Feeling Overwhelmed? This 3-Step Practice Helped Me Push Through
It isn’t hard to have something in our lives trying to dominate our waking and sleeping. Today I’m deciding to refuse to be overwhelmed—by being grateful for how far I’ve…
Stewardship Mental Health Drinks Reception
Held in the beautiful CCLA building with stunning views of London, this event will bring Friendship Lab, Sanctuary Mental Health and Renew Wellbeing together to discuss Christian responses to the…
New Wine Festival
Phil Knox and I bring our Power of Friendship seminar to New Wine 2025!
Tyndale Community School Leaders’ Dinner
I look forward to speaking on the power of schools to make a tangible difference to their communities through intentional friendship formation in students, staff, board and parents at Tyndale…
TEDx St Albans
We need an urgent conversation on the ‘friendship recession’ and on 15 October 2025, I get to step on to the red dot to start one! The theme of the…
Friendship Lab on BBC Songs of Praise
It was a delight to be interviewed by Laura Wright for BBC's Songs of Praise program. We covered the friendship crisis, I ask Laura some searching get-to-known-you questions and you…
Can You Be Friends with an AI Chatbot?
With millions of people using ChatGPT to find personal affirmation, and apps like Replika allowing us to create our own AI Friend, it's time to see just what they offer.
The Apology That Came 40 Years Later
When I was 13, I had my first girlfriend. We held hands behind the teacher’s back and went roller skating on weekends—until she dropped me for my friend. I was…
Awaken Conference
Gathering thousands of people together from the Ground Level network of churches, I’m looking forward to presenting two in-depth 90-minute sessions on the power of friendship to transform our social,…
Make Your Friendships Flourish Retreat at Lee Abbey
A fun, practical retreat on forming and deepening adult friendship The research is startling: having close friends reduces anxiety and depression, increases our health and happiness, and even extends our…