It was a nice nostalgic evening sharing my journey into discovering and bringing the wellbeing curriculum to Bhutan.

The journey took me to Kanglung and to remote Silambi in Bhutan,  and then to UC Berkeley and Yale in the US, and now we are now in Paro – in the valley where it all started in 2015. Our team has creeped into 40 schools and educators, who really believe in the future of education of the Bhutanese children.

Our country, and the world, are going through post-pandemic depression and economic recession. In Bhutan there are people leaving for foreign shores, a government that is caught off-guard, and a society that is not only condoning such a phenomenon but also encouraging it. All is not well, it seems.

Wellbeing initiative is a cure, I believe, albeit a slow one like every good thing in life.

I cannot save the country – or the world, but I am reminded of a Jewish saying, “He who saves a man, saves the mankind entire”. From the stories that were shared in the evening, there were two whose lives were altered for the better after learning of the wellbeing programme.

So, we keep going 

(The last picture is the 2015 GNH Conference where the concept of GNH as contentment was proposed)

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