ASP member Alan Heeks shares some powerful insights from his new book, Natural Happiness, and from his research on raising community resilience.
Alan has been exploring parallels between environmental and human sustainability for many years, moving from a successful business career to starting a 130-acre organic farm from scratch. His new book, Natural Happiness, shows how we can cultivate human nature using parallels with organic farms and gardens, such as composting for stress, and crop rotation to avoid burnout. See more at www.naturalhappiness.net
Alan’s unique approach also shows how we can learn from sustainable ecosystems about resilient work teams and communities, and find new ways to face into the climate crisis, for example, through parallels with regenerative agriculture.
He will also share findings from research commissioned by his Seeding our Future project on resources to help local communities grow their resilience to climate change, food security and other issues of our times.
The workshop will include time for questions and discussion, and Alan would welcome collaboration with ASP members in these projects. You can contact him at [email protected].
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About Alan Heeks
I am passionate about nourishing human sustainability through parallels with environmental, doing this through my new book, Natural Happiness, and workshops and blogs: see www.naturalhappiness.net. This exploration started when I dropped out of a successful business management career, and started a 130-acre organic farm from scratch, with no experience. I have used the Natural Happiness model in workshops for hundreds of people, including work teams, individuals, community groups and NHS doctors.
In 2017, I started a small non-profit project, Seeding our Future, helping communities and individuals with resilience and climate adaptation through pilot projects and workshops. The pilot projects have included Future Conversations, helping communities build skills and knowledge for climate responses, and Bridport Food Matters. Seeding our Future has also commissioned research which is available to all: UK Future Risks Review and Growing through Climate Change.
