The ObservatorySocial support
The chance to receive practical and emotional help.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How sure are you that you have help to reach for when things fall apart?
- 2Who do you call when something is hard?
- 3How easy is it for you to actually ask for help?
- 4Who do you support, and does it feel mutual?
- 5What change would make your safety net a little stronger?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Your inner circle
Who actually gets your time, and does it match who matters most?
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
The neglected one
A relationship you let slip, not because you don't care, but because life got in the way. Today you take a step.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
Social calendar
Choose a person you have not been in touch with for a long time, write the message with a concrete time — then actually send it.
10 min · Discipline
Article
Relationships are one of the best-documented health factors we overlook
We measure blood pressure, steps and sleep. Something that is linked to a long life about as strongly as smoking rarely makes the list: your relationships.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
Daring to take the first step
A small, concrete step toward a friendship that can hold.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
One minute: send a sign of life
Three lines to someone you thought of, before the thought slips past
1 min · Compassion
Exercise
The numbers of social health
How much relationships actually matter for health and life expectancy, in numbers
7 min · Rationality
Session
Carrying someone in your thoughts
A quiet moment of connection with someone you miss or often carry with you in your thoughts
7 min · Compassion
Tool
The support map
Map who you can turn to for what, and where in the network it is thin.
9 min · Rationality