Imagine...

Enjoying a good life-work balance.

Feeling connected to friends, family, and where you live.

Taking time to pursue what is meaningful to you.

Imagine Creating The Good Life.

What is the good life?

We define the good life as living well and doing good while using less. Qualities of the good life include having sufficient resources to meet your needs, being connected to people and place, developing a healthy life-work balance, and realizing the freedom to pursue what really matters. Doing good is an essential part of the good life as well. It involves acting equitably and with integrity and finding ways to contribute to the general well being as well as one's own.

History and, more recently, psychology and neuroscience have shown that we experience the greatest sense of well being and happiness when we are able to focus on specific key elements of the good life. Thus, the good life offers us an inspiring and comprehensive framework for designing our lives, our work, as well as our communities. For more, see the essay "What is the Good Life?" and the Good Life Concepts page.

We have found the best way to create the good life is through slow design.

Slow Design

At its core slow design focuses on thoughtful design for human well being, using the principles of environmental sustainability. Slow design is inherently holistic and takes into account a long-term perspective. It is inclusive and recognizes that we are all designers with insights, skills, and aspirations to bring to bear on the process of creating our world and our lives.

We use the slow design approach in our work with individuals, businesses, organizations, and community groups that want to make a change for the better. We provide support and services that help to clarify goals and map the path forward. In our work we draw upon a wide range of design, psychological, and other types of tools and frameworks. We offer trainings and workshops to help people become better slow life designers themselves.

Over the last 20 years we have applied this approach to the design of many things and experiences: products, homes, websites, educational curricula, organizations, programs, group processes, etc. For more specifics about our work, see Slow Design Services and Portfolio and About Beth and Eric.

Sharing the Good Life

There a number of ways you can share in the good life starting today.

• Our monthly e-newsletter explores good life and slow design themes and let's you know of new offerings on the website.
• Our concepts page outlines some of the key concepts for designing a slower life including experiencing abundance through enough, developing self awareness, and the keys to happiness (finally!). We also list more in depth essays.
• The list of tools offers an overview of our most useful design, psychological, and other tools along with resources for further exploration.
• We are also interested in all types of stories about the good life.

• We love to hear and learn from others as well, so drop us line and connect. Our contact information is below, or send us a Snail Mail card.

Enjoy!

Beth & Eric


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