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The Department of Happiness and the EURASIA KIDS project took part in the first All-Russian Forum “Happy Cities”, which took place online on May 26-27.
The organizer of a large-scale event, the Living Cities Community has been researching the theme of Happiness in the life of a city and a person in it for several years, discovering and testing new and effective methods and approaches.
The large-scale Forum made it possible to exchange experience, hear the opinions of leading experts of the country and the world, and, most importantly, start implementing the best solutions and practices in each city. Leading experts from Russia and the world, leaders of urban initiatives, together with the participants, have created a set of recommendations applicable to any city and any conscious city dweller.
The Forum was held online, on a webinar platform. The event was broadcast on YouTube. More than 20 hours of useful content, more than 40 experts of all-Russian and world level in the development of people and organizations, cities and territories, more than 1000 participants - this is only a part of the statistics of the event.
The introduction of technologies to increase the involvement of citizens in the processes of positive changes, increase the attractiveness of cities and regions of the country for life and productive activity, increase indices of trust, happiness and investment attractiveness of cities and the country, involvement in the community of creators and leaders of territorial development. These and other topics were the main ones at the event.
The experience of colleagues from different regions of Russia and other countries made it possible to exchange new ideas, contacts, learn about the possibilities of happy living in small towns and regions.
Speakers of the Forum:
- Vasily Golubev, Governor of the Rostov Region;
- Marina Demchenko, Happiness Advisor to the Head of Zverevo, co-founder of the Global Happy City Lab;
- Mikhail Solonitsin, Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Rostov Region, Ex-Head of the city of Zverevo;
- Alexander Lotarev, Mayor of the city of Zverevo;
- Maria Staroverova, co-founder of the Living Cities Union, communications director;
- Sergey Orlov, Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Rostov Region;
- Lev Gordon, co-founder of the National Living Cities Initiative,
- Natalia Avseenko, World Champion in free diving, author of methods for unlocking human potential;
- Andrey Asadov, Chairman of the Board of the Living Cities National Initiative, Vice President of the Union of Architects of Russia;
- Valeria Terentyeva, co-founder of the Living Cities Union, curator of the School of Mayors of Living Cities;
- Dmitry Ponomarev, Founder of Business with Meaning;
- Andrey Veber, founder of the project "Culture of Happiness", general producer of the International Day of Happiness in Russia;
- Philip Guzenyuk, creator of the "Happiness in Activity" project, co-founder of the Coaching Institute, NoGuru Forum (Singapore);
- Evgeny Pustoshkin, psychologist, expert on the integral metaproach, founder of the projects "Holoscendence", "Integral Space" and "Eros and Space";
- Evgenia Gromova, psychologist, president of the WorkLine Group, author of the value typology of personality, the analytical model and the game “Genome of the Territory”, researcher of the topic of happiness and trust in various cultures;
- Alexander Starkov, curator of the City Heroes program, founder of the Griffin art centre, the Open Garden public square and the Open City festival;
- Vladimir Maikov, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Senior Researcher Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy, Member of the Presidium of EUROTAS (European Transpersonal Association);
- Marina Volkova, Head of the Department of Happiness of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, Ambassador of Peace, President of the “Give Good to the World” charitable foundation;
- Sergey Rozhko, organizing director of the Forums, editor-in-chief of the “Zhivye Gorod” (the Living Cities) magazine;
- Charles Montgomery, author of the book "Happy City", founder of the agency "Happy City" (Canada);
- Marilyn Hamilton, author of the Integral City book series, host of the “Future Cities” course at Ubiquity University, co-founder of the Global Happy City Lab (Scotland);
- Anne-Marie Verhoeven, Founder of The Hague Centre for Human Development, Integral Approach Expert, Co-founder of the Global Happy City Lab (Netherlands);
- Stefano Serafini, editor-in-chief of the international journal “Biourbanism”, chairman of the International Society for Biourbanism (Italy).
The happiness of every person is one of the main tasks of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly. The plans of the Department of Happiness and the project EURASIA KIDS include mobile Days of Happiness of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly. The pilot project will be implemented in June 2021. The first region will be Udmurtia. The Days of Happiness are timed to coincide with the International Children's Day.
Happiness volunteers from African countries have already joined the initiative. The event will be attended by Irina Chebareva, two-time champion of Russia, Moscow and Belarus, winner of the Continents Cup in wheelchair dance among children. The happiness of every person begins with a small homeland. The happiness of humanity begins with the happy eyes of a child.
Maria Petrova