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Foraging as a Route to Wellbeing

WebOnce we’ve begun, foraging opens up a world of endless learning – if we’d like to explore it. There are thousands of varieties of leaf, seed, flower, root, stem, insect and other things we can forage for food, medicine, fibre and other uses. Foraging really is a limitless learning opportunity, from what you collect to how you cook it!

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Less Stuff, More Happiness: Living Sustainably with Rob Greenfield

WebUnderstanding this simple wisdom is central to ensuring sustainable wellbeing for people and the planet. One inspiring man who embodies this wisdom as his life’s purpose is the activist Rob Greenfield, who joined us as the main guest speaker at our latest webinar, Less Stuff, More Happiness. Rob embarks on extreme projects to bring …

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How to be a Wellbeing Practitioner

WebYou can apply this to any area – to your physical health, emotional state, relationships, work, community and connection to the wider world. When you focus on raising wellbeing in any of these domains, you not only reduce the chances of a crash, you also take yourself to a place that feels better and where you tend to function at a higher level.

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Seven Dimensions of Holistic Wellbeing

Web2. Emotional: This is the ability to understand ourselves with greater self-awareness, and thereby better cope with the challenges that life can bring. The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes significantly to our emotional wellbeing. 3.

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The Importance of Neighbourhoods for Our Wellbeing

WebOnly 8.3 percent of the respondents rated their satisfaction with life with a 5 or lower. We found support that both social contacts and social cohesion are positively and significantly associated with residents’ life satisfaction on average. In other words, neighbourhoods are still important to people’s sense of satisfaction with their lives.

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Planting Seeds of Wellbeing: Nature Connection for Health and …

WebAs Maggie explained, ‘spending time in the natural environment improves our mental health and feelings of wellbeing’, and various studies have demonstrated that engaging with nature can have multiple benefits including a reduction in stress, depression, anxiety, mental fatigue, anger and aggression, pain, and improve mood, sleep, confidence

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Improve wellbeing in your community

WebThe Five Ways to Wellbeing are a handy way of summarising the huge amount of research into how we can improve personal and community wellbeing. Use the Five Ways in your activities: Connect… with yourself, with others and with your community. Be Active… by physically moving in whichever way feels best for you.

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Wellbeing in Totnes

WebNOW in Devon. Our work in Devon supports the local community to put wellbeing into practice - and to develop ideas that can be adopted elsewhere. Learn more. By networkofwellbeing on 11th January 2018.

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What Does Literature Tell Us About Nature and Wellbeing

WebWhat I’ve discovered is that the nature-wellbeing relationship described in literature has a fascinating and long history: as long, in fact, as the modern history of ‘nature’ and psychology itself. Ancient cultures connected health and restoration with sacred springs and groves, while early modern herbal healers looked to the garden as a

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How Do We Come Together in Difficult Times

WebThe answer, we believe, is to come together. By meeting each other and sharing our concerns we realise the common values that so many of us share. We can feel each other’s pain; begin to heal and move forward with positivity and hope. Building Wellbeing Together was an opportunity to connect with one another.

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Mindful Photography for Improved Wellbeing

WebThe benefits include improved health and wellbeing, increased self-esteem and confidence, better focus and clarify, and boosted motivation and productivity. As well as the mindful photography workshops, I offer workshops that help people look at their work or organisation with fresh eyes: to clarify their vision, represent it visually, take

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Creatively Overcoming Isolation Through Arts and Crafts

WebOvercoming isolation. Isolation exacerbates any mental health problem. If you are anxious or depressed, feeling isolated will make it worse. My own weekly arts for health community groups developed following redundancy in 2010. Prior to that, I had many years of experience as a qualified adult nurse. Being made redundant can be very …

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Organisations Archive

WebBritish Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care. We are a membership based charity aiming to support and educate healthcare professionals and the general public in holistic and compassionate medicine. Promoting wellbeing is at the core of holistic healthcare. Contact Antonia Wrigley [email protected] https://bhma.org.

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Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

WebOn 15th February towns and cities across the country will take part in the Big Fix – Britain’s Biggest Day of Repair. In Totnes, Devon, where Network of Wellbeing (NOW) is based, we’ll co-host a local Big Fix to support this great initiative and be part of the repair revolution. Inviting people to bring their broken items to the Mansion

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