The Stories that Connect Us

Happiness Languages

Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny.

Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. Our happiness practices are our happiness languages.

From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. Each of these form the vocabulary and syntax of that give our happiness its expression and character.

In the Happiness Profile, we discover our most significant happiness practices strengths and opportunities. We use this understand of ourselves to create our Happiness Language, the expressions of happiness that will make our joy more possible, more contagious, and more inspiring.

Thinking about happiness as a language empowers our possibilities for joy. It takes happiness from being a pursuit and possession to practice in the way every language is a practice that profoundly shapes who we are. It makes happiness less contingent and vulnerable to the inevitable changes life creates. It makes happiness more of a choice.

Happiness is a language whose power connects us beyond generations, gender, and geography. It is the expression that makes our best possible and that infuses our lives with purpose, meaning, and aliveness.