We are a hosting an event in a virtual world, Second Life, to celebrate the U.N. International Day of Happiness on Wednesday, March 20th 2024 beginning at 4pm Central (2pm Second Life Time (SLT))
Virtual location: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mindful%20Cove/37/170/25
Schedule:
- 2-2:30pm SLT Gentle Heron on Ability and Wellbeing
- 2:30-3pm SLT medi Martian on Positive Computing
- 3pm SLT Lady Tigress (Pet Karu) on Relationships and Wellbeing
- 4pm SLT Max Kleene dual-steaming with Edward Lowell (accompanying on mandolin)
- 5pm SLT Faust – Generosity builds the HAPPY LIFE
- 5:45pm SLT Shyla the Super Gecko with a portion of positive poetry
- 6:15pm SLT Eyeclectic on The Beauty of LIFE
- 6:45pm SLT Lyr Lobo on Strengths and Wellbeing
- 7:15pm SLT Oceane Madrigal, Musician
We also host a weekly conversation:
The Generativity* Generator
*Generativity is the drive to build up/draw out the positive potential we find in others in ways that are aligned with their strengths and values.
Saturdays at 9am SLT
Virtual location: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/77/195/701
- Build awareness of our strengths.
- Take the VIA Inventory of Character Strengths (look under questionnaires) at https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
- Bring a list of your top five strengths to the next Generativity Generator
- Values: How can you use your strengths to build up a HAPPY LIFE:
- For yourself (self-care values)?
- For others (compassionate, generative, and playful prosocial values)?
- Volunteer 1-2 hours per week in ways that express your prosocial values.
- Pass it on! Walk someone else through steps 1-3.
- Invite them to do the same with someone else.
- Meet weekly for a one hour small-group conversation (Positivity Matters Meetup):
- 30 minutes on building up a HAPPY LIFE for yourself.
- 30 minutes on living your prosocial values.
HAPPY LIFE framework:
- Health – physical and mental.
- Aesthetic experience – natural and created beauty.
- Play – creativity, the arts, games, sports, humor, and more…
- Pleasure – the thing that makes positive emotions positive.
- Yes-saying – choosing and living our values.
- Life – the web of.
- Information – the goodness of knowledge.
- Friendship – and the potential for.
- Engagement – flow and being absorbed in experience.
A few clips that inspired the idea:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAI_WnbL7Z1IX4oULQx4tawk4cn-mOBj