Welcome to The World Happiness Academy
Our learning and transformation center — designed to equip you, your organization, your school and your community with tools, experiences and educational resources to create meaningful happiness initiatives.
The HOW
Practice-based pathways for conscious catalysts.
Free · A gift from the Academy
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.
Each Academy program is a full doorway into Happytalism. Start where you are — the paths meet in practice.
Living learning
Every Academy pathway begins in the body and the community, not the slide deck. Certifications, courses, expeditions and summits share one operating manual: cultivate presence, deepen consciousness, and return home a more useful human for your city, your team, your family.
Self-paced · Digital + Live Meditations
13 videos, 4 guided meditations, discussion forums and biweekly live conference calls with the instructor.
Self-paced · Digital
20 hours of insights from leading experts. How you live, work and lead will never be the same.
Delhi · Varanasi · Pondicherry · Auroville
A 10-day journey from bustling New Delhi to the magical ghats of Varanasi, boating down the Ganges to the French colony of Pondicherry and Auroville — a project in human unity. What is the true meaning of living consciously?
Paro · Thimphu · Dochula · Punakha · Phobjikha
An 8-day legacy-building retreat in the Himalayas with Buddhist monks, astrologers, farmers, teachers, government officials, activists and intellectuals. Redefine your goals — become more conscious and whole.
Digital · Access to Recordings
60+ workshops streaming from 50+ cities worldwide, keynote speakers, networking and expo. Explore the power of belonging.
In-person · UPEACE, Costa Rica
Annual 3-day Executive Education event bringing together senior executives, coaches, educators and experts in happiness and well-being.
Digital + In-person · Las Rozas (Madrid) & Miami
80 cities around the world during World Happiness Week — hundreds of workshops, networking, musical performances and keynotes.
Human stories
Openings from essays in our archive — read the full piece for the whole story.
Chief Well-Being Officer
“Someone asked me recently what I think the most important job title of the next decade will be. Not AI Engineer. Not Sustainability Director. Not even Head of Innovation. Chief Well-Being Officer.”
Leadership from the inside out · via Luis Miguel Gallardo
Read the essay
Transpersonal Coaching
“I want to tell you about a conversation that changed a life. Not a seminar. Not a framework. Not a breakthrough moment on a retreat — though those have their place. A conversation. Forty-five minutes. Two people, one of whom was willing to be completely present.”
One conversation, forty-five minutes · via Luis Miguel Gallardo
Read the essay
Soul·Full · Conscious Kids
“I have a memory that keeps returning to me. I am in Hanoi — it is January, the city is buzzing with the energy of the XIV Party Congress — and I slip away from the conference halls into a school. WellSpring Bilingual School. I am there to share Happytalism with children.”
WellSpring Bilingual School · Hanoi · via Luis Miguel Gallardo
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Voices from the programmes
Validated words from coaches, professionals and Chief Well-Being Officers who have taken part in our programmes, Fests and retreats.
Before engaging with the World Happiness Foundation, I often treated well-being as something separate from performance. The program helped me see that people do their best work when meaning, trust, and humanity are built into the way we lead. That insight changed both my coaching conversations and the results my clients pursue.
Executive Coach|United States
Transpersonal Coaching transformed the way I listen. I became less focused on finding the next clever question and more able to sense the deeper story asking to be heard. Clients began discovering not only what they wanted to change, but who they were becoming.
Professional Coach|Ecuador
The Foundation gave me language for something I had felt for years: real transformation begins inside, but it cannot end there. I now help leaders connect personal awareness with the cultures and communities they influence. My work feels deeper, more courageous, and more useful.
Leadership Coach|Canada
Many leadership challenges arrive disguised as strategy problems but are rooted in identity, fear, or meaning. This approach helped me work at the level where lasting change becomes possible while still translating insight into grounded action.
Executive Coach|Bolivia
I came looking for new coaching tools and found a much larger invitation - to accompany people toward lives of purpose, connection, and contribution. The program expanded my practice while reminding me why I became a coach in the first place.
Professional Coach|Mexico
The training did not replace goal-oriented coaching; it gave it depth. I can help a client move toward an outcome while also exploring the beliefs, values, and inner patterns shaping the journey. Progress now feels more integrated and sustainable.
Life Coach|Paraguay
Authorized testimonials, published as given in English.
Find your door
Four ways into the World Happiness Academy — pick the one that matches the work you already do.
Signature programs, main certifications, courses, expeditions, summits and memberships — all in one place.
