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Featured · Mindful Diving
The Diving Mind: the Human Layer of Well-Being
Three connected books explore presence, breathing and psychology—and what they can teach us about fear, belonging and a culture of care.
October 4, 2026
leadership
Lead with Heart: Building New Paradigms for Human Happiness
Reflections from the first Duke Happiness Fest on Happytalism, Fundamental Peace, and the everyday leadership practices that help people flourish.
October 4, 2026
Mindful Diving
The Ocean as a Teacher of Presence: Why Diving Is the Oldest Meditation
Why diving may be the oldest meditation: the regulator breath, weightlessness and Separation, the research, and the 4B arc of Mindful Diving™ for presence.
September 29, 2026
Mindful Diving
Breathing Underwater: What Science Says About Breathwork
What science says about breathwork: slow breathing and vagal tone, CO2 tolerance, the exhale, the 4-4-4-4 square breath and the Never List for safe practice.
September 29, 2026
Mindful Diving
The First Dive Is a Breath
On our new books and music, the senses as doorways to presence, and why Mindful Diving™ was born.
September 28, 2026
Announcements
Measuring What Matters? A New Paper Reads Fourteen Years of the World Happiness Report — with Special Reference to India
The second publication of the World Happiness Foundation Research Lab reviews every edition of the World Happiness Report from 2012 to 2026 and asks how much of a country's rank reflects lived welfare — and how much reflects the instrument doing the measuring. Open access, CC BY 4.0.
September 14, 2026
Announcements
The Mind That Makes the World: a new book on the Supreme Yoga, the healing trance, and the path to Fundamental Peace
A new book from World Happiness Press. Eighteen chapters that walk from the story-worlds of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, through what a trance actually is, into a path anyone can practise — and into the YVH Integrative Model published in our Research Lab.
September 10, 2026
Announcements
A Home for the Research: Announcing the World Happiness Foundation Research Lab
And its first published paper — on the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, hypnotherapy, and the measurement of peace
September 9, 2026
Essays
The Integrative Transformation Model: how a glimpse becomes a stage
A state is not a stage. The Integrative Transformation Model places shadow integration at the centre of transpersonal development — five stages, seven mechanisms, and the Shadow-Gift-Essence cycle now taught as the core model of the Transpersonal Coaching Program.
September 2, 2026
Essays
The Conversation People Actually Need
Why I teach transpersonal coaching — and what our training will ask of you. On the moment conventional coaching runs out of road, what transpersonal actually means, and the components any credible training must include.
September 1, 2026
Essays
Heal the Healers: A Network of Networks, and Three Places Where It Is Needed Now
A network of networks for those who care for others. Heal the Healers opens collaboration in Nepal–Tibet, Colombia and Venezuela — seeking professionals and contributors.
August 29, 2026
Essays
Who Heals the Healers? A Network of Networks for Mental Health
Nurses, responders, therapists, teachers, family carers: the people a society leans on carry the weight of others as part of their work. The case for accompanying them — from prevention through crisis to regeneration.
August 27, 2026
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