Our world Archives - Page 7 of 17 - Network of Wellbeing

By Drink Wise Age Well on 31st May 2018

Volunteering Valuable for Health and Wellbeing at All Ages

Volunteering is vital for tackling loneliness and improving health and wellbeing, and it’s never too late to start volunteering for a project you care about. According to a recent study by the Royal Voluntary Service and Prudential, almost half of

Guest post by Drink Wise Age Well

Our world - Kindness

By Drink Wise Age Well on 31st May 2018

Five Ways to Overcome Loneliness

Loneliness can be very damaging for our health and wellbeing. In this guest post Julie Breslin – Head of the Drink Wise, Age Well programme – shares five ways to overcome loneliness, inspired in-part by the Five Ways to Wellbeing.

Our world - Kindness

By Florence Scialom on 4th May 2018

Happier World? Reflections from Satish Kumar

Life can be beautiful, and it can be challenging, too. In either case, strong relationships and a sense of community can help to carry us through. Life’s joyful moments can be much sweeter if we have people around to share

Our world - Beyond Growth

By Katherine Trebeck on 25th April 2018

Katherine Trebeck – Towards a Global Wellbeing Economies Alliance

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

Guest post by Carnegie UK Trust

Our world - Ideas & Analysis

By Carnegie UK Trust on 10th April 2018

Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland

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,

Our world - Beyond Growth

By NOW on 26th March 2018

Happy Beyond GDP: Photo Competition Results

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

Our world - Beyond Growth

By Happy City UK on 21st March 2018

Happier Beyond GDP: Video with Happy City

“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

Our world - Ideas & Analysis

By Larch Maxey on 19th March 2018

Five Wellbeing Lessons from Birmingham

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

Our world - Beyond Growth

By Florence Scialom on 6th March 2018

International Day of Happiness: Share what makes you happy…

On 20th March it will International Day of Happiness. This March also marks 50 years since Robert Kennedy made a famous speech spelling out the inadequacy of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of societal progress, saying that, “it measures everything, in short,

Guest post by Catherine Causely

Our world - Healthy Planet

By Catherine Causely on 1st March 2018

Five Links Between Re-Use and Wellbeing

There are more connections between wellbeing and re-use than you might expect, from better relationships to delayed gratification. When I was invited to write this article I didn’t automatically see the link between reuse and wellbeing; yes reuse fits in

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