Cityscape Summer 2020
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
It’s the start of a new decade, and after a tough 10 years there’s a
lot to look forward to. Here at Cityscape, we have adopted the
5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles,
underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond.
We want to help our readers find ways to connect with each other
and the wider community; be active by finding a physical activity
they enjoy; take notice of the world around them and how they
are feeling; keep learning by trying something new;
and give by volunteering or joining a community group, or just
doing something cool for a friend or stranger. In this issue we take
a deep dive into the 5 Ways to Wellbeing and look at ways to put
them into practice. We also check out some of the city’s businesses
and clinics that can help you on your path to wellbeing.
The 5 Ways to Wellbeing were formulated in 2008 by a
UK think-tank tasked by the British government with
developing a set of rules for wellbeing similar to the ‘5+
a day’ fruit and vege rule.
The brief to the think-tank, the New Economics
Foundation, was: These had to be actions that anyone
could do; There had to be evidence that when
practised often they would make people feel better.
The foundation came back with its five actions and
extensive scientific evidence to show that if done
regularly, they will lift your wellbeing.
Since then, mental health agencies and
organisations around the world have picked up the list.
In New Zealand, the Mental Health Foundation
champions them through its website and various
publications, and has translated them into te reo. In
Christchurch, All Right?, a campaign launched in 2013
to support Cantabrians in the aftermath of the
earthquakes, reinterpreted them into eight different
languages: Farsi, Nepali, Chinese, Korean, Amharic,
Arabic, Hindi and Somali.
20 CITYSCAPE.CO.NZ Summer 20
Change language