John Toomey co-founded AI Happiness Accelerator in 2022. He is a Living Inquiries Facilitator and former CTO of Friends Beyond Borders.
CAMBRIDGE, UK, September 11, 2025 –The Hero Awards, which has recognized outstanding achievements in the pursuit of the UN’s 17 Sustainability Goals since 2019, has announced a new program aimed at allowing citizen activists to achieve recognition for their efforts through following a unique, customized progression cycle of 7
One of the co-founders of AI Happiness Accelerator, Amy Chang, used to travel to remote corners of the earth visiting First Nations peoples and neolithic tribes. She liked to meet with Shamans, chiefs, griots, and Elders to imbibe their wisdom. Often the Shaman, or whatever name they used, would be
Where did the group which we now call AI Happiness Accelerator test its claims? How did it research the concept of a Recommended Daily Allowance for feelings and emotions? It started back in 2016 with conversations among a group of therapists, psychologists, and coaches, including Tamara Hanson LCSW, Dr. Savannah
Your brain loves choices. It especially loves a situation when all the choices are welcome. Look at the image above and notice how your eyes flit from one dish to the other. We call this the buffet principle, and it is especially relevant to AI Happiness Accelerator. When your body-mind
The Six Portals are a selection of core experiences that seem to be common to many humans. But there is no limit to the number of such experiencess that exist. You can discover or create new ones all the time. They should be thought-feeling constructions that continuously fill you with
We have outlined how you have different Selves, or personality aspects, or Portals as we like to call them (since each is a gateway to a different kind of truth or experience). You might think that these individual 'selves' have learned how to get along, having lived in
To explore how your body-mind benefits from maximizing the effectiveness of the Six Portals (or core experiences, or Selves, or internal Personae) we need a way to check in with each one. At any given moment of your day, one or more of the Portals is ripe for attention. You
What we call the Micro-experiment Portal, or the Experimental Self, was already around 300,000 years ago when Homo Sapiens first appeared on the Savannahs of Africa. Roaming around the dangerous landscape, hominids had to test everything, to examine every footprint and analyze every sound to see if they signalled
The Hero's Journey is a framework made famous by Joseph Campbell, summarizing a pattern which is found in the myths of many cultures. The Hero goes through a series of challenges: the call, the refusal of the call, the mentor, the cave of desolation, the defeat of the
Years ago a group of NASA scientists in the Apollo program were working on how to land people on the moon. But when the program was first announced in the early sixties, there were whole new technologies that had to be developed, because no one had done anything like this
Our claim, which is hardly unique, is that everyone benefits from regular laughter. The guru of the Laughter movement is Dr. Madan Kataria, who is a Cardiologist from India. In the early 90’s he read a study that says laughter reduces blood pressure, which was an issue with his
Awe is a universal human experience, and a great contributor to fundamental well-being. It is one of our Six Portals. Here is a an experience which consistently wins our contests for web content intended to evoke wonder. It's called arkadia.xyz and it’s an infinite regressive virtual