Dec '25 • General discussion
From the Book to the Community: A Shared Conversation on Film, Trauma & Growth
As some of you know, our Skool space is growing alongside a forthcoming volume that many of you are directly contributing to—or deeply aligned with in spirit.
The book explores how film, video, music, immersive media, and storytelling can move people beyond trauma toward posttraumatic growth, not just symptom reduction. It builds on Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma and expands the field into expressive arts, participatory media, and emerging technologies.
The volume includes a foreword by Albert Skip Rizzo, whose work in virtual reality and trauma care has shaped global clinical practice, and a second foreword by Lynn Crandall, grounding the work in media psychology and cultural context.
What excites me most is that this Skool community mirrors the table of contents—not as chapters, but as people in dialogue.
🔗 Threads You’re Already Sharing
Here are just a few natural points of resonance I’m noticing across contributors and members here:
- Therapeutic filmmaking & changework→ Mal Williamson’s chapter on Eye Movement Therapy and Cinema speaks directly to how film functions not just representationally, but neurologically and relationally.
- Art therapy, embodiment & filmmaking as process→ Judyta Potocka’s work positions filmmaking as an alchemical vessel—deeply aligned with others here exploring embodied, arts-based research.
- Language, narrative & contemporary anxiety→ The chapter by Gaia Ardia, Karim Farsakh, and Paola Lamberti on eco-anxiety and social media narratives opens questions about authorship, voice, and meaning in the digital age—questions many of you are already holding.
- Music, sound & social resistance→ Lisa Whealy’s chapter on music, memory, and resistance resonates strongly with broader discussions here about equity, culture, and media as social intervention.
- Survivor-led storytelling & recovery→ Lisa Regina’s chapter reflects a throughline in this community: lived experience shaping ethical, compassionate approaches to healing through story.
Across the full book, we also see work on:
- interpersonal and migratory trauma
- participatory video
- documentary storytelling
- immersive simulation and gaming
- music, concerts, and nervous system regulation
In other words: this community is already the conversation the book invites.
💬 Open Invitation
If you’d like to jump in, feel free to share:
- Which chapter topic (or theme) feels closest to your current work
- Or a question you’re sitting with about film, media, or storytelling as a healing practice
No obligation, no hierarchy—just a shared lens.
Grateful to be holding this space with you all.—Josh
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