Recap · 10–11 October 2026 · Birla Auditorium, Jaipur
Jaipur, City of Happiness
The third Global Happiness Forum & Festival has taken place. Two days, four wellness sessions and 35+ speakers, from the Governor's lamp lighting to the Mayor's book launches.
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.
The whole forum on one stage
Highlights
What happened in Jaipur
Inaugural with the Governor
H.E. Haribhau Kisanrao Bagade, Governor of Rajasthan, opened the third edition with the Deep Prajwalan.
Unlocking Your Light Within
The Meta Pets musical was launched on stage on Day 1, 10 October. World premiere: 31 January 2027, Jaipur.
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Book launches with the Mayor
Shri Sunil Kothari, Mayor of Jaipur, released the books of this edition, among them Happytalism and The Many Faces of Happiness.
Awards 2026
Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Service and Photography/Painting Awards honoured changemakers of Rajasthan.
From the gallery
A glimpse of the two days
Related reflection
With No Men in the World
A student's answer about a world without fear — and what the Global Happiness Forum in Jaipur must mean for the happiness we still owe half of humanity.
Read the articleWhen
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
The edition in numbers
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
World premiere — Unlocking Your Light Within.
The Meta Pets musical was launched on stage on Day 1 of the Forum, 10 October 2026. Its world premiere takes place in Jaipur on 31 January 2027.