This one runs as a masterclass: Spencer Heijnen takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.
What is the theory of happiness and what are your opportunities to become happier? Should you believe in karma or take matters into your own hands? Why are ivy league universities’ most popular courses about wellbeing and happiness.
What is so interesting about positive psychology? In this interactive session, Spencer Heijnen tells stories, brings new perspectives in this session about the psychology behind happiness.
During the expert session, Spencer Heijnen engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations of coping strategies, and interactive exercises with the Mentimeter app. Participants were encouraged to share their thoughts on happiness, social connections, and negative emotions, while Spencer provided insights from research and personal experience.
Through these activities, attendees gained practical tools for improving their emotional well-being and fostering stronger relationships.
Understanding the balance between genetics, environment, and intentional activities in shaping your happiness setpoint is essential. Focus on nurturing strong social connections and engaging in activities that bring you joy to increase overall well-being.
Achieve a state of complete absorption in an activity by finding the balance between challenge and skill level, setting clear goals, and receiving direct feedback. Social connections are crucial for reaching extreme happiness levels and enhancing productivity.
While negative emotions are a natural part of life, it's essential to focus on cultivating positive emotions and learning healthy coping mechanisms. Practices like gratitude journaling, mindfulness meditation, and building strong relationships can help deepen happiness and resilience.
In this expert session, Spencer Heijnen delves into the multifaceted nature of happiness and its contributing factors. He begins by exploring the role of genetics, environment, and intentional activities in shaping an individual's "happiness setpoint." Spencer highlights the importance of recognizing the significance of intentional activities and emphasizes that people often focus too much on external circumstances and neglect the power of their actions.
The speaker then shares insights into the concept of "Flow," a mental state of complete absorption in an activity, and its relation to happiness and productivity. According to Spencer, Flow states occur when there is a balance between challenge and skill level, having clear goals, and receiving direct feedback.
Moreover, he underscores the importance of social connections and relationships for overall well-being and happiness.
The topic of friendships arises, with research suggesting that having around five close friends is the norm, although many people reported having none or fewer. Spencer emphasizes that having strong social connections is vital to reach high levels of happiness.
Engaging in activities that bring joy and deepening relationships are key strategies for enhancing overall well-being.
Spencer further discusses the importance of coping with negative emotions instead of suppressing them. He suggests creating space for negative activities and emphasizes self-acceptance as part of this process.
The speaker also encourages participants to simulate positive experiences from their past to help cultivate positivity in the present and adopt a Stoic philosophy perspective, which involves training our brains to appreciate life's good aspects.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Brilliant, truly enjoyed the content and the energy! Thank you!
Being happy for an extended period of time is really hard if you have no awareness of what kinds of things make you happy. So thanks for shedding some light on that and (re)creating that awareness for us.
Super nice sessions that I really enjoyed. Something else than the super commercial everyday conversations.. ;)
Thanks to open our questions directly to you !
Such an awesome inspiring lecture! Certainly makes you think about we are in charge of our own happiness
Spencer was well prepared and knowledgeable, but open and flexible - felt like a great balance between presentation and discussion. Would love to see him speak another several hours!
Positive impact of optimism and that it is possible to change towards a more positive mental attitude. Also find the exercises interesting and will certainly try it out.
The importance and effects of positive psychology, good background information about the topic and interesting ways to improve your (mental) well-being.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
What is the theory of happiness and what are your opportunities to become happier? Should you believe in karma or take matters into your own hands? It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A masterclass. Spencer Heijnen takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.
Spencer Heijnen is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 337 responses, and rate Spencer personally 4.4 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Spencer, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English, Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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