There are now only a limited number of seats left for Happiness & Its Causes, the world’s largest and most important forum on today's no.1 issue - your happiness!

In one place, over two action packed days, you will meet the leading experts in the world in the psychology of human happiness.

• 50 speakers from Australia and overseas
• An agenda that spans East & West, psychology, science, philosophy, economics & spirituality

A conference of highlights • Keynote Addresses by world leaders in psychology – Dr Martin Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology; and Professor Daniel Gilbert, best selling author of Stumbling on Happiness • Two extraordinary contemplatives – Tenzin Palmo, best known for her 12 years in solitary retreat in the Himalayas; and Matthieu Ricard, dubbed by research scientists as “the happiest man in the world” • 10 overseas speakers including Tal Ben-Shahar, Harvard University’s most popular lecturer, and world-renowned neuroscientist Richard J Davidson

• Participation by some of Australia’s most thoughtful media personalities including Wendy Harmer, Norman Swan, Richard Aedy, Julie McCrossin, Anne Deveson, and Natasha Mitchell

• Explore the link between altruism, love and compassion and happiness, featuring the American researcher Dr Stephen Post,  Jonathon Welch from the Choir of Hard Knocks and pioneering neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo.

  2008 speakers include:

Dr Martin Seligman Founder of Positive Psychology Best-Selling Author Authentic Happiness	Matthieu Ricard "The world's happiest man" Author, Happiness a Guide to Developing Lifes Most Important Skill
Tenzin Palmo             Subject of the best-seller  Cave in the Snow  Founder Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery, India	Tal Ben-Shahar Popular Harvard University,  Positive Psychology Lecturer Author Happier
Professor Daniel Gilbert, World authority on affective forecasting,  Author Stumbling on Happiness	Dr Richard J Davidson Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
B. Alan Wallace President Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, USA	Dr Felicia Huppert Professor of Psychology, Director, Well-Being Institute Cambridge University, UK
Dr Charlie Teo, Pioneering Neurosurgeon, Founding Director The Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery	Steve Biddulph, Psychologist Founder, The SIEVX National Memorial