We had the happy at work conference yesterday, and it was a great experience. All our planning and desing efforts paid of, and everybody involved had a great day. Here's some of the feedback we got:
Best conference I've attended in Denmark...
Wonderfully inspiring and immediately useful...
Very refreshing and different...
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Measuring happiness
Mike Wagner pointed me to this article in Business 2.0 on measuring happiness.
Does money really buy happiness? Not in Japan, apparently. Even the United States, the alleged capital of materialism, is not nearly as happy as its per capita income suggests it should be. Colombians and Costa Ricans, on the other … Continue Reading ››
Does money really buy happiness? Not in Japan, apparently. Even the United States, the alleged capital of materialism, is not nearly as happy as its per capita income suggests it should be. Colombians and Costa Ricans, on the other … Continue Reading ››
Happy songs
I got an email from Mike Wagner, who wrote:
Have you ever heard James Taylor sing "Secret O' Life"? I think it is a good
"happiness" song. Perhaps there is an entire category of "happiness songs"
we could gather, or likely someone already has. Simon and Garfunkel's
"Feelin' Groovy" might fit too.
I immediately … Continue Reading ››
Have you ever heard James Taylor sing "Secret O' Life"? I think it is a good
"happiness" song. Perhaps there is an entire category of "happiness songs"
we could gather, or likely someone already has. Simon and Garfunkel's
"Feelin' Groovy" might fit too.
I immediately … Continue Reading ››
Prison food
An article in The Economist talks about an experiment in which inmates in a british prison were given extra vitamins, minerals and fatty oils.
Bernard Gesch, a researcher at Oxford University, wanted to see if bringing inmates' consumption of various vitamins, minerals and fatty acids (the stuff found in fish oil) up to … Continue Reading ››
Bernard Gesch, a researcher at Oxford University, wanted to see if bringing inmates' consumption of various vitamins, minerals and fatty acids (the stuff found in fish oil) up to … Continue Reading ››
Open Space Status and future
Harrison Owen wrote a brilliant summation on OST on the open space mailing list, which covers the origins, history and current status of Open Space Technology.
The ending contains a wonderful challenge to all of us who know and use open space, and has certainly started med thinking about what the next step … Continue Reading ››
The ending contains a wonderful challenge to all of us who know and use open space, and has certainly started med thinking about what the next step … Continue Reading ››
A little story from Rhodes
This story was sent to me by Maria Bakari, who I met at the Kaospilots conference in January. She's greek and I'm half-greek, so we had an instant connection. Maria does not have a blog, so with her permission, I'm posting the story here:
Yesterday I had the special pleasure to meet Mr and … Continue Reading ››
Yesterday I had the special pleasure to meet Mr and … Continue Reading ››
Silence
I've been spending the last 4 days at a yoga retreat arranged by the Art of Living. We're talking four days of getting up REALLY early, meditation, yoga, breathing exercises, talks and various other exercises.
And the most interesting thing was that two of those days were spent in silence. No talking, reading, … Continue Reading ››
And the most interesting thing was that two of those days were spent in silence. No talking, reading, … Continue Reading ››
Hugging NY
There's a kinda funny kinda sad story on NY Times about one Jayson Littman.
He is a financial analyst who happens to think that New Yorkers could use a hug. So it was, a month ago, that Mr. Littman began distributing hugs - free - from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays in … Continue Reading ››
He is a financial analyst who happens to think that New Yorkers could use a hug. So it was, a month ago, that Mr. Littman began distributing hugs - free - from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays in … Continue Reading ››
Audio book status
Here's the current status for the Practice of Peace audio book.
| Chapter | Who | Read | Uploaded | Postprocessing |
| 1 | Tova Averbuch | X | X | X |
| 1 | Thomas Herrmann | X | X | X |
| 1 | Genevieve Treille | X | X | X |
| 2 | BJ Peters | X | X | X |
| 2 | Joelle Lyons Everett | X | X | X |
| 3 | Marei Kiele | X | X | X |
| 4 | Christy Lee-Engel | X | X | X |
| 4 | Lucas Gonzalez | X | X | X |
| 5 | Karen Gorrin | X | ||
| 5 | Avner Haramati | X | X | X |
| 6 | Chris Corrigan | X | X | X |
| 6 | Michael Herman | X | X | X |
| 7 | Judith Richardson | X | X | X |
| 7 | Audrey Coward | X | ||
| 8 | Mikk Sarv | X | X | X |
| 8 | Brendan MacKeague | X | X | X |
Serious and silly
I found this wonderful little tale on Bernie DeKoven's excellent website, Deep fun.
I asked the Oaqui if they/he/she could entertain me with a profound-seeming, instructive-like story.
"TWO PLAYERS," the Oaqui eventually responded, almost without hesitation.
"There are two players in the heart: Serious and Silly," the Oaqui began in a tone … Continue Reading ››
I asked the Oaqui if they/he/she could entertain me with a profound-seeming, instructive-like story.
"TWO PLAYERS," the Oaqui eventually responded, almost without hesitation.
"There are two players in the heart: Serious and Silly," the Oaqui began in a tone … Continue Reading ››