Monday 18 July 2011

Now the first "A Good Week" is over, what do you do in the same building?

Hastings / St Leonards 
Action for Happiness 
& Mediation Support Centre
At the centre by St Leonards Warrior Square Station, the UK's leading "Action for Happiness" group & Mediation Support Ltd provides:
  • Happiness 101 sessions (as an introduction to developing "life's most important skill")
  • Support for setting up local well-being groups. (These groups generate mutual support & skills sharing within neighbouring streets)
  • The first UK depot for www.streetbank.com - hundreds of household resources being shared via the Southwater Area Community Centre.
  • A space for free complementary medicine sessions for the local community.
  • Support with inter-personal conflicts and award-winning innovation in communication between crime victims, their offenders and the wider community.
  • Courses which support personal empowerment and the ability to "harvest the fruits of all the conflicts we inevitably have".
  • "Good Weeks" and "Festival Tents which offer a happiness experience" (Some earlier work Paul did in a free tent got written-up in the book "The Moneyless Man" -extract here)
The work of the Hastings/ St Leonards Action for Happiness & Mediation Support Centre & it's founder, Paul Crosland, has been endorsed not only by the local MP, but by a partner-charity (the Centre for Peaceful Solutions), by youth offending team and police staff, and by a quick petition from over 40 people who engaged with and supported our work during our recent agoodweek, and who all wanted us to ask for rent money for the voluntary work to continue for the coming year.
Some of these endorsements are on:
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/endorsements-for-pauls-work.html

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Lord Layard sends Hastings & St Leonards Action for Happiness his congratulations


The CEO of the national organisation, Action for Happiness has been following the media and has reported to his directors that 

As far as we know this is the first example of one of our local AfH groups getting into their local newspaper:
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/community/group_is_aiming_to_get_hastings_smiling_again_1_2805957
Lord Richard Layard, who is often called 'the happiness guru', has sent his congratulations to us.

Sunday 3 July 2011

America Ground Independents Day

America Ground Independent Day Celebrations -Hastings 4 Happiness Tent

"Hastings 4 Happiness" has a tent today at the America Ground Independent Day Celebrations.
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language. These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" or sovereign rights of man. (Wikipedia)
Amongst other things in the festival tent will be this film running:

For the full set of 5 ways to wellbeing cards, please go to the America Ground stall selling jams etc (Bullet Cafe stall).

Do let us have your:
Name....................................................................................
Address...............................................................................
..............................................................................................
Tel No …..............................................................................
Please arrange a Happiness 101 Introductory hour session in the following area of Hastings & St Leonards..........................................
Hastings 4 Happiness: www.agoodweek.info
actionforhappiness[at]mediationsupport.info