International Day of Happiness
International Day of Happiness: March 20
International Day of Happiness aims to highlight how actions like embracing mindfulness and practicing gratitude can cultivate meaningful happiness, which can help us in difficult times. This is a day to discover and engage in activities that allow us to pursue, cultivate and sustain a lasting sense of happiness throughout our lives.
Happiness Reflected
Happiness Reflected: Creative Expressions Collection, Vol. 3
Happiness Reflected is back with volume three, a collection of original creative works from our campus community that Days of Action has curated intentionally for Happiness Day.
Read the chapbook. Immerse yourself in the collection, reflect on the questions throughout to engage with your own experience of happiness, and consider the artist’s intention to deepen your connection to the work.
Happiness Reflected Podcast: Season 3
Listen to Season 3.
This podcast is about reflecting on how to cultivate meaningful happiness in our lives while listening to University of Alberta community members discuss how they explored perspectives of their own happiness in relation to their original poems, stories, visual art and songs they submitted to this project.
Listen to Happiness Reflected at the links below or wherever you find podcasts.
Events
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Happiness Awards, the rock climbing event, and the Cultivating Happiness: Insights from Mind, Brain, and Beyond workshop. While we develop programming for International Day of Happiness 2026, we encourage University of Alberta community members to engage with the Happiness Reflected chapbook and podcast as well as participate in activities that help them cultivate and sustain lasting happiness.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.