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Category archives: Community & Connection

The time we have, the time we lost

Valery Navarrete is a strategist, facilitator, and community builder who wants to inspire more of us to have more "us" in our lives.

We don’t talk enough about grief. The fact that the culture of most workplaces after losing a loved one is a few days off (if you’re lucky) and a return to productivity is woefully inadequate.

Posted byValery NavarreteOctober 20, 2022July 26, 2023Posted inCommunity & Connection

Community nourishment

A blue bowl filled with red fideo soup and garnished with green chopped cilantro sits above and to the right of a large white plate filled with two cheese quesadillas and a serving of guacamole garnished with lime wedges. The table underneath is red.

Community nourishment, whether in the form of actual food or another offering, is something we all need to feel full.

Posted byValery NavarreteSeptember 21, 2021August 28, 2023Posted inCommunity & Connection1 Comment on Community nourishment

We need more “us”: the hope of community

Aerial photo of the roofs of a houses in a neighbourhood.

I’m thinking about how we need more “us” because it is abundantly clear that the pandemic exacerbated isolation and shone a spotlight on loneliness. However, it is also clear that it didn’t invent them; and that its end won’t eliminate them. We need to do that.

Posted byValery NavarreteMarch 31, 2021July 24, 2023Posted inCommunity & Connection1 Comment on We need more “us”: the hope of community

We need ritual

An Año Viejo burns in the street on New Year's eve in Quito, Ecuador.

We need ritual. It connects us to our people, and to ourselves. At its best ritual holds us in our goodbyes and ushers us into joy as we stand in the doorways of new beginnings.

Posted byValery NavarreteDecember 17, 2020July 26, 2023Posted inCommunity & Connection1 Comment on We need ritual

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