



NATURAL HAPPINESS
NEW BOOK LAUNCH: January 2018
Not Fade Away – Staying happy when you’re over 64!
THE BABY BOOMER GUIDE TO CREATIVE AGEING This book is dedicated to the spirit of the 1960’s: may all of us find the love, peace and freedom that our generation dreamed of then. Find out more here…Newsletter: Issue 20: January
Fresh Intentions Issue I hope you’re looking forward to this new year, as I am. 2017 was a bumpy year in many ways, but let’s hope our resilience increases faster than the challenges in 2018. One thing I learned from last year is the way that clear intentions and choices can mitigate confusion and overwhelm. So here are my top intentions for 2018: .New YouTube Video
Take the Tree Test This four-minute video shows Alan leading a group through the tree test during the Building Wellbeing Together gathering at Hawkwood College. This season of the year is a great time to assess your balance between roots and fruits!
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Meaning, Purpose, Connection: what does spiritual mean to you? Spiritual aspects of life and resilience will become more vital for most of us in the years ahead as turbulence grows…


Alan Heeks
Alan Heeks is a writer, pioneer and group leader with a passion for wellbeing, resilience, sustainability, and how we can learn about them from nature. Over the past 20 years he has created two pioneering education centres where people can learn from nature: a conservation woodland and an organic farm, where he has led many groups, and which have inspired his books. His work is currently focused in three main areas:
- Natural Happiness – the Gardener’s Way: Alan’s forthcoming third book shows how people can grow their own happiness using parallels with organic gardening and farming, such as composting, mulching, and co-creating. See more at www.naturalhappiness.net.
- Maturing Happily: Alan has been exploring this theme since his own midlife crisis in his early fifties. He has co-led both mixed and men’s groups on creative ageing, and has explored this theme in his writing. This includes his new planned book, Not Fade Away – staying happy when you’re over 64!, and his second book, Out of the Woods: a guide to life for men beyond 50. For more about Alan’s current work on maturing happily, click here, for blogs on this theme click here, for more about Out of the Woods click here.
- Nourishing the front line: Alan is part of a small team offering life and work skills for resilience to organisations, individuals and communities, with a special focus on learning from nature. See more about Wisdom Tree and their work here.
Out Of The Woods
A Guide to Life for Men Beyond 50 Midlife and beyond can be the most fun a man has ever had, but it’s also a time for fresh skills and a new path. When the roles that define men dissolve – work, marriage, fatherhood – it’s a time of huge possibility and freedom, but it’s easy to feel lost in the woods, with nowhere to turn to. Midlife and beyond can be the most fun a man has ever had, but it’s also a time for fresh skills and a new path. When the roles that define men dissolve – work, marriage, fatherhood – it’s a time of huge possibility and freedom, but it’s easy to feel lost in the woods, with nowhere to turn to. For full details click here.-
happy #solstice and #nature blessings to you all and thanks @humansandnature for sharing! @CFrontiers… https://t.co/yG9mXujU1x