ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes three bearded blokes to build a strategy for surviving work in healthcare. Namely Freud, Marx and Freire, all in their different ways of how to build solidarity at work. From how to have intimate relationships with the people around, how to collectively solve problem. Collective problem solving is based in part on a pragmatic aim to pool ideas and experience, with participants often having enormous experience in dealing with workplace problems. It is also an attempt to build cooperation, linked to psychoanalytic formulations of cohesion in groups established through identification and building social capital. The chapter describes emancipatory education methods are highly effective in promoting relationality between participants in part because small groups provide an important 'holding environment' where people can potentially feel secure enough to speak honestly and with authenticity, allowing meaningful relationships to be formed. The chapter also proposes relational model of solidarity.
