----- Original Message -----

From: Malcolm Macgregor

To: happinessgroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:03 PM

Subject: RE: [happinessgroup] Current Happiness Promotion/Study Activities

A very impressive web site George! I like the stress you have on "the Fordyce program". I came across this in Michael Eysenck's book simply called "Happiness", and some othere serious psychology books.. Michael is,of course,  a serious Cognitive Psychologist (son of Hans) and gives Fordyce a big thumbs up. I found Fordyce's free online book and was amazed at such a resource being given away free - shows Fordyce cares more about increasing happiness than making big bucks. Nice to see you link to it very prominently from your site. I look forward to the videos!

 

The vanguard people are very good at giving short summaries of their teleconferences in their yahoo group, so I recommend simply looking back over their postings.

 

Please remind us when you put your next great video up. You want to get in touch with BBC2 or Channel 4 in the UK, they are the channels most likely to be interested in the kind of documentary you are working on. They also have roving reporters like Louis Theroux who look into zany aspects of US cable TV and the like - and will do 'zany but good' as well as 'zany and weird' (you  are in the former category :-)

 

Malcolm

-----Original Message-----
From: georgeo57@... [mailto:georgeo57@...]
Sent: 12 November 2004 19:43
To: happinessgroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [happinessgroup] Current Happiness Promotion/Study Activities

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

----- Original Message -----

From: Al Cannistraro

To: happinessgroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 8:39 AM

Subject: [happinessgroup] Current Happiness Promotion/Study Activities

This group has been inactive for awhile.  What happiness-promotion
or study activities are members currently pursuing individually?
Al Cannistraro