Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for January 2026
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, lead with Self-compassion to meet your goals with more gentleness with daily tips from Greater Good Science Center. Explore more keys to well-being with educators working for the greater good in our winter/spring communities of […]
The Top “Science of Happiness” Podcast Episodes…
Every year, we come back to the same question: What actually helps people feel more connected, grounded, and human? On The Science of Happiness podcast, we continue to explore what research tells us about living meaningful, joyful, and connected, to communities, our environment, and ourselves. Since our launch in 2018, we have accumulated over 53.4 […]
The Practice of Happiness | Psychology Today
Recently, I was having dinner with a group of friends who also work in Mental health when the conversation turned to happiness. What stood out wasn’t that everyone wanted to be happier, but how differently we defined happiness. Despite the range of perspectives, one shared assumption kept resurfacing: Happiness is something we reach after checking […]
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for September 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, cultivate empathy in yourself and your school community with daily tips from the Greater Good Science Center. Registration is now open for our 2025–2026 Greater Good Educators program! Join a community of educators from around […]
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for August 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, connect to your sense of purpose with daily tips from the Greater Good Science Center. Registration is now open for our 2025–2026 Greater Good Educators program! Join a community of educators from around the world […]
How Does Retirement Affect Our Health and Happiness?
While becoming unemployed can be a huge Mental health challenge, many of us assume that retirement—which also involves stopping or at least reducing work—will be the opposite. It’s pictured as a well-deserved time of leisure and relaxation, when we’ll get to do all the things we always wished we had time for. But is retirement […]
The Architect of Your Happiness
We are a goal-oriented society. We chase achievements with relentless dedication: the soulmate, the high-powered career, the enviable body, the life that looks perfect from the outside. We invest our time, our energy, and our hope in these external milestones, believing they are the bedrock of a happy life. But what if the key to […]
Study Reveals That Pets Bring Us $87,500 Worth of Happiness
A recent study published in Social Indicators Research suggests that having a pet can increase life satisfaction by 3 to 4 points on a 7-point scale. Even more eye-catching, the researchers estimate this happiness boost is equivalent to an extra $87,500 in annual income. In other words, they’re putting a dollar value on the joy […]
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for May 2025
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you reconnect with the natural world and inspire wonder in your school community. We also invite you to join our free community meeting for educators in May as we welcome special guest John Muir Laws of the […]
World Happiness Report Highlights the Importance of…
Do you live in a kind community, a kind society, a kind country? This may be a fraught question for some of us today, as we see evidence of unkindness (and worse) in the news at every turn. But according to the World Happiness Report 2025, how benevolent our society is—and, separately, how benevolent we […]