Abstract
By describing ourselves as humanistic we have important things to contribute to creating a more humane world. I would like to suggest that it starts within, within us as individuals and within us as humanistic organisations. In our conference, ‘To be or not to be Humanistic’, one thing was said that has stayed with me: ‘If we say we are humanistic, could that subtly imply that others are inhumanistic!’ We must take care to prevent this happening.