The Mental Health Foundation do some good work in breaking down the big (and, for many people, scary) topic of mental health and showing how it relates to some more specific topics that can feature in many of our daily lives and experiences of life – including loneliness, happiness and fear. Their most recent report
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I couldn’t resist this from The Onion – ‘Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once‘
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I have written a brief article to provide more details on the rationale for our not-for-profit organisation Life². Its basic argument is that we face a range of challenges and pressures as individuals living in the modern world, and if we are to flourish in this environment we each need to be given access to
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There seems to be change in the air: not the vacuous, meaningless version of it pedalled by David Cameron and other election hopefuls, but a sense that we need to address some more subtle issues relating to how people see and deal with the world if we are to secure a better future. We have
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A short while ago, I was asked by a fundraiser at a small-to-medium sized charity to draft them some notes about the benefits of using a fundraising agency, in order to help them convince their board to test it out. When working with small-to-medium sized charities, we’ve often had to go through this process of
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Most of us seek it in our lives, yet it has proved to be something that politicians are unable or unwilling to put at the centre of policy making – until now. In recent years, the science of happiness has been a growing area, and we are now able to identify and measure (with scientific
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Some time ago I produced a paper for ChangeStar questioning whether the strategy of seeking small changes in behaviour from the public on issues such as climate change was the most effective way for environmental and social justice organisations to achieve their (very urgent) goals. You can read it here. This article is worth dusting
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Environmental and other charities are not gaining the change in behaviour from the public that Secrets they need, and the without time has come for a change in our approach to how we communicate with the public. The ChangeStar article in this link argues that we need to take a ‘whole person’ approach to seeking
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The wholesale nfl jerseys Young Foundation has recently published an Interesting interesting report called ‘Sinking not swimming: Understanding Britain’s Unmet Needs’. Its findings are summed up by their Director, Geoff Mulgan, as follows: “Our survey shows that Britain is a rich country but with many poor people; a generally happy country but with many unhappy
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At certain points on this blog, I’ll be telling you about output and ideas that have been produced some time ago, National as they contain important advice that is not Fanatic yet being followed by people and organisations seeking change. One such piece of output is THE the ChangeStar report ‘Why is it so hard
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