Committee for Happiness

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Thank you sir. It’s an honor to serve as a Trustee on the Board of Teachers Empowerment Platform. We are so looking forward to serving our shared mission of motivated, happy and empowered educators in Uganda and efforts to scale our work globally.

TEP partners with Committee for Happiness.

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Committee For Happiness, a collaboration of professionals from around the world who have experienced success in their primary fields and have now joined forces to turn their collective experience and unique paths happiness into a better world. To that end, the Committee's founder and CEO, Mr. Ralph Brenner has joined TEP's Board of Trustees, to assist with development and expansion. TEP's mission of empowering teachers to empower Uganda is in sync with the Committee's mission to expand mindfulness, happiness, gratitude social emotional learning and wonderment awareness activities in classrooms world over.
"We are excited to expand our programs and operations into Uganda, East Africa and MENA to impact the lives of over two hundred teachers and more that thirty million school children. We envision a world of happier teachers who are empowered and motivated to educate the next generation of global citizens," Mr. Brenner explained.
Francis Bizoza, the TEP team leader expressed gratitude and welcomed the alliance.
"Our vision as TEP is a society with motivated, passionate and multi skilled teachers. It is great to get into partnership with Committee For Happiness, to tap into their expertise to offer more support to Ugandan teachers. I also wish to warmly welcome Mr Ralph Brenner to our Board of Trustees and look forward to working closely with him to impact the teachers in Uganda."

Committee for Happiness

Committee for Happiness is proud to announce our alliance with the Teachers Empowerment Platform (TEP) and the expansion of our Teachers Happiness Empowerment Module (THEM) to teachers and schools in Uganda.

Committee for Happiness founder Ralph Brenner has joined the TEP Board of Trustees. In this role, he will advise TEP and assist with their development and global expansion. “TEP’s vision is a society with innovative, multi-skilled and passionate teachers working together to deliver quality education and our mission is to empower teachers to achieve this vision through providing quality training, working with partners & building networks.” -Mr. Francis Bizoza, Co-Founder, Teachers Empowerment Platform.

“We are excited to expand our programs and operations into Uganda, East Africa and MENA to impact the lives of over 200,000 teachers and upwards of 30 million school children. Empowering teachers aligns nicely with our mission to expand Mindfulness, Happiness, Gratitude, Social Emotional Learning and Wonderment awareness and activities in the classroom on a global scale. We see a world of happier teachers who are empowered and motivated to educate the next generation of global citizens.” Mr. Ralph Brenner, Founder, Committee for Happiness.

Committee for Happiness is a collaboration of professionals from around the world who have experienced success in our primary fields and have joined forces to turn our collective experience and unique paths to happiness into a better world one school, one organization, one individual at a time.

Sharing Happiness Wednesday in Luweero, Uganda. Today we learned about mindfulness, controlling our emotions, replacing unhappy things in our brain and filling that space with Happiness. Through each class subject taught school children learned that we have to practice Happiness everyday and in as many ways as possible.

We also created happiness crafts and worked & played, while making lamp shades, decorative bottles, bracelets and fashion jewelry. We work better when we help each other and our communities.

Here are are some samples of the amazing activities and results of our day at school.

Oh, as a Brain Breather, we taught the school Michael Jackson’s Thriller choreography in the AM and Justin Timberlake’s Dance Dance Dance. Videos coming soon.

We hope this puts some sunshine in your pocket and happiness in your day!

Thank you Bizoza Francis! You make magic everyday and your school is blessed to have you. We love your school, Principal, Teachers, and kids.

World Education Summit- Innovation in Education session.

In this session on innovation in education and challenges teachers and administrators face, I talk about how teaching is akin to water. Water has humility. You can say what you need to about it and it will respond as water does. Likewise, teachers need great humility. They face challenges every day and must maintain their humility.

Secondly, teachers are presented with unique challenges from children, admins, parents, and the community. Like water, when a huge rock is dropped in a stream, water will find a path around it and continue on with its mission...to flow forward. Teachers must find ways to deal with rocks dropped in their path. Administration, don’t drop rocks on your teachers! Drop pebbles not rocks. Help teachers flow and children will benefit.

Thirdly, like water that can take many forms, liquid water, solid ice, or steam, water adapts. Teachers must adapt as well. Every child is different and presents unique opportunities.

Lastly, water quenches thirst and helps us live and thrive.

Teaching is like water.

Approaching the closing ceremonies of World Education Summit Delhi. It’s been a joyous and wonderful time meeting new colleagues, collaborators, government and educators from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

I am happy to announce our newest Happiness module, Teacher Happiness Empowerment Module and our collaboration in East Africa with the Teacher Empowerment Platform lead by the distinguished Bizoza Francis, Teach Uganda.

Our Teacher Happiness Empowerment Module helps teachers realize the importance of their roles in education and society. Using time tested principles of Happiness, Mindful Self Compassion and Social Emotional Learning, teachers learn how to better cope, grow, and collaborate on both a local and global scale.

We’re grateful to Mr Bizoza, the Teacher Empowerment Platform, and US Mission in Kampala for their recognition and support to help empower teachers. I’ll see you in Kampala UG.

Thrilled to be invited and speaking at the 14th Annual World Education Summit on the 9/10 August in New Delhi!

We are happy to announce that Ralph Brenner, Industry Professional, Committee for Happiness, US, Dubai & India, is participating as a Speaker in 14th World Education Summit Delhi to be organised on 9-10 August, 2019.



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