Jaipur · 10–11 October 2026 · 3rd edition
Two days of Happytalism in India's Pink City.
The Global Happiness Forum & Festival returns to Birla Auditorium — a two-day convergence of ideas, experiences and celebrations dedicated to human wellbeing, sustainability and collective joy.
When
Sat 10 – Sun 11 October 2026
Where
Birla Auditorium, Jaipur, India
Edition
3rd — SE Asia's largest happiness event
Opens
11:00 IST · Asia/Kolkata
What to expect
The programme, in numbers.
International & national speakers
Book launches by global authors
Thematic sessions on happiness, policy & business
Interactive panels with thought leaders
Titles at the Happiness Book Corner
Days of dialogue, practice & celebration
The programmes on stage
Four threads weaving the Forum together.
Artisans of Happiness
The weavers, dyers, block-printers, potters and jewellers of Rajasthan whose hands hold a lineage older than most modern nations. With partners like Jaipur Rugs, we tell a simple radical story: craft is a spiritual practice that measurably improves the wellbeing of the artisan, their family and their village.
Schools of Happiness
Developed with the Jaipuria Institute of Management and a growing network of educators across India — wellbeing as a first-class subject alongside literacy and numeracy. Children learn to name emotions, regulate the breath, sit with silence, resolve conflict without violence.
The Transpersonal Leader — book launch
Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo launches, in South-East Asia, The Transpersonal Leader. Its spine is the ROUSER model — Rise, Openness, Understanding, Service, Essence and Radiance — braided with the ICEF framework: Interbeing, Consciousness, Essence, Fundamental peace.
Two days that connect wisdom, science and celebration
Keynotes and panels on the science of happiness, policy and business — woven with sound healing, yoga, art therapy, music, dance, an artisans' pavilion and community zones. Not another conference. A rehearsal of what a happier civilisation feels like.
A voice from the stage
"An artisan who is happy is not producing a product. They are transmitting a state of being — and the object carries it into every home it enters."
— Luis Miguel Gallardo, Founder & President
The circle
Come and be part of it.
Whether you attend, exhibit, partner or simply follow along from afar — you are part of a movement that insists a happier world is not a soft ambition but the most serious infrastructure project of our century. Bring a friend, bring a question, bring an open heart. That's how peace begins — not in a summit, but in a room.
Organisers
World Happiness Foundation · GHF · ST Foundation, Jaipur
Sponsor
Kogta Foundation
With
Jaipuria Institute of Management · Jaipur National University · Jaipur Rugs · Government of Rajasthan
Book launch
The Transpersonal Leader — Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo
One more evening — Unlocking Your Light Within.
On Monday 12 October 2026, the day after the Forum closes, the World Happiness Foundation and beCreation launch the musical Unlocking Your Light Within in Jaipur.