April 20th – 26th 2019 Findhorn, Scotland The future outlook calls for more than resilience – perhaps Deep Adaptation. We’ll explore how to help those most impacted (e.g. resource-poor nations and disadvantaged communities everywhere), through...
Insights from the book Your Brain on Nature. My top tip for Earth Day is to read this brilliant book, and give it to your friends. If more people realise how absolutely crucial Nature is to their own wellbeing, hopefully more people will act to take care of our Earth....
Pictured: Alan with a group at Hazel Hill Wood. Recorded levels of stress have grown a lot in recent years, and we’re seeing evidence of more stress in all age groups. One of the best antidotes is an approach I’ve evolved, called Natural Happiness: it’s a range of...
This is an important and exciting book in my view, as it gives extensive research validation for the natural happiness approach, and the aims of Hazel Hill Wood as a natural learning centre. This will be a longer blog than most, because I’d like to highlight the main...
It’s often said that the only real way to learn about community is to experience it, and this week was a good example. Whilst I know several good books on community, they’re one-dimensional compared to this, and it’s interesting to unpack what made...
