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I DO NOT POUR All OF MYSELF INTO ONE
2nd Year Student Jennifer Farr's interpretation of ‘I Do Not Pour All of Myself Into One
“I Do Not Pour All of Myself Into One” is a phrase students like Jennifer have used to express how they think about preventing risk and understanding it.
Each of Jennifer's posters reflects an individual interpretation visual, emotional, or symbolic created by students themselves.
Clara and Over 1,200 Students participated in the preventing disengagement and isolation portraits last year.
I came to the Open Mic Night planning to play the drums. That was it. Earlier in the year, I’d put almost everything into one thing. One direction that felt like it would carry me forward. I organised my time around it. Let other interests fade. Told myself I’d come back to them later, once this worked. When it didn’t, the loss wasn’t dramatic. It was more like the ground quietly giving way. I realised I’d been standing on one leg for a long time, and I didn’t have much else to steady myself. At these nights, people share short reflections before and after performances. Three minutes. Nothing polished. Just a few words, or sometimes not even words, about balance and how we’re learning to make more than one connection in our lives. Friends. Work. Study. Creative things. Different ways of doing the same things. Different ways of being okay when plans change. My three-minute portrait came out through the drums. I didn’t explain what I’d lost. I didn’t need to. Playing reminded me that this part of my life had always been there, even when I stopped paying attention to it. It wasn’t about replacing what didn’t work out. It was about widening things again. Someone later told me that HAPHE comes from an old Greek word about connection connecting in a way that benefits the whole, not just one part. I realised that was what I was doing without knowing the word for it. Letting more than one thing matter again. That’s what these nights feel like to me. Not fixing anything. Just making room. Performing. Pausing. And slowly learning not to pour everything into one place.
Across four universities, students were invited to write the word HAPHE and explain what it meant to them. What emerged was not a single definition, but a shared way of understanding connection. Again and again, students described HAPHE as being about connecting intentionally rather than automatically. Not withdrawing from people or interests, but being more aware of how time, effort, and emotional investment are distributed across different parts of life. In their own words, many students described HAPHE as a reminder not to over concentrate their investment in one person, one role, one group, or one goal. They spoke about the importance of having more than one place to put energy, attention, and meaning, so that change in any single area does not carry disproportionate impact. Some students explained this through short written reflections. Others used diagrams, symbols, or single sentences. The interpretations varied, but the underlying theme was consistent. HAPHE was understood as a way of connecting that reduces single point exposure by spreading investment more intentionally across different domains of life.
I DO NOT POUR All OF MYSELF INTO ONE
2nd Year Student Jennifer Farr's interpretation of ‘I Do Not Pour All of Myself Into One
“I Do Not Pour All of Myself Into One” is a phrase students like Jennifer have used to express how they think about preventing risk and understanding it.
Each of Jennifer's posters reflects an individual interpretation visual, emotional, or symbolic created by students themselves.
Clara and Over 1,200 Students participated in the preventing disengagement and isolation portraits last year.
I came to the Open Mic Night planning to play the drums. That was it. Earlier in the year, I’d put almost everything into one thing. One direction that felt like it would carry me forward. I organised my time around it. Let other interests fade. Told myself I’d come back to them later, once this worked. When it didn’t, the loss wasn’t dramatic. It was more like the ground quietly giving way. I realised I’d been standing on one leg for a long time, and I didn’t have much else to steady myself. At these nights, people share short reflections before and after performances. Three minutes. Nothing polished. Just a few words, or sometimes not even words, about balance and how we’re learning to make more than one connection in our lives. Friends. Work. Study. Creative things. Different ways of doing the same things. Different ways of being okay when plans change. My three-minute portrait came out through the drums. I didn’t explain what I’d lost. I didn’t need to. Playing reminded me that this part of my life had always been there, even when I stopped paying attention to it. It wasn’t about replacing what didn’t work out. It was about widening things again. Someone later told me that HAPHE comes from an old Greek word about connection connecting in a way that benefits the whole, not just one part. I realised that was what I was doing without knowing the word for it. Letting more than one thing matter again. That’s what these nights feel like to me. Not fixing anything. Just making room. Performing. Pausing. And slowly learning not to pour everything into one place.