People and Process

Conflict Management

Guide to conflict management Monash University

Happiness

Key contributors to deep, lasting happiness include:

• continual personal growth

• strong personal relationships - friends and family

• Helping others/acts of kindness, doing things that are meaningful

• Appreciating/gratitude

Activities to increase your deep level of happiness:

• Regular (as often as possible) loving kindness mediation. It only takes a few minutes. Try this simple loving kindness meditation to start you off.

• Perform random acts of kindness for others, especially anonymous ones.

• Be intentionally appreciative: for example, each Sunday night share 5 things that you are grateful for from the week that has just been

• Learn and use the Quick Coherence technique - it is quick and simple -> heart focus, heart breathing, heart feeling

Viewing:

• Watch "Happy" a 1hr documentary - Trudy has this

• Learn about Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index

Websites:

• • Action for happiness - great site with great ideas and resources and exercises

• Delivering Happiness - ideas, activities for making happier workplaces

• Authentic Happiness for questionaires etc

• Greater Good (Berkly Uni) for lots of things

• Happy life website