You Are More Active than You Think It’s becoming common knowledge that undertaking 10,000 steps a day yields proven health benefits ranging from better mental wellbeing to reduced risk of heart disease, and some cancers. There is a vast range of digital tools that help monitor our physical activity and well-being behaviour. That’s not what this …
The Art of Self Navigation At the core of our business is a passion for inhabiting communities; co-learning what makes us all tick, and translating those insights into actionable policy. It turns out this is more easily said than done. It’s a tough task. At the same time, we know from experience that it is one …
The Village is Digital If you’ve been following our journey you may know that we refer to the complex interactions between “real people in real places” as the Village. These interactions may take place spontaneously in a moment. We see the Village as any space (physical or virtual) where people are connecting with purpose and generating mutual wellbeing. On …
Connecting For Love During the summer of 2016 PocZero teamed-up with Professor Paul Dolan, a visionary Neuroscientist and Behaviour Change expert. We were commissioned to test an App that helped individuals take control of harmful habits through a self-controlled course of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The underlying technology was featured on the BBC broadcast in which a young couple made a commitment …
Can you remember what sort of person you were at the age of 5? During an interview, Roald Dahl, the great children’s author (among many other accolades) said “Most adults have forgotten what’s it’s like to think like a child.” He was explaining his creative process for storytelling. It struck me that beneath his insightful observation …
Bottom-up System Change Something very interesting is unfolding right now in the West Midlands. The winds of change have been gently blowing over the Region for a while and now there’s a palpable whiff of innovation in the air. Together with a range of partners, we are introducing a ground-breaking App which could significantly increase health and well-being across the region by offering people everywhere the …
What is Story? You may have noticed a lot of content on our Twitter page recently about stories. Whether you’ve just tuned into PocZero or have been with us from the start, you will get a sense of know how important stories are to us. In a data-heavy world, sometimes it’s hard to make sense of what we’re experiencing and truly connect …
The Power of False Truths It’s a warm spring evening in Brooklyn, New York, 1916. People are shuffling into a Baptist chapel to hear the legendary Dr. Russell Conwell speak. He talks about Ali Hafed, a poor Indian farmer whose life was changed forever following the briefest of encounters with a monk. During this chance encounter, Ali’s eyes had been opened to the deepest …
21st Century Public Health On June 9th 2016 we had the privilege of speaking at the Royal Society for Public Health’s (RSPH) Conference on Health Trainers, and their highly respected “Well Communities” Programme. Opening the conference, RSPH CEO Shirley Kramer, talked passionately about “Precision Public Health” and later there was a piece on “Rings of Confidence”. Not only …
A Day to Remember Thursday 16th June 2016 was an amazing day. It was the day when Birmingham City University (BCU) hosted the Investment Readiness workshop for our first wave SeedPod ventures. The event was the culmination of 5 months of hard work on the SeedPod curriculum. It afforded the social entrepreneurs an opportunity to practice their pitching skills …
