The mission of the Happiness Studies Academy is to educate leaders who are themselves dedicated to personal, interpersonal, and communal flourishing.

The Certificate in Happiness Studies (CiHS) program is a year-long online program that explores happiness through the lens of the different disciplines—including psychology and philosophy, as well as history, literature, theology, business, economics, physiology and art.

The program comprises two courses:
1. Introduction to Happiness Studies
2. Facilitating Happiness

Both courses include a healthy dose of theory and practice. However, the emphasis in the first course is on knowledge and understanding (what happiness is and what a field of Happiness Studies is all about) while the emphasis in the second course is on tools and techniques (how to generate happiness on the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and national level). The first course provides an overview, a survey, of the field; the second course provides some of the field’s greatest practical hits.

Small Victories

Explore our education library

Certificate in Happiness Studies