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Happiness Promotion Initiatives and Potential Projects Lists
Following is a list of happiness promotion initiatives that members of our group are currently working on, and a list of potential initiatives available to us for future happiness promotions. The lists will be presented periodically so that all members, and especially new members, of The Happiness Group can quickly and easily know what we are doing, and what we may wish to do in the future.
The lists will be periodically updated, and happiness group members are encouraged to post new happiness promotion initiatives as such ideas come to them. As the lists get more developed, individual initiatives will be separated into specific categories, (e.g. happiness coaching), and be posted on a Happiness Group web page.
If you would like to know more about specific initiatives, please simply post your questions to the list.
Current Initiatives
1) Bi-weekly conference calls in the following areas: Happiness Coaching;
Drive for Gates Happiness Leadership; Happiness in Schools; Happiness Promotion Brainstorming
2) Creation of a happiness-coaching program for top level executives
3) Development of a happiness based curriculum for substitute teachers as a means of improving class management and student performance.
4) The Drive for Gates Happiness Leadership; a project that aims to encourage Bill Gates to create an international happiness training corporation.
5) Happiness Instruction for High School students through their Health class.
6) The creation of happiness clubs and self-help groups
7) The creation of happiness cable television programs.
8) The development of a ten-minute per day happiness instruction module for third graders utilizing positive self statements and discussion.
9) The creation of syndicated call-in happiness radio programs.
10) The organization of happiness coaches in order to maximize marketing efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reach.
11) Recruitment of new members to our happiness group listserv.
12) The promotion of Bright Light Therapy to increase personal happiness.
13) The creation of a web site to present and promote our work.
14) Creation of a list of who is doing what, (with contact information) to promote happiness increase applications throughout society for periodic presentation on our listserv, and for posting on our website.
15) Creation of syndicated weekly newspaper columns about happiness.
16) Initiative to have Dr. Michael Fordyce’s on-line book Human Happiness; its Nature and its Attainment published in the popular press.
Note: If you are, or know of someone in our group who is, working on an initiative that is not listed above, please let me know so that it can be included.
Potential Future Initiatives Under Consideration
1) Appeal to Oprah Winfrey to lead a global happiness increase movement.
2) Promotion of happiness to elected officials and politicians with the aim of involving our Government in developing and implementing happiness-increase policies and programs.
3) Work on select projects and initiatives with major organized happiness-increase organizations like Seligman and Dean’s Authentic Happiness Coaching.
4) Development and implementation of an initiative to promote more basic happiness-increase experimentation.
5) Development of happiness training programs based on Dr. Michael Fordyce’s “14 Fundamentals of Happiness” methodology for use in schools, hospitals, and other institutions.
6) Development of training programs for prisons as a means of reducing recidivism by teaching convicts effective legal means to happiness.
7) Development of “happiness therapy” programs.
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