Check out what is happening in Santa Fe! Their press release is below and you can learn more on their website or gather resources on the Happiness Initiative's website!
Happiness Week in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM, March 22, 2013- The Center for Emergent
Diplomacy in partnership with the City of Santa Fe, announces the launch of Happiness
Santa Fe, an initiative that challenges the way we measure people’s well-being
and success. By using indicators that look at what makes people happy, our goal
is to help policy makers in Santa Fe make better choices for its community
members.
Happiness Santa Fe will launch with Sustainable Happiness
Week, which begins on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, Saturday, April 13 and runs
through Saturday, April 21.
Many special events are planned to take place around Santa Fe
in conjunction with the launch and with Sustainable Happiness Week, including
the reading of a Mayoral Proclamation, Happiness Ambassadors at the Santa Fe
Farmer’s Market, film screenings, and interactive art installations, musical
performances, and Happiness flash mobs, with more events to be announced.
A full calendar of events will be found at
HappinessSantaFe.org.
Santa Fe businesses, cultural institutions, community groups
and individuals also will be creating “Happiness Happenings” throughout the
week to engage citizens in activities and conversations centered on happiness,
where they can take a popular well-being survey.
The survey contains questions in ten categories of well-being,
including workplace satisfaction, physical health, relationships, and
governance, as well as a question specific to Santa Fe. The survey results will
enable Santa Fe decision makers to better understand where people perceive
themselves to be hurting and thriving. City officials have committed to use
survey findings in setting priorities for future resource and fiscal
allocation.
The survey can be found at www.HappinessSantaFe.org.
“Santa Fe is
joining an emerging global effort begun by the kingdom of Bhutan at the United
Nations last April. Imagine Santa Fe as a Happiness City, a city that
demonstrates the viability of a local economy based on the happiness and well-being
of its community members. Santa Fe has the opportunity to help lead the
way in replacing the failed global economic system based on consumption and
economic profit with one that honors human needs and the conditions for life on
the planet”, declares Center for Emergent Diplomacy founder and president, Dr.
Merle Lefkoff, herself a veteran of decades on the front lines in war zones as
an international mediator in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and
Central and Eastern Europe.
We aim to replace our current
profit-based measurement, GDP, and join a global movement to development a new
measurement called GNH or Gross National Happiness. This new, comprehensive measurement considers those factors
that contribute to human happiness and well-being, so that policy makers in
Santa Fe base their decisions on the desires of community members.
The goals of Happiness Santa Fe are:
- To help Santa Fe become a world leader in implementing comprehensive measurements of success based on happiness and well-being.
- Stimulate community participation in community life and increase volunteerism.
- Facilitate, through participation in our Happiness survey (www.happinesssantafe.org), the emergence of new insights and policies that help Santa Fe establish more appropriate measures of progress.
- Help city decision makers develop policy and budget decisions that respond directly to the real needs of Santa Feans.
- Generate a powerful, recognizable brand for Happiness Santa Fe, and in so doing inspire other cities to create similar initiatives.
The Center for Emergent Diplomacy is social profit 501(c)3
organization working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe and the Happiness
Initiative to create the Happiness Santa Fe Initiative. We provide leadership tools, and project management to facilitate Santa
Fe in becoming a Happiness City, link citizen happiness and well-being to
public policy and decisions on spending priorities, and help Santa Fe to become
a world leader in changing the values upon which we base future development.
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