Our Capacity to Love: Chloé Valdary | GP Interview #1
This is the first in an series of written interviews with thinkers, artists, activists and other luminaries around the world, people whose life’s work resonates with our founding principles.
Our new friend Chloé Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company ‘Theory of Enchantment’ teaches social and emotional learning in schools and diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies.
GP: What matters most to you in this world right now and why is it so important?
CV: I think that to a certain extent, people are losing their capacity for joy. There are lots of dire issues to tackle including Covid-19 and its knock-on effects (rampant unemployment, poverty, social isolation, and loneliness) as well as the fight for racial justice that has swept our nation, but in order to do so we can’t lose our capacity for joy. We can’t allow our horizons and…