h(app)athon project host toolkit

Host Script and Toolkit• This presentation is designed for you, as a Host of an official H(app)athon Event, to

download and modify for your event.

• You must gain permission from the H(app)athon Committee to run an official H(app)athon Project event and use Project branding. For info on how to run an event, please email john AT happathon DOT com. Thanks!

• We always welcome PR for any H(app)athon event. Please notify John if you would like to discuss ways we can help promote your event.

• To learn how to run a H(app)athon Project Workshop, please go to the following URL:

• www.slideshare.net/johnchavens/the-happathon-workshop-toolkit

Before the Event• Please test to see both H(app)athon Videos will play in your space (wi-fi/Internet

connection required).

• Please make sure to have your video recording equipment (including quality audio) prepared to film both the speakers and breakout sessions (one of the Project’s only requirements is that you video record all speakers as well as people submitting ideas at the end of the event).

• Please be ready to take lots of photos and hashtag them with #happathon plus the city/organization where you event is taking place, (e.g., #happathonindy or #happathonmumbai)

• Buy some beachballs. If the venue allows it, play some fun music and kick the beachballs around if you won’t break anything and insurance will cover you if you do. We are called “H(app)athon.”

Host Script

• The next slide is now the beginning of your template for your event. Please replace any blue slides like this one with your own location based content.

CITY LOCATION HERE

Welcome!

Script for Host: (in your own words)

Welcome to the official (NAME OF CITY/ORGANIZATION) H(app)athon Project Workshop! Our goal tonight is to help IMAGINE a world where value is not primarily focused on wealth and learn about the emerging technologies and happiness/well-being metrics driving our world. Thank you for coming!

Host Slide to Update

• This is the slide where you list your organization/info.• This is where you thank your sponsors, etc. • Please confirm final Event approval from john AT happaton DOT com.

before announcing or planning your event. • Include the Logo for Organization sponsoring H(app)athon here. • Include any Local Sponsor Logos.• General intro for the night (see next slide).

Script for Host: (in your own words) – for use with next slide.

There are three basic parts to a H(app)athon Workshop Event. First is the introduction we just did about our local sponsors and the organization hosting the Event. Second, we’ll have some Presentations teaching you about the issues important to the H(app)athon Project. Third, we’re going to break into small groups and do an Interactive Game where YOU become a collaborator as part of this Project!

Introduction (Insert city/venue info)

H(app)athon Topics Presentations

H(app)athon Workshop Your Turn!

Tonight!


Here are the hashtags for the H(app)athon Project, as well as for our event. You can also follow The H(app)athon project @happathon on Twitter.

Please take lots of pictures and videos today (with people’s permission of course) and tag them so everyone will know about the Workshop we did today!

Tags and Tweets:

#happathon or #h(app)athon#happaton (HOST CITY), e.g:

#happathonindy@happathon

(INSERT VENUE HASHTAG)


• Tonight (today), we’ll be filming our speakers to build a library of expert talks to help you and other people running events in the future.

• We’re also filming representatives from breakout groups at the end of the evening so their/your ideas can help change the world. So make sure you’re okay with being videotaped if you’re chosen to represent your small group after we do the breakouts.

We’re Filming Tonight (TODAY)!


Along with your help collaborating during the breakouts, please remember to go to happathon.com and take their “Personal Happiness Indicator” Survey to learn your “MeDP” (as compared to the GDP, or Gross Domestic Happiness) Score.

To learn more about the H(app)athon Project, we’re going to play two videos. First is the Project’s general introduction Video, and the next is a presentation by the Project’s Founder.

Please now play the following two videos:

• The H(app)athon Project Video Introduction: (3:50)• https://vimeo.com/62070219

• The H(app)athon Project Vision Video: (19:14) • https://vimeo.com/62019700

These can also be found at happathon.com.

• Now please segue to the Portion of the Event with your Speakers. We have included the following three slides for you to send to your speakers before your event. They can insert their content and send back to you to replace in this deck.

• If you don’t have access to Expert Speakers, please go to the “VIDEOS” section of the H(app)athon Project Website on the “Workshop” portion of the site. You will find a selection of Expert speakers there who can speak to various subjects important to the Project. This is also the area where we, the H(app)athon Project Committee, will post your speaker’s videos after your event.

Speaker Title Slide

Speaker Content Slide (version one)

Speaker Content Slide (version two)

In terms of length of speaker content, we recommend 10-15 minutes per speaker. We also like the “15 to 2” minute rule, which means after someone speaks for 15 minutes, as a Host, ask everyone in the audience to take 2 minutes and speak with the people around them about what they learned.

Your call.

Now it’s time to segue to the Game/Interactive Portion of the Event. The next slide signals the start of

the game.

Again, up to you if you want to have your Audience take a few minutes for a bathroom or food break. But if the energy is high after the speakers, we recommend

going right to the Game.


Now it’s time for the Interactive Portion of our evening! We’re going to break up into small groups of 6-8 people and play a game to help you understand how emerging technology and Happiness Indicator Metrics can help save the world. But first, let me explain the game.


The country of Eudaimonia needs your help! While they have some metrics that are optimized for the well-being of their citizens, there are many areas that could still be improved. What this means is that they’re flourishing or doing well with some of the economic and other aspects of their lives, but need help finding balance all-around for the greatest benefit of their Citizens. So you all are going to help brainstorm ideas to help them!

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Statistics for Eudaimonia that are provided in this game mirror the types of metrics used by Bhutan for their Gross National Happiness Index and many other countries around the world. It’s important for you all to recognize that Happiness Indicators are not based on mood or ‘fluffy’ metrics, but are quantitative measures helping to reshape our world.

This is why it’s so powerful to map your own well-being, or happiness to a Personal Happiness Indicator – you can start to understand your holistic value in the context of where the world is moving, which is away from the GDP. It’s also very cool to note that the United Nations support Bhutan’s work and is also trying to help all their member countries discover how THEY can work with their countries on these types of happiness metrics to help their citizens find well-being.

Let me show you some examples of existing, actual Happiness Metrics.

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Script for Host: (in your own words) – for the following slide:

The first example shows all the areas that Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness focuses on. “Living standard” is in there, which reflects money and wealth, but that’s only one attribute. There’s also “education,” “community vitality,” “culture,” and things like “time use.”

Are you starting to get a picture how emerging media, especially things like Quantified Self will be so important to dovetail to these metrics? The QS movement is already transforming millions of lives by helping people optimize their time use and health. These are the types of things that can be leveraged for the work we (this includes you as a Collaborator) are trying to do with the H(app)athon Project.

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Here are some other quick examples – the OECD Better Life Index that measures these types of Happiness Indicators for multiple countries, statistics taken from the United Kingdom where Prime Minister Cameron is using these types of quantitative and qualitative measures to help improve citizen’s well-being, and an entire (large) page on Wikipedia under “Happiness Economics” where you can learn about other efforts being done in Brazil, China, Australia, and multiple parts of the United States and the World at large.

So keep in mind as you play this game – Happiness Indicators are a real and thriving set of metrics around the world. Y/our ideas for how to Save Eudaimonia could be utilized at some point to help an actual country improve their Happiness Metrics. No pressure.

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Cameron

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Now check out the Happiness Indicator Metrics for Eudaimonia. These are printed on the handout sheets I’ve given (OR I WILL GIVE) to facilitators for each breakout group. What you see here is a more holistic portrait of this country than just looking at their GDP. You can see areas where they have an abundance of one metric (like a high health satisfaction) and a lower abundance of a different metric (like housing).

So one major advantage of looking at a more holistic portrait of value is in seeing how you can leverage a country or a person’s strengths to help the areas they need to optimize. Using real-time data, you can also see how improvements, when provided to a country, can immediately start helping individuals, communities or even an entire population.

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Happiness/Well-Being Indicators for Eudaimonia:

Income: (Average Annual) $38,500 USD (equiv)Employment Rate: 65% (since previous year)

Housing: (35% of average income) Work Satisfaction: (59% happy at work)Health: (self reported) 80% satisfaction

Educational Attainment: (goals/level) 65%Community: (social network penetration) 85%

Civic Engagement: (voting) 76%Environment: (prox to green space) 65%

Life Satisfaction: 59%

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Now it’s time to play the game!

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What Your Group Needs to Create in the next 30-45 Minutes:

Please come up with a solution to help citizens of Eudaimonia achieve a higher level of well-being based on the fictional Happiness Indicators provided. You can do this in a few different ways:

• Create an App• Create a Marketing or other Awareness Building Campaign

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Script for Host: (in your own words and show this slide as well)

Here are some tools/samples of Apps to get your ideas flowing:

Surveys for subjective data, Sensors to measure heart-rate/health, RFID to measure machine data, Smartphones to measure GPS, voice recognition, Accelerometer data, Blue-Tooth for NFC)

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In just a minute, we’re going to break into small groups of 6-8 people. I’ll pass out worksheets to facilitators so you’ll have these directions when you play the game. (NOTE – the following instructions mirror the worksheets you’ll be passing out).

Once you break into small groups, you’re going to introduce yourselves quickly to each other (your names). Then you’re going to decide on and write the names down of those who are willing to take different roles in your group (this is on your worksheet).

Next, you’re going to review Eudaimonia’s Gross National Happiness Indicators (the ten metrics I showed you above and that are printed on your handouts) and come to a consensus on ONE indicator your group would like to focus on to improve well-being in the region.

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Next you’re going to brainstorm ideas for solutions to help Eudaimonia improve in the one indicator your group came to consensus on. Note you can utilize other indicator data to support your choice (e.g., “Our app leverages high civic engagement to improve work satisfaction.”) Solutions can come in the form of an app/technology, or a marketing or awareness-building campaign.

Then you’ll need to refine your ideas based on answers to the following questions: 1. What is the problem your idea(s) seeks to address? 2. How will the idea address this problem? 3. How will you know when your idea is successful?

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Then you need to review all ideas and come to consensus on the one idea that seems to be getting the most energy and excitement from the group. If you are having trouble coming to consensus, you may ask members to advocate for ideas, try combining ideas, or conduct a vote.

You’ll need to create a name and a graphic for idea & prepare for presentationthat best represents your idea. The “graphic artist” in your groups will create the graphic on a piece of chart paper. Write the answers to the three questions described above below the graphic.

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Finally, develop any additional talking points needed to support presentation of idea. Pick a presenter who knows and is fine with being videotaped/placed on the H(app)athon Website.

People report their idea for 2-3 minutes. I’m going to keep time to make sure we keep the energy flowing! (NOTE TO HOST – PLEASE TIME THESE AND IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN FIVE GROUPS, DO 2 MINUTES EACH)

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After everyone is finished, we’ll vote for a “winner.” There are NO bad ideas, but it will be helpful to see what people choose as an idea that could truly change the world. We’ll clap for a winner, who will receive (NOTE TO HOST – THIS SHOULD BE A JOKE GIFT OR SOMETHING FUN VERSUS MONEY – NO MONEY AWARDS SHOULD BE GIVEN, OR OTHER ACTUAL TYPICAL PRIZES).

And don’t forget to cheer for your presenter!

Here are two sample ideas to get your minds going:

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Sample App Idea

Citizens of Eudaimonia will create wearable-sensor clothing for employees to analyze when they’re happiest at work. Fabric will change colors based on mood so people can be more sensitive to their colleagues and increase productivity.

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Sample Marketing Campaign Idea

“The Thank You! Campaign” – Citizens of Eudaimonia are assigned 25 people in one day they try to thank for something they’ve done. Each person who is thanked is asked to wear a fitbit or biometric sensor that will show their increased (positive) heartrate. The improvement in health over the course of one month will be mapped, as well as the correlation of data around health insurance rates being lowered. Local employers will be able to charge less for insurance and have more money to hire more employees.

It’s your Turn. Help Eudaimonia Get H(app)y!

Please use the timing provided in the “H(app)athon Project Eudaimonia Worksheet” on slideshare to keep track of each portion of the game. You as Host should be the ultimate timekeeper, both for the brainstorming sessions and for having people present their ideas. Try to let people have enough time for good brainstorming, but stop groups when there is still a lot of energy left in the room.

You can customize slides like the next one to help keep the group on time.

Here’s the URL for the worksheet if you need it again:

http://www.slideshare.net/johnchavens/happathon-project-eudaimonia-worksheet

Five Minutes Left – Wrap it Up

Presentations

Once you have a “winner,” the Workshop and Event is essentially over. Before breaking for networking or eating (something we recommend), please remind people of the following ways they can help the H(app)athon Project, and don’t forget to thank your sponsors.

Please show the following slides as ways to let people know how to help the Project out.

After the “thank you” slide, the event goes to networking or is over.

How You Can Help The H(app)athon Project

• Take the Survey at happathon.com• Sign Up for the Project Newsletter• Spread the Word – We’re looking for

Media Partners & Sponsors

• Do Your Own Event (download toolkit)• Check out our Wiki• Follow us on Twitter/Facebook• We welcome Feedback & Testimonials

Thank you!

Get H(app)y. www.happathon.com

AFTER THE EVENT:

• Please write a wrap-up post for us to feature on the H(app)athon blog and include URL’s so we can thank you for organizing! We want to hear your feedback/thoughts about your event. Send to john AT happathon DOT com when you’re finished or email him with any questions.

• Please contact john AT happathon DOT com to coordinate the uploading of all pictures and videos. (He’ll send you sign-in for the following):

• We post our videos to our site and at VIMEO here: • https://vimeo.com/happathon

• We post photos to our site and at Photobucket here: • http://s1357.photobucket.com/user/happathon/profile/

• Finally, please take our SurveyMonkey Feedback Survey so we can improve our Workshop: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/39RK5JD

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