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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

The Transpersonal Leader by Luis Miguel Gallardo

Repair and Regenerate: The Leadership the Living World Is Asking For

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Why the most advanced leadership is not measured by what we build, but by what we heal — and by what we leave more alive than we found it. By Luis Miguel Gallardo Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation — There is a logic running quietly beneath most of how we lead, and it is older than any management theory. It is the logic of extraction. Take value. Optimise output. Move faster. Get more out of the team, the market, the quarter, the planet, the self. We rarely name it, because it is simply how things are done. But extraction has a cost we have been trained not to look at: it always leaves something broken behind. A depleted team. An eroded trust. A relationship that still functions on the surface and is hollow underneath. A culture where people have learned that it is safer to say nothing than to risk a truth no one will mend. The Global Pain & Trauma Map makes this visible at planetary scale. Suffering is no longer a private matter — it

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Transpersonal Leader by Luis Miguel Gallardo

The Inner Revolution Leadership Has Been Waiting For

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Why The Transpersonal Leader and the Integrated Consciousness Evolution Framework Together Mark a New Era of Conscious Leadership By Luis Miguel Gallardo Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation We are living through a paradox. Humanity has never had more information, more technology, more sophistication in how we lead—and yet, by almost every measure that touches the soul, we are exhausted. Burnout is endemic. Trust in institutions has eroded. The Global Pain & Trauma Map shows that suffering is no longer a private concern; it is the operating climate of our organizations, our cities, and our planet. In this moment, the question is no longer “How do we manage better?” It is something deeper: Who is the leader we must become? The Transpersonal Leader: The Essence of Conscious Leadership is my answer—and its living companion, the Integrated Consciousness Evolution Framework (ICEF), is how we measure the journey. A Leadership Paradigm Beyond the Ego Most leadership models stop at the edge of the personal self. They optimise behaviours, skills and mindsets—useful work, but bounded by the very ego we are

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When Transpersonal Becomes Transformational

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Reflections from the EUROTAS Symposium in Portugal on the ITM, the Meta Pets Model, Transpersonal Leadership — and the two billion souls who will arrive before 2050. By Luis Miguel Gallardo  ·  Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation The Atlantic light over Portugal carries something the rest of Europe has forgotten — a quality of slowness, a kind of listening. When the European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS) convened practitioners, scholars, and elders from across the continent for its Symposium, this light became the atmosphere of the gathering itself. I arrived with three offerings: the Integral Transpersonal Method (ITM), the Meta Pets Model, and the Transpersonal Leadership approach that has been forming through the World Happiness Foundation’s work across more than eighty Agoras worldwide. What unfolded across the presentation and workshop was something I did not fully anticipate — not a polite reception of frameworks, but a recognition. A field of practitioners who said, in different languages: yes, this is the missing architecture we have been working without. The ITM Presentation — A Grammar, Not a Technique The Integrative Transformation

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