Degree in Happiness: A Practical Course in Joy, Gratitude, Resilience, and Meaning

Teacher Jakub Tencl Ph.D.
Categories Psychology
Students 2 (Registered)

May

Degree in Happiness is a gentle, practical online course designed to help you cultivate Happiness as a lived practice rather than a distant goal.

Across six reflective modules, you will explore how Happiness can grow through attention, gratitude, emotional resilience, kindness, connection, and meaningful contribution. This course does not ask you to pretend that life is perfect. Instead, it teaches you how to notice small lights, return after difficult moments, receive goodness more fully, and create a personal happiness practice that can support everyday wellbeing.

You will be guided through reflective lessons, journalling prompts, grounding exercises, gratitude practices, resilience tools, kindness reflections, and a final Happiness Declaration. At the end of the course, you can complete your personal Degree in Happiness certificate as a symbolic recognition of your journey.

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to live with more awareness, emotional steadiness, appreciation, kindness, and meaning.

Curriculum

6 Sections
54 Lessons
6 Weeks

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Module 1: What Happiness Really Is
Happiness is not a permanent mood, a perfect life, or the absence of difficulty. It is a way of relating to life with more awareness, warmth, steadiness, gratitude, and meaning. This first module helps learners loosen unrealistic ideas about happiness and begin building a practical, compassionate foundation for the course.
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Module 2: Attention and the Inner Weather
Happiness is shaped not only by what happens to us, but also by how attention moves through experience. This module teaches learners to notice their inner weather, understand how attention colours emotion, and practise simple grounding skills that support steadiness, clarity, and emotional choice.
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Module 3: Gratitude Without Pretending
Gratitude is not the denial of difficulty. It is the practice of widening perception so that hardship is not the only thing the mind can see. This module helps learners cultivate grounded gratitude: honest, gentle, emotionally realistic, and rooted in everyday life.
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Module 4: Resilience and Recovery
Resilience is not the absence of difficulty. It is the capacity to return, repair, adapt, and continue with greater steadiness after stress, disappointment, emotional heaviness, or change. This module helps learners understand resilience as a gentle, trainable practice rather than a demand to be strong all the time.
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Module 5: Kindness, Connection, and Contribution
Happiness often grows when life is not centred only on the self. Kindness, meaningful connection, and contribution can deepen wellbeing by helping learners feel part of something larger than their own thoughts, moods, or private concerns. This module explores how small acts of care, honest connection, and purposeful contribution can become practical routes into happiness.
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Module 6: Living the Happiness Practice
Happiness becomes meaningful when it is lived, not only understood. This final module helps learners integrate the whole course into a realistic daily practice. Learners review what they have discovered, create a personal happiness plan, write a Happiness Declaration, and complete the course with a certificate ritual that honours growth, attention, gratitude, resilience, kindness, and meaning.
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Instructor

Jakub Tencl Ph.D.

Jakub Tencl, PhD, is a dynamic clinical hypnotherapist with a footprint in London and Prague. His journey is marked by groundbreaking methods, notably his personal mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy system. What sets Jakub apart is his innate leadership, a quality that shines through his organisation of therapeutic groups and his unwavering commitment to his client's well-being. When Jakub embarks on a mission, he does so with unparalleled dedication. His wellspring of motivation is a force of nature, and he's on a mission to inspire others with his highly efficient mindset. Jakub's vast expertise spans self-confidence, self-forgiveness, self-mastery, dreams, fears, stress, guilt, and self-acceptance, principles he believes can benefit all individuals. As a sought-after coach, Jakub is in high demand. He's renowned for his exceptional ability to guide people toward discovering their best selves and achieving their dreams.