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Welcome to The World Happiness Foundation’s Public Policy Forum

"We need to work together at a systemic level to create the necessary change"

Growing inequalities, lost diversity, pandemics, and climate change are only some of the serious challenges facing humanity in the coming decades. All of these crises are interconnected and we cannot confront them in isolation. Our current economic systems are failing to foster a productive and healthy balance between societal, individual, and environmental needs and goals.

That is why we support the leaders from governments and organizations that are disrupting current systems by implementing new policies and initiatives that are advancing the dialogue on creating economies of happiness and well-being for all.

In Partnership with the United Nations University for Peace

The Foundation stewards two UN resolutions:

The Foundation specifically stewards two UN resolutions:

UN RESOLUTION 65/309

Happiness: Towards a Holistic Approach to Development

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UN RESOLUTION 66/281

International Day
of Happiness

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We Support Global Political Initiatives

All of our work supports the UN Global Compact and many of the Sustainable Development Goals

We bring together the world leaders and experts on Public Policy across multiple disciplines such as Health Care, Education, Environment, Economy, Psychology, Business, Research, Statistics, and the United Nations 2030 agenda to breakdown silos and to improve the overall happiness and well-being of all beings.

We bring a holistic approach incorporating view from the leading institutions and the professionals behind the latest research and policies around the world.

We help advance the dialogue on Public Policy towards an Economy of Happiness and Well-Being.

GLOBAL HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING POLICY REPORT

The 2019 Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report is produced by the Global Happiness Council (GHC) and contains papers by expert working groups on happiness for good governance. This report provides evidence and policy recommendations on best practices to promote happiness and well-being. The 2019 Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report was presented at World Government Summit held in Dubai on February 10, 2019.

WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report is produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation. The World Happiness Report was written by a group of independent experts acting in their personal capacities. Any views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization, agency or program of the United Nations.

OECD BETTER LIFE INDEX

How is LIFE? There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

HAPPY PLANET INDEX

The Happy Planet Index measures what matters: sustainable wellbeing for all. It tells us how well nations are doing at achieving long, happy, sustainable lives. Wealthy Western countries, often seen as the standard of success, do not rank highly on the Happy Planet Index. Instead, several countries in Latin America and the Asia Pacific region lead the way by achieving high life expectancy and wellbeing with much smaller Ecological Footprints. The Happy Planet Index provides a compass to guide nations, and shows that it is possible to live good lives without costing the Earth.

Join our World Happiness & Well-Being Public Policy Forum at the World Happiness Fest.

Gross National Happiness, or GNH, is a holistic and sustainable approach to development, which balances material and non-material values with the conviction that humans want to search for happiness. The objective of GNH is to achieve a balanced development in all facets of life that are essential; for our happiness.

We are in the age of the Anthropocene when the fate of the planet and all life is within the power of mankind. Boundless consumerism, widening socio-economic inequality and instability is causing rapid natura resource depletion and degradation. Climate change, species extinction, multiple crises, growing insecurity, instability and conflicts are not only diminishing our well-being but are also threatening our very survival.

Today, it is inconceivable for modern society to function without the business of commerce, finance, industry or trade. These very factors are altering human destiny by the day in extraordinary ways, both positive and negative. GNH directly addresses such global, national and individual challenges by pointing to the non-material roots of well-being and offering ways to balance and satisfy the dual needs of the human being within the limits of what nature can provide on a sustainable basis.

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The Economy of Happiness and Well-Being

We support the emergence of new economic paradigms

Growing inequalities, lost diversity, pandemics, and climate change are only some of the serious challenges that humanity faces in the coming decades. All of these crises are interconnected, and we cannot confront them in isolation. Our current economic systems are not designed to deliver a balanced approach to social and environmental initiatives. World Happiness Foundation Founder, Luis Gallardo addresses these issues in his report on The Economy of Happiness and Well-Being.

An economy is a collection of norms and rules that reward certain behaviors and punish others. The economies of the 21st century destroy natural wealth, degrade communal bonds, and incentivize overconsumption. This is how our economies have evolved to function, which also means that we can change them and evolve in new directions. It is time we think about how.

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Happytalism, Key to (Re)connection

NKC and The Transpersonal Leader

From One Nervous System to Eight Billion

Luis Miguel Gallardo

The inner peace we can now measure in a single person has a civilisational mirror — a different way of organising the world that I call Happytalism. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo The last three essays in this series lived inside a single human being. We measured one person’s peace. We met the loudest voice in one person’s mind. We went looking, one floor down, for the patterns that keep one person from changing even when they understand themselves perfectly. It was deliberately intimate work — the scale of a single nervous system, a single life. Now I want to ask a larger and stranger question, the one that has quietly organised my entire life’s work and the work of the World Happiness Foundation. What if everything we have just said about a person is also true about a civilisation? What if a society, like a nervous system, can be at war or at peace — held in chronic alarm or capable of genuine steadiness — and what if we have simply never tried, deliberately and at scale,

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Siwa Oasis by Luis Miguel Gallardo

Knowing Is Not Changing

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Why some patterns will not move through insight alone — and the deeper layer where real transformation happens. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo There is a particular kind of frustration I have watched in thousands of intelligent, self-aware people, and perhaps you know it from the inside. You understand your pattern. You could explain it to a friend with real insight — where it came from, what sets it off, why it makes no rational sense. You have read about it. You may even, after the earlier essays in this series, have named the loudest voice in you and measured your own baseline of peace. And still — the anxiety returns at three in the morning. The old reaction fires before you can catch it. The habit you have understood for a decade repeats itself anyway, as if your understanding were a spectator rather than a participant. This is the gap between knowing and changing, and it is one of the most quietly demoralising experiences a person can have. We are told, in a hundred well-meaning ways, that

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Fundamental Peace by Luis Miguel Gallardo

The Peace That No One Can Sign for You

Luis Miguel Gallardo

An invitation to peace — beginning, as it always must, with whatever is loudest today. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo This week, the word on every screen is peace. A war that filled the spring with fire was declared over on paper. An agreement was signed, the cameras assembled, and the analysts began their long argument about whether it will hold. I will leave that argument to them. What I notice, watching from Madrid, is something quieter and more universal — the strange ache of hearing the word peace spoken so constantly by a world that feels so far from it. Because even as one conflict pauses, the noise does not. The feeds do not stop. An economy that has just produced its first trillionaire leaves millions feeling the daily squeeze of not enough. Machines appear to be rewriting the meaning of work faster than we can think about it. And underneath all of it — under the war and the truce, the markets and the algorithms — most of us are carrying a private version of the

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