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• Practitioners’ Perspectives, "Ensuring that we measure what matters: Minnesota Compass’s advisory group process"

  • When
    23 Oct 2025
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    12:00 PM
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    Online Webinar

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  The ISQOLS–CIC “Practitioners’ Perspectives” Workshop Series highlights applied projects on local and regional indicators for community wellbeing. Each quarterly session features leading practitioners sharing tools, methods, and lessons from real-world community indicators initiatives, bridging local insights with global quality-of-life research. LEARN MORE

  
  

  
  

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  Minnesota Compass (www.mncompass.org) is a community indicators project that has compiled trends in quality of life for the state of Minnesota and its local communities for more than 15 years. Since our founding, Minnesota Compass has engaged thousands of advisors to identify what is most important for measuring progress in our state and communities. In this presentation, project director Allison Liuzzi will discuss our advisory group structure and process, including lessons on:

  • Identifying and recruiting a diverse group of stakeholders for advisory groups,

  • Considering content and structure for advisory group meetings,

  • Assembling, reviewing, and making recommendations based on advisory group feedback,

  • Ensuring that diverse perspectives are welcomed, included, heard, and valued, and

  • Building consensus across differences.

  In addition to the broad parameters of our advisory group process, this presentation will share specific lessons and reflections from our recent topic advisory groups focused on Compass’s Health and Public Safety topic areas.

  
  

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• ISQOLS Webinar, "Family Relationships and Children’s Well-Being" Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Heß, 2025 ISQOLS Best Dissertation Award Recipient

  • When
    5 Nov 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  ISQOLS Webinar,

  "Family Relationships and Children’s Well-Being"

  
  

  Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Heß,

  2025 ISQOLS Best Dissertation Award Recipient
  

  
  

  Wednesday, 5 November

  10:00 am EST/4:00 pm CET

  
  

  The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) is pleased to host a webinar with the award recipient of the 2025 Best Dissertation Award and Research Fellow Dr. Stephanie Hess (Germany), focusing on children’s subjective well-being and the pivotal role of family relationships. While the well-being of adults has been widely measured, monitored, and compared across nations, children’s perspectives have long been overlooked or filtered through parental interpretation. This webinar will explore how children’s self-assessments are increasingly being recognized as a valid and necessary source, and what this shift could mean for research, policy, and practice. The session will address current global trends in child well-being, highlighting persistent blind spots such as the reliance on parent-reported data and potential cultural bias in measurement techniques. Drawing on international and longitudinal data, the webinar will examine how family environments influence children’s subjective well-being, development, and mental health. It will close by reflecting on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted children’s well-being and how these changes differ across social and cultural contexts. By employing theory-driven, child-centered measurement approaches, this webinar aims to provide practical insights for researchers, practitioners, and family policymakers to sustainably foster children’s well-being not only as a private family matter but as a cornerstone of societal resilience and long-term prosperity.

  
  

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• ISQOLS Webinar, "Beyond Happy - How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment" featuring Mark Fabian

  • When
    12 Nov 2025
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    10:00 AM
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    Online Webinar

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  ISQOLS Webinar,

  "Beyond Happy - How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment"

  Presenter, Mark Fabian

  Wednesday, 12 November

  10:00 am EST/4:00 pm CET

  
  

  Mark Fabian from the University of Warwick, recipient of this year's ISQOLS young scholar award, will present ideas from his new book for a popular audience. Beyond Happy explores how evolution has wired us to keep happiness just out of reach, leaving us perpetually stuck on a happiness treadmill. Instead of striving to escape it, the book argues, we should focus on making the treadmill a place we want to be. Finding this wellbeing begins with listening to our emotions, discovering intrinsic motivation and pursuing our authentic values. The book showcases a detailed theory of this process of self-actualisation: the coalescence of being.

  Wellbeing, however, is not solely an individual pursuit – it is something we cultivate together. And so Beyond Happy also dwells on how to enhance your emotional intelligence, how we can build relationships based on care, and what it takes to nurture karmic communities.

  Most profoundly, Beyond Happy shows the way out of nihilism – the pervasive sense that life on the treadmill is purposeless and incoherent. To escape this despair, we must develop a moral compass. To heal the toxicity of our acrimonious politics, we need to rediscover the joy of sharing and celebrating what we love. This is the core of metamodernism, the cultural mode that is emerging after postmodernism.

  Delivered with an entertaining mix of academic precision, a podcaster’s knack for storytelling, and the down-to-earth panache Australians are known for, Beyond Happy is a one-stop shop to everything you need to know about the good life.

  
  

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• Practitioners’ Perspectives, “Using Community Indicator Data to Achieve Wellbeing for All”

  • When
    20 Nov 2025
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    12:00 PM
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    Online Webinar

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  Practitioners’ Perspectives Virtual Workshop

  “Using Community Indicator Data to

  Achieve Wellbeing for All”

  Date: November 20, 2025

  Time: 9am PST / 12pm EDT

  
  

  The ISQOLS–CIC “Practitioners’ Perspectives” Workshop Series highlights applied projects on local and regional indicators for community wellbeing. Each quarterly session features leading practitioners sharing tools, methods, and lessons from real-world community indicators initiatives, bridging local insights with global quality-of-life research. LEARN MORE

  
  

  
  

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  This session explores the "what" and "how" of wellbeing, focusing on breaking down systemic barriers to create meaningful change. Participants will see examples from multiple levels of work and learn about tools from the data-for-change playbook. We will highlight the continuous community improvement model, theories of change that spark collective action, and a new public health approach developed by the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings health equity teams. This approach demonstrates how local investments can be leveraged for maximum impact.

  Through real-world examples, this session will show how partners are using data-driven strategies to ensure that resources are applied where they are most needed and with the right emphasis—building a sustainable, equitable culture of health.

  
  

  
  

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• ISQOLS Regional Conference, Buenos Aires Argentina, "Quality-of-life, Well-being, and Happiness in Latin America"

  • Start
    9 Mar 2026
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    8:00 AM
  • End
    11 Mar 2026
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    9:00 PM
  • Location
    Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  ISQOLS Regional Conference, Buenos Aires Argentina,

  "Quality-of-life, Well-being, and Happiness in Latin America"

   March 9-11, 2026, Universidad de Palermo

  https://isqols.org/Argentina
  

  The International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies and the Universidad de Palermo Argentina, announce and invite you to participate in the first Latin America Regional Conference "Quality of Life, Well-being and Happiness in Latin America", which will take place on the urban campus of the Universidad de Palermo during March 9-11, 2026, being organized by the CICS-UP, School of Social Sciences. We are pleased to present four keynote experts on Quality-of-Life in Latin America: Prof. Javier A. Martínez, University of Twente, Netherlands; Mariano Rojas, PhD, Researcher at Tecnológico Nacional de México; Francesco Sarracino, PhD, Head of Research Unit on Well-being and Entrepreneurship at STATEC; and Prof. Graciela Tonon, Director of CICS-UP Research Center in Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de Palermo.

  La Sociedad Internacional de Estudios sobre la Calidad de Vida y la Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, anuncian e invitan a participar en la primera Conferencia Regional de América Latina “Calidad de Vida, Bienestar y Felicidad en América Latina”, que se llevará a cabo en el campus urbano de la Universidad de Palermo del 9 al 11 de marzo de 2026, organizada por el CICS-UP, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales. Nos complace presentar a cuatro expertos principales en Calidad de Vida en América Latina: Prof. Javier A. Martínez, Universidad de Twente, Países Bajos; Mariano Rojas, PhD, Researcher at Tecnológico Nacional de México; Francesco Sarracino, PhD, Jefe de la Unidad de Investigación en Bienestar y Emprendimiento en STATEC; y Prof. Graciela Tonon, Directora del Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales (CICS-UP), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Palermo.

  Discounts and Education Grants Available
  

  Registration and Refund Details:

  Registration deadline: 15 January, 2026

  Late/on-site registration: 16 January-onsite

  100% full refund is available through 15 January 2026

  A 50% refund is available from 16 January-15 February 2026

  No refund available after 15 February, 2026

  
  

  
  

  
  

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