Natural Happiness
Learn from nature to grow your wellbeing and resilience
Now available to buy, Alan’s new book – click to buy
How can we stay happy when there’s so much uncertainty around? The answer is to cultivate yourself like a garden, and grow your own wellbeing by learning from nature.
This unique book shows how you can use gardening methods such as composting, mulching, and crop rotation to cultivate human nature, too. A gardener applies skills like observation, patience and creativity — and you can adapt them to deal with daily stresses and big issues such as climate change.
Natural Happiness is a simple, practical guide that supports people in their personal lives, in their work, in their communities and in making sense of wider issues: it’s all in Alan’s new book, see more here.
The Natural Happiness Newsletter, every two months, will share useful resources, event info and fresh insights: sign up here.
The Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness
The times we’re in are tough: it’s clear that we need new approaches and models to thrive in all this. Natural Happiness is a simple, practical approach which can help in your life and work, and for work teams and communities.
Alan Heeks has created a unique model based on what he calls the Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness, which offer ways to cultivate your wellbeing and resilience through parallels with organic gardening: for example, nourishing your roots, composting stress, natural energy sources.
Organic gardening methods offer us many useful parallels for growing happiness, and the Seven Seeds are a distillation of what Alan has learned over the last 30 years.
Resources
In this section of the website you’ll find a range of processes and resources I have created which can help you to grow your own natural happiness and resilience. These are explained and explored in the new book.
Featured Posts
The Body Keeps the Score
Book blog: The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma Do you have a view of what trauma is, and how widespread it is? I used to think it was something awful that happened to a small minority of people...
How to go deeper with green prescribing
How to go deeper with green prescribing: The Seven Seeds of Natural Happiness Green prescribing typically supports wellbeing through Nature contact: what I’d like to share with you is some pioneering methods which have evolved through two non-profit education...
Spiritual purpose and community
Why we all need collective power You may wonder why I see community as important in the field of spiritual purpose. It’s a belief that has only emerged for me in the past few years of mounting turbulence. It’s now very hard for lone individuals to sustain their...
Newsletters
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Past Issues
Check out previous issues of the Natural Happiness Newsletter here:
Issue 63 – September/October 2024 – Cultivating Community
Issue 62 – July/August 2024 – Co-creating: dance with your problems!
Issue 61 – May/June 2024 – Buds, Blossoms, Fruits
Issue 60 – March/April 2024 – Book launch issue
Issue 59 – January/February 2024 – Growing through 2024 with Natural Happiness
Issue 58 – November 2023 – Joy and Resilience
Issue 57 – September 2023 – Add new dimensions to your outlook
Issue 56 – July 2023 – Exploring the Future – some more!
Issue 55 – May 2023 – Deepening with the Earth
Issue 54 – March 2023 – Seeing life differently
Issue 53 – January 2023 – Embracing the Future