I decided to be happy: can we learn happiness?

Audio 48:30

The happiness of a family © iStock / evgenyatamanenko

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

51 mins

“True happiness does not depend on any being, on any external object.

It depends only on us, ”said the Dalai Lama.

Everyone seeks and aspires to happiness.

However, happiness is neither a state nor a goal and it is different from person to person.

Replay

Publicity

With :

Julien Peron

, author of the

documentary

What is happiness for you?

and board

game

What is happiness for you?

 7 billion people, 7 billion definitions

(Neo-well-being)

- François Durpaire

, lecturer in Educational Sciences at Cergy Pontoise University, member of

the BONHEURS Laboratory

(Well-being, Organizations, Digital, Habitability, Education, Universality, Relations, Knowledge) and author of

World History of Happiness

(editions of Cherche-Midi)

- Ibrahim Haïdara

, psychologist, 

firm psy2a

, Bamako (Mali).

At the end of the program, the

column by psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, here and elsewhere:

How to educate our boys?

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here.

A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist at UNICEF in Dakar.

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