Late last month the Dali Lama was in the UK where he endorsed a new course of evening classes, offering to teach happiness.
To quote His Holiness: “Firstly the individual can learn to be happy, then the family, then the community and through this way the entire nation.”
Meanwhile, research into happiness from Harvard University, made popular by US-based motivational speaker Shawn Anchor, has suggested that 75 per cent of our job success is predicted not by intelligence, but by optimism, social support networks and the ability to manage energy and stress in a positive way.
This all got me thinking about the importance of and route to happiness for teachers, something which has the potential to have an impact not only on teacher wellbeing but entire school populations.
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