Tag: belonging

  • Third Spaces: The Missing Infrastructure of Belonging

    There’s something happening beneath the surface of our communities.You can feel it in conversations.You can see it in the way people move through spaces.You can hear it in what’s said – and what’s not being said.People are around each other…but not really with each other.We are more connected than ever digitally – yet increasingly alone.And…

  • Holding the Whole

    Ripples from Bondi: What social cohesion is, what it isn’t – and what it will take now I’m finding it hard to find the right words for what has unfolded over recent days. Across Bondi, Sydney, and beyond, it has felt like a dark cloud has descended at the very end of the year –…

  • Lean In or Hold Back: The Unconscious Group Dynamics Behind Authentic Engagement

    and Why It Matters for Strength-Based Practice In my last reflection, Here We Are: When Relationships Became the Practice, I named a realisation that’s been brewing for years – one that many practitioners, leaders and changemakers across our ecosystem are waking up to…The real work isn’t the method.It’s the relational conditions that make the method…