Hello Human Connect

Real humans, real diversity

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Is there a loneliness epidemic? Are we, as humans, becoming more lonely and isolated over time? Why might this be happening, and what can we do about it?

Join us in an open discussion to explore our thoughts and feelings around loneliness. We will dive into our basic human needs to belong, to feel connected, to strengthen a sense of community support around us.

Meeting in community in this way is how we begin to share the load together. Understanding the principles that ground us in this connection is how we reinforce it for ourselves.

The concept of “Ubuntu” – “I am because we are” – shifts the focus from doing this work alone as individuals, to repairing and building a collective structural safety net.

Come along and let’s work this out together. Isolation protects harmful systems, while connection weakens them. We were never meant to do any of this alone.

This time we will be joined by Janine Miller who will help us navigate this topic. Janine is a psychotherapist with an interest in supporting complex trauma including systemic harms.

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Agenda

17h35: Introductions

17h45: Discussion topic intro: Loneliness, and Ubuntu as remedy

17h55: Grounding exercise

18h00: Discussions

18h40: Snack break

18h50: Discussions

19h30: End

19h30 -20h00: Extra discussion time if needed.

What to bring: Respect and good intent.

Cost: Free

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About Hello Human Connect:

There is massive “unlearning” of biases that has to happen for us all to move forward to a place where we can all call each other human beings and not by other labels.

Speaking to each other honestly and without judgement can be so powerful.

What is happening in the world makes me sad. A lot of it has to do with the many “us vs them” events that takes place on this rock hurtling through space.

So I invite all you beautiful humans to come and co-create together, for all of us.

The event will be a dialogue based event where people can come to discuss their “-isms” from a place of wanting to understand and unlearn. ie. “why is it racist if I say this…”, “I don’t understand how to be an ally to women or minorities”, “how do I deal with people who want me to use different pronouns”, etc.

Deep and potentially hot topics but we have a safe space for people like you who want to take and be the first step of change in their own lives and make friends beyond their regular homogeneous groups.

Watching the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu go through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission talks when apartheid ended in South Africa makes me believe that there is something powerful in dialogue and forgiveness.

So Hello Human Connect is a mix of two concepts:

1. “Ubuntu” – a concept in which your sense of self is shaped by your relationships with other people. It’s a way of living that begins with the premise that “I am” only because “we are.”

2. Kintsugi – the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The beauty of the repaired object incorporates the fact that it was previously broken. The idea being that the dialogue and understanding is the golden bond that reunites all the splintered labels and definitions of self into a functioning beautiful whole again.

So come to connect, share, learn, eat a snack and meet some humans IRL(in real life)!

Come, it is a small but powerful action you can take to be part of the change you want to see in the world.

Share, learn, eat a snack and meet some fantastic humans IRL(in real life)!

See you there.

David Degbor & Izabella Klüft

Hello Human Online

Hello Human Connect

About Hello Human Connect:

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