Dear national chapters, do you have plans, ideas to share what you do regarding Mar 20th, International Day of Happiness? Best wishes Tobias -- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
Dear all, here in the Czech republic we have started preparations for the International Happiness Day, program is under preparation but what is clear: 1) *during the day we will promote realization of the different initiatives in local communities* (celebrations/ good deeds/ happiness events, WS) via our network, in social media and at our workplaces 2) together with Happiness@Work we prepare *mini conference on the Happiness topic* with different speakers, including short presentations and some mini WS to try something based on positive psychology interventions Both initiatives are promoted on our AfH CR Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/actionforhappinesscr/?modal=admin_todo_tour> if you want to follow up the program further. (In Czech but someone has recently explained to me FB has a translate button.) Looking forward to hear about your initiatives, let´s inspire ourselves! best wishes, Gabriela, AfH CR út 26. 2. 2019 v 10:45 odesílatel Tobias Polzin < [email protected]> napsal:
Dear national chapters,
do you have plans, ideas to share what you do regarding Mar 20th, International Day of Happiness?
Best wishes
Tobias
-- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
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Hi everyone - and thanks Tobias for promting this important discussion. As you're hopefully aware, AfH runs the main campaign site for IDOH which is www.dayofhappiness.net We've just put live some changes for this year's theme which is "*Happier Together*" - focusing on our common humanity (as an antidote to polarisation and us-vs-them) and the importance of togetherness & community. This also links to the theme of this year's World Happiness Report which will be "Happiness & Community" (due to be published on 20 March). We've also updated the resources on the IDOH page to include the AfH app and calendars - and the site also now has a live feed of IDOH-related posts from Instagram and Twitter too. It would be wonderful to hear about any plans you have for promoting the day in your countries - and also how this might be linked to the "Happier Together" idea. Thanks, Mark --- The Action for Happiness team www.actionforhappiness.org www.facebook.com/actionforhappiness www.twitter.com/actionhappiness On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 08:44, Gabriela Macova <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
here in the Czech republic we have started preparations for the International Happiness Day, program is under preparation but what is clear: 1) *during the day we will promote realization of the different initiatives in local communities* (celebrations/ good deeds/ happiness events, WS) via our network, in social media and at our workplaces 2) together with Happiness@Work we prepare *mini conference on the Happiness topic* with different speakers, including short presentations and some mini WS to try something based on positive psychology interventions
Both initiatives are promoted on our AfH CR Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/actionforhappinesscr/?modal=admin_todo_tour> if you want to follow up the program further. (In Czech but someone has recently explained to me FB has a translate button.)
Looking forward to hear about your initiatives, let´s inspire ourselves! best wishes,
Gabriela, AfH CR
út 26. 2. 2019 v 10:45 odesílatel Tobias Polzin < [email protected]> napsal:
Dear national chapters,
do you have plans, ideas to share what you do regarding Mar 20th, International Day of Happiness?
Best wishes
Tobias
-- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
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Hi everyone, This is what we're up to in Melbourne, Australia: https://www.facebook.com/events/396665474235913/ Unfortunately we got our wires a little crossed and used the theme "Share Happiness" which was associated with IDOH 2019 until quite recently. When the new theme was announced, we had already started communications (including the brief for our speakers) so were unable to change the theme. This is an annual event for us which is a really fun night and very successful. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Best wishes, Zoe On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:44 PM Action for Happiness < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone - and thanks Tobias for promting this important discussion.
As you're hopefully aware, AfH runs the main campaign site for IDOH which is www.dayofhappiness.net
We've just put live some changes for this year's theme which is "*Happier Together*" - focusing on our common humanity (as an antidote to polarisation and us-vs-them) and the importance of togetherness & community.
This also links to the theme of this year's World Happiness Report which will be "Happiness & Community" (due to be published on 20 March).
We've also updated the resources on the IDOH page to include the AfH app and calendars - and the site also now has a live feed of IDOH-related posts from Instagram and Twitter too.
It would be wonderful to hear about any plans you have for promoting the day in your countries - and also how this might be linked to the "Happier Together" idea.
Thanks, Mark
--- The Action for Happiness team www.actionforhappiness.org www.facebook.com/actionforhappiness www.twitter.com/actionhappiness
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 08:44, Gabriela Macova <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
here in the Czech republic we have started preparations for the International Happiness Day, program is under preparation but what is clear: 1) *during the day we will promote realization of the different initiatives in local communities* (celebrations/ good deeds/ happiness events, WS) via our network, in social media and at our workplaces 2) together with Happiness@Work we prepare *mini conference on the Happiness topic* with different speakers, including short presentations and some mini WS to try something based on positive psychology interventions
Both initiatives are promoted on our AfH CR Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/actionforhappinesscr/?modal=admin_todo_tour> if you want to follow up the program further. (In Czech but someone has recently explained to me FB has a translate button.)
Looking forward to hear about your initiatives, let´s inspire ourselves! best wishes,
Gabriela, AfH CR
út 26. 2. 2019 v 10:45 odesílatel Tobias Polzin < [email protected]> napsal:
Dear national chapters,
do you have plans, ideas to share what you do regarding Mar 20th, International Day of Happiness?
Best wishes
Tobias
-- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
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-- Zoe Horzella Action for Happiness Australia - Board Chair
Dear national chapters, I was just writing an email to Mark with a some update with our last 3 month's activities and I thought, perhaps you would also be interested in it. I would like to share some personal feelings about our local chapter work, too. In general, things feel more difficult for us compared to last year. The first year was so exciting. The preparation of the translated course was a hard, but clear task. Now that we have done that, it's not so clear how to proceed, given the limited time resources of volunteers who are full-time employed with other jobs. So, we *focussed our work for the next 3 month* on the following areas: 1. Courses. Approach all people that have said they are interested in leading a course (hopefully using a mailing from AfH International database) 2. Prepartion of a gathering weekend for Action for Happiness Germany. We hope that this can be an activity that can attract new volunteers, give them a non-internet contact with us, qualify them for tasks and clarify the further directions of AfH-Germany. nspired by something that Maurizia from AfH-Italy did, we would like to offer a "preparation for being a course leader" to people who registered as leaders in your database. 3. Improve on organisational questions 1. What can we offer people wanting to volunteer, without the ability to make individual training? 2. For what activities does it make sense to pay for them, as they are not done regular enough and/or powerful enough if done on a volunteer basis? 3. Apply for funds that offer consultancy for non-profit organisations 4. Use positive psychology approaches (character strength analysis) within our own group Unfortunately, a very valuable point, articles in Happiness magazines had to be dropped due to limited resources. Perhaps our current working procedure is on interest for you: * There is a non-profit association with 3 board members that serves as the legal foundation, but effectively does nothing. * There are 3 people that committed themselves to participate in the organisation for at least 6 months. There are around 10 others that participate in isolated tasks (translating the monthly calendar, ...). * Every 6 months, we arrange a real world weekend together, for revitalising the contact. * Every 3 months, we do a session of review (our past activities, to celebrate), retrospective (what has to be changed in our processes) and planning (what is the focus of the next 3 months) (adopted from Scrum methodology) * Every week, we have a 20 minutes zoom webcall with "one good thing", "current mood", "celebrate AfH tasks done in the last week", "plans for next week", "impediments/difficulties/questions" (adopted from Scrum "daily"), with up to 5 members. After the last "review" I was impressed what we have achieved the last 3 months, although things did not feel very "fluid": * 3 successful courses supported * 6 courses in preparation * The homepage www.actionforhappiness.de has a new "contribute" page, a page with the german course material for participants. We prepared a German version of the "Unhappy?" text, giving pointers to support organisations in Germany. * Printed the German course book with fully revised German "resources" (personally, *this was my highlight*! the printed german books are so well received, look so cool, and the gathering of German links/books/videos for the resources was fun) * Together with AfH International we are experimenting about how to arrange the organisational work for courses in Germany * The homepage was equipped with a feature rich CRM (CiviCRM) used by over 11000 non profit organisations. It offers many interesting options (member database, mailings, event applications, management of donations, ...). But is also so feature rich that it's using sledgehammer to crack a nuts. * AfH Internaional supported us with mailings to members in Switzerland and Austria (with surprisingly no responses) * We started collected emailadresses of supporters and have around 200. * Facebook subscriptions and likes are now over 1000. * One request for funding / organisational consultancy was rejected, a second one was submitted, a third one is in preparation. * We found two new people interested in translating materials. Is there anything to report from you? I would find it nice, if you all report something about your current achievements, difficulties, feelings, plans! Best wishes Tobias -- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
Hi Tobias and team - thanks so much for sharing this very helpful update from your brilliant work in Germany - that's extremely useful to see and very inspiring to hear about all your progress, despite the on-going challenges of a small team of busy volunteers keeping this all going alongside other day jobs! We're always delighted to hear all the great progress being made by the different national chapters. I greatly enjoyed connecting with the AfH Australia team at one of their recent Board meetings and it's wonderful to know about their Happtivist march happening this week in Melbourne (and Vanessa King is also currently there as she's talking about AfH at the IPPA conference). I've also had great recent calls with Maurizia in Italy and Gabi in Czech Rep and it's really encouraging to hear about all their on-going progress too. Also, I just wanted to share one theme with you all that has been on my mind recently... although it's great to see the on-going rise of the "wellness movement" around the world (from yoga & pilates to kale, detoxing and mindful workplaces etc), the thing that really makes our work with AfH distinctive (and urgently needed!) is the move "from me to we" - with our focus on creating a happier world (as well as a happier self) and focusing outwards as well as inwards. We're really linking personal wellness to wider social progress - and that's what the world needs right now! On that note I enjoyed reading this article on mindfulness and social change - and thought you might like it too... *Moving mindfulness from 'me' to 'we'* https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/civic-mindfulness/ Huge thanks again to you all for everything you're doing - and particularly again to Tobias and the team for this very helpful and encouraging update :) Mark --- The Action for Happiness team www.actionforhappiness.org www.facebook.com/actionforhappiness www.twitter.com/actionhappiness On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 21:05, Tobias Polzin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear national chapters,
I was just writing an email to Mark with a some update with our last 3 month's activities and I thought, perhaps you would also be interested in it.
I would like to share some personal feelings about our local chapter work, too. In general, things feel more difficult for us compared to last year. The first year was so exciting. The preparation of the translated course was a hard, but clear task. Now that we have done that, it's not so clear how to proceed, given the limited time resources of volunteers who are full-time employed with other jobs. So, we *focussed our work for the next 3 month* on the following areas:
1. Courses. Approach all people that have said they are interested in leading a course (hopefully using a mailing from AfH International database) 2. Prepartion of a gathering weekend for Action for Happiness Germany. We hope that this can be an activity that can attract new volunteers, give them a non-internet contact with us, qualify them for tasks and clarify the further directions of AfH-Germany. nspired by something that Maurizia from AfH-Italy did, we would like to offer a "preparation for being a course leader" to people who registered as leaders in your database. 3. Improve on organisational questions 1. What can we offer people wanting to volunteer, without the ability to make individual training? 2. For what activities does it make sense to pay for them, as they are not done regular enough and/or powerful enough if done on a volunteer basis? 3. Apply for funds that offer consultancy for non-profit organisations 4. Use positive psychology approaches (character strength analysis) within our own group
Unfortunately, a very valuable point, articles in Happiness magazines had to be dropped due to limited resources.
Perhaps our current working procedure is on interest for you:
- There is a non-profit association with 3 board members that serves as the legal foundation, but effectively does nothing. - There are 3 people that committed themselves to participate in the organisation for at least 6 months. There are around 10 others that participate in isolated tasks (translating the monthly calendar, ...). - Every 6 months, we arrange a real world weekend together, for revitalising the contact. - Every 3 months, we do a session of review (our past activities, to celebrate), retrospective (what has to be changed in our processes) and planning (what is the focus of the next 3 months) (adopted from Scrum methodology) - Every week, we have a 20 minutes zoom webcall with "one good thing", "current mood", "celebrate AfH tasks done in the last week", "plans for next week", "impediments/difficulties/questions" (adopted from Scrum "daily"), with up to 5 members.
After the last "review" I was impressed what we have achieved the last 3 months, although things did not feel very "fluid":
- 3 successful courses supported - 6 courses in preparation - The homepage www.actionforhappiness.de has a new "contribute" page, a page with the german course material for participants. We prepared a German version of the "Unhappy?" text, giving pointers to support organisations in Germany. - Printed the German course book with fully revised German "resources" (personally, *this was my highlight*! the printed german books are so well received, look so cool, and the gathering of German links/books/videos for the resources was fun) - Together with AfH International we are experimenting about how to arrange the organisational work for courses in Germany - The homepage was equipped with a feature rich CRM (CiviCRM) used by over 11000 non profit organisations. It offers many interesting options (member database, mailings, event applications, management of donations, ...). But is also so feature rich that it's using sledgehammer to crack a nuts. - AfH Internaional supported us with mailings to members in Switzerland and Austria (with surprisingly no responses) - We started collected emailadresses of supporters and have around 200. - Facebook subscriptions and likes are now over 1000. - One request for funding / organisational consultancy was rejected, a second one was submitted, a third one is in preparation. - We found two new people interested in translating materials.
Is there anything to report from you? I would find it nice, if you all report something about your current achievements, difficulties, feelings, plans!
Best wishes
Tobias
-- Ich werde versuchen, mehr Glück und weniger Unglück in der Welt um mich herum zu stiften. (Action for Happiness Deutschland. www.actionforhappiness.de)
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Action for Happiness -
Gabriela Macova -
Tobias Polzin -
Zoe Horzella