Introducing Anti-Ethics My social life includes various friends who dabble in some version of a 60s hippy world view. This view involves an underlying belief that the healthiest way to live is to trust yourself and be guided by your body, feelings and desires. It contains the idea that we are each responsible for the lives we live and, because we are unique individuals, the best guide towards flourishing is ourselves. No-one can decide for us. So, any reliance on ‘should’ or

Content warning: Death, suicide & mental illness To think philosophically, we begin by engaging with questions. One that generally gets most groups going in the discussions I facilitate is, “Are we the same person through time”? If so, “What makes us the same person”? Philosophical questions prompt us to engage with what is deeply puzzling about the world, where there are no answers that are obviously true to everyone. Arguably, to do philosophy well, we learn to articulate o

Training for Facilitating Conflict What do you do when a group disagree on how to go forward on an issue? I recently attended a three-day training, led by Navigate, aimed at teaching a facilitation method that helps group find a solution they can all get behind. The training was based on a new, and still developing, method of working with conflict. It aims to create a healthy and efficient environment to guide groups through their disagreements to find a solution where everyo