by Isabella McDonnell | 19 Apr 2022 | Joining the dots
Isabella McDowell In this blog Isabella McDonnell shares her thoughts on how deepening our understanding of home, identity and belonging can help our relationships to flourish. Isabella is a dispute resolution paralegal and future polyglot, exploring the...
by Oli Barrett | 2 Dec 2021 | Joining the dots
In brief In this blog, Oli Barrett shares his personal reflections on relationships that have gone untended as we did what we needed to to get through the dark days of the pandemic. And he reminds us that it’s not too late to reconnect with those who make us...
by Guest | 6 Sep 2021 | Joining the dots, Observatory Sightings
In Lockdown and Deep Tissue Damage Sam wrote about the challenges that will remain when the worst of the pandemic is over. Relationships within families, particularly in families that were already struggling pre Covid, is an area of particular concern. Here...
by Guest | 15 Jun 2021 | Joining the dots
In brief Covid has shone a light on the relationship between social care and social connections. With the UK Government’s social care reforms on the horizon, Sam Dalton makes an argument for social care models in which care and connection come hand in hand. Sam...
by Immy Robinson and Iona Lawrence | 9 Nov 2020 | Field building featured, Joining the dots
In brief 6 weeks ago, we (Iona Lawrence and Immy Robinson) set out to explore whether a ‘field of relationships’ could, should, or does already exist. We’re still at the early stages of this exploration but have been lucky enough to pick the brains of some very...
by Anthony Berman | 20 Oct 2020 | Joining the dots
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Anthony Berman gives a personal account of the befriending charity, HostNation, before and after COVID-19, and the benefits it has brought to refugees and asylum seekers and their befrienders. Anthony Berman Anthony is on the...
