How can we stay happy when there’s too much change and uncertainty? Are there ways to bounce back and thrive if everyday life and work is getting us down? The answer is to cultivate yourself like a garden, and grow your own wellbeing by learning from natural ecosystems. The times we’re in are tough: it’s… Continue reading Finding your personal happy
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Face-offs with cows, and flying chickens. Lessons in community from Ethiopian roads
Guest Blog by Alan Heeks, March 2016, first published at www.living-organically.com It happens so often, you suspect the animals must enjoy it: why else do they spread the full width of the tarmac, instead of using the broad gravel verges? The cows are the worst: they glower balefully as if they might charge, and only… Continue reading Face-offs with cows, and flying chickens. Lessons in community from Ethiopian roads
Back to Work: Drag or Delight? Find yourself or lose yourself in the daily task
As we approach September, you may be going back to a regular job, or not. Either scenario may leave you happy or blue. August seems a good time to reflect on how work fits into your life. I observe people talking a lot about work, but in a very selective way. They talk about what… Continue reading Back to Work: Drag or Delight? Find yourself or lose yourself in the daily task
Nourishing Resilience: Seedlings of Change
On July 21, Wisdom Tree hosted a highly successful day at Hazel Hill Wood, on the theme Nourishing Resilience For You And Your Work Community. It felt like a day of planting many seedlings of new ideas and contacts. Our diverse group of over 20 people, from near and far, included professionals in organisational development,… Continue reading Nourishing Resilience: Seedlings of Change
50 Shades of Twilight: The Magic of a Wood in Spring
Twilight is a special time for me in nature: and especially so at Hazel Hill Wood in Springtime. Very recently, I sat on the deck of one of our buildings, facing west as the light very slowly faded. Whilst the stages of the dawn chorus are well known, twilight too is a great time for… Continue reading 50 Shades of Twilight: The Magic of a Wood in Spring
Growing Natural Resilience: how can we learn from ecosystems
By Alan Heeks I talk about resilience a lot, and I hear very varied definitions of it from others. Some regard resilience as a hard, cold, mechanistic idea, whereas my first images are of a green, creative springiness: the growing through problems that we can see in sustainable ecosystems. This blog offers my views on… Continue reading Growing Natural Resilience: how can we learn from ecosystems