I’m a great believer in supporting interdependent communities and have been volunteering and working with them for many years. Supporting community can be done through sometimes subtle shifts. At the right leverage points they have the power to build momentum with purpose and optimism. At other times they can exist in the quiet peace of a balanced social and private life. Whatever your preference, the truth is that modern ills pull communities apart through a focus on hyperindividualism and the building of financial capital at the expense of social, environmental, emotional, health and many other forms of capital.
With tertiary qualifications in Sustainable Development, Community Development and Management, as well as studies in Psychology, my interest is now squarely situated in developing Healthy, Regenerative Communities through:
Place (living well, locally)
Creativity (creating, mending, fixing or doing without can build feelings of being capable)
Economies (and measuring what matters)
Communities and families (realising our individual wellbeing is tied up in collective wellbeing. Families are where we first build a sense of self.)
Business (providing solutions for good)
Our societal structures and expectations don’t always allow us the time to indulge in some of these (for example I don’t always have the time to fix everything I would like to). Working out how we can restore some of these values to our society occupies much of my spare thinking time!
For now, this site operates as a library of the resources I’ve found to support the building of a better, more connected, locally living, global world.
Note: in my ten years as a photographer I had the privilege of photographing people at their celebratory best and in their private homes. You will find some of these sprinkled throughout.
Tulitha King 