Action for Happiness

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Action for Happiness episodes

June 30, 2021 Josie's Guide to Jump Back Up July 2021
Josie from Action for Happiness takes us on a short journey through the Jump Back Up July 2021 calendar.
15 min
May 26, 2021 Josie's Guide to Joyful June 2021
Josie from Action for Happiness takes us on a short journey through the Joyful June 2021 calendar.
12 min
April 29, 2021 Josie's Guide to Meaningful May 2021
Josie from Action for Happiness takes us on a short journey through the Meaningful May 2021 calendar.
10 min
March 31, 2021 Josie's Guide to Active April 2021
Josie from Action for Happiness takes us on a short journey through the Active April 2021 calendar.
10 min
March 14, 2021 And now for the good news - With Ruby Wax
In today’s episode we are again going to do a throwback to a wonderful conversation that our director Dr Mark Williamson had with the wonderful and longtime AFH friend, Ruby Wax.
Ruby is very well known for her successful TV career, but what is less well known is her long term struggle with depression. Ruby then stumbled across Mindfulness and the work of Mark Williams that sent her on a journey of self healing. Ruby went on to get a degree in Mindfulness at Oxford university and was able to transition what she had learned about the brain and incorporate it in her work. In part two we dig into ruby’s new book, and now for the good news, and if you stick around to the end end, Ruby graciously guides us through a brief mindful exercise.

For the full video version of this audio podcast that includes extra bonus questions asked by our listeners during the live stream you can- visit youtube.com/actionforhappiness (link in the description), where you can also find the full archive of awesome videos.

Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier and more caring society. Visit actionforhappiness.org to join thousands of others who are spreading a bit more happiness in their homes, workplaces, schools and local communities. Watch talks from inspiring speakers and check out our monthly groups and our online 10-day course) which is helping people world wide.

Don’t forget to subscribe, like and follow to keep up to date with all our content. Find out more at AFH.org. Join the movement, be the change.

Gui - @mindulnews.uk
42 min
February 26, 2021 Josie’s Guide to Mindful March 2021
Josie, from the Action for Happiness team, takes us on a short journey through the 2021 Mindful March calendar, sharing hints, tips and musings about some of the actions for this month. A must-listen for anyone with an interest in positive psychology or mindfulness.
11 min
January 31, 2021 Emotional Intelligence - with Dr. Dan Goleman and Dr.Mark Williamson
Dr. Dan Goleman shares how Emotional Intelligence can help us live happier lives and contribute to a better world. This conversation with Dr. Mark Williamson was recorded at an Action for Happiness event on 24 November 2020 www.actionforhappiness.org.
Full Youtube conversation with the audience questions available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ADA5LcNzIE
45 min
August 19, 2020 Headspace - with the inspirational Andy Puddicombe
What a great honour it is to talk with Andy Puddicombe, co-founder and the voice of the amazing Headspace app and website. The Headspace mission to improve the happiness and health in the world is making great progress and has become the most impactful mediation tool. We talk about Andy's long term friendship with Action for Happiness, his 10 year monastic journey and how this led to creating the Headspace app. We also talk about Headspace's contribution to the scientific research and get a unique insight into the patterns and trends that Andy has noticed, especially following the global pandemic and his outlook on the next five years. I get to share my personal story about Headspace and it's impact on my life and I get to geek out in appreciation and end on community and how we can all help to take more action.
We also talk about all the wonderful resources that are available for free such as his 'weathering the storm' section, mindful movement classes and much more. Try it for free today at headspace.com
Gui -Action for Happiness podcast host
@mindfulnews.uk

52 min
July 21, 2020 Self discipline and meditation - with Giovanni Dienstmann
Giovanni Dienstmann is an author and meditation teacher based in Sydney. On this podcast, we talk about the different styles of meditation, the importance of training self-discipline and its relationship to meditation. We discuss the difference between mindfulness and meditation, great tips on how to develop and maintain a practice during this lockdown. We also have fun discussing what is Spirituality and how this has impacted Giovanni.
Giovanni has kindly set up a page with three guided meditations specifically for Action For Happiness listeners at: liveanddare.com/actionforhappiness
-Emotional Emergency Pause
-Effortless sleep
-Letting go meditation
Find out more about Giovanni and his work at liveanddare.com
Gui @mindfulnews.uk
39 min
April 23, 2020 Mindfulness in Schools Project - with Claire Kelly
"If you want to teach young people mindfulness, you've got to understand it from the inside out" - The Mindfulness in schools project helps schools and youth organisations to develop mindfulness initiatives and Claire's role is to develop classroom friendly materials and train teachers to deliver them.
We get into the struggle of mass implementation, the Myriad project (headed up by Oxford University) one of the largest mindfulness in education research projects, we discuss the 5000 teachers trained and the 500000 children reached, the randomised control trial involving 8000 students and 250 teachers. And the big question ‘Does mindfulness help with exam results’?
Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier and more caring society. You can join thousands of others who are spreading a bit more happiness in their homes, workplaces, schools and local communities. Our website has all the information you need to sign up for our ‘exploring what matters course’ and also details about facilitating one yourself, all the information is online, and we are here to answer any questions you have.
Don’t forget to subscribe, like and follow to keep up to date with all our content. Find out more at actionforhappiness.org
Gui - @mindfulnews.uk
44 min