About Partnership Work
The big challenges facing us today — whether we’re talking about climate change or economic inequality, systemic racism or recurring wars — require widespread collaboration. No one group, or institution, or country can solve them alone.
Unfortunately, we’re seeing trends away from collaboration toward increasing isolation, loneliness, and division. Our social lives are becoming more fragmented. We’ve seen a resurgence of political rhetoric arguing that those who don’t live, or believe, or look like us are our enemies — something less than human.
In response, this podcast focuses on our interconnection and interdependence. We'll be exploring how humans who have vastly different backgrounds, perspectives, and access to power can find common cause.
Join host Paul Kuttner as he conducts in-depth interviews with people who do “partnership work” — people whose spend their days bridging across the chasms that divide us to build coalitions, alliances, and partnerships. These folks are working toward change in health, education, housing, community development, the environment, peace, and other areas.
Here at Partnership Work, we're building a hub of knowledge, philosophy, and practical wisdom about how to build and support partnerships. We're offering hope, but not with rose-tinted glasses. Rather, we're digging into the slow, challenging, and often invisible work of connection.