I’ve given quite a few talks and spoken with a lot of people since the publication of my book ‘Humanise: how knowing ourselves can change the world’ late in 2024. It’s been well received, and the audiences I’ve spoken to about it have found its vision of a humanised world very attractive. As result, the question that has most often come up has been ‘How can we take practical steps to move towards a more humanised world?’.

This is a question of particular relevance and urgency in the political and cultural times we live in globally, in which many aspects of the world appear to have quickly lurched in the opposite direction recommended by the book since its publication. These include the rise of populism, conflict, prejudice, environmental destruction and, overall, the dismantling of existing protective structures around human beings (such as the US pulling out of the Paris climate agreement) rather than the building of further structures to promote our flourishing.

I’ve therefore written the paper below to answer the increasingly urgent question of ‘What can each of us do to move from where the world is to a more humanised world?’. It contains 6 practical steps we can all take to start the shift towards a more humanised world – and at the moment, there doesn’t appear to be a more important issue than this.

Click here to read the paper (pdf).

 

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