1-week HAPPINESS workshop with Mark Sham

ABOUT

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR FORMAT CHANGE DUE TO COVID!

This was originally a 1-day HAPPINESS workshop hosted in-person at venues around the country, but due to COVID I have decided to change this workshop into a virtual event held over a week. Each morning, we will gather together virtually for 75min, and in this way, we will be breaking up the workshop into smaller, more manageable bites.

WHY DID I PUT THIS WORKSHOP TOGETHER?

For most of 2020, I presented a 1-hour talk about HAPPINESS and the response was overwhelming. With this in mind, I decided to take things further and create a comprehensive 1-day workshop centred around the topic of HAPPINESS. We completed six editions of this workshop across the country, and we got such an amazing response that we decided to host this as a virtual event because of COVID.

My goal is to move away from speaking about the science of HAPPINESS, and move toward the practice of HAPPINESS. By hosting these sessions over a week, we can really dive into the details of HAPPINESS, and we can actually practice several techniques throughout the week.

This 1-week HAPPINESS workshop will be taking place via Zoom from Monday, 22 February from 07h15 - 08h30 each morning until Friday, 26 February. The aim is to host a fully interactive, and immersive HAPPINESS experience. And the goal is for you to walk away with a very practical guide on how to be more HAPPY across various aspects of your life. We have also created a HAPPINESS booklet which will be sent to you via mail should you decide to join us.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND THIS HAPPINESS WORKSHOP?

Well, let's flip that question on its head. For the longest time, we've been wondering why more people don't study HAPPINESS? Most adults will attend various forms of training for almost every aspect of life but HAPPINESS. So we think there are many reasons why it makes sense to attend a full day event where the sole focus is to work out how to become a happier version of yourself.

On one end, the data and research says that people are becoming less happy as time goes on. Our belief is that this is happening because people haven't been taught to deal with the rich complexity of the world that we currently live in.

Thanks to technology, the world has more abundance than ever before, and thanks to medical science, people can live longer than ever. Yet more people die from drug and opioid abuse than ever before, and even worse, more people are committing suicide than at any other time in recorded history!

This begs the following questions:

• Why isn’t happiness a compulsory subject from 1st grade all the way through to graduation? Isn’t happiness something that almost every human being strives toward throughout their life?

• Why isn’t "relationships with others" a compulsory subject throughout the schooling years? Don’t we all have to co-exist and live with others in every facet of our lives? Why don’t we learn how human beings are different from each other from a mental, emotional, and cultural point of view?

• Why isn’t "psychology of self" a compulsory subject? We spend our entire lives having a conversation with that little voice inside our heads. Maybe it’s time we taught young people how to tame the monkey mind from a young age.