In Phu Cat Primary School, the principal Miss Huong Giang initiated the creation of a “Happy Path” in June. Together with a team of teachers and help from volunteers, from an unused stretch of land in the school’s courtyard, they built a beautiful path for mindful walking.
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Read MoreThe Camphill Movement Group brings together delegates from the various regions of the international Camphill Movementevery May or June. This year’s meeting was held for the first time in the history of the worldwide movement in Asia. The event was hosted by Tinh Truc Gia (Peaceful Bamboo Family), a Camphill community in the ancient imperial city of Hue, from May 13-17.
Read MorePhotos from the BITIS Executive Retreat in TTG=Tinh Truc Gia=The Peaceful Bamboo Family, a living community and vocational training centre for people living with disabilities in Hue, Vietnam. A very fruitful time, in an inspirational setting that embodies qualities of care in every aspect. Many great implementation ideas emerged during the retreat to bring Happiness to the company.
Read MoreIn April this year, we celebrated again, this time, the 10 years of the Peaceful Bamboo Family, the living community for young adults living with disabilities and vocational training centre in Hue, Vietnam. Friends and members of the Eurasia, ELI, Tinh Truc Gia community and network came together to celebrate a decade of our best efforts to contribute by bringing Happiness not only to young people with disabilities, but to ourselves, society at large and mother nature.
Read MoreTinh Truc Gia=TTG, The Peaceful Bamboo Family a vocational training and living community for people living with disabilities in Hue, Vietnam, started with a strong and authentic wish to bring Happiness and Wellbeing to people living with disabilities, to ourselves, but also Mother Earth and society at large. The community counts about 90 people : co workers, children in the inclusive Kindergarten, youngsters from adolescent class and adults living with disabilities. We are fundraising for some essential renovations for the centre as its 10 years are approaching!
Read MoreOn November 15th, ELI announced Introducing the one year Certificate of Advanced Studies on Gross National Happiness, a collaboration between ELI and the Geneva School of Management (Haute Ecole de Gestion).
Read MoreFrom October 18th to 21st, ELI team members Hai, Khanh, Ha and Hang led a three-day GNH Ambassadors retreat with around 40 members of the Bitis team.
Read MoreOn October 20th and 21st, Vivian Gladwell came to TTG to give two workshops. Vivian and ELI trainer Arnaud Durand combined efforts in order to give a Clowning & Compassionate Communication joint workshop to a mix of staff members from TTG and staff members from the Europe and Vietnam Eurasia-ELI team
Read MoreFrom September 28-30th, ELI founder Ha Vinh Tho attended the three-day inaugural Forum of the World Goetheanum Association. The purpose of this new Association is to create a space for people and organizations who are transforming society based on spiritual impulse to meet, share, support one another and get fresh inspiration for their work. Although it has been founded by people inspired by Anthroposophy, it is open to all those who share common values of inner transformation and social renewal.
Read MoreOn Sunday 23rd of September, Eurasia Association held a Happiness Fair in Fondation Perceval, St-Prex. Together, the Eurasia network – from 9 month-old baby Gaël to to 92 years old Barbara – filled the day with smiles, laughter, music and generosity. The day was a true celebration of friendship and happiness as the foundations of sustainable social engagement, from the preparations all the way to the end, to the dissassembling (which was also accompanied by music.)
Read MoreGNH workshop with 90 professors, administrators and students from the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück.
Read MoreOn September 9th 2018, Ha Vinh Tho, ELI founder and Chairman of Eurasia Foundation gave a public talk for an audience of about 500 people, to kickstart the GNH project in the Osnabrück University of Applied Science.
Read MoreThe 22nd and 23rd of August, ELI facilitator and Eurasia President Marie-Fleur Baeriswyl gave a 2-day workshop for 20 social educators of Fondation Perceval, St-Prex, Switzerland
Read MoreOver the past weekend from August 17th to 19th, the Eurasia Learning Institute hosted a Deep Ecology workshop in the Le Petit Bochet community in Gimel, Switzerland for about 20 people to reconnect with themselves, each other, and nature.
Read MoreFrom August 9th to 12th, members of the Vietnamese and International ELI team headed to Nam Cat Tien, three hours out of Saigon to kickstart the collaboration between ELI and Bitis, Vietnam’s leading shoe company, with a retreat for the Executive Leadership of Bitis. This marked the beginning of a three year long process, where ELI will work together with Bitis in order to become a Happy Organisation.
Read MoreFrom August 2nd to 7th, the Peaceful Bamboo Family (Tinh Truc Gia, TTG) hosted the first cohort of over 120 teachers from public schools from the province of Hue for the first module of the Happy Schools training programme.
Read MoreFrom July 5th to 9th, the ELI young team held a Youth for Change retreat, in Eurasia President Marie-Fleur Baeriswyl’s Community-run Farm Le Petit Bochet, in Gimel, Switzerland.
Read MoreOver the last three weeks, Della Duncan was invited by Dr. Tho Ha Vinh, Lisi Ha Vinh and the Eurasia Learning Institute to come to Vietnam to lead a few retreats on Deep Ecology.
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