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Public Forum: Is Happiness a Matter of Survival?

Presented by Kickstart Arts

This multidisciplinary forum investigates happiness as a matter of individual, community and national importance. It brings together speakers from education, public policy, psychology, philosophy, the arts and community development to investigate what could lead to positive change to what we value as a society, and how we might find collective happiness.

In Australia, it’s estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, around 1 million Australian adults have depression, and over 2 million have anxiety, between 2010 & 2014, the average number of suicide deaths per year in Australia was 2,577.

CHAIRPERSON:
Dave Noonan – Radio presenter on Heart 1073

SPEAKERS:
Dr Sonam Thakchoe – Senior Philosophy Lecturer at UTAS
Dr Bruno Cayoun – Clinical Psychologist & principal developer of MiCBT
Deborah Mills – Public Policy Consultant Art and Wellbeing
Dr Nicholas Hookway – Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, UTAS
Jami Bladel – Artistic Director and CEO of Kickstart Arts
Lucy Haigh – Educators from the Institute of Positive Education, Geelong Grammar School, Melbourne

Each speaker will have 10 minutes to address the topic, and there will be a Q and A session of at least 30 minutes.

TICKETS: Full Price $10 / Concession $5
Tickets available ONLINE

EVENT:
Sunday 24 July 2016 @ 2:00pm

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