Be a kindness rebel: In this post Ben Thurman, Policy and Development Officer at Carnegie UK Trust, explores kindness as a disruptive and transformative concept. A month ago, at a meeting of our Kindness in North Ayrshire network, an anonymous post-it encouraged
The Network of Wellbeing invites you to join facilitator Sherry Clark for “Happiness is Handmade” – a weekend of making and doing creative, purposeful and positive things with your hands, at Eden Rise, in Devon. *Unfortunately this event has been cancelled*
Since we spend one third of our adult lives at work, are there new opportunities to improve our workplaces in this first-quarter of the 21st century? Can we be happier at work? How is the growing focus on ‘happiness at
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
Advertising is everywhere – on our TVs, social media feeds, magazines – and it means we all feel the pressure to buy more despite research showing that buying stuff doesn’t even make us happy. Rates of depression and anxiety have
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
Are you keen to find more passion, purpose and meaning in your life but not sure where to start? Or do you have a strong sense of purpose but you often find yourself too strained and stretched to fulfil your
I remember interviews, in my early twenties being asked the dreaded question, “so, what do you want to be in five years time?” and I would always reply, “I just want to be happy”. Let me explain: I was never
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
Here at the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) we co-hosted a talk from wellbeing pioneer Nic Marks on this topic in Exeter earlier this month. Nic shared his wealth of experience exploring this question, from his early work on the Happy
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