Be motivated by the transformative power of happiness-guided initiatives across diverse sectors. Explore showcased programmes that have demonstrated enhanced stakeholder happiness, improved outcomes, and sustainable positive impacts. Together, they are creating a ripple effect on the quality of lives of millions of people worldwide, making the world already a happier place.
Join a trusted network of trailblazers in their respective domains. Accreditation membership enables open sharing, deeper interactions, and direct connections with like-minded peers, fostering mutual support to excel as a happiness catalyst in your professional sphere. Gain diverse perspectives, expand knowledge, build bridges and explore potential partnerships in an enjoyable atmosphere.
Enter the backstage and gain profound insights and actionable knowledge into happiness and how to grow it. Explore replicable strategies and best practices exclusively shared by experienced leaders. Learn from curated case studies, reports, research and engaging discussions with members and guest experts. Exchange innovative approaches, creative ideas, and trend signals, while receiving valuable feedback. Shape your own happiness-prioritized project, aligning it with your organization's economic, social, environmental, and resilience goals to achieve multiple targets simultaneously.
Streamline the implementation of your happiness-oriented initiative with a nurturing and supportive environment. Access significant time-saving and cost-effective practices and resources recommended by performing leaders. Equip yourself with effective skills and tools. Learn through practice, progress with confidence, benefit from peer feedback and celebrate milestones along the way.
Discover real-world success stories that demonstrate the transformative power of happiness-focused initiatives, inspiring you to implement similar approaches.
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Explore the Forum's reference directory, recognizing programmes or organizations prioritizing stakeholder happiness and demonstrating a track record of sustainable impact and economic viability.
Retreat to a serene knowledge garden, cultivating essential insights and gaining fresh perspectives on happiness.
Get on your radar innovative approaches, hidden gems, cutting-edge practices, thought-provoking ideas, and emerging trends, uncovered by the discerning eyes of your fellow members in a vast ocean of information.
Enter an accredited network of individual leaders, where trust fosters genuine connections and open sharing in an enjoyable atmosphere.
Venture beyond familiar boundaries in a global network spanning across sectors, disciplines, and organizations, cultivating broadened understanding and potential collaborations.
Engage in a secure, user-friendly online platform, allowing seamless communication, knowledge sharing, event scheduling, accessible anytime, anywhere.
Experience a refreshing format that dedicates the majority of the session to interactive Q&A, allowing for in-depth clarifications and meaningful dialogues with the invited guest.
Converge at the intersection of happiness-focused strategies, merge best practices, align goals and priorities, and leverage collective wisdom to shape your own successful project.
For your implementation journey, locate in this practical space the tools to equip yourself and your project team. Access also curated training programs to refine your skills for driving happiness-oriented initiatives.
Gain valuable feedback, support, and motivation from like-minded leaders to make informed decisions, navigate challenges and achieve success in your happiness-driven initiatives.
Happiness is not a distant goal. Observe quick initial results, track ongoing progress, and celebrate with us meaningful milestones on your own happiness journey .
Appreciate the freedom to initiate direct 1:1 communication with members, schedule live video calls, host your own event, or take part in informal exchanges.
Enjoy the privilege of being personally welcomed into selected organizations and gaining exclusive backstage access to learn about their practical approaches.
Participate in or establish thematic circles, engaging in targeted discussions, sharing insights, or exploring collaborative opportunities within specific sectors or fields.
Uncover a treasure trove across four zones: organizations showcases, forum sponsor introductions, external professional partners' services exhibits, and curated well-being activities, all enriched with exclusive member benefits.
Members of the Happier World Forum are individuals, not organizations, although most members are or have been associated with one or more organizations. Members are expected to be experienced leaders in their own domains, but they can be at any stage of their professional and personal happiness journey: novices, practitioners, impact makers, inspirational leader.
Members of the Happier World Forum stem from all kinds of organizations (businesses, public entities, academic institutions, civil society, communities), sectors, disciplines, positions, backgrounds, capabilities and regions of the world.
The Happier World Forum does not represent or advocate any specific sector or method. It's a space for individual members to share diverse experiences, while respecting different perspectives, even on happiness, thereby fostering mutual understanding and open dialogue.
A simple accreditation process comprises the following sequential steps:
1. You participate in a short initial personal interview with the Forum's CEO to share your experience and current professional situation, and to receive more details about the Forum and membership conditions.
2. You email a one-page document with your biography, professional achievements, references, and recommendations.
3. The membership committee reviews your application.
4. If successful, you receive a personalized invitation for a one-year membership, which can be renewed.
5. You are introduced to the community and presented to the other members through an easy onboarding process.
There is no time commitment. Engage at your own pace with our flexible participation approach. Your membership grants access to the activities and spaces presented above, available for you to select based on your interests and availability.
Engage at your own pace with our flexible participation approach. Your minimum monthly commitment involves attending one 1-hour live session of your choice and contributing two brief 5-minute comments on messages from other members or sharing interesting findings. Beyond this, your membership fee grants access to a broad array of additional activities and spaces, available for you to select based on your interests and availability.
New members are expected to be experienced leaders in their own domains, but they can be at any stage of their professional and personal happiness journey: explorers, novices, practitioners, performers, or champions.
Members of the Happier World Forum stem from all kinds of organisations (businesses, public entities, academic institutions, civil society, communities), sectors, disciplines, positions, backgrounds, capabilities and regions of the world.
The Happier World Forum does not represent or advocate any specific sector or method. It's a space for members to share diverse experiences, while respecting different perspectives, even on happiness, thereby fostering mutual understanding and open dialogue.
The accreditation process comprises the following sequential steps:
1. You participate in an initial personal interview to share your experience and current leadership situation, and to receive more details about the Forum and membership conditions.
2. You submit your biography, professional achievements, references, and recommendations.
3. The membership committee reviews your submitted application.
4. If successful, you receive a personalized invitation for a one-year membership, which can potentially be renewed.
5. You are introduced to the community and presented to the other members through an easy onboarding process.
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The Happier World Forum was founded on a simple statement : that every human being strives to be happier.
This idea of happiness does not come from wishful thinking or idealism. Instead, it is so deeply rooted in our human nature that many leaders in our history saw it as the cornerstone of their mission. Some even made it the very foundation of our societies, governments and businesses.
"... so that the demands of citizens, founded henceforth on simple and incontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of the Constitution and happiness for all."
(Preambel of the French Declaration of the Human Rights, 1789)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
(Second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, 1776)
"The pursuit of Happiness is a fundamental human goal. The General Assembly invites Member States to pursue the elaboration of additional measures that better capture the importance of the pursuit of happiness and well-being in development with a view to guiding their public policies"
(United Nations Resolution, 2011)
"Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product"
(Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, 1972)
"We need to understand what constitutes real wealth and prosperity and what it is that truly promotes human well being"
(Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister, Bhutan, 2011)
Being happier is an overarching goal for us, encompassing all the objectives we set ourselves.
But if happiness represents such a crucial foundation for our organizations and businesses, why isn't it placed higher on the list of priorities which enter our decision processes ?
Even though it appears in some of our societies' most foundational documents, happiness is often seen as an abstract and distant destination to be reached once all other objectives are attained.
As a result, the compass setting the direction for our decisions in business or public policy has historically been geared towards other metrics for success, such as buying power or economic growth.
However, happiness is not an abstract endeavor. Happier World Forum places a focus on growing happiness (not just simply happiness) in order to foster an action-oriented approach, based on tangible "before/after" results from real projects or programmes.
Once we show that growing happiness is concretely attainable, where should we place it in our priorities ?
It has been proven that beyond a certain level of comfort, a higher average income does not necessarily improve well-being. Therefore, why not focus on happiness growth to complement economic growth as a driver for the development of individuals, organizations and societies ?
Similarly, if we manage to get the current multiple crisis under control, will it be sufficient to ensure happiness in our societies on the long term when other factors seem to have increasingly adverse effects on our happiness ?
In the current context, we can recall the text of Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who wrote in 1954, at the height of the Cold War: "We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more."
Considering the crucial importance of happiness and wellbeing in our development as humans, what if we placed growing happiness at the heart of our priorities and decisions, not only as individuals but at the level of businesses, governance and society ?
What if we made growing happiness a top priority for our organizations ?
The Happier World Forum is focused on answering the question above, showing through case studies and experience sharing that this vision is not only feasible, but that it aligns well with the other economical, social, environmental and resilience goals, bringing positive and tangible results.
Our objective is to spotlight and grow the number of initiatives, projects, programmes, and organizations which prioritize happiness growth and demonstrate improved outcomes and positive impacts.
"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."
Thich Nhat Hanh
