UBU Integral Development Studies Discussions

Gross National Happiness Conference

I am just back from the Gross National Happiness Conference in Bangkok and still absorbing it all.

There were a number of good developments there:

I got to meet Dr. Warr! Thank you so much for attending my presentation and introducing yourself. He is planning on coming to Ubon in January and I am hoping to present my research proposal while he is here. (As Dr. Calkins is also in Thailand at the moment, I am hoping he will also be here in January.)
I talked with Dr. Michael Pennock from Vancouver Island Health Authority who is working with the Center for Bhutan Studies in developing GNH indices and questions. He is going to send me the entire list of questions in their 7 hours survey and that will help me with building the tool box I want to build and, if we translate some of these into Thai to use in Tak, it might provide him with information that they can use regarding cross cultural transfer.
I met number of Thai people who are knowledgeable on Sufficiency Economy and speak excellent English.
It was just a basic thrill to see people in the flesh that I have read about and read their works: Ajarn Sulak, Helena Norberg Hodge, Dr. Ronald Coleman, and Mr. Nic Marks.
I have been skeptical of subjective measurements and it was reassuring to see a lot of papers in the academic session and in workshops that were talking about objective measurements.

Last comment added: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:26:31 PDT

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Some of you are new to using this particular platform, some of you are new to using internet tools. If you do not know how to do something, please ask for help in this thread. Those of us who know how to use things will be more than willing to help you.

Last comment added: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:39:57 PST

Welcome!

This is a platform where I am comfortable working. A few other people who have been invited to the group are also familiar with this platform. There are discussion where you can easily hold conversations and there are workspaces that are better to compile information or build documents.

I would like to use this thread for each person to briefly introduce themselves in the way they would like to do that (I briefly described the people invited to the group here.)

Last comment added: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:31:40 PST