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Where are the benefits in even more Chaos?

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We’d better find them, since it’s already happening! You might call me an anxious optimist: I worry a lot about the state of the world, but I cling to a belief that there’s an upside to the challenges, if only we can find it. That belief is hard to sustain these days, so I’m writing … Read more

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Current Events

  • Grow your own Happiness

    60-90-minute online workshop Cultivate your wellbeing with gardening skills! Available for group bookingsWith Alan Heeks In these stormy times, we need new skills to stay happy.  A cultivated ecosystem, like a garden, is a role model for human nature: this workshop shows how gardening methods can help you grow your own happiness and deepen the roots of your resilience.  For example: Mulching and pruning to nourish your rootsComposting stress as a source of energyUse gardening skills like observation and creativityFind new ways to adapt to the climate crisisDraw inspiration from Nature to guide you in uncertainty Alan Heeks has over 25 years of experience exploring Natural Happiness with groups. It grows from creating a 130-acre organic farm and education centre at Magdalen Farm in West Dorset, and from gardening with his wife at home. In this online workshop, Alan will describe the Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness, and participants will have a chance to try some of them out.  Alan is happy to take bookings for this event from environmental, community and other groups, at a time of their choosing for a moderate fee by negotiation. CONTACT LINK

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  • NATURAL HAPPINESS: cultivate your resilience with the Gardener’s Way

    July 9-11 2021: at Hazel Hill Wood, near Salisbury With Alan Heeks, Jane Sanders and Marcos Frangos How can you stay happy when there’s too much change and uncertainty? This workshop shows you how: to cultivate yourself like a garden, and grow your own wellbeing by learning from natural ecosystems, using Alan’s unique Natural Happiness model. In this workshop we’ll explore these questions, with the natural ecosystem of this magical wood as our guide. Our methods will include: nourishing our roots; composting problems; using co-creative skills to work with nature; growing inspiration; and ecosystem insights about community. Along with workshop sessions, there will be solo times in the wood, plus good food, campfires and songs to nourish us. This will be a residential group at Hazel Hill Wood: if Covid restrictions prevent this, it will be run with a series of online sessions with personal time in between. We will explore how to grow resilience for individuals and communities, especially in response to the climate crisis and the related pandemic. If you are interested in using this model in your professional work with individuals or groups, Alan will be happy to offer you advice and support: the content of this workshop relates to his fourth book, which is planned for publication in late 2021. Alan Heeks has been exploring resilience with people and nature for many years, and has led many groups on this theme, drawing on experience of resilient natural systems from creating an organic farm and setting up Hazel Hill. Jane Sanders has over 25 years’ experience in working with a mindfulness based approach to wellbeing with groups and individuals, and has also incorporated deep ecology, ecopsychology and the wisdom of natural systems into her work in many different settings, including numerous groups at Hazel Hill Wood. Marcos Frangos is widely experienced in group facilitation, coaching, counselling and constellations work. He was General Manager of Hazel Hill Wood for 5 years, and has co- led many groups there with Jane and Alan. Cost including food and accommodation: £220, concessions £180. We will share cooking and other community tasks. To secure a place, we will need a deposit of £40, £30 for concessions: if, nearer the time we have to run this as an event online event, your deposit will cover the cost of this, or you can receive a full refund. Hazel Hill is a magical 70-acre conservation woodland and retreat centre, 7 miles from Salisbury. It has simple, yet beautifully crafted off-grid wooden buildings with lovely indoor and outdoor group spaces, basic accommodation in bedrooms and sleeping lofts (or camping), good hot showers and compost loos. See more at www.hazelhill.org.uk For bookings and enquiries: Please contact Carol Nourse via email on: naturalhappinesscontact@gmail.com

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Featured Blog

  • Seven Ways to Build Resilience by Chris Johnstone

    Raising resilience has been a focus of my work for several years, and Chris is one of my inspirations. Sometimes I wonder if the troubles of our times will keep growing faster than our capacity to handle them, but Chris’s book offers us all the chance of a big step-up in our resilience. Chris is one of the UK’s leading resilience trainers, with over thirty years’ experience. He draws on his early work as a doctor and addiction specialist, and then his involvement in positive psychology and deep ecology. Being a self-help writer myself, I’m fussy about style, and I find Chris’s writing voice excellent. He’s readable, and uses great stories and simple analogies, but he’s also really well-informed. This book is exceptionally well researched and referenced. Even if you’ve read some of his previous books, this one is worth getting: it has a lot of new ideas, and builds on recent research in the field. The Seven Ways in the book include both emergency responses, like the Emotional Capsize Drill, and systemic improvements, such as Thinking Flexibly and Overload Management. This is a self-help book in the best sense, encouraging you towards both short and long-term resilience. A recurring theme in PM, and in my work on future resilience, is the crucial role of mutual support and collective strength. One of the longer sections of the book is the Sixth Way-Strengthening Support, which includes four main strands: A detailed, research-based guide to giving support to yourselfExploring how to make relationships with others more nourishing, including ways to spot and alleviate blockagesAn interesting chapter on ‘upstream interventions’: how to create conditions that encourage mutual support and reduce stress, in workplaces, communities, etc.A practical exploration of what could be called spiritual resilience: beliefs and practices such as ‘soul time’ and prayer. This is a big potential upside for our troubled times, in my view. Chris has a great way of sharing his own struggles and finding vivid case histories to bring his ideas alive, and he repeatedly draws the reader into action with questions, self-review checklists, and easy ways to set yourself a goal. In fact his Seventh Way is all about how to make gains last longer. The book’s readability is helped by lots of graphics which bring its contents to life. Some PM readers may share my wish that it used more analogies with Nature, but overall, it’s a great asset in growing your resilience, from the roots up! Chris also offers excellent online seminars and other resources: see more at www.collegeofwellbeing.com Alan Heeks is the founder of Hazel Hill Wood, and leads resilience programmes there and elsewhere: see www.naturalhappiness.net

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Resources & Models

  • Growing through Climate Change: Research Report
  • Deep Adaptation and climate change: An intro to the work of Jem Bendell
  • Using humour to defuse tensions
  • Discerning, Valuing, Tolerating
  • Deep ecology: a way to face the future

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