by Alan Heeks | May 5, 2023 | Natural Happiness Blog
Embracing the future – plenty we can do! Insights from new Future Risks report Insights from new Future Risks report It’s hard to make sense of the future outlook: there are so many issues, risks and trends which could worry us, at every scale from local...
by Alan Heeks | Dec 28, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
Faith, hope and clarity… in uncertain times These days, it’s easy to be worried, but it takes some skill and conscious choice to stay positive. That’s what this blog hopes to help with… Your top worry may be personal, national or global: in one...
by Alan Heeks | Dec 19, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
How devotional movement and chants can help us with climate distress One of the reactions I bring to my challenges is a search for understanding, and systemic solutions. In recent years, I’ve reached the painful conclusion that the climate crisis is too large,...
by Alan Heeks | Jul 13, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
Thomas Berry: ‘The Dream of the Earth’ How the universe story can give us hope Berry has an unusual, eloquent, and valuable view of how we humans got into the current crisis, and how to move out of it. This view is powerfully presented in the ‘Dream of the...
by Alan Heeks | Jun 26, 2018 | Natural Happiness Blog
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Amazingly, this book is an international bestseller. For me and others who have worked with UK woodlands for decades, it has felt like a benign backwater of our society, but may its time has come. The sign that this could be...