euha!
2014
dear members and members to be! welcome to this first yearbook, highlighting the formation and early leanstarting of
European Happiness Association ,euha, through the last 2 months of 2014 after an invitation to join aha, i decided to focus on euha, pulling things together here i visited Mike and Henry in UK in December and met Alex as well, much love nigel founder, euha!
euha team Aymee Coget, PhD, Sustainable Happiness Expert & Creator of the Happiness Makeover. Founder American Happiness Association
Edwin Edebiri, MBA , Chief Happiness Officer I am Happy Project
February 2009 – Present (5 years 11 months) Spreading Happiness Globally one person at a time
Franziska Self Kisken, MBA , EFL English Teacher, Marketing & Website Consultant, Coach, Mathematics Teacher. Versatile, commercially aware, articulate, numerate, mature Marketing & ICT professional equipped with entrepreneurial skills gained from wideranging experience in business, education and the wider community. I have experience of managing projects, organising events, marketing, and of setting up, and running, novel community initiatives. I have strong ICT skills and proven expertise at SEO (optimising search engine positioning of websites). I enjoy working with, learning from, and helping people of all ages and abilities. I am particularly good at motivating people e.g.with job seeking.
Genny Jones, AKA Confidence Queen is a happiness spreader whose mission in life is to spread happiness and Joy to everyone she comes across. She was nominated for the Pride of Britain Award in 2013 for ITV Meridian Region for her work with the Happiness Project Kent which she founded in 2009. She was also featured on Britain's Got Talent in April 2012 where she wowed the audience with her infectious and bubbly personality as she got them all to join in her fun confidence song and dance routine. Genny’s passion for spreading happiness is fueled by some life challenges which at some point left her feeling depressed, with low self esteem and confidence. When she got help and recovered, she was determined to make a difference by helping others to be happier so that they can enjoy every moment of life. Genny is the creator of Escape to Happiness Island, and the One Minute Smilence where she encourages people to take a minute of their busy schedule to think happy thoughts and smile for a minute.
Henry Stewart, Founder of Happy Ltd. Author of Happy Manifesto, I help people create happy and productive workplaces
Kat Ebanks, Executive Director of American Happiness Association
Mark Tuttle, an „all‐rounder” C level executive in technology and
business, with 25 years of experience in a wide variety of activities and roles. His diverse experience enables him to jump into almost any situation and add value. Mark’s expertise has successfully
served top companies worldwide (small and large), including Hewlett‐ Packard, Apple Computer, Lucent, Yahoo!, Philips, and others. Mark has served in a variety of positions, founder, CEO, CTO, CFO, board member, advisor, consultant, business developer, teacher and coach. Michael Hancock, MBA , is a passionate innovator and looks for opportunities
to channel creative insight into projects that have the potential to make positive change the world. He takes initial ideas from concept and builds a comprehensive team and brand around them to bring them into reality This includes recruiting strong management teams with the drive and focus to take them forward. His interests span a number of areas and most recently he is enjoying a return to the Film Industry after 14 years.
Mike Zeidler, Founding Director at Happy City Initiative
Nigel Stonham, MBA ,
Summer 2012 I was wondering what my purpose is, and set an intention to spend the rest of my life travelling the world spreading happiness. This is based on my work in the happiness field since 2006. To make it sustainable I offer happiness coaching, strategy mentoring and English training. In 2014 I was invited to support the American Happiness Association as advisor to the board and also founded the European Happiness Association. EUHA aims to spread happiness with special focus on cities, companies and citizens with input from Happy City Initiative, The Happy Manifesto and the Happiness Project Kent.
Sean Meshkin, MBA , happily spreading the big U
Stephen Whiteley is a former fighterpilot and Royal Canadian Air Force senior officer who transformed his own life from being a Master of Destruction in his former job to being a Master of Happiness And Harmony now. He just loves teaching others to do the same. The founder and owner of Happiness Works, he specializes in helping others to end unhappiness for good, just like he has done for the last 7+ years. Awarded Inspirational Man of the Year by Ashford Radio Publishing in 2012, he is the author of the Inspirational Book of the Year, Happiness Works! Get Yours Here!
Thomas Stermole Currently working as Freelancer, Startup Advisor, CTO and as independent Online Project Manager. Over a decade I built 140+ web platforms for small to major companies and led them to success. I worked as web designer and as Online Project Manager for corporations like Microsoft (MSN, Bing Apps EMEA), Generali Insurance, BAWAG PSK, Sanofi, Bayer and a vast number of small to medium companies. My personal goal is to work on new ideas to make the world a better place, and transform them into a fruitful business. My background gives me a uniquely full perspective, due to my experience as • a selfemployed freelancer working for major agencies • an agency working for small and major companies • an entrepreneur doing both
outline plan for 2015 Week of Happiness 2015
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Meribel
5
Vienna
28
Bratislava
21
Ottowa
24
San Francisco
17
Chicago
10
Bath
12
Bristol
5
Ryde
15
Shanklin
8
Brighton
1
Moedling
13
Vienna
6
Munich
9
Heidelberg
2
Gravesend
14
Greenwich
7
Happy Gathering
13
15
12
16, 30
11
Launch, CEO Event
2
Research
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Date is Saturday start, program a bit like the Vienna plan based on Bristol actual. Happy Gathering is Genny, Mike, Henry with 3 rooms of 60 people, as euha membership event for CHOs
CEO event is invitation event to sow seeds at Chief Exec level of Cities and Companies, for showing RoI from a CHO…, for promoting euha membership, for commiting to take on an interim CHO, signing up for Happy People courses and AwB etc, CSFs. gather central and local teams, create program, publicise, deliver MAP / https://europeanhappinessassociation.wordpress.com/map/ If you are on a journey, it helps to have a map of where you are going, this is first draft of a map
The idea is to have as soon as possible a Chief Happiness Officer in each village, town, city, school, company, organisation and home across Europe, who would accept responsibility for the for happiness of the people within their area/arena. Extending over time to reach a covering of 80% of the 700m people in Europe, thats 560m people. Ideally all people would have a mentor and be part of a one step program to consistently improve happiness following logical incrementalism, one step per day. All member would also have an eBuddy in another EU country and another continent to improve international understanding.
How to get there / routes to one scenario / appoint CHO and they attend Happy Space event where key happiness advocates co.create local progress. An aim being to grow membership of companies, cities and citizens, contributing membership fees aginst clear membership value offerings, which are called off and delivered in a balanced budget fashion delivering triple bottom line benefits to all 100% EU members
dates for diary / key Happy Space events seen as in Vienna early 2015, in London early 2015, in Derby/Gravesend/Passau/Munich/ Marseilles early 2015. initial Happy Space event 2014 at Baden Powell House London soon as critical audience gathered
…its an inclusive process, designed for all, based on Mr Happy of the Mr Men. Creating Happyland within Europe as a model.
steps are fairly simple…/ 1 identify key players in the area already active in happiness / 2 bring them together in an open space, then happy space, then happy gathering/ 3 co.create localised plans from that with umbrella support and connections to other hubs for sharing best practice / rinse and repeat.
notes… there is a plan developing for 5 day 4 night open space/happy space events. staying at appropriate accomodation, using appropriate spaces, international teams of people with passion first gel as a team in the walk your talk open space concept, focussed on their own ideas, and the second event, happy space, builds on this as to how they might at same time contribute to happiness in their community. leave with action plan for home community space…
as a next step please engage in the facebook group or email me, Nigel
CEO Event looking at London / IoD, or Baden Powell House, or LSE / for the meeting, inviting people in to hear about happiness, discuss how it could be implmented in their city or company WoH, see above, based on Bristol Happy Gathering designed as key member benefit, for CHOs bringing them together to hear from Genny, Mike, Henry or similar,
Membership Benefits might include…. / interim CHO for x days / Happiness Coaching / tickets to Happy Gatherings / open space events in city or company / organisation of WoH locally or in company / a teddy bear, bee or Mr Happy article / Mr Happy book, Relax!, Happiness Works!, etc for employees or citizens / weekly program of Happiness Meetups to share positive energy
call to action! join the facebook group / European Happiness Association contact nigel for a place on the CEO event or Happy Gathering thank you very much