Rethink: Why ‘collective effervescence’ is essential to our wellbeing

On the pressurised ‘me’, synchronised energy and powerful ‘moments of us’

Dear Rethinkers,

It's graduation time here in the UK. I'm seeing beautiful pictures of my friends' kids making giant leaps — some leaving middle school and others leaving college. In our house, my son is leaving primary school  (I say 'primary', but it goes up to 13 years old). He's been at the school for a long time. Some weeks, it feels like decades ha…