This month, our Relational Funders cohort turned their attention to #evaluation – with the challenge of examining current practices and what a future could look like that better considers both grant makers and holders. Read more in our latest blog: relationshipsproject.org/learning-out...

Sachin Jain, an emergency physician, highlights a critical flaw in US healthcare: its over-reliance on complex metrics while neglecting basic patient relationships. 🫀 His proposed solution? Make sure every patient knows the date of their next primary care appointment: www.forbes.com/sites/sachin...

In this thought-provoking piece, palliative medicine doctor and qualitative researcher Sarah Yardley asks what might happen if we stopped designing #healthcare around the illusion that we can control #uncertainty – and started designing it around #solidarity: relationshipsproject.org/rewilding-he...

Could a highly supportive chatbot help us feel less lonely? 🤖 A 2026 study offers an interesting answer: not as much as another human... doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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...

“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...

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?"

3) Learn more about the free event, and sign up here: relationshipsproject.org/connect/

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/

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...

And we interrogated the relationships scale. Some of the group described this as an "aha" moment – the understanding that sometimes deep relationships are needed and sometimes a transactional relationship is more appropriate. (more on this here: relationshipsproject.org/what-we-mean...)

What if we enlarged the human element in 2026, refusing to subordinate it to process and protocol? relationshipsproject.org/make-yoursel... #relational #relationships

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...

🧵3)Relational Readiness: 📝 Sign up to the Zoom: lnkd.in/et5-46pa 📖 Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/eCxNxvrK 💭 And whether or not you can make the Zoom, we'd love it if you added any thoughts to this doc: bit.ly/relationalreadiness

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

Nick Sinclair and David Robinson reflect on recent policy-driven changes that offer opportunities for achieving #relational neighbourhoods: "an area where connections matter as much as, if not more than, geography." relationshipsproject.org/the-relational-neighbourhood/ @nicksinclair.bsky.social

🔑 Relational offsetting 🔑 Thank you to all who came to last week's conversation on 'relational offsetting'. We left with a lot to reflect on, both in terms of the potential & associated risks. 💡 Full blog 👉 relationshipsproject.org/how-to-have-... 🗨️ Takeaways 👉 docs.google.com/presentation...

We're delighted to see relationship-centred practice gain ever more prominence in the youth justice space. This paper by HM Inspectorate of Probation offers us an evidence-informed model for effective relational working 👉 lnkd.in/ewhv-gyV

We’d value your support in developing these ideas. Join us in an exploratory Zoom conversation on Monday 24th February at 1pm GMT: forms.gle/qMda4eyxTDzD...

🏥The Man in the Hospital🏥 David Robinson reflects on a day at the hospital. As Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting consults on the future of the NHS, David makes the case for “critical synergy”, reminding us that we all have a role to play relationshipsproject.org/the-man-in-t...

They might end by modestly apologising for the "dull written summary" of numerous conversations with relational workers, but we think this blog series by Beca Sandu & Mel Smith is anything but Here, they summarise 7 insights about whether the term 'relational worker' resonates 👉 lnkd.in/ewdWP-Hp

💫 THE RELATIONSHIPS ACADEMY 💫 How can we respond to the increasing demand for knowledge & support about relationship-centred practice? Here we explain our plans for a Relationships Academy & end with an invitation 👉 lnkd.in/e-Pdm9UF The potential is exciting. Please help us to get it right.