20 Relational Culture & Undoing Individualism — Mark Fairfield

Published March 20, 2018

This week we’re talking with psychotherapist Mark Fairfield about the central role of connection in our lives and lethal individualism. We learn about relational culture, factors for resilience, his work supporting caregivers in the AIDS movement, how bullying is a euphemism, and failure.

Note: This episode was published under Irresistible’s previous name, Healing Justice Podcast.

About our guests

Mark Fairfield was the Founder and Executive Director of The Relational Center, a nonprofit community organization that exists to rescue and preserve the important social ties humans depend on for health and well being. He is a leadership coach, consultant, and psychotherapist. His experience in ACT UP helped him understand how movements with strong emphasis on collaborative action and wider-thinking, can catalyze vitality and wellbeing by supplying a social infrastructure that encourages people to look after one another.More about Mark, learn about The Relational Center in LA , & learn more about Relational Uprising training for organizers.

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