On Belonging

Eleanor Gammell

Managing Director of The School of Life Australia

Brené Brown talks about our sense of belonging to each other being something that can never be lost, but can be forgotten. That resonates with me because until recently, I didn’t think about the idea of belonging unless it was missing. Belonging had always seemed most significant in absence. It took the primal and pivotal experience of bringing my daughter Phoebe into the world to change that perspective. Holding her in my arms and understanding the true service that it is to parent a small human through life anchors me now with a very conscious belonging I hadn’t experienced before. This permeates through my interactions with others and the work I do at The School of Life.