"Happiness Day" event

"Happiness Day" event with Gerbert Bakx, Jürgen Mettepenningen, Dirk De Wachter, Hein Zegers, Sabine Cocquyt, Kristof van Rossum, Piet Nijs.

Does money make you happy?

Does money make you happy? "Ook getest op mensen", a popular scientific program on the largest Belgian television channel "één" has tested this with the help of well-being expert Hein Zegers. A dramatized version of an experiment by Jordi Quoidbach (Quoidbach et al., 2010). In the original experiment, the results were statistically significant. For the video, just google:
#ookgetest geld gelukkig

Happiness for world leaders...

The World Book of Happiness (with my article on p. 330-331). The New Years' gift by European President Van Rompuy to 200 world leaders including Merkel, Sarkozy, Cameron, Hu Jintao and Obama.

Interview with Hein Zegers about Happiness

Interview in newspaper "De Bond" of Jan 6th, 2012, with a readership of 662.500 (CIM 09 - 10). Hoping that this caused at least a few of them to get a small boost in their level of well-being...

October-December 2011

08.09 Give Happiness Course (Linden)
10.09 Present ceremony on happiness (St. Joris Weert)
03-04.10 Multi-day Course on Happiness (Rillaar)
07-08.10 Word Echt Rijk-campaign brainstorm (Geetbets)
10-13.10 Multi-day Course on Happiness (Rillaar)
15.10 The Power of Happiness event (Leuven)
26-30.10 Nagoya (Japan)
07.11 PhD Consultation (Utrecht, Netherlands)
08-09.11 Multi-day Course on Happiness (Miskom & Wilsele)
13.11 Presentation on Happiness for self-help organization Ups & Downs (Leuven)
15.11 Book presentation "Gelukkig Werken" (Oegstgeest, Netherlands)
21.11 Give Positive Psychology course (KHLeuven)
23.11 Happiness course (Leuven)
23.11 Happiness course (Holsbeek)
24.11 Workshop Positive Psychology in practice (KHLim Hogeschool)
04-07.12 Abuja (Nigeria)
10-13.12 New York (U.S.)
15-19.12 Geneva-Paris-London-Frankfurt
22-28.12 Atlanta (U.S.)

Happiness at Work

Gelukkig Werken (in Dutch). A surprisingly good book on Happiness at Work (and I'm not saying this because I'm being mentioned in it :-) by Onno Hamburger and Ad Bergsma.

July-August 2011

02.07 Seligman Positive Psychology Conference (Zürich)
09-17.07 Volunteer work as a psychologist for vzw ANBN (Belgian Coast)
22-26.07 World Conference on Positive Psychology with own presentation and co-organizing several events
28-29.07 World Database of Happiness (Rotterdam)
07-09.08 Boston
12-14.08 Perm (Central Russia)
18-22.08 Athens-Düsseldorf-Dresden
26-29.08 Nagoya (Japan)