Author Archive for Centre for Thriving Places

About Centre for Thriving Places

Five ways of wellbeing materials and training

Centre for Thriving Places has been delivering our WOW Wellbeing workshops for seven years. In that time thousands of people have benefited from these introductory sessions, from business leaders to... read more →

Where local is a blend of the global

Happy City’s been involved in a radio programme about Bristol’s cultural diversity and the City of Sanctuary movement By Maxie Jost Sometimes, an outside perspective yields not only new insights... read more →

Happy City – the fastest growing visionary habitat in the world

Excitement and vigour are high - and so is the will to grow and expand. By Maxie Jost. Alongside the ongoing buzz of local activities and events, with hardly any... read more →

Business support for Happy City

One of the most heartening experiences for a charity like Happy City, which succeeds in doing much from very scant resources, is a robust demonstration of support from the local... read more →

Collaboration vs Competition

Competition is bad for us says Margaret Heffernan Margaret Heffernan offered some startling observations as she talked about her book 'A Bigger Prize' at Bristol's Festival of Ideas this week.  She stopped... read more →

Running the Ways

How an ultramarathon brought one volunteer happiness Two weeks ago I lined up at the start line of the Marathon des Sables, a 250km race across the Sahara billed as... read more →

Tuning the Economy for Wellbeing

Today, the Legatum Institute has added its weight to the growing body of evidence that measures of wellbeing should be placed at the heart of policy-making and economy. The Wellbeing and... read more →

Happiness in 3D

Happiness is not as abstract as it seems... From the outset of our Happy City journey, people have asked how we define happiness. As a result, we've had a great... read more →

Changing your brain in 2014

Two weeks into January and maybe it's already unpopular to be mentioning the R word. Even if we reject the idea of making firm resolutions, the New Year is often... read more →

Banking, but not as you know it

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Bristol, where would you find an energy management charity, social housing company whose customers have learning disabilities, Boris’ ‘food tzar’ and a charity campaigning... read more →
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