What’s your Spirit of Lockdown?

Share your story to inspire a better, more connected future 

The stories we tell now about our response to Covid-19 will shape how we look back on this time, and how we move forward as a society. 

  • What are the truths that will inspire our better days? 
  • What’s the spirit you want to bottle to guide your way forward? 

Share your story of lockdown and join a community of story sharers across the country in celebrating the power of relationships and inspiring a conversation about how we can build back better, stronger and more connected. 

Explore others’ stories

Whether you’re looking for inspiration to write your own story or simply to understand people’s experiences during the lockdown, dive into our latest submissions.

Piers Morgan, Love Island and a relationship centred business

In brief In this short blog, David reflects on the sort of relationship-centred business that helps make the world a much better, warmer, kinder place.   Half asleep I stumble across a tweet from someone called Matt Haig, of whom I have never heard....

Sustaining and evolving the best of Mutual Aid

In brief In this blog, David explores the possibilities for Mutual Aid 2.0 and shares our plans for a peer sharing group for anyone interested in the question of how we nurture and sustain community activity into the future.  A year ago, You Gov research, undertaken...

Observatory Sighting 13: Feeling for the future

In this first Sighting of the New Year, we are stepping back and reflecting on the emotional drivers – the feelings as well as the practical experiences that will shape the future.

Sustaining the care: Learning from the Warm Hubs experience

What can we learn from the Warm Hubs experience about how to create ‘relational spaces’? And how can this learning, combined with the learning from the community response to the covid pandemic, inform and inspire a bottom up, relationship centred approach to...

Relational Councils: Learning from crisis

Mutual aid was driven from the ground up but flourished with appropriate support from local councils. The UK response to refugees arriving from Ukraine was led from the top down but could only succeed with local engagement. What can we learn from this  approach to the...

A common field

In brief In this first post in the Joining the Dots series, Relationships Project founder David Robinson sets the scene for the series and outlines the plan going forward.  The hook worm was paralysing entire towns in the rural south of the United States in the...

Everyday Love

In brief In this blog, Linda Woolston offers a humane and insightful reflection on the role of love in relationships, including her relationships as a Business Coach. Linda is an independent Business Coach, former HR Director, and Founding Partner of successful...

Kate – Spirit of Lockdown #6

As part of our open call to Share your Story, we received this #SpiritOfLockdown account from Kate*. Lockdown offered a Kate the opportunity to take a step back, reassess her life and reflect on the relationships that really matter to her.Setting the Scene: Life...

The Relationships Academy: Why, What and How

How can we most usefully respond to the increasing demand for knowledge about relationship-centred practice, and for support in turning that knowledge into action on the ground? This is the question that we have been actively exploring since we put forward the idea of...

Our dreams for 2024-2029

In brief In 2021 The Relationships Project was delighted to secure funding for a 2 year project to start to build towards a 20 year vision for a relationship-centred world (you might remember we shared our original application here). With 9 months to go until the end...

Everyone is welcome 

You don’t need to be an experienced storyteller to take part. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar or being the next JK Rowling – we want to hear about your experience of lockdown in your voice and in whichever format works best for you. 

You might want to write your story, to video it, audio record it, draw it, tell it alone, tell it in pairs. Choose the format that works best for you and get sharing! 

Populating the map

We’re building an interactive map to showcase and celebrate stories of lockdown from across the UK. In early 2021 we’ll be inviting storytellers and local decision makers to come together to draw out lessons and shape a better, more connected society post-Covid. 

You are under no obligation whatsoever to consent to your story being shared publicly – it’s entirely up to you to decide whether you’d like to share it or keep it private. Whichever format you decide to share your story – written or multimedia – please take a moment to let us know whether you’re happy for your story to be shared. 

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