Chapter 11

For a project to take root, a key factor is the degree of support it invites and receives. In Chapter Eleven, Building Support around You, we describe how to use support network mapping as a tool to increase awareness of the support around us and as a prompt to draw in what we need. Different types of support are examined, including personal practices that reinforce our commitment, dietary and lifestyle factors that bring out our best performance, spiritual support through being in alignment with our deepest values, mutual support agreements, and the structural support of groups, communities and organisations. Like a spider’s web, support is envisioned as having many different strands.