January 26th 2021
What happens when we sit in circles
Guest blogger, Pelin Turgut writes about the power of circles to create social healing. Practicing the power of groups We live in strange times, teetering nervously on the edge of radically divergent futures. All over the world, people are seemingly divided in two. Red and blue. Pro-mask, anti-mask. Pro-Islamic,…
December 14th 2020
The peace maker is always a contrarian: on Christmas adverts and culture war
Clare Martin writes about the moral courage it takes to stand up inside our own echo chambers and make a stand for listening to the other side. With the holiday season upon us, our TVs are full of the usual heart-string-pulling adverts, like the Sainsbury’s one that showed the Christmas…
December 11th 2020
Movement in a warming world
A short reflection on climate change and belonging in our guest blog from Tess Humble, an activist and researcher who will be speaking at our forthcoming event Home: climate change, migration and our future on Wednesday 16 December, 6.45pm – 8.15pm (GMT). *Movement, as migration implies cross border Humankind has…
December 7th 2020
The Host
This guest blog is by Marwa Belghazi, a speaker at our upcoming event, Home: climate change, migration and our future. Marwa is a Moroccan storyteller and multilingual practitioner based in the UK. She has been on the frontline of resettling refugees in various London boroughs and currently leads on the…