Peter Evans opens the 2010 Chepstow Festival event, 'Looking Up In the Downturn'.
The Health & Consciousness Group exists as a forum at which interested members of the public together with active members of Transition Chepstow meet to explore and discuss issues of fundamental significance to holistic human health, environmental awareness and personal consciousness.
Our role as individual, communal and political co-creators in promoting human well-being and sustaining an ecological balance with nature in an era of rapid planetary climate change and resource depletion, is of paramount importance in the forthcoming decades.
The Health & Consciousness Group meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of the month, 7.30 – 9pm, at the Coach and Horses Inn, Welsh Street, Chepstow.
The next meeting of the Health and Consciousness Group will be held on Thursday 15th September 2011, 7.30pm, at the Coach and Horses.
The topic is: Promoting Health – Failure and Success.
See also Transition Chepstow Events page for current details.
New participants and old faces are welcome to attend.
Email contact Peter at: sustainablehealth@transitionchepstow.org.uk
Transition Chepstow Health and Consciousness Group : Society Report
The topic at the recent meeting of the Transition Chepstow Health & Consciousness Group was:-
Happiness: Human Right, Responsibility and Response. The wide-ranging stimulating discussion covered the nature, value and attainment of personal happiness and contentment in a world of evident increasing economic pressures, military conflicts and major natural disasters. Likewise, the psychological, political and philosophical aspects of happiness and its meaning, were also addressed.
Associated with the apparent incessant proliferation of adverse news, thus rendering individuals vulnerable to negative feelings and loss of hope, the prevalence and incidence of personal anxiety and depression is increasing worldwide. Emerging evidence indicates peoples state of health is frequently directly associated with their positive feelings of happiness.
The singular obsession with economic measures, namely Gross Domestic Project (GDP), as the sole and sufficient indicator of a nation’s status, is being challenged by the proposed introduction by the government of an additional and alternative index of the population’s health and social wealth. Commencing in April 2011, the Office of National Statistics will be undertaking the National Wellbeing Project and surveying people’s health, happiness and quality of life indicators relating to education, supportive relationships, and cultural activities.
The initiative has been welcomed by the New Economics Foundation as a positive step towards fully assessing the successful outcome of government policy and their particular impact on broader and vital personal, social and environmental matters.
For a list of previous events click here.
