Happytalism · A new paradigm

10 billion free, conscious, and happy people by 2050.

The systems we inherited don't measure whether people are free, conscious, and happy — so we're building the ones that will. Happytalism places freedom, consciousness, happiness, and abundance at the center of progress. The World Happiness Foundation builds the frameworks, the education, and the ecosystems — and you are invited to be part of it.

Happytalistas gathered around a shared practice

Our North Star

10 billion free, conscious and happy people by 2050

The Ecosystem

One movement. Six doorways into a flourishing world.

Happytalism proposes eudaimonia — the full flourishing of the human being — as the true measure of progress. Everything we do lives inside a connected ecosystem, held together by the same North Star: 10 billion free, conscious, and happy people by 2050.

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01FOUNDATION · THE WHY

Mission & systems change.

The narrative layer. We convene, advocate and hold the North Star — building the frameworks that place freedom, consciousness, happiness, and abundance at the center of progress.

02WORLD HAPPINESS FEST · WHERE WE GATHER

The global gathering.

The world's largest happiness and well-being forum — a polycentric convening that turns Happytalism into shared experience across cities on every continent.

03WORLD HAPPINESS ACADEMY · HOW

We train the catalysts.

Learning pathways for Chief Well-Being Officers, coaches, educators and Conscious Catalysts — the leaders who carry Happytalism into schools, companies, hospitals and cities.

04ECOSYSTEMS & AGORAS · THE PEOPLE

Where we implement.

80+ local Agoras and Ecosystems of Happiness — hyper-local hubs where Happytalistas turn consciousness into daily practice, in the places they already call home.

MiamiGranadaTulumBhutanNicoyaMadridVaranasiAurovilleGenevaStockholm

The Observatory

Evidence for a new measure of progress.

We aggregate global voices and data on happiness in partnership with the UN Beyond GDP agenda — because what we measure shapes what we build. Our 28X Program aims to touch 28 million lives by 2028.

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Leaders trained

Across 450+ cities — carrying Happytalism into the institutions they already lead.

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Conscious Catalysts

Actively transforming communities on every continent — one Agora, one classroom, one hospital at a time.

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Artisans reached in India

Through our work with living cultures — where craft becomes a daily practice of dignified livelihood.

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Teachers trained in Latin America

Educators bringing positive education into their own schools — the seed layer of the movement.

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Lives by 2028 — the 28X Program

The next horizon on the way to 10 billion by 2050.

Happytalist Goals

Reframing the Sustainable Development Goals from scarcity to abundance.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals name the world we do not want. The Happytalist Goals name the world we do — reframing each target from what we lack into the abundance we can build together.

From

No Poverty

To

Prosperity for All

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Zero Hunger

To

Nourishment for All

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Good Health

To

Holistic Health & Happiness for All

Three of many — a starting invitation. The full framework is being co-created with the Happytalista community.

World Happiness Press

Field notes from the movement.

All field notes

public-policy

A World Happiness Foundation Analysis of the UN High-Level Expert Group Report on Beyond GDP

The Compass and the Shadow Map A World Happiness Foundation Analysis of the UN High-Level Expert Group Report on Beyond GDP Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo · Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation (UN ECOSOC consultative status) Reference: Counting What Counts — A Compass of Progress for People

July 13, 2026

community

World Happiness Fest – Tulum 2026 – Where the Sun Is Born

On the summer solstice, the World Happiness Foundation gathered in Tulum for the World Happiness Fest — and let the Maya City of Dawn teach us how to begin again. Summer Solstice 2026 · Tulum, Quintana Roo · Luis Miguel Gallardo The Maya called this place Zamá — the City of […]

June 24, 2026

education

The Meta Pets World App

META PETS WORLD · App Launch EN ES Copy text Now available The app is live Meta Pets World is here. A 30-day cosmic practice. Draw your Meta Pet, sit with Felicia, and follow the FP20 path back to fundamental peace. Free, on every device, and for purpose. Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Pla

June 23, 2026

consciousness

Yoga and Hypnotherapy. Two Rivers, One Sea

For the International Day of Yoga — on yoga and hypnotherapy as two roads to a single peace, and a life spent on the bridge between East and West. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo On the twenty-first of June, the sun stands at its highest and the day refuses to end. It is the longest […]

June 18, 2026

consciousness

From One Nervous System to Eight Billion

The inner peace we can now measure in a single person has a civilisational mirror — a different way of organising the world that I call Happytalism. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo The last three essays in this series lived inside a single human being. We measured one person's peace. We met the loudes

June 18, 2026

consciencia

Knowing Is Not Changing

Why some patterns will not move through insight alone — and the deeper layer where real transformation happens. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo There is a particular kind of frustration I have watched in thousands of intelligent, self-aware people, and perhaps you know it from the inside. You understa

June 18, 2026

An invitation

10 billion free, conscious and happy people by 2050.

Not a slogan — a horizon we walk toward together. Add your voice, your practice, your city.