The on­go­ing pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues to take its toll on the well be­ing of many of us.

As such Guardian Group will be launch­ing a free re­gion­al pub­lic ini­tia­tive to help with both the men­tal health and eco­nom­ic ef­fects of the pan­dem­ic.

Themed Hap­py­tal­ism, the three-month long Guardian Group work­shop which kicks off on March 1, utilis­es glob­al and re­gion­al re­sources in pro­vid­ing tech­niques and in­sights to­wards deal­ing with the im­pact of the cur­rent chal­lenges.

Hap­py­tal­ism will fea­ture the com­bined re­sources of world renown best-sell­ing au­thor and speak­er on Pos­i­tiv­i­ty and Hap­pi­ness, for­mer Har­vard Pro­fes­sor Dr Tal Ben Shar in­te­grat­ed with the award-win­ning brand­ing and busi­ness de­vel­op­ment In­tang­ien­ce method­ol­o­gy of Ross as fea­tured by CNN, Forbes, AdAge and not­ed in Har­vard Busi­ness Re­view.

The ini­tia­tive is al­so a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tions es­tab­lished Uni­ver­si­ty for Peace and founder of its Cen­ter for Ex­ec­u­tive Ed­u­ca­tion, Mo­hit Mukher­jee.

Guardian Grou­pl’s CEO Ravi Tewari de­scribed the pro­gramme as one of a kind and much need­ed amid the chal­lenges as­so­ci­at­ed with the pan­dem­ic.

“Hap­py­tal­ism is a cat­a­lyst for pos­i­tive change. It brings a par­a­digm shift to how we ap­proach well-be­ing and in­no­va­tion at both an in­di­vid­ual and busi­ness lev­el. It ad­dress­es how to achieve resur­gence and re­silience, and how to con­vert di­ver­si­ty in­to op­por­tu­ni­ty.

“Guardian Group is proud to of­fer this life trans­form­ing gift to the Caribbean re­gion, as we see this as an im­pe­tus for eco­nom­ic growth and so­cial de­vel­op­ment.”