How Can Beauty Heal the Beast: Living with the Impacts of Polycrisis Traumas

This article is intended to provide an overall map of the current polycrisis and the traumatizing effects of the media, as each crisis is interpreted and reinterpreted in the attention economy. Ultimately, this article is directed at teachers, since they are in a position to help students navigate today’s complex and often disorienting context of growing up. Teachers themselves, however, are functioning under a myriad of (often competing) pressures. An organizing framework is offered, to help teachers analyze their own, and their students’ contexts, in order to realistically answer the question “what can one teacher do?” The response to this question is contemplated with clear-eyed pragmatism, devoid of romantic optimism.