross, for the past 13 years.

Some of the questions that I ask her:

1. I would love for you to talk a bit about your life and journey.
2. In your work you talk about the importance of the masculine and the feminine. Can you please explain? How does this relate to relationships?
3. What are some of the key traits of ex-boarders in relationships? How is that different from people who have not been to boarding school? Both the positives and the negatives?
4. Can you talk about some of these other areas:
   1. Control and manipulation
   2. Project identifcation – when you feel like you are going crazy if the other partners is in denial or dissociation.
   3. Workoholism and how we struggle to stop
   4. Shut down hearts and how we open them up again.
   5. Growing up in a world with leaders with shut down hearts – what was it like growing up in this environment for a young girl – thinking that you had been born on the wrong planet.
   6. How we met
   7. Separation between sex and love
   8. Elders
   9. Complaining and blaming
5. What are relationships all about?
6. How does a man deal with a woman's anger or upset?
7. How do we as men/ ex-boarders/ people who have been through trauma heal and recover?

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

Dr Helen Roche talks in this episode about education in the Third Reich and specifically the Nazi boarding schools, the Napolas. Very little has been shared about what went on in the education of the elite Nazi children until Dr Roche's book.

Today we talk about the history and the timeline of these schools and some of the links to the Spartan philosophies and British boarding schools.

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Dr. Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in the press nationally and internationally, including appearances in the Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, on the BBC and Sky News. 

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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 to where you are now?
2. Could you introduce us to the Nazi boardings schools, the Napolas please? What were they and when were they formed? What was their role in the rise of the Third Reich?
3. Could you talk about ancient Sparta's influence on German education and especially the Napolas?
4. What was the Napolas' connection to the English and American boarding schools? How much of an influence was the English boarding school model on the Nazi one? What did Hitler feel he could learn from these schools? Did the Nazi achieve their aim?
5. Could you please talk more about the 'character-forming' that the Napolas learned from the British system? It sounds like the Nazis were very keen to learn about this. What were some of the 'character-forming' practices that the Nazis installed? How were they similar or dissimilar to the British schools. What did August Heissmeyer say?
6. Could you talk about the exchanges, visits from headteachers and sports tournaments with the British and US boarding schools? “The ideal outcome of the programme would be for Napola pupils and staff to learn how things were done in England, and then use that knowledge to improve their own educational techniques,” (Guardian 2021)
7. How supportive were the English boarding schools of their German counterparts? In one of your talks you mention the head from Lancing House Prep school show his support?
8. How many of the alumni from these schools went on to prominent positions in the SS and Third Reich? Were these important were these graduates considered once the war began?
9. The private school headmaster and the embodiment of the “Fuhrer-principle
10. Were the Napolas more effective at indoctrinating pupils politically than, for example, the Hitler Youth? If so why was that?
11. What were some of the tough practices that the Napolas put the children through?

#naziboardingschools #historyofboardingschools #boardingschoolsyndromecollectivetraumahealing #woundedleaders

To learn more about Helen please visit: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/helen-b-roche/

To buy Helen's books please visit: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-third-reichs-elite-schools-9780198726128?cc=gb&lang=en&

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross http://piers-cross.com/ 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

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 journalist with an interest in collective trauma healing. How do we heal?

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 https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/27/collective-trauma-healing-climate-change-activism/):
   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 power of community to heal
   7. The power of leaders becoming trauma informed
   8. Humanity's greatest threat is also the greatest opportunity

#climatechange #climatecrisis #collectivetraumahealing #woundedleaders

To read more of Matthew's work please visit his website here: https://matthewgreenjournalism.com/

To join the Resonant World email list on Substack: https://matthewgreenglobal.substack.com/

To buy Matthew's bestselling book called Aftershock about PTSD: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aftershock-Fighting-Surviving-Trauma-Finding/dp/1846273315/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LDDR3C660JSC&keywords=matthew+green+aftershock&qid=1667216113&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjI0IiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=matthew+green+aftershock%2Caps%2C285&sr=8-1

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

Many blessings, Piers Cross http://piers-cross.com/ 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

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For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/ 

What is the history and global impact of boarding schools? Often on the podcast we have talked about the British boarding schools. Today we are starting to venture further afield.

In speaking with Petter Sandgren, who is Professor at the University of Stockholm, we start to explore the history of boarding schools and what the impact is of boarding school on the world.

What is the difference between the UK and the rest of the world regarding boarding schools. Are they the same?

We also have a fascinating discussion about character building at boarding schools. What has character building been historically at boarding school? And what can we do to change this?

 He also talks about Tom Brown's Schooldays and how this was the bible for many of the budding boarding schools around the world. How do we act, treat children, teach? Look at Tom Brown's Schooldays. 

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Petter Sandgren has an MA in Education and an MA in History from Umeå University, and an MA and a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2015 Sandgren published the first book – Internatskolorna – in a planned trilogy on elites in modern-day Sweden. In 2017 he defended his doctoral thesis Globalising Eton: A Transnational History of Elite Boarding Schools since 1799. 

Sandgren has previously taught history of education and European studies at Uppsala University and Lund University before joining the Department of Education at Stockholm University in the fall of 2016. Sandgren’s research interests include transnational and comparative approaches to the history of modern and contemporary Europe, as well as history and sociology of education; the history of European integration; history and sociology of elites and the upper classes. 

Questions and topics that we talk about:

1. I would love for you to share some of your journey and how you got passionate in the subject of the elites and upper classes and how they are educated?
2. Could you speak a little about the history of global elite boarding schools?
3. Your thesis is called Globalising Eton. How much of an impact has Eton and the other English boarding schools had on the rest of the world? Has that impact been positive or negative?
4. Could you please talk about leadership training. In your experience what is it that these elite boarding schools teach about leadership?
5. Would you say that these schools have changed?
6. What are the ideas that these elite boarding schools are trying to emulate?
7. In your opinion what might the impact be on the rest of the world if the leaders have been educated in this way?
8. Anything else that you would like to share?

#historyofboardingschools #globalisingeton #eton #globalboardingschool #eliteeducation

To read Petter's thesis, Globalising Eton please download it here: https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/46566/Sandgren_2017.pdf?sequence=1

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

Or FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 
http://piers-cross.com/ 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. 

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. 

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross 

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic 

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community 

Many blessings, 

Piers Cross 

http://piers-cross.com/