Reporting back to Amber Rudd and Jeremy Birch

This compilation has been specially prepared for the local MP, the leader of the Hastings Borough Council and the Mayor of Hastings & St Leonards:
(What is on this page at present is undergoing further editing before formal presentation as a film of 50minutes maximum to show the first year's work from
St Leonards Sharing Consortium).

A)Mark's Review of Amber Rudd's letter to Action for Happiness:


B) Jasmine's one and only day on the streets of St Leonards  


C) Julie on friendliness & familiarity in St Leonards:


D) The Happiness Tent

E) Happiness on the radio:
For a fresh look at Happiness, Hastings & St Leonards Action for Happiness group collect together some different pieces of discussion/ opinion and offer them to you as a taster of how the dialogue might open up at a Happiness 101 session.
This first clip of Happiness 101 material is "The measurement of wellbeing -a radio news piece":


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Hastings & St Leonards 
-Action for Happiness
(National organisation website: www.actionforhappiness.org)


G) Erica Tate -Timebanking 1:
http://www.timebanking.org.uk/

H) The Three Circles

I) Paul's Mission Statement

J) The Hastings Old Town Carnival


K) The 'Man of Many T-Shirts'

L) Something Fishy

M) Optimism -The Facts

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Three circles:
CIRCLE 1 = BODY & MIND
At first, I saw this part of the 'happiness agenda' as characterised by (Lord) Richard Layard (below, who has set up www.actionforhappiness.org as a mainstream encouragement to incremental quality of life enhancement.

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CIRCLE 2 = PEOPLE, PLACE & PLANET
-the socio-economic/political agenda
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CIRCLE 3 = SPIRIT
This wing of the 'happiness movement'could claim to be the oldest, as it is involved largely in re-presenting Buddhist meditation and teachings in a way that connects with the contemporary (Western?) psyche and general scepticism about how ancient wisdom is pedalled?.
Below I copy my videos of the Action for Happiness launch event
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For more on these courses being run by the founding sponsors of Hastings & St Leonards Action for Happiness, Mediation Support Ltd, see here.

My friend in Nagpur, India:
Nagamitra, who sets the curriculum at the Nargajuna Training Institute -a Buddhist Social Action College otherwise known simply as Nagaloka, explains part of the significance of the place in the centre of India to which I am being driven by Ajay (as was); now ordained within the Triratna Buddhist Order as....
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Jo Nodding (the main face of Restorative Justice for the UK Restorative Justice Council - of which Paul Crosland was a charity trustee:
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It's important for all of us involved in community engagement and community development to remember the words of the killed father credited with ending the riots:
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Ray Chapman, Chair of the Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust to those who were on the pier at the start of the 2010 fire:
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£1 a day buys Bishnu's education, food, everything:
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Timebanking example - organising a stag party:


X) India - 2nd most powerful country in the world by 2036?


Y) Greeks abandon cash, resort to bartering


Z) Paul Crosland disappointed in how little was shown of the potential of timebanking (www.timebanking.co.uk)


AA) Julie on the positive side of St Leonards:


Hastings Pier Fire Anniversary - if you had £600 to put towards truth, reparation & reconciliation in the community (ie not giving the money to the Pier trust) where would you put it?
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CC) A pier with wheels:


DD) Sonya


EE) Trees


FF) Jai Bhim


GG) Man of Shirts:


HH) Nagamitra, who sets the curriculum at the Nargajuna Training Institute -a Buddhist Social Action College otherwise known simply as Nagaloka, explains part of the significance of the place in the centre of India to which I am being driven by Ajay (as was); now ordained within the Triratna Buddhist Order as....


II) Next Destination: Nagaloka College,Nagpur,Maharashtra, India (December)
http://nagaloka-dream-cycle.blogspot.com

JJ) Funding through Mediation Support


Contact the film creators & blog creators (Mediation Support Ltd) via this contact form: Here

KK) Ethical Outings in Hastings -Part 1; Southwater Road to the Mediation Support Ltd office at the Southwater Area Community Centre: