Essays, reflections, and research on the journey from consumer culture to cultures of connection.
The true hero's journey is never about gold or glory. Through a classic tale, we discover it's really a journey home — to connection, kinship, and the village life we've been missing.
When a large immigrant family filled the room beside my dying mother, it brought back memories of the village she'd left 55 years ago. Her tears taught me about the home we all long for.
Psychology's most important message is "We belong to each other." But consumer culture insists that we live separate lives. How we respond will shape our future.
She's three years old, and when she stumbles, one of forty-six villagers is there to pick her up. This is the village we all came from, and it's calling us home, even now.
The Psychologist, British Psychological Society
An exploration of how modern isolation emerged from the loss of village structures, and how therapeutic communities can help us rebuild the mutual care our ancestors knew.
International Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy
A clinical and theoretical examination of how grief, when held in community, becomes the doorway to transformation rather than a wound to be managed alone.