Improve Your Wellbeing

– Inclusive, because everyone deserves to have equal access to the things that support our wellbeing.

– Collective, because we can’t have wellbeing alone – our wellbeing depends upon our relationships and the communities in which we live and work.

– Systemic, because wellbeing needs to be embedded in our economies, governmental policies and throughout wider society.

– Sustainable, because human wellbeing relies upon the long-term health of the natural world. 

We all want to look after our mental wellbeing, but this can be hard to do – especially in challenging times. The Action for Happiness, ’10 Days of Happiness’ course is a free online program to boost your wellbeing full of small daily actions to help make big positive changes in your life overtime. Proven to give you a boost and help you feel happier.

Currently, the economy measures success in terms of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) – essentially it measures a country and its population by its wealth, productivity and resources. This model has huge limitations in terms of people’s individual happiness and quality of life, collective wellbeing of communities and the cost to the natural environment.

The scale of the challenges we currently face can feel overwhelming. But wide-spread change has always begun with a small group of determined people who decided to take action – towards the change they wanted to see in the world. No longer waiting and hoping. Acting with radical hope. 

But we are no longer a ‘small group’! Those cultivating wellbeing across the UK have become a tidal wave of positive action across the UK and continue to grow every day!

Here is what history tells us, over and over: communities move first. The Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Rights, LGBTQ+ equality – none of these tidal shifts began in parliament. They began in kitchens and community halls, with ordinary people finding each other, deciding that enough was enough and taking action. Policy followed – sometimes decades later. It always does, once the tide has already been turned by the masses.

If you can find it – join it. If you can’t find it – make it.

Find the organisations working for the things you believe in. Show up. Offer your hands, your time, your skills – not necessarily your money, just you. Swap and share and grow with the people around you. Stop waiting for someone else to build the neighbourhood, the community, the world you want to live in.

It is time to let go of the isolated, passive consumer story and step into something far richer and far older: the story of people who make things together, look out for each other, and build the world they truly want future generations to inherit. There is no ‘us and them’ in that story. There is only us. Humankind – being kind to ourselves, to each other and to the earth. Because we belong to each other. We belong to this earth. And somewhere beyond the noise and petty divisions, every single one of us already knows it.

It’s time to start acting like it – so get involved!