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With growing awareness of the benefits of nature on our psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing, why aren’t we looking to integrate the outdoors more into working life? Empty Office Day calls on companies and organisations to plan quality time outdoors on
Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man explores how everyday decisions create wider positive change. Back before I did the No Impact Man lifestyle experiment – in which I completely deconstructed my life and then put it back together, small choice
All too often work can become a place of stress rather than positivity and meaning. In this guest post, consultant David Green shares his top tips for improving positivity and wellbeing in the workplace. According to Gallup’s 142-country study on
In this post Florence Scialom and Oliver Ayyildiz of the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) interview Sergio Lopez Figueroa, founder of Big Bang Lab, about how his perspective on wellbeing informs his work on a project called Humming in Harmony (HiH).
Guest blog post by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Australia We all need nature. She gives us air, water, food and shelter. Some of our best times are experienced outdoors, and a wealth of evidence shows the benefits of nature for
Now in its second year, the Totnes Wellbeing Fund is being recognised locally as the Fund that supports small changes which make a big difference to wellbeing in and around Totnes, Devon. The Totnes Wellbeing Fund offers grants up to
For the second year running, here at the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) we celebrated International Day of Happiness at our monthly Totnes Community Potluck, in Devon, UK. Almost 200 people attended the event this year, bringing end-of-week good moods and
NOW recently marked International Day of Happiness with a series of blog posts and videos on happiness habits, a happy haiku competition, and a special Community Potluck in Totnes (Devon, UK). Here we report on the happy haiku competition. We received some
Lorenzo Fioramonti is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pretoria and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. He explains how using GDP as a so called measurement of national success prevents the economy