Live Learning 36: Happiness: Stop Chasing It, Start Building It.

Live Learning is Future Anything's continuing professional development series for educators, in which we chat with awesome movers, shakers, thinkers and doers on topics designed to help build enterprising mindsets in Aussie classrooms. 

In this session, Future Anything's Dan Dempsey is joined by happiness researcher, coach, and founder of BU Happiness College, Declan Edwards, known to many as "That Happiness Guy."

For over a decade, Declan has studied and taught one simple idea: happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's a skill you can build. And it's a skill most of us were never explicitly taught — not at school, not at home, and not in our careers.

Drawing on his new book, How to Be Happy, Declan will unpack why we need to stop chasing happiness and start building it, and what that looks like in a classroom context. We'll cover topics like:

• Working with your emotions instead of against them

• Tuning out the noise and reconnecting with what matters

• Why happiness might be the most overlooked lever for performance and resilience

• How the wellbeing skills we model (or don't) show up in our classrooms

Whether you're navigating your own load as an educator or building wellbeing capability in your students, this session offers practical, evidence-based tools for your own life and classroom.

Register free now (if you can't join live, all registered participants will receive the recording with 72 hours of the session). 

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Disclaimer

The views expressed by guest presenters are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Future Anything or their affiliated institutions. We encourage educators to apply professional judgment and refer to their school or system policies when implementing ideas shared