'When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds, 
and also my healing.'

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We live in a time marked by deepening isolation, widening inequality, political violence, and collective grief.  In such conditions, suffering is often treated as a private burden, obscuring the social and political forces that shape our inner lives. Alloneworld begins from a different premise: that the personal and the political are inseparable.

Alloneworld is a psychosocial community devoted to exploring what it means to be human in an increasingly fractured world. It brings people together in thoughtful, welcoming spaces where lived experience, difference, and dialogue can meet. Through interdisciplinary conversation, reflection, and shared inquiry, it explores the relationship between self and society, creating space to witness sorrow, confront oppression, and search together for meaning.

Rather than promising simple solutions, alloneworld works with the enduring paradoxes of human life – identity and otherness, belonging and exile, attachment and loss. In doing so, it seeks to nurture forms of understanding, solidarity, and care that make our shared world more liveable.

 

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About Founder, Reem Shelhi

I am an Anglo-Arab Contemporary Psychotherapist, Group Analyst and Clinical Supervisor. My intersectional identity and socio-political experiences have deeply  influenced my work on matters of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and neurodiversity which are central to my practice. Existential concerns connected with loss, grief, and the search for meaning and belonging animate my thinking and professional explorations.

In founding alloneworld.org, my aim is to adopt innovative, engaging, and accessible methods of drawing people together, sharing knowledge, and facilitating difficult and controversial conversations on a wide range of issues related to the human condition, the human situation, and opportunities for change.

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