What is this you may ask?  Before you get too far into ‘wild’ imaginings, it’s simple: learn about nature, create wild spaces around you, and go and enjoy them outdoors.  Natural beauty is good for us as University of Derby researchers say in monitoring the Wildlife Trust’s 30 Days Wild challenge.  It’s the key to unlocking the benefits of wellbeing and happiness and you can engage through their App:  http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWild/App.  In the UK, June is the month to “Go Wild”, we can do this too, anywhere!

The Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA), USA, announces its annual conference for 8-9 March 2018, Orlando, Florida with the theme: "Quality of Life in Adult Learning".  The purpose of this Alliance is to help institutions of higher education develop and sustain learning environments and programs suitable for adults. 

Place Partners is an Australian group looking a improving physical space and place for people engagement and enjoyment.  Here are two case studies that demonstrate the place transformations achieved: Drummoyne Village and a Telco campus (Optus Centre), both in Sydney. 

Having just returned from the discussions of PASCAL's "Trends2017" Pretoria international conference, it was interesting to note a blog from the recent South African Development Community - Civil Society Forum.  Issues of collectivity and collaboration were again at the fore [see the Commonwealth Foundation: October 2017 Newsletter, also featured below and attached]. 

Here is the latest Newsletter of the Centre and its Pure Land Learning College Association Inc.:  http://interfaith-harmony.org/september-2017/.  Foremost among coming activities are the 14 October Women's Forum 2017 and the National Interfaith Conference of 16-17 November 2017.