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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

Soul and Peace by Luis Miguel Gallardo

The Soul’s Limit and the Soul’s Work

Luis Miguel Gallardo

By Luis Miguel Gallardo Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation Professor of Practice, Shoolini University – Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness I feel limited. Let me say that again, because it is not something I am supposed to say. I lead an organization dedicated to the happiness of ten billion people. I write about consciousness, about freedom, about the triad of Fundamental Peace. I have studied with masters, traveled to temples, sat in silence in the Himalayas, built frameworks and summits and academic chairs. And right now, watching the world burn — watching children die under rubble, watching nations choose domination over dialogue, watching the machinery of violence operate with casual efficiency — I feel the limit of what one human being can do. This is not despair. It is honesty. And honesty, I have learned, is where the real work begins. What We Are Witnessing We are living through a period of extraordinary and simultaneous violence. Wars rage across continents. Bombs fall on schools and hospitals. Entire populations are displaced, dehumanized, erased from the moral imagination

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Shadow-Gift-Essence Framework_ Practical Session Guide

You Don’t Find Your Purpose. You Remember It. Why the Deepest Meaning in Your Life Is Already Inside You.

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Why the Deepest Meaning in Your Life Is Already Inside You — Buried Under What You Were Taught to Hide By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo There is a quiet epidemic sweeping through modern life, and no amount of productivity hacks, vision boards, or five-year plans can cure it. It is the crisis of meaning — the gnawing sense that despite everything we have achieved, something essential is missing. We feel it in the Sunday-night dread before another week of going through the motions. We see it in high performers who reach every goal they set and still feel hollow. We hear it in the question that haunts millions of people across every culture and generation: What am I actually here for? The conventional wisdom says you need to find your purpose. Go on a retreat. Take an assessment. Make a list of your passions and skills. Think harder. Try more. But what if the entire premise is wrong? What if purpose is not something you create through conscious effort, but something you remember — something that has been

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Integrative Transformation Model (ITM)_ Seven Transformation Mechanisms

Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and How I Integrate It with the Integrative Transformation Model

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Executive summary In my Integrative Transformation Model (ITM), I explicitly ground leadership transformation in three pillars: Jungian individuation, the Shadow–Gift–Essence (S‑G‑E) alchemy, and contemporary research on consciousness evolution and human flourishing—including integral theory. (Gallardo, 2026a; Gallardo, 2026b). [1] Within that third pillar, Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory is one of the most influential “meta-maps” for unifying perspectives that are too often fragmented: inner experience and outer behavior; individual growth and collective systems; state experiences and stage development (Wilber, 2006). [2] When leaders struggle, the failure is rarely a lack of intelligence—it is more often a failure of integration: cognition mismatched to emotion, personal insight unmatched by relational maturity, culture change disconnected from systems design, or peak spiritual states mistaken for stable developmental maturity (Wilber, 1982/2006). [3] This report’s central finding is that Wilber’s AQAL framework (All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types) integrates with ITM in a complementary way: The constraints are equally important. Integral Theory is a comprehensive meta-framework, but it is not, by itself, a validated clinical intervention. Its evidence base depends largely on

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