Invisible Threads
Kate Woodsome helps people understand why both individuals and institutions burn out — and how we can regenerate resilience, care and trust in each. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and resilience strategist, she works at the intersection of storytelling, nervous system literacy and systems change to guide journalists, leaders and community-builders to communicate across divides, manage stress and navigate complex challenges without burning out, lashing out or breaking down.
Kate spent more than 20 years reporting and leading global news teams for The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English and Voice of America. From Cuba to Cambodia, Hong Kong to Washington, DC, she studied how societies fracture under pressure and what it takes to heal. Covering the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021 became a turning point. She recognized the same trauma patterns she’d seen in authoritarian and post-conflict societies taking root in American institutions, degrading not just democracy itself, but the people telling its story.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with her Post colleagues, Kate founded Invisible Threads, a regenerative journalism lab treating information as a healing modality. The lab pioneers media practices that fuel an economy of wellbeing, operating where public health, systems change and narrative power meet.
Invisible Threads’ three-pillar model — Awareness, Agency and Action — helps communities understand why they’re struggling, develop resilience skills to navigate stress and transform dehumanizing systems and stories into ones rooted in care. Through her newsletter, workshops and partnerships, Kate reaches thousands of people working to build cultures that prioritize compassion over control and connection over collapse.
