Three tips for how to facilitate connection at your next gathering as an antidote to the profound alienation and isolation that is all around us.

The wrath of white supremacy on full display and what Professor Jason Arday’s belief in love may teach us as we mourn his death.

Hannah Arendt’s writing on self-abandonment helps me understand the disaffected response of many people as they experience climate breakdown in real time.

What makes us human is so much more than doing the most we can for the least amount of money in the shortest amount of time (with AI).

When adapting to change becomes an adjustment to dehumanising conditions that should have never been acceptable in the first place.

How tethering ourselves to possibility rather than probability can help ease the feeling of burnout and ‘never enough’.

How eugenics is reasserting itself in politics, public health and tech and small acts of resistance to stop normalising what is killing us.

How denial and justification are attempts at reconciling unconscionable things about our world inside of ourselves.

Offering appreciation is an overlooked but vital practice that makes honesty and truth telling in relationships possible.

How the desire to contextualise can deflect responsibility from the hurt caused and tips for giving a heartfelt apology in a few words.

On the lure of denial, the carcass of the past and developing the capacity to be real about the present while liberating our imagination at the same time.

Why our preoccupation with being ‘good’ prevents us from knowing and trusting each other, and how small acts of giving and receiving feedback can reshape dominant culture.

What the stuckness, anxiety, overwhelm and exhaustion many of us are feeling might tell us about how close to the ‘expiry date’ of our current world order we are.

Thinking about this time as a consequence rather than a crisis and why tuning in at the brink of a fragmenting system is an essential move.

Processing the latest deluge of Epstein files, Ursula K. Le Guin’s story about child abuse and how we can refuse to normalise it.

Drawing on Rebecca Solnit’s long view of change and her grounded, defiant hope as an antidote to defeatism and despair.

Why ‘thriving’ can feel so out of reach and how creating anything can be a sign of life and of collectively shaping a different future.

On why dissociation can be a necessary state for survival and embodiment a tall order in a disembodied world, and a note of caution about the risk of creating a new hierarchy of being.

On the state-sponsored mass dehumanisation of January 2026, why our dissociation is by design and how connecting with our embodied knowing can be a powerful move of resistance.

End of year reflections on the slipping moral compass of this time and how to counter it with daily reminders of our own and each other’s humanity.