According to the United Nations report, Denmark is one of the three happiest countries in the world in the last seven years. Interesting, isn’t it? And what is the secret?
American psychologist and writer Jessica Alexander and psychotherapist Iben Sandal explain the real cause and the secret that is the key to happiness.
It turns out that the secret is a cycle: Happy Parents – Happy Children Who Become Happy Parents and Raise Happy Children….
In 1993, compulsory classes (one hour per week) were implemented in Danish curricula, during which children learned compassion.
Let’s look at the feeling of Compassion.
Compassion is a responsive attitude to someone’s feelings, grief, unhappiness. Benevolent, approving attitude and kindness.
From an evolutionary point of view, compassion is a valuable tool that helps us survive as humanity.
Sympathetic lessons increase communication, strengthen relationships, increase productivity and prevent aggression (bullying) between children.
Let’s look at the feeling of Compassion.
Compassion is a responsive attitude to someone’s feelings, grief, unhappiness. Benevolent, approving attitude and kindness.
From an evolutionary point of view, compassion is a valuable tool that helps us survive as humanity.
Sympathetic lessons increase communication, strengthen relationships, increase productivity and prevent aggression (bullying) between children.
Compassion helps build leaders, researchers, and professionals who are focused on the well-being of the team rather than meeting their own needs and self-centered needs.
When we think about this statement, we stop that successful people never act alone. We all need people around us to achieve positive results.
During this one hour, students share about their personal problems as well as the problems they see in school. All together (teachers and students) discuss the problem and make a decision together.
An important point in this program is that mediators (teachers) and children do not judge or categorize the emotions and views they listen to and discuss. In this way, the child joins the larger whole – the group and society of which we are all part.
In this way, our children recognize that we are not alone, but part of a community.
Children also learn to respect and realize that they are not alone, but have the support and understanding of the group around them.
Children also relax and rest in the form of games that create intimacy between them.
According to a survey of Danish teachers, 98% of them support the program and believe that it develops critical skills for the proper development of our children.
The secret of happiness, according to teachers and researchers in Denmark, is that through cooperation, understanding, compassion, children not only increase their results in school, but also develop skills for fair competition, help, unity, motivation and understanding.
Through the curricula in Denmark, children learn how we are not alone and cannot exist alone because we are part of a larger whole than ourselves.
References: http://thedanishway.com/about-the-authors/