Webinars

We run regular online events to explore how we can build wellbeing together for people and the planet. 

Next Event:

Natural Happiness: the Roots of Wellbeing

An online workshop led by Alan Heeks

Tuesday,4th June, 7:30-9:00 pm Zoom

This is an opportunity to learn about the self-help approach developed by Alan Heeks his new book, Natural Happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself. Alan will introduce the concept, offer a guided visualisation exercise, and also discuss Natural Happiness and climate change.

The workshop offers some unique new ways to deepen your roots and nourish your wellbeing. Alan will show us how analogies with organic gardening can help us to cultivate human nature too. In these stressful times, both people and planet need regeneration, and Alan’s Natural Happiness approach covers both, showing how we can use natural energy sources, and rotation cycles for sustainability.

Hosted by the Network of Wellbeing and Natural Happiness.

To register book here

Previous online events

In the meantime, you can watch many of our previous online evens here on our website and on our YouTube channel.

These include:

From 2022:

• Building Wellbeing Together – marking 10 years of NOW. This series of three events marked our 10th anniversary. Led by Flo Scialom, It explored:
  • the Deeper Roots of Wellbeing with our Patron, Satish Kumar and our own Mirella Ferraz and Sylvie Mohabir.
  • Wellbeing as a Path to Systemic Change with Rob Greenfield, Georgina Wilson and Ha Vinh Tho
  • the Wellbeing of Future Generations with Amanda Janoo, Sophie Howe and Chris Johnstone.
• Hope in Action – an occasional series in partnership with the Resurgence Trust, which explored how we can maintain hope while acting to mend a broken world. Led by Flo Scialom and Georgie Gilmore, the series includes:
  • Cultivating Resilience in Times of Rapid Change with Satish Kumar, Sarah Corbett, Anthony Bennett and Chris Johnstone.
  • Living Better with Less with Amisha Ghadiali, Charles Eisenstein and Jen Gale
  • Connecting self care and collective wellbeing with Alex Nunn, Alnoor Ladha and Ruby Reed
  • Beyond narratives of us and them with George Marshall, Ruth Ibegbuna and Alex Evans; and
  • Practices to help us Change the World with Amisha Ghadiali, Christabel Reed and Lynne Segal
• Wellbeing in Community – a small series in partnership with Eden Project Communities, which explored how community action can build wellbeing. Led by Flo Scialom and Tracey Robbins, the series comprised:
  • Community Access to Nature through Growing with Margaret Finnegan, Anne Hayder and Amit Dattani
  • Communities Addressing Loneliness and Building Wellbeing with Nuala Enniskillen, Linzi Cason and Kim Leadbeater MP

From 2021 and before:

• Do Good Lives have to Cost the Earth? – a series exploring how we can all live well while we protect the planet on which we depend. Led by Flo Scialom, in partnership with Eden Project Communities, it comprised:
  • Do Good Lives have to cost the Earth? with Andrew Simms, Teresa Belton, Emma Tolley and Mukti Mitchell
  • Exploring the Power of Community with  Nicola Round, Judy Ling Wong CBE, Fiona Dear and and Chris Hellawell, and
  • System Change not Climate Change with Nic Marks, Ali Skeats and Amanda Janoo.
• Less is More: Rethinking Consumption for a Wellbeing Economy – a one-off event with Andrew Simms, Mirella Ferraz, Malin Leth and Ugo Vallauri.
• Small Steps, Big Differences: nature connection can change the world – a series run in partnership with Eden Project Communities. This explored:
  • Access to Nature and Wellbeing for All with Tony Juniper, Sophie Forge, Rhiane Fatinikun and Graham Duxbury
  • The Nature of Connection: how getting outdoors can support Community Wellbeing with Karen Creavin, Adam Murray and Al Tempest; and
  • Playful, Mindful, Alive: how nature improves your wellbeing with Jolie Goodman, Claire Thompson and Sam Kendall.
• Wellbeing with Rob Greenfield. Every December, we do a webinar with the US vlogger and activist, Rob Greenfield. Check out:
  • Wellbeing and Everyday Activism with Rob Greenfield
  • Less Stuff, More Happiness: Sustainable Living with Rob Greenfield
• Women, Wellbeing and Leadership. A one-off special with NOW’s Chair of Trustees, Michelle Preston, Georgina Wilson and Indra Adnan

You can watch more of our older online events here.