In mid-September, nearly fifty community activists and wellbeing enthusiasts came together at Hawkwood in Stroud for the Network of Wellbeing (NOW’s) second Building Wellbeing Together weekend. NOW’s Director, Roger Higman was there. What links people with a passion for wellbeing?
With Brexit looming and many small towns suffering job losses, high street decline and low community motivation, Carnegie UK Trust stepped in to establish the UK’s first domestic town twinning programme. In this webinar, Jennifer Wallace shares stories of how
How can we build wellbeing together – in our lives, with others and in harmony with nature? Climate change, high inequality and rising levels of mental distress are just some of the challenges we face in today’s world. At NOW,
How can we re-define success at an individual level? And how can we break free from enormous pressures to consume excessively? This video shares a discussion with Natasha Parker from Global Action Plan about how consuming less can lead to
Sharing healthy habits can help us deal with the pressures of modern living. In today’s society the demands and expectations on women to have and do it all often feel unattainable. This can leave many of us exhausted, feeling depressed,
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
Creativity and mindfulness can offer a route out of difficult times and towards greater mental health and overall wellbeing. In September 2014, photography started to take on a whole new meaning to me. For some time I had struggled with
When people talk about healthy lifestyles, it often centers around food and exercise, but when it comes to overall wellbeing, these are just part of the picture. In order to be truly healthy, you have to consider all areas of
We’ve been in the happiness game for just over seven years now; talking to people about what matters to them, delivering practical training, and developing measures that allow us to see beyond GDP growth towards a society that benefits from true prosperity. This
In this post NOW’s Larch Maxey draws on a workshop he led at the recent South West Permaculture Convergence to consider the links between permaculture and wellbeing. By Larch Maxey The word ‘permaculture’ was coined in the mid-1970s by Bill Mollison and
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