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The strength of our relationships with others is the number one predictor of health and happiness

We all, however, have contact with people. We can all find ways to resist the isolating, dehumanising tides of our time attempting to turn us into machines. We can all figure out a few small ways to be together more, in our bodies, to call a friend to ask for help, to offer a place to sleep or a cup of tea. These things seem soft, naive even but... See more

I think relationships are everything. The failure of them is under all those very concrete problems my esteemed colleagues are throwing their lives at, the healing of them the source of our deepest gladness. You could say we are pack animals living as lone wolves. Or we are creatures made in the image of a relational divine, living in outright... See more

Everything we know about systems tells us relationships are the core. Most collective impact leaders ascribe to the mantra: If you want to change the system, get the system in the room . As the late systems theorist Brenda Zimmerman said, “The most important unit of analysis in a system is not the part (e.g. individual, organization, or... See more

If you’re interested in the onrushing effects of the climate emergency , you can think of it as a purely scientific problem of parts per million of carbon, or you can notice that we no longer know how to share. What has driven out of control consumerism is a desire to avoid the entanglements of mutuality. Rooted, functioning, interdependent... See more

As the impacts of climate change hit, our greatest safety is going to be each other, the local people we live alongside and who, if like most of us you live in a city, you may never have had a conversation with.