A Humanist Dad

23/11/2025

I'm continuing to explore the connections between neurodivergence and humanism, and their impacts on my parenting and inclusive community building. My conversation on the Embrace the Void podcast a couple of months ago was a lot of fun and set up a lot more thinking/reflection.
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19/11/2025

'Humanist, humanist-curious or humanist friendly' - 'Welcoming all who welcome all' - 'Kindness not creed' - How can we describe secular communities’ inclusion, in ways that convey their distinctive values? https://buff.ly/X1Vd05Q

11/11/2025

For children raised in non-religious households, understanding humanism can provide them with a better context to relate to religious and culturally diverse peers, and understand how their family’s values fit within a wider tapestry of belief. I'm sharing this post from last month (in my A-Z of Humanist Parenting series) as I read up on the curriculum review and humanism being included in an reformed RE subject.

For children raised in non-religious households, understanding humanism can provide them with a better context to relate to religious and culturally diverse peers, and understand how their family’s…

09/11/2025

I've been very busy on Camp Quest UK project work this week, and I can't wait to share more including the announcement teased in this piece. In this interview Katie from Camp Quest US shared lessons from their experiences: how they create a unique secular community for young people and what their approach can offer adults.

As Camp Quest UK rebuilds, the chair of Camp Quest’s US board shared lessons from their experiences: how they create a unique secular community for young people and what their approach can offer ad…

08/11/2025

Last month I wrote about podcasts and how the different ways we engage with media - habitually, casually, or irregularly - offer different lessons for community builders.

Habitual audiences are primarily drawn to the community and want to make participating part of their routine. Casual audiences want to be informed or entertained. They are open to engaging with communities but at their own level, and need to be sold on specific topics.

Like binging a series, engagement with humanist communities can often be intense but short lived.

We can engage with different media habitually, casually or irregularly. If we engage in communities in similar ways, then podcast audiences have important lessons for organisers.

07/11/2025

Our local group held a discussion event on the role of humanism within families, and how it might inform non-religious approaches to parenting. In this event report, I share lessons learned and ideas - including discussion prompts - for groups considering a similar event.

Our local group held a discussion event on the role of humanism within families, and how it might inform non-religious approaches to parenting.

06/11/2025

Nothing to see here. Just a dad serving a meal on the floor of his child’s hospital room. A meal a friend kindly dropped off after hours because there was nowhere open for parents to get food.

We talk about dignity in our health system. But dignity is not just medicine and machines. Dignity is the human experience around them.

Dignity is being able to eat at a table not the floor. To rest in a bed not two chairs pushed together. To shower. To breathe. To not have to choose between caring for your child and keeping your life from collapsing.

When your child is critically ill, your world shrinks to that hospital room. You don’t think about yourself. You forget to.
Your only job is to hold on. But holding on shouldn’t require parents to lose their dignity along the way.

That’s why we exist, to be your voice. Not because parents want special treatment but because dignity shouldn’t disappear the moment your child becomes sick.

Parliament can change this. The system can treat parents as humans not afterthoughts.

🦋 Dignity is not a luxury. It is the most basic form of care.



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06/11/2025

Looking for a bedtime book about the moon landing to read with my son. 7/11 of the top results on Amazon appear to be moon landing conspiracism.

P. S. Yes I know Amazon products are evil. But I have a voucher to use.

05/11/2025

Resharing the write-up of my talk on humanism and graphic design. Check it out if you're interested in my take on the project, or in understanding what Sunday Assembly has to offer humanist families.

Visiting my local secular congregation – to give a talk about humanism and graphic design – has got me thinking about my upcoming workshop on making our communities family-inclusive.

04/11/2025

Haywards Heath Humanists event last month on 'Humanism and the Manosphere' helped me think about how we approach values based discussions about controversial cultural issues, and how we ensure humanist communities are kind, socially aware and critically informed spaces.
https://humanistdad.uk/2025/10/06/humanism-and-the-manosphere-event-report/

04/11/2025

Thanks Camp Quest UK for sharing my interview with Katie, I can't wait to share more news about the 2026 announcement teased in this post.

Our friend A Humanist Dad has an interview with Katie Hladky-Grant from Camp Quest US, about shared lessons from their experiences: how they create a unique secular community for young people and what their approach can offer adults.

You may also notice a tease for an upcoming announcement on Camp Quest UK's return in 2026!!!

Link in the comments. Please share this post to help us reach the Camp Quest UK community who may have lost track of us during the hiatus.