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Measuring What Matters? A New Paper Reads Fourteen Years of the World Happiness Report — with Special Reference to India

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Measuring What Matters? A New Paper Reads Fourteen Years of the World Happiness Report — with Special Reference to India

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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

The Mind That Makes the World: a new book on the Supreme Yoga, the healing trance, and the path to Fundamental Peace

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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

A Home for the Research: Announcing the World Happiness Foundation Research Lab

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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

The Integrative Transformation Model: how a glimpse becomes a stage

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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

The Conversation People Actually Need

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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

Heal the Healers: A Network of Networks, and Three Places Where It Is Needed Now

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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

Who Heals the Healers? A Network of Networks for Mental Health

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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

The Amber Word: Two Minutes That Change How Diving Feels

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The Amber Word: Two Minutes That Change How Diving Feels

We opened one scenario to everyone — and audited our whole training system so that honesty always wins: ten honesty branches, zero punished.

August 23, 2026

Why Mindful Diving

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Why Mindful Diving

Every agency teaches you what to do underwater. Nobody, until now, certified how to be there — the case for presence as the last unmanaged variable in diving.

August 23, 2026

The Ocean Within: Two Albums for the Mindful Experience

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The Ocean Within: Two Albums for the Mindful Experience

Eleven guided meditations. Two languages. One arc of a diving life — the Mindful Diving Institute releases The Ocean Within and El océano interior, now streaming everywhere.

August 19, 2026

Narcissist vs Psychopath: How to Tell the Difference

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Narcissist vs Psychopath: How to Tell the Difference

Narcissism and psychopathy overlap but are not the same. Here is what separates them, the signs people actually notice, and what conscious leadership does about both.

August 16, 2026

Family Scapegoat: How Scapegoating Works in Families and Organisations

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Family Scapegoat: How Scapegoating Works in Families and Organisations

What a family scapegoat is, why one person ends up carrying the blame for a whole system, the signs to look for, and how families and teams can interrupt the pattern.

August 16, 2026

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