The purpose of Cheer Up! Rural Communities is to let rural people know we care and share ways to lift the mood and restore REAL HOPE for the future. Happiness! Australia can come and give Happy talks, facilitate funships to laugh, play and develop Happiness 4 Life skills. Juggling is great to balance the left/right brain and not think!! Happiness! Australia will provide real relief in hard times and offer pathways to real peace.
Susan Carew-Holmes is a Rotary Peace fellow, she has trained in Peace and Change, is a mediator and has a background in business prior to her transformation into clowning. She travelled to Russia with Dr Patch Adams who started the Gesuinteit! Institute in the US and aimed to build free hospitals. Patch said to we clowns in Russia “everyone is great”. This is a link to his speech in Russia, even more relevant today:
This Happiness! Australia rural project will visit struggling and stressed rural Australia communities to remind them they are not alone and that we can have a laugh and let go of the stress that is a constant these days. Health is the real wealth and laughter is the best medicine.
This is a program that reminds every Australian that Happiness is the real wealth of the nation.
Here is an example of the rural people. We cannot imagine how they feel when they confront no rain or floods, changing government policy, low commodity prices, high costs and fear of loss of their family businesses. When towns are dying, the young people end up leaving towns and don’t carry on the business.
Bureau of Meterology climate advice: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/
This initiative is to invite Happiness! Australia to come to your rural group. We give Happiness! Australia presentations, we run Funships, teach conflict resolution and transform negative beliefs into a positive realisation that we can overcome the toughests challenges. This fun and happy work is to empower Rural-Regional communities.
Maybe when positive people get together anything is possible. Australians come from hardship, this is why they don’t give up and come together to help out. Australia has amazing rural communities and Happiness! Australia is getting behind them.
FUNSHIP activities: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/funships/
HA will be visiting those who need a laugh, who want to clown around and want to turn their lives around and beat the flood of unhappiness that is the real dis-ease in our nation.
Australians are known for their sense of humour and happy go lucky attitude to life. This project is to reconnect to the class clown in all of us. If nothing else, you can laugh. This clown certainty has spent a lifetime laughing through challenges, conflict, hardship and uncertainty.
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THE RURAL COMMUNITIES PROPOSAL: Happiness! Australia Cheer Up! Rural-Regional Australia
Happiness Australia Cheering Up Rural Australia Communities Proposal final 2
The wisdom of the Fool is to ‘know thyself’ to realise life is the experience where we are all mastering our foolishness with a joke.
The wise ones remember that what we do to another returns to the self. So to cause negative harm becomes self-defeating as we end up harming ourselves. Sometimes it feels impossible to laugh when times are really tough, yet the key is to find the point of light in what seems impossible, it is always there but can be hard to see.
It is wise to become self reflective when thinking of the challenges of others and ask ‘how would I feel if that was me’? Will the action I choose help or harm? Imagine when we all come together and help out and solve the many problems we confront.
Our young people really need help as many are struggling with mental health and addictions. Let’s get together and find positive ways to bring back their enthusiasm that anything is possible.
So contact Susan Carew Holmes aka Peace-Fool at happinessaustralia@worldpeacefull.com
A few issues for further research:
Rural areas