The Contentment Foundation is leading the way humanity understands, cultivates, and studies wellbeing. We share humanity’s most effective wellness practices through our three branches – childhood education, adult development, and scientific research. We look carefully at where science, philosophy, and human wellness intersect. Then, we provide the world with philosophically grounded and scientific
ally evidenced practices that upgrade the mind, heart, and spirit. Simply put, we find humanity’s greatest treasures and share them with the world. We envision a world where all people realize that they are complete just as they are. We are inspired to build communities that take an active role in reaching their fullest potential by practicing scientifically evidenced, philosophically grounded, and psychologically powerful wellbeing practices. There are many organizations focused on alleviating external poverty, a lack of essential resources like food, water, shelter, education, and safety. The Contentment Foundation focuses on alleviating internal poverty, a poverty of the mind, heart, and spirit. We help children and adults cultivate a sense of internal and indestructible abundance that is not affected by the external world. Our mission is to eliminate internal poverty worldwide, offering the world sustainable solutions toward experiencing indestructible abundance, always. We have heard an endless number of things that we should do to maximize our happiness – but why is it that in the pursuit of happiness, it always seems to be just outside of our grasp? When we normally talk about happiness, what we usually mean is that we are looking for more of something – more money, more friends, more time, and more success. Our current ideals of happiness depend on constantly having more, which is neither sustainable nor possible. The great news is that for over 5,000 years, our ancestors have been focusing on contentment, a feeling of completeness and enoughness with what is present right now. Contentment is a sustainable form of wellbeing, just like solar power is a sustainable source of energy. At the deepest core of human wellness is a sense of profound contentment, and uncovering it for yourself is your birthright. Contentment is a central theme in some of the most influential spiritual, philosophical, and scientific works in ancient and modern history. It is what most people really mean when they talk about true ‘happiness’. In fact, when our team searched through the world’s greatest philosophies, we found that they talk about contentment a lot, but rarely talk about happiness. The Contentment Foundation promotes these ideas through child and adult-centered curricula, and studies them scientifically. In the end, we are simply translators that are taking the best of our human legacy and interpreting it for the modern mind. We’re not reinventing the wellbeing wheel – we’re making it accessible for everyone.
