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TEDxBellevue to Explore Sustainable Happiness at Sept. 30 Event

TEDxBellevue will bring local leaders together to explore the potential for "building a global community with sustainable happiness at its core."

TEDxBellevue, a local nonprofit patterened after the influential TED Talks, will host an event exploring the concept of "sustainable happiness" on Sept. 30.

The event will involve invited local leaders, who must apply for a spot, but people who were not on the invitation list also may apply for a spot, according to the TEDxBellevue website. Tickets will be $100.

The event will feature speakers including John DeGraaf, the founder of Take Back Your Time, and Thach Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee who is now a real estate agent, developer and philanthropist. 

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Tickets go on sale at midnight and are available by application only at tedxbellevue.com. More information about the conference is available at www.tedxbellevue.com

According to the event's press release:

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TEDxBellevue envisions healthy communities where common good, holistic life balance and daily play are valued over short-term profits, personal interests and the idea that we can buy temporary satisfaction. The day-long conference will invite local leaders to engage with ideas worth doing, which can be implemented on a local level to produce tangible, positive impacts in their communities. By bringing together happiness-driven thinkers and doers, TEDxBellevue will foster a dynamic environment where discussions and collaborations spark real results on a local and global scale. 

“After reading David Korten's Agenda for a New Economy, I discovered the term ‘sustainable happiness’. Here was a credible guy who provided a blueprint for creating new measures for a new economy based on education levels, ecological foot print, supporting local businesses, relationships, etc.  Now I had a blueprint to follow and next was gathering the right local leaders and decision makers to come together to start creating a new normal of economy based on humanity's well-being vs. solely income/profits,” said Anna Choi, TEDxBellevue curator.

The event is produced locally and operated under a license from TED, which is a series of influential lectures and conventions that explore innovative ideas in society, technology and art. TEDx events are locally produced versions of the concept. Speakers at the national conference have included Bill Gates, Melinda GatesJane McGonigal, E. O. Wilson and Adam Savage

If you go

TEDxBellevue
Location: Cast Iron Studios, 10650 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Date: Sunday, September 30th from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Cost: Tickets are $100 each and are available by application only at tedxbellevue.com


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