Archive - Future of Belonging

Issue #62: Belonging and Accountability

"...true accountability is changing your behavior so that the harm, violence, abuse does not happen again.” — Mia Mingus

Sep 20, 2022

August 2022

What's On My Mind: August 2022

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown…

Aug 5, 2022

July 2022

Issue #61: Belonging and Crisis of Futurity

"Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society." — David…

Jul 1, 2022

May 2022

Issue #60: Belonging and Debt

"Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of." — Henry Wheeler Shaw

May 21, 2022

April 2022

Revisiting past questions

I’ve embarked on an archeological dig of old issues of this newsletter, mining writings for new insights. One of the first artifacts I’ve surfac…

Apr 30, 2022

Issue #59: Belonging and the Dark Side

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." — Oscar Wilde

Apr 22, 2022

What do you want see from Future of Belonging?

Last Wednesday, I hosted the monthly reader meetup for March. It was so much fun: great conversation, loads of creativity and many more books to…

Apr 7, 2022

March 2022

Issue #58.5: Bravery and Belonging

Trying out a case study as a way to start conversations

Mar 29, 2022

Issue #58: Bravery and Belonging

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anais Nin

Mar 17, 2022

Re: Issue #57: Community and Belonging

Last week I explored where community could lead the way to cultivating belonging. This week we have a thought exercise. Imagine a world where be…

Mar 1, 2022

February 2022

Issue #57: Community and Belonging

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways…

Feb 22, 2022

Issue #56: Belonging and Perfectionism

"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being." — John Updike

Feb 1, 2022

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