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1-Day HAPPINESS workshop with Mark Sham (powered by KAO South Africa)

Mon Sep 5, 08:30 - Mon Sep 5, 15:30

The Tryst

ABOUT

WHY HAS KAO PUT THIS WORKSHOP TOGETHER AND WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

It started off with a random, chance taking comment on a post by Mark Sham on LinkedIn. I had been to a few Suits & Sneakers events and have followed Mark on social media ever since, and I was intrigued by him doing these hour long talks on Mental Health to companies at no charge. I thought there will definitely be a catch and I’m sure there will be a sales pitch somewhere and how wrong I was… Here is a guy genuinely wanting people to take their mental health seriously in this post COVID world.


Attending a small business dinner ignited the idea of me wanting to host this workshop for the small businesses we supply on a daily basis, and the huge need for this (not just for our salons but all salons in South Africa).


We need to all collectively grieve COVID and really start working internally towards the post COVID future regardless of what is happening around us. I am very excited to co-host this day with Mark and I believe that everyone in the industry will be ‘happier’ for it so we hope to see you there. We would also like to state that KAO South Africa makes zero profit from this event, all of the ticket sales go to the Tryst for facilitating the workshop.


Kevin Tabilo

National Sales Manager - Salon Division

KAO South Africa


WHY DID MARK PUT THIS WORKSHOP TOGETHER?

For most of 2020, I presented a 1-hour talk about HAPPINESS and the response was overwhelming positive. With this in mind, I decided to take things further and create a comprehensive 1-day workshop centred around the topic of HAPPINESS. In 2020, we completed four editions of this workshop, and we got such an amazing response that we decided to continue to host these workshops into the new year.


My goal is to move away from speaking about the science of HAPPINESS, and move toward the practice of HAPPINESS. By hosting this session over a full day, we can really dive into the details of HAPPINESS, and we can actually practice several techniques on the day.


This 1-day HAPPINESS workshop will be taking place in the brand new home of Suits & Sneakers, a new venue we have called "The Tryst". The aim is to host a fully interactive, and immersive HAPPINESS experience. And the goal is for you to walk away with a very practical guide on how to be more HAPPY across various aspects of your life.



WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND THIS HAPPINESS WORKSHOP?

Well, let's flip that question on its head. For the longest time, we've been wondering why more people don't study HAPPINESS? Most adults will attend various forms of training for almost every aspect of life but HAPPINESS. So we think there are many reasons why it makes sense to attend a full day event where the sole focus is to work out how to become a happier version of yourself.


On one end, the data and research says that people are becoming less happy as time goes on. Our belief is that this is happening because people haven't been taught to deal with the rich complexity of the world that we currently live in.


Thanks to technology, the world has more abundance than ever before, and thanks to medical science, people can live longer than ever. Yet more people die from drug and opioid abuse than ever before, and even worse, more people are committing suicide than at any other time in recorded history!


This begs the following questions:


  • Why isn’t happiness a compulsory subject from 1st grade all the way through to graduation? Isn’t happiness something that almost every human being strives toward throughout their life?


  • Why isn’t "relationships with others" a compulsory subject throughout the schooling years? Don’t we all have to co-exist and live with others in every facet of our lives? Why don’t we learn how human beings are different from each other from a mental, emotional, and cultural point of view?


  • Why isn’t "psychology of self" a compulsory subject? We spend our entire lives having a conversation with that little voice inside our heads. Maybe it’s time we taught young people how to tame the monkey mind from a young age.


TOPICS COVERED ON THE DAY:


  • The many reasons why HAPPINESS matters!
  • The world is facing an opioid abuse and suicide pandemic that precedes COVID.
  • The world has become more complex than ever, and we don’t have the necessary systems to deal with this complexity.
  • Decoding how the schooling system didn’t teach us the skills we needed so badly.
  • How we haven’t been taught to have a relationship with others.
  • How we haven’t been taught to have a relationship with ourselves.
  • Soft skills have become CORE skills.
  • The art of studying HAPPINESS informally.
  • There is no silver bullet to HAPPINESS.
  • HAPPINESS is often a practical journey.
  • Better habits lead to a better life.
  • Impact of sleep on HAPPINESS.
  • Impact of movement on HAPPINESS.
  • Our relationship with FOOD.
  • Why meditation makes you a HAPPIER person.
  • Impact of learning on HAPPINESS.
  • How to use informal learning to hack the system of value creation (which leads to HAPPINESS).
  • The link between money and HAPPINESS.
  • How to find your IKIGAI.
  • Why HAPPINESS can only be achieved when you’re clear about what you want.
  • How the stories we tell ourselves in our head leads to HAPPINESS or unhappiness.
  • Spoiler alert: HAPPINESS is a choice.
  • Where you place your attention is where your energy will go.
  • Why affirmations work from a scientific perspective.
  • How we weren’t taught to have a relationship with pain (and how we avoid pain, or numb pain).
  • The difference between being positive and being optimistic.
  • How cognitive dissonance will free you to live a happier life.
  • Life is subjective, and if you can’t learn to let other people see things differently, you will never be happy.
  • Your expectations are hurting you.
  • Comparison is the thief of all joy.
  • How to learn to not care what others think.
  • Empathy is the greatest super power you can learn in this world.
  • The difference between love and attachment and its impact on HAPPINESS.
  • Why gratitude ultimately leads to happiness.
  • How giving is a form of gratitude.
  • How to learn to express your gratitude which matters most. 

DIRECTIONS

1-Day HAPPINESS workshop with Mark Sham (powered by KAO South Africa)
The Tryst
Woodlands Office Park Next to the GYM, Woodlands, Sandton, 2080, South Africa
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