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The Happiness InitiativePursuing more of what matters, not merely more

www.happycounts.org

The Happiness Initiative is a project of Sustainable Seattle, a 501(c)3 non-profit

1402 Third Avenue #430, Seattle WA 98101

happy@happycounts.org | @HappyCounts

Campus Initiative Timeline

Activity and time Description

Team Building Phase (varies) Build Happiness team. This can consist of students

(including existing clubs/groups), faculty, and

staff/administration. A mix of students and faculty is strongly

encouraged.

Planning Phase (varies) Team decides scope of project, goals and time line, roles

and responsibilities.

Promotion Phase (two weeks-

2 months, after planning

phase)

Promote and market the Happiness initiative through social

media. Allow your team to expand during this phase and

reassess your scope if need be. Download and use the

Outreach Suggestions resource in addition to the teams

own approaches.

Focused Survey Phase (two

weeks, after promotional

phase)

Two weeks of focused activity to get as many people as

possible to take the survey. Survey also remains online

indefinitely, and data is taken on an annual or other basis. If

the school provides the resources to conduct a

representative survey, the focused survey phase is a good

time to do this.

Objective Indicators Planning

Phase (2 weeks 2 months,

after planning phase)

Identify your campus objective indicators. If you can access

your campuses existing sustainability indicators, you can use

them and/or add your own. HI will provide a suggested set of

indicators in the toolkit. The objective indicators show abalanced picture when paired with the survey results.

Data Analysis Phase (2

weeks, after Focused Survey

Phase)

Gather survey and objective indicator data and analyze data

from the survey. We provide you basic data. To ensure the

protection of personal data, we do not provide you raw data

but if someone on the team or on campus is a qualified

researcher, such as a faculty member, and agrees to sign

the confidentiality form, we can provide raw data. We also

provide data analysis services.

Happiness Report Phase

(after focused survey and

objective indicator datagathering phases)

Once the data is analyzed, the team meets to discuss the

results, content, focus and recommendations for the report.

The report can then be written, reviewed and issued. Itshould be issued to the school paper, different groups, clubs,

academic chairs and the administration.

Community forum phase (1

week-1 month- after the report

is issued)

Happiness team members can conduct community forums to

present results, having conversations about happiness;

asking What are you doing to be happy? What do you

want to do? and What do you want to see done here on

campus? This can be done as a large community meeting

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The Happiness Initiative

Pursuing more of what matters, not merely more

www.happycounts.org

The Happiness Initiative is a project of Sustainable Seattle, a 501(c)3 non-profit

1402 Third Avenue #430, Seattle WA 98101

happy@happycounts.org | @HappyCounts

or small focus groups. It can be done in different dorms in the

library, classroom or other reserved space.

Action Phase (2 weeks-6

months after the communityform phase)

People, formal and informal groups conduct projects to

increase the wellbeing of the campus based on the surveydata, and feedback from the forums. Actions can be small or

large. Small projects may develop into larger projects or be

further developments of programs already in place. The

people conducting the project are encouraged to write small

reports describing the project and how it links to the survey

and objective indicators data. At a minimum, this information

should be communicated to happycounts.org

Campus Report (1 week- 1

month- after happy project

phase)

Campus feedback from the forum and the descriptions of the

projects and actions is gathered for campus report. The

team meets again to discuss the content, priorities and next

iteration of the campus happiness initiative. Again, this

report should be shared widely within the campus to informand invoke discussion. A copy also to be sent to

happycounts.org