Happiness 101: An Introduction | Happiness Film Festival 2019 | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T10:13:01+08:00 Peatix Happiness Initiative Happiness 101: An Introduction | Happiness Film Festival 2019 tag:peatix.com,2019:event-608049 2019-03-23T11:00:00SGT 2019-03-23T11:00:00SGT What exactly is Happiness? Is it an elusive idea, or is it something that you can choose to experience?Join us for in this two hour experience where we will share a short introduction of the science and research behind happiness.What we will cover:1. Why is Happiness always short-lived?2. Misconceptions about Happiness3. Choices we can make to be happierSimon is the co-founder of Happiness Initiative. He is passionate about helping people discover the choices they can make to be happier.  He holds a Master in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Many years back, Simon was making headway in his climb up the corporate ladder. The higher he climbed, the more deeply unhappy he became. In his life of pursuits, he lost touched with the pursuit of life. He thought the higher he climbed, the happier he would become. Hence, he had no choice but to keep climbing. When he reached the destination, happiness was short-lived. So he thought he had to climb again.Finally, one day, everything that mattered stopped mattering. It was the beginning of his journey to discover that happiness can be a choice. It sowed the seeds for Happiness Initiative.The Happiness Film Festival will be the world’s first to be held in Singapore. We hope to raise greater awareness on happiness and well-being through films and post-film dialogue sessions.The Happiness Film Festival is organised by Happiness Initiative, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting happiness and well-being.Check out the other programmes under Happiness Film Festival here. Updates tag:peatix.com,2019-03-07 05:21:16 2019-03-07 05:21:16 The event description was updated. Diff#416152 Updates tag:peatix.com,2019-02-23 07:04:19 2019-02-23 07:04:19 The event description was updated. Diff#412476