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Music for Wellbeing is a Bristol-based music therapy project. In this post they explain how our workshops can support the Five Ways to Wellbeing. Music for Wellbeing was born out of our experiences as music therapists. In summer 2016 we qualified as music
This post continues the emerging conversation about the links between wellbeing and permaculture, through the lens of the Five Ways to Wellbeing. It builds on a previous blog post and workshop on wellbeing and permaculture, and invites you to share your
Our creativity, as a means of connecting with ourselves, others and the world around us, is vital to building a wellbeing-based society. Without it, we are destined to plough through the existing paradigm as it grows ever more obsolete and
Values are what make us who we are. They are the compass guiding everything we do – our choices and our actions. When we forget that compass, we take the wrong turn. It’s the same for our families, for our
In this post the Wildlife Trusts report their latest research showing that volunteering in nature is good for our mental health. The Wildlife Trusts has published a report which examines the effects of volunteering in nature on people’s mental health. The
Years ago I trained as a medical practitioner. These days, I prefer to think of myself as a wellbeing practitioner. I see this role as exciting, inviting and life-enhancing. The shifts I’ve made in my transition from medicine reflect a
Members of the NOW team attended a presentation by radical economist Kate Raworth at the Dartington Ways with Words and Ideas Festival. This post shares a video interview and review of Kate Raworth’s book, ‘Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a
Members of the NOW team attended a presentation by radical economist Kate Raworth at the Dartington Ways with Words and Ideas Festival. Here she was speaking about her new book ‘Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century
By Zoe Ferguson, Carnegie UK Trust Kindness is an important, often underestimated, virtue to hold and something we are perhaps all guilty of taking for granted, ignoring even, in a fast moving society. Yet kindness has the potential to impact and individual,