This blog is managed by GROW Centre for Performance & Development. We help individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities to grow and develop. We look for opportunities to promote simple ways of improving well-being that people can do for themselves. We believe growth happens in the daily activity of living our lives and we notice that people who talk to other people, who develop lots of relationships, and are interested and connected to a diverse group of people, tend to be happier and healthier. There is plenty of research about the negative impacts of isolation and the importance of healthy community but we want you to try for your selves and let us know what happens.