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What NOW 2024? – Our Survey

By Roger Higman on 23rd January 2024

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

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Paint Your Mind

By Isobel Murdoch on 23rd January 2024

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

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Melissa Noble

By Roger Higman on 9th January 2024

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

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European Wellbeing Summit Inspires Welldoing

By Roger Higman on 19th December 2023

On 16-17th November, over 300 wellbeing professionals and enthusiasts gathered at the sumptious Merode Club in Brussels for Europe’s first Wellbeing Summit. NOW’s Patron, Satish Kumar, was a keynote speaker and our Director, Roger Higman, contributed to a workshop on

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Jennifer Wallace

By Roger Higman on 21st November 2023

Jennifer ‘Jen’ Wallace is the Director of Policy and Evidence for the Carnegie UK Trust. She leads Carnegie UK’s work to put collective wellbeing for all into the heart of decision making in the UK and Ireland. Here she talks

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Karen Creavin

By Roger Higman on 25th October 2023

Karen Creavin is the Chief Executive at TAWS – The Active Wellbeing Society – a community benefit society and cooperative, based in Birmingham, working to tackle inequality and promote community wellbeing. Here she talks to NOW’s Director, Roger Higman, about

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