Most of what we've built rests on an assumption so old we've stopped noticing it's there — that the world is made of things to be used rather than beings to be in relationship with. Every belonging problem, every fair-share failure, flows from that single misapprehension.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong

#Belonging #CommunityResilience #ThomasBerry #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

There's a particular exhaustion that comes from feeling too small for what's needed. But complex systems don't shift from the top down, all at once — they shift the way forests grow, each part living fully, and the whole changing because of it.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong

#Belonging #CommunityResilience #adriennemarebrown #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery

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#SpiritualIntegration #Interfaith #EmbodiedWisdom #CulturalCompetence #Belonging #GrowTogether #Psychotherapists #counselors #ClinicalSocialWork #MentalHealthTraining #ProfessionalRetreat #MarylandEvents #Spirituality #SpiritualCare #InnerAwareness #GroundedLiving #HealingCommunity #CareProfessionals #NBCC #ASWB #SocialWorkCE #CEs #ProfessionalGathering #ACPERetreat #SpirituallyIntegratedPsychotherapy #CommunityCare

The work that doesn't make headlines, the connections that don't scale, the care given without guarantee of return — there's a question worth sitting with about what radical actually looks like when you're inside it rather than watching from a distance.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong

#Belonging #CommunityResilience #RaymondWilliams #LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery

After the first season or the third year, a question surfaces: what would it look like for the place you're tending to hold you in return? For care to accumulate as something that carries the caregiver back?

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-belong

#Belonging #LandStewardship #CommunityResilience #BenKadel #Farmastery

Ever had the same feeling in Israel / with Israelis?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWctYo4DTWB/?igsh=eXFwZnVsZmMzM3o4

@malkabymfwill

#Israel #Belonging #AmYisraelChai

The new uncomfortable normality
No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

"For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/surging-anxiety-australia-national-security-patriotism-ntwnfb

Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
https://nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-worries-australian-attitudes-national-security-risk-and-resilience

#PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war