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By Alan Heeks on 11th April 2024

The Roots of Happiness with Alan Heeks

Alan Heeks is the author of Natural Happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself, which explores lessons from his twenty years’ experience of helping people learn from nature, and from creating gardens and an organic farm. On Tuesday, 4th

Our community - Projects

By Mirella Ferraz on 24th March 2024

Unlocking Community Wellbeing – Learning from the Active Wellbeing Society

Have you ever wondered what it takes to truly empower and engage communities for positive change? Two weeks ago, NOW’s Mirella Ferraz went to Birmingham to learn more about the Active Communities Learning Festival, and the innovative ways the Active

Your wellbeing - Nature

By Kate Barranco on 5th March 2024

Ecological Belonging: Reweaving Ourselves, Each Other, and the Natural World

Kate Barranco is the Network & Storytelling Coordinator for Ecological Belonging at The Wellbeing Project – a global initiative to catalyse inner wellbeing for all changemakers. Here, she explains what ecological belonging is, why it matters and how you can

Our community - Wellbeing Together

By Roger Higman on 23rd January 2024

What NOW 2024? – Our Survey

The Network of Wellbeing connects people, supports projects and inspires action for the wellbeing of people and the planet. You, our readers, followers and contributors, are very important to us. That’s why, in last November, we asked you what you’d like

Your wellbeing - Creativity

By Isobel Murdoch on 23rd January 2024

Paint Your Mind

Isobel Murdoch is a freelance arts for wellbeing practitioner, having set up Medley, an online initiative, during lockdown in 2020. She has now secured funding from Arts Council England for “Paint Your Mind: Art As Tool”. Here she explains what

Our community - People

By Roger Higman on 9th January 2024

Melissa Noble

Melissa Noble (above) is the founder of the Academy of Wide-Hearted Living. The Academy helps people to connect with their creativity so they can use it to make their lives better. She designed and hosted NOW’s recent Wellbeing for Changemakers

Our world - Fairness

By Dr. Jenny Peachey on 21st November 2023

Fair for All: wellbeing for all ages

Dr. Jenny Peachey is a senior policy advocate for Carnegie UK. With Jennifer Wallace, she recently co-authored Life in the UK 2023, a multi-dimensional survey of wellbeing in the UK. Here she explains what it found – focussing on the

Our community - People

By Roger Higman on 26th September 2023

Chris Johnstone

Chris Johnstone has pioneered an holistic approach to wellbeing for over 40 years – as a junior doctor, an addiction specialist and latterly a trainer and co-author, with Joanna Macy, of Active Hope. NOW’s Director, Roger Higman hears from him

Our community - People

By Mirella Ferraz on 22nd August 2023

Mirella Ferraz

From growing up in Brazil to a journey of wellbeing in the UK, our Project Manager, Mirella (above, left), talks about her passion for waste reduction and community action in the latest post in our latest Wellbeing People series. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Your wellbeing - Happiness

By Roger Higman on 27th March 2023

Income and emotional wellbeing: a conflict resolved?

Can money buy you happiness? New research from Nobel Prize-winning economist, Daniel Kahneman and his critic, Matthew Killingsworth, suggests that it can – unless you have other underlying reasons to be unhappy. However, NOW’s Director, Roger Higman warns against drawing

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