When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease
- Written by Nerkez Opacin, Senior Research Fellow in Nature and People, The University of Melbourne
Nerkez Opacin, CC BY-NC-NDOne in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of relationships people need to feel seen and supported.
It’s often shaped by displacement, uncertainty, exclusion and the quiet...





