Health & Consciousness Group Meetings 2009 – 2017
2009
Gaia and geological time scale
Perceptions and conceptions of life
2010
Inter-connectedness
Human values
Environmental values
Building a resilient future
The United Nations Earth Charter
2011
Happiness: Human right, responsibility and response
Holistic perspectives: unity and diversity
Global citizenship: small steps to the Big Society
How belief is shaping the modern world
Human consciousness in the computer age
Promoting health: failure and success
Funtime: humour is no mere laughing matter
Exploring links between local food and good health
2012
Wildlife and wellbeing
Humans and nature: harmony or conflict
Hypnosis and human consciousness
Peak water, drought and human health
Perspectives on awareness and self-consciousness
Facilitating family mediation
2013
Transhumanism: can evolution be improved?
Deep ecology: a radical environmental perspective
Health and biodiversity: a vital inter-relationship
Christian environmental stewardship
2014
Fracking: economic value and environmental costs
Homeopathy and health
Local food challenge
Ageing, longevity, demography: Health perspectives and policies
2015
Democracy in Crisis: Principles of Good Governance
Child and youth mental health: Cause for concern
Why do we argue about climate change?
2016
The Three Strange Angels: Ritual, Myth & Poetry
Cultural Narratives and Personal Truths
Vegetarian Diet: Issues of Human Health, Animal Welfare and Sustainable Food Supply
2017
Localism and Globalization: Co-operation or Competition
Education for Patients Programme – Cymru
Monmouthshire Well-being Plan
Chepstow Festival Events 2010 – 2016
Chairman: Dr Peter Evans, Transition Chepstow
2010
Looking Up in the Downturn:
Sustaining Health and Happiness in Challenging Times
Ageing Well: Dr John Gallacher, Cardiff University
Bibliotherapy: Can Books Provide Psychological Benefit? Prof Neil Frude, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
2012
Climate change: sustaining environmental resilience
Prof Susan Baker, School of Social Science, Cardiff University
Will McLean, Monmouthshire County Council
Janet Rawlings, Transition Chepstow
2014
The legacy of Aneurin Bevan:
Challenges facing NHS Wales
Prof Sir Mansel Aylward, Public Health Wales
2016
Reporting a World in Crisis:
On the Problems and Possibilities of Today’s Journalism
Prof Simon Cottle, Cardiff University
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Public and Private Health Matters
The Legacy of Aneurin Bevan
Friday June 20, 2014, 7:30pm, Methodist Church Hall, Chepstow
Special guest talk and open public forum
Speaker: Professor Sir Mansel Aylward MD DSc
Chairman: Peter Evans
Aneurin Bevan, born 1897 in Tredegar, died 1960. The son of a miner, his early life provided him with an intimate experience of poverty and occupational disease. After the Labour election victory in 1945, Bevan was appointed Minister of Health and in 1948 introduced the National Health Service with free diagnosis and treatment for all.
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward is Chairman of Public Health Wales, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University and Chairman of the Bevan Commission into NHS reforms. He is uniquely placed to offer valuable insights into the challenges which face the NHS, and the issues of promoting public health now and in the future in times of burgeoning medical, political and climate change.
Dr Peter Evans, PhD
Transition Chepstow
Health & Consciousness Group
Coordinator 2009 –
- Medical Research Council
- Pneumoconiosis Unit, Llandough
- Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge
- Biomedical Science
- University of Glasgow Department of Public Health
- Health Education Board for Scotland
- Environmental Health Promotion
Margaret Davis – In Memoriam
Margaret was well known for her interest in the environmental sustainability movement, and inspired and created the Chepstow Fair Trade Town Forum in 2006.
As an active member of Friends of the Earth and issues related to climate change, Margaret helped to set up the inaugural meeting of Transition Chepstow on 23 October 2007 and was instrumental in initiating the Heart & Soul Group, subsequently to become the >Health & Consciousness Group
Extremely knowledgeable and compassionate, Margaret was a self-effacing though determined enthusiast, and as a Quaker contributed various writings and poems to Quaker Voices and The Friend. In June 2007, aged 80 years old and still politically active, she received a prestigious award from the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations in recognition of her enduring services to the environment. Margaret died peacefully aged 89 at the Royal Gwent Hospital on 10th December 2016, fulfilling a life full of dedicated achievements.
Looking up in the downturn
Sustaining Health and Happiness in Challenging Times
Peter Evans, Transition Chepstow Health & Consciousness Group
Ageing Well
Dr John Gallacher, Cardiff University
Bibliotherapy: Can Books provide Psychological Benefit?
Prof Neil Frude, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Transition Chepstow Festival 2010
TC HCG Guest Forum
2010
Chepstow Rugby Club
Climate Change
Sustaining Environmental and Social Resilience
| Peter Evans | Transition Chepstow Health & Consciousness Group |
| Will McLean | Strategic Partnership and Engagement Lead, MCC |
| Susan Baker | Professor, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences |
| Janet Rawlings | Transition Chepstow Steering Group |
Transition Chepstow Festival 2012
TC HCG Guest Forum
10 July 2012
Methodist Church Hall
Reporting a World in Crisis
On the Problems and Possibilities of Today’s Journalism
| Simon Cottle | Professor, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University |
| Peter Evans | Transition Chepstow Health & Consciousness Group |
Transition Chepstow Festival 2016
TC HCG Guest Forum
5 July 2016
Methodist Church Hall
Education for Patients Programme – Cymru
| Wayne Jepson | EPP Care Lead |
| Peter Evans | Transition Chepstow Health & Consciousness Group |
| Angela Tillcock | EPP Coordinator |
TC HCG Forum
30 March 2017
Beaufort Hotel
Monmouthshire Well-being Plan
| Hazel Clatworthy | Sustainability Officer, Monmouthshire County Council |
TC HCG Forum
23 November 2017
Beaufort Hotel