2. About Us
We are a Yale student organization
driven by creativity, happy moments,
and cool projects.
3. 3 Founding Principles
We believe in 3 things:
1.Happiness is contagious.
2. Happiness - when shared - can inspire and
empower others.
3. Happiness can be expressed in infinitely
many ways.
5. Internal Structure
• Brainstorm new project ideas
• Implement your own project
• Find senior mentors who support you and
your project
• Learning by doing: work on existing projects
• Research Opportunity: Some of our members also work on various
academic research projects in the field of positive psychology as well as
economics (Gross National Happiness etc.)
12. And more...
• study breaks (think pancakes during finals!)
• welcome-packages to international freshman
at OIS
• Research opportunity: Positive Psychology,
economics, humanities
• Made lots of people smile
15. Inspire Yale
• Inspire Yale is based on the idea of building
an optimistic campus.
• It’s a yearlong initiativeall born out of our
projects which were
that consists of six
Project Lab
16. 6 Projects
• Outdoor photography exhibition on Cross Campus
• Master Tea with positive psychology expert
• Partnership with MIT Media Lab
• Publishing our own magazine “Making a Positive
Difference”
• Expanding our blog
• TEDxHappiness conference (tentative)
17. Do you want to...
• ...learn about happiness, websites, blogs, social media
management, publications, short movies,photo
exhibitions, speaker events, collaborate with the MIT
Media Lab and more?
• ...join a group of friends who want to make a positive
difference on campus?
• ...join a creative, entrepreneurial and dynamic student
organization?
18. First and foremost, we’re a team of friends!
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