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Time — the Currency of Relationships (Part 2: How Time and Relationships interact)
We looked in a previous post at the importance of time for relationships, and why relationists should be concerned about time. In this post, we go on to explore the interactions between time and relationships in more detail…..
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One Thing – My Wish for 2024
It is such a common trap these days to let one issue define and then destroy key relationships. You know what I am talking about: that person whose views on abortion, sexual identity, the border, fossil fuels, climate, social justice, criminal justice or some other issue riles-you-up and …
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Time — the Currency of Relationships (Part 1)
Just as relationships are fundamental to every aspect of life, so time is of fundamental importance for those relationships, because time is the currency of relationships. This importance stands out in four areas in particular….
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Families and Relationships as the Unit of Wellbeing
The ways in which government organises its services and supports, relates to people, and measures change, focuses on individuals as the core unit. This puts primacy on a particular individual and western view of both people and wellbeing. As a result people are seen as separate to the relational context…
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Equity-Share Housing Finance — a Relational Fix for the Crisis of Housing Affordability?
UK housing, relative to income, is the most expensive it has been for several generations. Near-zero interest rates, money printing, strong net migration, the break-up of households, stagnant real wages, a favourable tax status and limited new supply have bid up average house prices to nine times average incomes…
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Future Relational Values for General Practice
Directness is a basic requirement of relational proximity. Face-to-face encounters, open communication, transparency and shared space are prerequisites for relationships of commonality, trust and tolerance. This has long been a key message of Relationists. In the UK directness used to be at the heart of general medical practice….