We are all deeply interconnected - our lives are interwoven with the lives of those around us and our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of our planet. How can we push back against the marketisation of self-care and instead care for ourselves in a way that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all life?

Join visionaries Alex Nunn (Action for Happiness), Alnoor Ladha (/The Rules) and Ruby Reed (Advaya and EcoResolution) as they explore connecting self-care and collective wellbeing.

Hosted by The Resurgence Trust and the Network of Wellbeing (NOW), this event will include talks from this panel of speakers, space for discussion and an interactive Q&A. Part of the Resurgence and NOW Hope in Action series, it will be an exploration of how we can maintain hope, wellbeing and resilience while co-creating a brighter, more beautiful future.

If you cost is a barrier to your attendance, please email florence@networkofwellbeing.org for a bursary place. 

More about the speakers

Alex Nunn is a passionate activist, facilitator and public speaker who promotes the connection between compassion and social change. He believes that by turning towards the feelings that come up around global issues, we can unlock the power to really take action whilst also nourishing and restoring ourselves. Alex is head of movement building at Action for Happiness, a movement for a happier and more caring society, is a regional community builder for the Earth Holder network, a Buddhist environmentalist group founded by Thich Nhat Hanh, and is an ambassador-in-training for the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research at Stanford University.

Alnoor Ladha’s work focuses on the intersection of political organising, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and executive director of /The Rules (/TR), a global network of activists, organisers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. /TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organisational design, exploring new ways of working, playing, and making trouble together.

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist and The Huffington Post, among others. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs, a co-operatively run advisory for social movements and progressive organisations. He holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics.

Ruby Reed co-founded the transformative education initiative Advaya in 2015, bringing people together to explore links between ecology, society and wellbeing. In 2019 she co-founded the educational platform EcoResolution, linking environmental justice movements with new audiences, and in 2021 she co-founded the ecosystem restoration charity Initiative Earth. Ruby is a trustee of The Resurgence Trust, talks curator for Medicine Festival, and part of Be The Earth Foundation’s flow-funding network. She is also a yoga therapist and a free-diver.

Tickets £8 (or £4 concessions)

This event will raise money for The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity (no. 1120414) and the Network of Wellbeing, a registered charity (no. 295976).

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