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ABSTRACT
If Roger Haydon Mitchell’s exposition of the politics of love are to provide a practical alternative to sovereign power it must have a grounding in everyday life and an applicable outworking that enables a praxis of being. In this response, three key tools mentioned in the final section of Mitchell’s article, namely the ‘Enneagram’, the ‘Art of Hosting’ and the ‘Poverty Truth Commission’, are highlighted and considered as potentially helpful methodologies for exploring how a politics of love can be outworked at a personal and corporate level in practical ways. Drawing on the responder’s experience as director of population health in Morecambe Bay in the North West of England the paper explores how each of the three tools are taking effect, with reference to the author’s knowledge of current work building on the ideas of self-love, love of the ‘other’ and love of the ‘enemy’ within the NHS and beyond.
This is a reply to:
Mitchell, Roger. 2018. “What are the Politics of Love?” Global Discourse. doi:10.1080/23269995.2018.1512034.
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