Episode 2: Belonging and Othering

The factors that play the greatest role in Minnesota’s heath inequities – race, income and ZIP code – reflect the policies, systems and environments in place that prevent people from taking care of themselves. Looking at these influences and creating solutions is critical to creating healthy, strong and thriving communities for generations to come.

In this episode we explore Belonging and Othering, and what it means to belong to a community, to a society, to one another, inspired by the work of john a. powell from the Haas Insititute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and author of the book Othering and Belonging.

We have frank conversations about what it means to feel ‘othered,’ and the health implications for when systems are created and perpetuated to other groups of people, and how this leads to the serious gaps in access to health and wellbeing in the state of Minnesota. And what we can do to build connections in our communities to start to alleviate these gaps.