Events
CURRENT EVENTS
Natural Happiness: Online Event | March 20
Deepening the Roots of Resilience This event is hosted by the Association of Sustainability Practitioners (ASP) Alan Heeks shares some powerful insights from his new book, Natural Happiness, and from his research on raising community resilience. Compost your troubles!...
Natural Happiness book signing at North Books, Hay-on-Wye | March 22
Alan's new book, Natural Happiness: Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself will be published on 29 March. Get your copy of the book ahead of the launch at this event, where Alan will be sharing the stories behind Natural Happiness, reading short excerpts,...
UK Health Radio | April 11
Alan Heeks will join Danielle Sax on her UK Health Radio show From Stress To Authentic Success. Further details to follow. Timings: from 9-9.30am, April 11. Tune in to: UK Health Radio
Natural Happiness: Use Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself | April 19-21
April 19-21, 2024 at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, Stroud In these uncertain times, this workshop will help you deepen your roots and grow your resilience. With sessions in Hawkwood's gardens, you'll experience how organic skills like composting,...
Happiness in Gardening: Hay Festival | May 31
Growing plants, whether inside or outside, can foster feelings of happiness and bring people together. Community gardener and designer Tayshan Hayden-Smith and writer Alan Heeks discuss the importance of greenery of all kinds. Hayden-Smith’s Small Space...
Secrets of Natural Happiness: Mind Body Spirit Festival | May 26
Deepen your roots and blossom through the storms of midlife and beyond: cultivate your human nature with the skills that organic gardeners use. For example, organic systems compost waste to give energy for growth: learn how to compost negative feelings and stress as a...
The Roots of Wellbeing: Online Workshop | June 4
This is an opportunity to learn about the self-help approach developed by Alan Heeks and set out in his new book, Natural Happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself. Alan will introduce the concept, offer a guided visualisation exercise, and also...
PAST EVENTS
Natural Happiness: Online Event | March 7
Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself This is a unique chance to hear Alan share the stories behind his new book, Natural Happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself. He will describe how these methods have helped him and many others....
Elderhood: A Sacred, Earthy Calling?
Elderhood: A Sacred, Earthy Calling? A men's peer group: December 1-3 Llanthony Valley, Black Mountains, Wales We're living in a world of rising crisis and turmoil. We're growing older, we have some talents and resources, but limited time here. How do we use...
Hope and Resilience in the Climate and Ecological Emergency
A retreat led by Alan Heeks and Jonathan Herbert Friday Feb 3 – Sunday Feb 5, 2023 at Hilfield Friary, Dorset Using material from the Christian contemplative tradition, from Joanna Macy – a Buddhist and deep ecologist, and from Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation approach,...
Soul Resilience Circle – online group
Soul Resilience Circle – online groups: Wednesday June 8, 7.30-9.00pm. If you are new to exploring soul insights, or want to go further, these groups are a good opportunity. We will explore different ideas of what soul is, and ways to contact it, to find soul guidance...
Soul Resilience Retreat: How your core self can help you grow through storms
Feb 25-27, 2022 at Hazel Hill Wood near Salisbury With Alan Heeks and Jane Sanders As life gets more turbulent, we need to go higher and dig deeper to find a quantum step up in our resilience. This retreat is a chance to explore how the deep wisdom of your soul can...
Nature Immersion for Climate Distress
A workshop for therapists, counsellors and group leaders Tues May 17 - Wed May 18: Hazel Hill Wood, near Salisbury We can see that the climate crisis is worsening, and we need new ways to respond to rising climate distress. This experiential workshop is designed for...
Natural Happiness: Cultivate your resilience with the Gardener’s Way
NATURAL HAPPINESS: Deepen your roots, nourish your fruits with the Gardener's Way July 9-11 2021: at Hazel Hill Wood, near Salisbury With Alan Heeks, Jane Sanders and Marcos FrangosAs restrictions ease, we’re facing new freedom and possibilities. How do we stay steady...
Future Conversations – Taster session – 16 June 2020
What is the present situation telling us about our future? What are the new possibilities? Are you interested in exploring how we can build better communities and build our resilience? We're inviting you to an online taster session to preview this 6 week journey...
Seeds of Hope
Finding positive growth in crisis times Online workshop Wednesday 20 May, 2.00-5.00 pm With Alan Heeks and Karim Hadden Any crisis brings opportunity as well as loss. This half-day online group is a chance to find and nurture seeds of hope: for yourself,...
Online workshop: Deep Adaptation to Climate Change and Coronavirus – How body heart and soul can grow through a crisis
Saturday April 18, 9.30 - 4.30 (4 sessions) with Alan Heeks and John Harley Deep Adaptation is a different way to engage with the climate crisis, created by Jem Bendell. It means adapting to climate impacts, as well as trying to reduce them; facing the emotional...