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Manpura

Stage: ListenWave 0
  1. 1

    Listen

    Visit every hamlet and ask how the village itself wants to grow in happiness.

  2. 2

    Invite

    Invite women's groups, elders, health workers, teachers and the panchayat to shape the journey.

  3. 3

    Map

    Map wellbeing together: 8 layers of wellbeing and the 7 domains of pain and trauma.

  4. 4

    Practise

    Practise the Happiness Ritual in loom, family and women's circles.

  5. 5

    Weave together

    Weave the circles into the village's own institutions, songs and festivals.

  6. 6

    Flourish

    The village leads its own path and walks with the next village.

Villages of Happiness

The story

Manpura is where Villages of Happiness begins. Here, women weavers have already practised the Happiness Ritual together at their looms: breathing, a story card, a circle of sharing, a guided meditation and creative expression, day after day. From these loom circles the work now widens, ring by ring, to families, neighbours and the whole village. Manpura is in the Listen stage: visiting every hamlet, meeting women's groups, elders, health workers, teachers and the panchayat, and asking how the village itself wants to grow in happiness. Nothing is decided for the village; the village decides.

What happens next

Invite. Invite women's groups, elders, health workers, teachers and the panchayat to shape the journey.

Support at your level

Support at your level

Choose the ring where you would like to help. We will reply personally.

Level

Fund a village's full 12–18 month journey. In the hamlets: train women's circle leaders.

A programme of the World Happiness Foundation. Lead: Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo.