{"id":109,"date":"2014-04-15T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:58:59","slug":"happy-is-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/happy-is-a-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy is a way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawson College will be hosting the launch event of <em>Sustainable Happiness<\/em> tonight to raise funds for the world\u2019s first Sustainable Happiness scholarship and to announce a certificate that will be offered at Dawson College. <\/P><\/p>\n<p>Partners Dawson College, CCS Community Services and the Earthvalues Institute will sponsor the pilot certificate course in May to educate a new generation of students in this field of study.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Catherine O\u2019Brien, an associate professor in the Education Department at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, will speak at the event. A pioneer in this field, she defined&nbsp;sustainable happiness as <em>happiness that contributes to individual, community and\/global well-being without exploiting other people, the environment or future generations<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>She established the world\u2019s first university course on sustainable happiness, a course she has taught since 2009. O\u2019Brien has found that as her students discover that their happiness and well-being are intertwined with the happiness and well-being of others and the natural environment, they readily choose to shift towards healthier, more sustainable lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"ID3Path\" src=\"\/public\/sh_launch.png\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawson College will be hosting the launch event of Sustainable Happiness tonight to raise funds for the world\u2019s first Sustainable Happiness scholarship and to announce a certificate that will be offered at Dawson College. Partners Dawson College, CCS Community Services and the Earthvalues Institute will sponsor the pilot certificate course in May to educate a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[42,81,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}