Onno Hamburger and Hein Zegers talk about Happiness@work at Thoughts on Happiness

1. November 5th, 2008 [email_address] Evidence Based Interventions

2. Introduction Onno Hamburger, happiness coach Psychologist, senior trainer and happiness coach at Van Harte & Lingsma Developer of Happiness@work trainingprograms, coaching & workshops Founding father of www.geluk.startpagina.nl , & the weblog about happiness in the workplace www.gelukkigwerken.nl

3. Introduction Hein Zegers, happiness researcher University of Leuven Belgium ENPP Representative Researcher on evidence based happiness interventions www.evidencebasedhappiness.com , Researcher on employee well-being at www.iswlimits.be Worldwide qualitative researcher on happiness

4. What is happiness@work?

5. Meaning Satisfaction Pleasure HAPPINESS @work

6. Why Happiness@Work?

8. What makes people happy in their job?

10. What is happiness determined by? Sonja Lyubomirsky

11. How can we influence those 40%? Science:

12. The science of Happiness@work Descriptive vs. Experimental research:

13. Experimental Happiness Research Happiness interventions:

14. A new world We know there’s a lot we don’t know

15. What we do know: Evidence Based Interventions RET/ CBT/… Physical movement Strengthen optimism Gratitude Random Acts of kindness Forgiveness Developing & using strengths Flow/ goal setting Mission/ Vision/Visualisations Mindfulness Heart Math

16. What do we need? More …… & and more …

21. “ Reduce cortisol (stress hormone) levels by 17 percent in people who played the game five minutes a day. ” October 2007, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

23. How do you get happier? Positive thinking / Realistic thinking Neo-cortex Emotional Brain Brainstem

24. Few neural pathways from the outer to the inner layers This makes cognitive psychological interventions less effective Source: Ledoux (2003).

25. Many neural pathways from the inner to the outer layers

26. Direct influence emotional brain & brainstem Neocortex Emotional brain Positive feeling Brainstem Adapt way of breathing Source: www.heartmath.org

27. HeartMath

28. Coherence is not correlated to heart rate