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
The past year has been a big year for the Network of Wellbeing. We held our first big national event, the Building Wellbeing Together weekend at Hawkwood College; we’ve launched a new website and we’ve just been given Eden Rise
Welcome to our new website! It’s designed to help us build a network of people who care about the wellbeing of people, society and the planet. We’re so excited about it and want to share some of its best features with
In an act of incredible generosity, the Network of Wellbeing has been gifted Eden Rise, a beautiful countryside haven just outside of Totnes, Devon. A beautiful place… Imagine two Victorian barns in the Devon countryside converted to a holiday let
The Network of Wellbeing (NOW) has been running a free ‘Building Wellbeing Together’ webinar series for the past six months. In this webinar we did something a little different. NOW’s Director Roger Higman shares why we see wellbeing as such
We need to move from a society that allows too much for too few, towards a society of wellbeing for all. The International Forum for Wellbeing in Grenoble, France, in June 2018, brought together hundreds of researchers, activists, policy makers and
The current economic system has become addicted to growth at all costs. It needs to be fundamentally transformed into a wellbeing economy which aims to achieve wellbeing and fairness, for people and the rest of nature. This video shares a
By Aideen McGinley, Chair of the Advisory Group for the Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project, Carnegie UK Trust Across the UK and Ireland, local government, in discussion with communities and citizens, is being given the freedom to map out the economic,
To mark the 50 year anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s speech, where he expressed the limitations of GDP in leading us to true prosperity, we asked you to get creative and share photos of what GDP fails to measure – or in
“If we use the wrong measures, we will strive for the wrong things” – Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. On 20th March, the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) hosted a webinar with Liz Zeidler of Happy City to mark International Day of Happiness and
On Thursday 8th March 2018 a group of us from NOW’s practitioner network across the UK converged on Birmingham to see first-hand the innovative Wellbeing Programme that Birmingham City Council has developed under the leadership of Karen Creavin and her team. In
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