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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 with H.H. the Dalai Lama

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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An invitation to the foundations of Happytalism: an abundance mindset for a free, conscious and happy life. Self-paced, open to everyone, hosted at the World Happiness Academy.

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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.

MiamiLas Rozas (Madrid)BhutanNicoyaJaipurAurovilleGeneva

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

From

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
The Conversation People Actually Need

Essays

The Conversation People Actually Need

Why I teach transpersonal coaching — and what our training will ask of you. On the moment conventional coaching runs out of road, what transpersonal actually means, and the components any credible training must include.

September 1, 2026

Heal the Healers: A Network of Networks, and Three Places Where It Is Needed Now

Essays

Heal the Healers: A Network of Networks, and Three Places Where It Is Needed Now

A network of networks for those who care for others. Heal the Healers opens collaboration in Nepal–Tibet, Colombia and Venezuela — seeking professionals and contributors.

August 29, 2026

Who Heals the Healers? A Network of Networks for Mental Health

Essays

Who Heals the Healers? A Network of Networks for Mental Health

Nurses, responders, therapists, teachers, family carers: the people a society leans on carry the weight of others as part of their work. The case for accompanying them — from prevention through crisis to regeneration.

August 27, 2026

The Amber Word: Two Minutes That Change How Diving Feels

Essays

The Amber Word: Two Minutes That Change How Diving Feels

We opened one scenario to everyone — and audited our whole training system so that honesty always wins: ten honesty branches, zero punished.

August 23, 2026

Why Mindful Diving

Essays

Why Mindful Diving

Every agency teaches you what to do underwater. Nobody, until now, certified how to be there — the case for presence as the last unmanaged variable in diving.

August 23, 2026

The Ocean Within: Two Albums for the Mindful Experience

Essays

The Ocean Within: Two Albums for the Mindful Experience

Eleven guided meditations. Two languages. One arc of a diving life — the Mindful Diving Institute releases The Ocean Within and El océano interior, now streaming everywhere.

August 19, 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.