Catalyst Twenty-Twenty: Post-Traumatic Growth at Scales of Person, Place and Planet

Planetary health is a broad multidisciplinary effort that attempts to address what has been described as “Anthropocene Syndrome”—the wicked, interrelated challenges of our time. These include, but are not limited to, grotesque biodiversity losses, climate change, environmental degradation, resource depletion, the global burden non-communicable diseases (NCDs), inequalities, social injustices, erosion wisdom and civility, together with many structural underpinnings these grand challenges. The ultimate aim planetary flourishing along every link in person, place planet continuum. events “2020” have illuminated consequences “mass trauma” how sub-threshold anxiety and/or depressive symptoms erase rigid lines between mental “health” “disorders”, unmasked systemic forms injustice, discrimination, oppression too often escaped discourse. Here, we query ways which post-traumatic growth research might inform larger community, especially context pandemic, broadening socioeconomic worsening crisis, rise political authoritarianism. available would suggest fulfills trauma criteria having “seismic impact on assumptive world”, such, provides fertile ground for growth. Among potential positive changes occur response trauma, focus value new awareness, perspective greater wisdom.