Happiness! Australia is a Call to Action
We can celebrate who we are.
We are all amazing when we are happy.
Happiness! Australia is a call to action happiness. As your Happy Destiny is Unavoidable when you make a decision to choose happiness.
Susan Carew-Holmes travelled with Dr Patch Adams to hospitals, orphanages and nursing homes and other venues as a peace clown to share happiness and joy. She is a Rotary Peace fellow and studied Peace at La Trobe University. She has been a public speaker on a range of topics and conducted workshops (called fun-ships) to inspire the community to join a happy community.
The projects below are set for 2024 and 2025. Happy project partners are invited. There is no set price but an invitation to exchange (barter) or to give what makes you happy.
If you answered the call for Happiness! Australia then feel free to contact Susan via email happinessaustralia@worldpeacefull.com to invite her to visit.
Happiness! Australia is is about sharing, caring, revealing and healing.
1) Happiness! Australia Happy Chats – Let’s Start the Conversation
This is a call out to all Australians, no matter background, culture, gender or difference to join in Happiness! Australia for the fun of it.
You can invite us to come and speak at your place (happiness presentations) to start the conversation about why Happiness is our true nature.
We are open to your ideas on how we can create ONE BIG happy country and return to our happy go lucky attitude of helping each other and laughing out loud together. HA will share the REAL HOPES to Advance Australia fair.
You may invite us to your Happy Place (organisation, group, school):
Happy Speaker: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/speaker/
HA chats: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/ha-chats/
Happiness! Australia flier to download for networks: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/happiness-australia-celebration/
2) Happiness! Australia Cheer Up! for the Community
Funships for Community Empowerment (GNH)
Happiness! Australia has developed fun-ships. We invite you to jump on board the happiness express, and yes, express yourself. The funships free people to laugh out loud, to experience the power of play to clown around, exploring the way we think, fake it until you make it (practice happiness) and rekindle that child inside that knew how to have fun in innocence and pure joy.
We seriously recommend sillyness, clowning around (class clown), juggling life, laugh out loud and learning happiness 4 life skills and questioning our thinking to re-member your happy place for the sheer fun of it.
Proposal: Community Groups and Supporters:
Happiness Australia Cheering Up Rural Australia Communities Proposal final
3) Happiness! Australia (HA) Cheering Up! Rural-Regional Australia
This project is to visit struggling and stressed rural Australia and 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. 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 prices and loss of their family businesses. The young people end up leaving towns.
Bureau of Meterology http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/
This initiative is to request Happiness! Australia presentations, Fun-ships, conflict resolution and happiness techniques to empower the Rural-Regional communities.
Maybe when positive people get together anything is possible.
Funship activities: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/focus/
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.
Previous presentations:
Proposal: Happiness! Australia Cheer Up! Rural-Regional Australia by Peace Fellow:
Proposal: Happiness Australia Cheering Up Rural Australia Rotary Proposal
A Video for Rotarians highlighting Susan’s peace work, experience, her book and the importance of the Fool and REAL HOPES. Perhaps Paul Harris was a wise fool.
The wisdom of the Fool is to ‘know thyself’ to realise life is the experience where we are all mastering our foolishness. The wise remember that what we do to another returns to the self. So to cause harm becomes self-defeating or harming yourself. It is wise to become self reflective and ask ‘how would I feel if that was me’? Will the action cause harm or benefit?
Other Research:
Rural areas
3) SPEAK UP 4 REAL HOPE: Children’s Well-Being and Empowerment Projects
a) Happy Chats and Funships for Kids (Well-being)
Values based education aims to bring real happiness to children in times where they feel fearful and disconnected from who they are. Happiness is critical for peace in our world, otherwise children become disconnected and indifferent to each other. Depression, anxiety and stress arise when children feel powerless and lose the sense of real meaning in their lives.
b) REAL HOPES 4 Kids (Values, Anti-bullying)
The REAL HOPE program is a values based, peace nonviolence and anti-bullying program. REAL HOPE is an acronym for: Responsibility, Empathy, Awareness, Love, Honesty, Oneness, Peace and Enjoyment. REAL HOPE is a program where life skills, emotional intelligence, positive psychology and peaceful behaviours are developed and integrated over a 8 week program. For short visits Susan could offer specific values the school wants to focus on.
c) The SPEAK UP Award:
Sustainability, Peace, Encouragement Award 4 Kids to Unite People
This Award could be started in 2025 with the right partners.
This Award is to encouraging children to SPEAK UP for their planet – the Sustainability Peace Encouragement Award for Kids to Unite People. This project was designed for children to empower change. This project is looking for project partners (cheer! leaders) to assist in empowering young people to ‘be the change they wish to see in the world’ and become involved to empower children. This is a great project to empower children in peace building and sustainability (ecological balance).
The project was initiated as a International Project in 2015 and is now available to begin in 2025.
The brochure can be viewed: SPEAK UP New-1
The SPEAK UP! Award will be piloted in Australia in 2025 to Australian children and then it will become a global project.
5) Build a Ecovillage for Homeless Women to live independently
The highest proportion of homeless are women over 50 years of age. This initiative is to raise funds to buy land and build a ecovillage for 50 homeless women. The goal is to empower sustainability, self reliance and happiness in a community of supportive women.
Proposal: Build An Ecovillage: https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/homeless-lives/solution-build-a-ecovillage/
CONTACT
Susan Lily Carew-Holmes created Happiness! Australia.
She is inviting happy project partners (cheer! leaders), friends, groups to get behind Happiness, Hope and Peace Projects that create connection, happiness, joy and REAL HOPES for every ONE.
This work is not a business it is a public service. It is like lighting a candle of happiness to pass on.
In exchange for fun we ask for you to contribute as Giving National Happiness 4 Fun (GNH4Fun) is the real wealth of a nation. You give what makes you happy. Everyone wins. That is the goal.
Happy Project Partners are invited to contact Susan at happinessaustralia@worldpeacefull.com or click on Contact