Each month, the WEAll Amplification team (Amp team) shares what they’ve been working on, and their priorities for the coming month.

Find out more about our team members here 

Ana Gomez 

What’s kept you busy in August?

• Helping Lisa build WEAll’s new website, focusing on Member’s details, donation software, and anything she has needed. Supporting each other is a common goal for all of us!
• Enjoying an amazing and fruitful face-to-face meeting with Lisa, Diego, Rebeca and myself to organise the coming months in terms of September event, and thinking ahead to NESI 2019
• Working on the onboarding process to welcome new members/friends/groups into the movement. Getting to know interested organisations and individuals! 

August highlight:

• Lisa’s visit to Malaga to work together with Diego and myself. It’s rare to have the chance to see each other in person but when it happens we get the most out of it, at working and human level. 

September priorities:

• WEAll Scotland event. Collaborating with Ellie Logan and the whole team in WEAll Scotland to celebrate at the beginning of October the incredible debut of the Scotland Local Hub.
• Members will be my priority. I want to get to know each other much better, listening to their ideas, proposals, questions, etc. My goal is that they feel they are an active part of the movement. I’m willing to create a closer bond and understanding among all of us in our future collaborations.
• Creating more Local Hubs around the world to get many more people involved with WEAll at a local level with an international perspective. Super excited about this! 

Lisa Hough-Stewart 

What’s kept you busy in August?

• Getting plans in place for our trip to New York in September, where  we’re running an event and launching some new aspects of WEAll’s work. It was great to spend some time in Malaga with Diego and Ana, planning together
• Overseeing the completion of the website build
• Creating the WEAll Citizens programme, which I’m very excited about

August highlight:

• Delivering a workshop about WEAll at the Rethinking Economics Summer Gathering. The student “Rethinkers” were super inspiring, and had great ideas for linking their curriculum reform work to the wider wellbeing economy movement.

September priorities:

• Campaigning as part of the #10yearson campaign with Change Finance in New York – watch this space!
• Running an event in New York to soft launch WEAll and connect with the US movement
• Launching WEAll Citizens

Diego Isabel

What’s kept you busy in August?

• Starting to prepare the WEAll action plan and budget for 2019-2021
• Fundraising activities for WEAll
• Following up with contacts after our visit to the US in July 

August highlight:

• Charging the batteries under the Spanish sun with positive energy for the coming months!

September priorities:

• Preparing and participating in the WEAll event in New York on the 20th of September
• Connecting with key partners for WEAll as well as for the NESI Forum 2019 where all the WEAll members will come together
• Launching the WEAll strategy group with members and experts

Katherine Trebeck

What’s kept you busy in August?

• Loads of meetings!! But wonderful ones, including many related to WEAll Scotland (possible partnerships & preparing for our event in October ‘The Wealth of Nations 3.0: Building the Conditions of Wellbeing’) and plenty with other WEAll partner organisations.
• Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe in a debate (about a 300+ report from the governing Scottish National Party about Scotland’s future being one of growth. I said I think we can do better…)
• Submitting a chapter with the rather boring title of ‘Building a Wellbeing Economy’ to a book being edited by Open Democracy  

August highlight:

• Besides snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef?! Seeing the final version of the cover for a book I co-authored (coming out in January). Hope you like it as much as Jeremy and I do!  

September priorities:

• Moving ahead on actions from the research cluster (eg WEAll Wisdom Webinars), mapping priority synthesis papers, and creating the WEAll Fellows Network
• Finalising plans for the WEAll Scotland gathering in October (including an opening talk from WEAll friend Jacquie McGlade)
• Spending time in a cabin beside a Scottish Loch making a dent in my long reading list in order to move forward with some WEAll outputs

Stewart Wallis

Stewart has been enjoying a well-earned rest in August and September – after coming out of retirement to help set up and run WEAll, he has temporarily re-retired!

But that didn’t stop him spending a couple of days in Amsterdam building relationships on behalf of WEAll. Stewart will be working again in late September.

 

Michael Weatherhead

What’s kept you busy in August?

•  Developing proposals to pilot the WEAllCities guide (currently being finalised).
• Laying the ground work for the start of an exciting new employment and wellbeing economics coaching programme to up skill and assist unemployed individuals across Southern Spain
• Developing our team’s cultural code of conduct

August highlight:

•  Supporting one of our regional members with their strategy and how WEAll can support them

September priorities:

• Getting the WEAll Business Cluster off the ground with a firm action plan and proposals for future initiatives
• Establishing the formal relationship between WEAll and its first established local hub WEAll Scotland
• Furthering the transformation journey of a leading multi-national