1. REFLECTOLOGY
Measuring Our Lives to Improve our Health and Happiness
John C. Havens
@johnchavens
Founder, The H(app)athon Project
Author, Hacking Happiness

4. Why My Harmonica Acts As a
Medical Device*
• It helps me control my breathing
• It relieves my stress (meditative)
• It spikes my cortisol levels

5. DISCLAIMER
*My Harmonica Is Not a Medical Device
Although:
• It functions as a saliva receptacle
• It could be used by police to test
Blood Alcohol Levels
• It’s shiny

6. UPON REFLECTION
• I find FLOW when I play
• It makes me feel unique

8. REFLECTOLOGY
Measuring Our Lives to Improve Our Health and Happiness

9. Audience Participation

11. Just Kidding.

15. Audience Participation
Reflect

16. 1) Turn to the person next to you.
2) Pick someone to go first.
3) Regard them. (Take them in).
4) Ask, “What are you grateful for?”
5) Pause for 5-8 seconds.
6) Repeat back to them what they said.
7) Repeat the process.

17. “The Currency of Wellbeing is Attention.”

18. What’s the Deal with Data?

23. Quantified Self
H(app)thon at Social Media Week

26. REFLECTOLOGY
Our Devices Know More About Us Than We Do.

28. “I’m sorry, the doctor no longer makes diagnoses.”

29. Audience Participation
Reflect

30. 1) Turn to the person next to you.
2) Pick someone to go first.
3) Ask, “How do you feel?”
4) Repeat back to them what they said.
5) Repeat the process.

31. Positive Psychology

32. H(app)thon at Social Media Week

33. My Dad to all his patients:
“Do you watch the 11 o’clock news?”
“Yes.”
“Stop watching the 11 o’clock news.”

34. Audience Participation
Reflect

36. Positive
News

37. What is the Measure of My Life?
H(app)thon at Social Media Week

40. Thank You.
john@happathon.com
www.happathon.com
www.johnchavens.com