Hi Al and Happinessgroup,

 

Recently I've been working with an author and an artist to bring happiness instruction into elementary schools,through their reading curriculum.  We have also begun work on a happiness-themed comic strip for newspaper syndication.

 

In September, I debuted a twenty eight 1/2 hour segments presentation of Michael Fordyce's "The Psychology of Happiness" 14 hour video series in a new cable television program here in White Plains.  Michael suggested that I place a few of his hour long episodes on The Happiness Show website, and three episodes should be ready to view from there before next Friday.

 

My www.thehappinessshow.com website is shaping up, and I'm waiting for Google to fully index the site before I begin to promote it.

 

I've been communicating with a film producer from Los Angeles and a film producer from Norway.  They are working on happiness documentaries.  The Norwegian film is intended for Scandinavian audiences. 

 

Recently I enrolled in Empire State College.  My mentor there, Miriam Tatzel, published a paper on happiness and consumerism for The Journal of Happiness Studies last year.

I'm hoping to work with her on promoting the "happiness as a product" concept in academic and business forums.

 

Lionel and I are still taping episodes of The Happiness Show (there are over 70 so far).  Recently I've been experimenting with a happiness-increase method I refer to as the "Bliss Mantra Method" which is derived from Transcendental Mediation and affirmations research.   Last week we taped an episode that describes it, and it should be available for viewing from the website before Christmas.

 

I'm interested in knowing how happiness coaching has been progressing.  I haven't been keeping up with The Vanguard group's teleconferences; can you provide a brief update on what they've been working on?

 

George