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Happiness: Kanopy Videos

Sources that explore what might lead to happiness.

Kanopy Videos

Kanopy Videos
On-demand streaming video for over 16,000 films including content from the BBC, PBS, and Critereon Collection. Public performance rights for educational use are included.

These videos are searchable via the Cerritos College Catalog or directly through Cerritos.kanopystreaming.com

Kanopy Videos (Happiness)

Kanopy Videos (The Sciernce of Happiness)

The Science of Happiness

Learn about the new field of positive psychology, and how mindfulness practices foster empirically-supported paths to happiness.

40 min. 2014

Kanopy Video - Happiness

Flow: Psychology, Creativity, & Optimal Experience

According to Csikszentmihalyi's renowned "theory of flow," we have "optimal experience" when we become so completely involved in an activity that we lose our senses of time and self. 

Kanopy - Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness describes the effects of economic globalization can cause stress on individuals, families and communities around the world. It presents ideas for happier solutions these challenges. 

Kanopy - Contentment, Joy and Living Well

Contentment, Joy and Living Well (The Dalai Lama Collection)

H.H. The Dalai Lama discusses how our essential human nature is compassionate and affectionate, and how when this is combined with our intellect, this balance can contribute to happier human life and a better world for all beings. Our worldly concerns with attaining wealth and having friends only provide limited satisfaction; only developing our motivation to follow the spiritual path can really help us find contentment and live our lives well.

Kanopy Videos - Happiness

And The Pursuit of Happiness

In 1986, Louis Malle, himself a transplant to the United States, set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers (from teachers to astronauts to doctors) in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles in an increasingly polyglot nation.

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