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School for Wellbeing 1  05 Oct 2011
 08 Jul 2011 25-27 August 2011 Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Register Now!
If doubts prevail whether ‘the welfare state’ is a feasible option for Asian societies, and ‘populism’ – driven by the market-economy and intending to satisfy the needs of citizens at an artificial level only – is increasingly rejected as an un-sustainable solution, other alternatives will have to be explored.
Re-thinking the fundamentals of ‘property’ may lead the way to unlock new development paradigms. An enormous diversity of new movements of living alternatives has come up since the 1970’s. To mention only a few: the World Social Forum, ‘Cultural Creatives’, the Eco-villages and Transition-towns movement, social entrepreneurship, the Commons Movement.
At the dawn of UNCED 2012, twenty years after the groundbreaking conference in Rio de Janeiro, the School for Wellbeing proposes to create a modest but effective momentum – 25-27 August 2011 – to take stock of what is happening in the world of alternative development, in Asia, Southeast Asia and the Mekong region, in order to contribute to empowering and re-positioning Thai and Asian change agents in the global transformation movement.
 01 Feb 2011 School for Wellbeing Studies and Research is honored to have Helena Norberg-Hodge, the producer and director of the film ‘the Economics of Happiness’ for the Bangkok special screening on Tuesday, 15 February 2011 between 1:00-4:00 pm. at the 14 October 73 Memorial Conference Room, 14 October 73 Memorial Foundation, Rajadamnern Road, BKK.
 18 Nov 2010
School for Wellbeing Studies and Research presents
Vision and Planning Workshop "Well-Being Society scenario: an alternative development path for Thailand?"Thursday 11 November 2010, 08.30 am. – 04.00 pm. at the Conference Room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
 18 Nov 2010 Newspaper section: Bangkok Post, Outlook
Published: 20/09/2010 Writer: Thiti Owlarn It is safe to say that, at one level or another, we all want to be happy. But what is happiness, and what makes us happy? What do we have to do in order to become a happier person? Philosophers have pondered these questions since the beginning of civilisation, yet more often than not the answers are too abstract and general for us to make use of in our everyday lives. Happiness is the supreme human good, some say. Happiness is illusionary and ephemeral, say others. These remarks may indeed be true and insightful, but how they are supposed to have a bearing on our lives is not always clear. For those of us who are more pragmatic, there is still a need to come up with a more concrete way of thinking about happiness.
 18 Nov 2010 SIFA Public Dialogues
 18 Nov 2010 Founder of the award-winning Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation, Nic Marks will lead a one-day workshop with professionals in the fields of social change, urban and rural planning, local business, policy development and international organisations, and happiness research and statistics, on the challenges facing civil society all over the world. Society risks becoming overgrown by omni-powerful governments and big business. Can we form associations among social innovators in all sectors to change the course of development? What are the indicators that convince policymakers?
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  Re-Thinking Property for a Well-Being Society //////////////////////// Download PowerPoint Presentation: HIA Workshop แนวคิด พัฒนาการ และประสบการณ์การประเมินผลกระทบทางสุขภาพ (Health Impact Assessment - HIA) ในสังคมไทย การประเมินผลกระทบทางสุขภาพ: การเปรียบเทียบระหว่าเกษตรอินทรีย์และเกษตรเคมี ถอดรหัสผู้ประกอบการเพื่อชุมชนสู่การเสริมพลังขบวนการเกษตรอินทรีย์ “จากกรอบคิดและการออกแบบสู่การปฏิบัติ” โครงการภาพจำลองสังคมที่ช่วยให้คนมีความเป็นอยู่ที่ดี |