Podcast
Satyan Mishra Podcast interview – @ Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Happiness Café
Happiness Cafe aims to be a sustainable and socially responsible business that with the help of collectives provides a welcoming environment for customers to connect, relax, find purpose, and become happy. We will focus on delicious and nutritious food and beverages, happiness , and local community’s well-being
Vision
We envision a world where every individual experiences a sense of belonging, realizes their potential and actively contributes to the co-creation of a happier world.
Mission
To set up 50 Happiness Cafes by 2025 to celebrate collective action and inspire sharing of wishes and actions enabling resource optimization and community well-being.
About the Café
Celebrating the goodness of each individual and learning to relate to others and our immediate environment are at the core of the dynamic yet tranquilizing energy of a Happiness Cafe.
Each cafe is uniquely rooted in the local spirit of people and place, promoting local culture and holistic wellbeing. The unique offering of the cafe is a Happiness Menu which includes a thoughtfully curated 5 course meal by the local community:
5 tenets of Happiness café
Soulful Meals
Food is something that connects heart to heart and brings us closer. Each Happiness café has a Cafeteria with soulful meals for the community to come and eat. This is run by a Collective.
Learning for Life
This is a continuing learning center available to collectives in the Happiness Café, supported by some infrastructure of tech support. It can be a very strong enabler of continuing and increasing impact on growth of Collectives.
Abundance Tree
We all without exception have something in abundance that we can offer to others. Each collective can offer their abundance for “co-creating” and “activating” of solutions for solving local issues / addressing opportunities
This is a Community Centre where interdependence and sharing is the key.
Wellness Circles
Activities as in music, art, craft are conducted by Collectives and are supposed to enhance the sense of well-being and contribute to better mental and physical health quotient of the HC members.
Sharing Stories
Collectives across would like to engage in –Communication and media getting to express and find a space for their stories, experiences and sharing of journey. This helps strengthen the Community and their action for change.
Objectives of Happiness café
- To celebrate collective action and sharing. (Sharing Stories)
- To encourage individuals to build collective and take responsibility for the larger good of collectives/ community. (Abundance Tree)
- To encourage community members to share wishes and actions for collective action. – (Abundance Tree)
- To share and preserve local knowledge and culture (including food, music, art, folklores, traditional knowledge) with the local and global communities through the Happiness Cafe. – (Learning for life/ Soulful Meals)
- Resource mobilization from the corporates, family foundations, individuals, Foundations, as well as Institutions – in terms of volunteering with skills, time, technology etc. through the facet of – (Abundance Tree/learning for life)
Find your Collective
While a person may walk in alone, he can be part of a collective and find a purpose in life.