The Relationships Map is a directory of brilliant individuals and organisations across the UK working towards a more relationship-centred future: relationshipsproject.org/the-relation... If you believe in the importance of relationships, please put yourself on the map: airtable.com/shr6pVk5hFEH...

Building a culture of #belonging is not just a 'nice-to-have'. Grant Oliphant, CEO of The Conrad Prebys Foundation, shares his insights, and describes what it means to be in 'a true relationship' with another: www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...

Why belonging? It’s the easiest and hardest thing we can address.

The Conrad Prebys Foundation CEO Grant Oliphant discusses his early experience of belonging in San Diego with the of Macedonio Arteaga.

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“What’s been overlooked is the Indigenous perspective of relationality. It is the understanding that happiness is only possible in community, when we cultivate our relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and our living Earth.” - Dr. Yuria Celidwen

What is it about human-to-human relationships that can’t be replicated by technology? What is unique to our relationships? relationshipsproject.org/what-is-unique-to-human-relationships/

New research suggests that NHS trusts with higher levels of empathy have better patient outcomes and improved staff wellbeing, and also benefit financially: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Le-Anne Goliath explores how teachers' #relationalpractice can sustain students' participation in the classroom, and invites secondary schools to take part in her doctoral research on classroom conditions that support participation and student belonging: relationshipsproject.org/present-on-t...

Our Relational Funders cohort has been exploring the potential to not only learn to navigate permissions more skilfully, but to reshape them – in other words, how funders can help lift future organisations out of the rules that constrain us: relationshipsproject.org/learning-out...

1) We've just published the June edition of our newsletter. It's jam-packed with events for your diary, and recommended reading, listening and watching from across the relationships field. Plus something we've been working on for a while: How to have challenging conversations in relational ways

One week to go until our next book club event! This time we'll be joined by Allison Pugh ((Professor of Sociology at John Hopkins University), who'll be discussing her brilliant book*, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (2024).

"If the beginning and endings of relationships are where power concentrates, where meaning is made and where trust is built or eroded, what does it mean to deliberately design for them, rather than treat them as administrative tasks to complete?"

"Meaningful change doesn’t start with programmes or policies—it starts with relationships." relationshipsproject.org/be-more-batt...

1) 10 days to go until our event with the brilliant Dr Gillian Sandstrom about the importance of talking to strangers. When: Thursday 23rd April 2026, 1pm-2pm (BST) Where: Zoom

Join us this spring for a series of discussions with the authors of three brilliant books – all about relationships. Learn more and RSVP: relationshipsproject.org/connect/

Did you know that loneliness can have real health implications? Our latest article explains how human connection is integral to delivering good public services. #CivilService #Delivery #PublicPolicy @rshipsproject.bsky.social

The Sixth Edition of Heywood Quarterly – Time to deliver – is out now! Dive into articles on delivery, long-term thinking and leadership. heywoodquarterly.com/editions/ #CivilService #Policy #PublicPolicy #Government @profserious.bsky.social @rshipsproject.bsky.social

Each month, we host Time Together, space for those in the relationships field to learn about each other’s work, make new connections and explore areas of shared interest. We'd love you to join us. Sign up here: forms.gle/wTojLYhBkHCY...

Last Thursday, the Prime Minister made a speech that would - in any other week - have made some waves. In it, he announced the expansion of the government's Pride in Place programme into forty new areas.

In the latest article from our Sixth Edition, Ray Shostak, Richard Bell and David Robinson explore the power of human connection in public services. Read the full article here: heywoodquarterly.com/the-role-of-... #Government @rshipsproject.bsky.social

Change doesn’t start with systems. It starts with relationships. We've assembled 10 funders who are getting into the possibilities of relational funding over a year-long programme – testing approaches and working through challenges together. On Friday, the cohort came together for the 1st time.

In a new blog, David Robinson shares the wisdom of Wes, his son's football coach who would "scream from the bench like his tracksuit was on fire, “Make yourself big! Make yourself big..."

What inspires people who put relationships at the heart of their work? 💡 In this piece – drawing on contributions from over 170 individuals and organisations on our Relationships Map – we share resources that have shaped people's relational practice. relationshipsproject.org/what-shapes-...

In a new essay, David Robinson shares how he and friends, all teenagers at the time, clubbed together to buy a Routemaster bus, and how meeting people where they were at, literally and metaphorically, brought the community together relationshipsproject.org/notes-on-a-j...

🧵 1) Our Community Bridgebuilders programme is coming to Middlesbrough in January! It's a free programme that supports people to: 🌉 Talk to people who bring different perspectives 🌉 Challenge well while staying open and meeting needs 🌉 Encourage positive changes in your own community

🧵1) "...often, major social changes, from the end of Apartheid in South Africa to women's suffrage in the UK, have been driven by a combination of resistance and filigree bridgebuilding across difference. Yet history doesn’t always make visible this painstaking work."

🧵1) This is a milestone moment. The first (first!) objective of the £5bn UK Government's Pride in Place programme couldn't be clearer:

🧵1) We’ve been thinking about ‘relational readiness’: an individual, organisation or community's receptivity to the values and intentions of relational practice, and ability to embed it in their day-to-day doings. Some places are more ready than others.

Keen to know more about Human Learning Systems or how to create psychological safety within our teams and across systems? This Relational Leadership course from ThemPra looks great: www.thempra.org.uk/thempra/our-...

Relational Leadership - ThemPra Social Pedagogy

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"We’d run through fire for people we love but most of us study our phones when faced with a stranger." In this short, personal blog, David reflects on the power of kindness, and how caring for and about people we do not know is a human superpower: relationshipsproject.org/four-signs-l...

Four signs: Love is the running to strangers

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Our relationships with one another are the foundations, the bedrock, on which all else is built. And yet UK society has consistently undervalued them, marginalising the evidence. David Robinson maps how we could set a different course and build a different future: Read the essay: bit.ly/3SyahnU