BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:David Jay DTSTART:20241211T170000Z DTEND:20241211T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T110759Z UID:Metagov/229 DESCRIPTION:Title: Book Talk on "Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transforma tional Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World"\nby David Jay as pa rt of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nBook overview: For readers of Together and The Art of Gathering\nHow moving from transactional to transf ormational relationships and organizations can save our democracy\, nurtur e our connections\, and make us happier and healthier.\n\nPowerful institu tions\, from schools to tech and social media companies\, create breeding grounds for isolation by failing to invest in relational work. This obstac le stands in the way of our fight for racial equity\, economic justice\, a nd climate resilience.\n\nIn Relationality\, leading asexuality and relati onship activist David Jay brings clarity to the crisis with a fresh perspe ctive that expands upon the fundamental idea that all entities in the univ erse are connected. Jay draws from a range of vivid personal experiences\, including his time spent helping tech workers and policymakers reform soc ial media.\n\nThis book is for people who believe in the power of relation ships and want to see increased investment in relational work. Its scienti fically grounded framework will help readers foster conversations about re lational work\, establish conditions for relationships to thrive\, and qua ntify the impact of them.\n\nEquipping professionals and activists involve d in nonprofit\, political\, and other types of relational work with the k nowledge they need to fight for and utilize resources\, Relationality shar es valuable insight on:\n• The history of why institutions fail to inves t in relationships\n• Reimagining ROI calculations to account for relati onal work\n• Using tools of prediction and emergence theory to build com munities\n• How stories and data about relationships can help us direct resources toward relational work\n• Relational economics and the redistr ibution of wealth\nWith isolation and loneliness on the rise in a post-loc kdown world\, Relationality offers a roadmap to nourish our connections to ward a better\, more liberated world—personally\, organizationally\, and in community.\n\nThis book talk will be facilitated by Val Elefante\, Com munity Lead at Metagov.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/229/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR