An Evening with Nic Marks, Founder of the Centre for Well-being, New Economics Foundation

On Wednesday 12th November

6.30pm drinks & buffet at Gaia House,(18 Well Walk, Hampstead, NW3 1LD)

7.30pm Talk & discussion at Burgh House(Opposite Gaia House, New End Square, Hamsptead, NW3 1LT)

Happiness and Well-being has received much policy and media attention over the last few years. This is based on the new emerging science of well-being and positive psychology, which is built upon psychological and social research into what factors create a good life. However, the environmental movement has for decades highlighted that western lifestyles are built upon a fundamentally materialistic vision of the good life that demands ever increasing consumption of natural resources, with implications for climate change and biodiversity loss.

Nic Marks founded nefs centre of well-being to help re-frame the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century in terms of a future vision of a brighter lighter society where good lives dont have to cost the earth. He will share data from nefs award winning Happy Planet Index which assesses the ecological efficiency with which nations deliver human well-being and will draw on his experience of working with local, national and international governmental departments and agencies.

You can reserve your place online at: www.gaiafoundation.org/learning/online.php

Or send a cheque for £10, made payable to The Gaia Foundation.

For further details please contact Sarah at: sarahn@gaianet.org or 020 7428 0055

Nic Marks is Founder of the centre for well-being and has led the well-being programme at nef since 2001. Nic has expertise in relation to individual, social, economic and environmental indicators of well-being and has previously applied his work in policy fields as diverse as sustainable development, health and social care, education, culture and the arts, and employment. Nic was the lead author of nefs innovative Happy Planet Index, a global index of human well-being and environmental impact. He has been an advisor to the Government of Bhutan, working with the Centre for Bhutanese Studies, on how to construct indicators for assessing Gross National Happiness (GNH).