The Happiness Project Public Forum

TOPIC: IS HAPPINESS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL?

The Forum This multidisciplinary forum investigates happiness as a matter of individual, community and national importance. It brings together speakers from education, public policy, psychology, philosophy, the arts and community development to investigate what could lead to positive change to what we value as a society, and how we might find collective happiness.

Research & Statistics In Australia, it's estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, around 1 million Australian adults have depression, and over 2 million have anxiety, between 2010 & 2014, the average number of suicide deaths per year in Australia was 2,577.

CHAIRPERSON: Dave Noonan - Radio presenter on Heart 1073

SPEAKERS

Dr Sonam Thakchoe - Senior Philosophy Lecturer at UTAS. Dr Bruno Cayoun - Clinical Psychologist & principal developer of MiCBT. Deborah Mills - Public Policy Consultant Art and Wellbeing Dr Nicholas Hookway - Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, UTAS. Jami Bladel - Artistic Director and CEO of Kickstart Arts Stacey Clancy & Lucy Haigh - Educators from the Institute of Positive Education, Geelong Grammar School, Melbourne.

Each speaker will have 10 minutes to address the topic, and there will be a Q and A session of at least 30 minutes.

Tickets: Full Price $10 & Concession $5 Organiser: Kickstart Arts Telephone 03 6228 0611 Email: [email protected] Website: www.kickstartarts.org