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Welcome to Happy Space®

I believe that everyone deserves a chance to make their richest contributions. Unfortunately, our modern work culture can often invite workers, especially from marginalized groups, to burn out or opt out...neither of which option feels just.

 

Happy Space is about exploring the intersection of productivity & inclusivity from the perspective of design. If we can design inclusive performance, we'll spark the reciprocity of giving and receiving, leading to wildly fulfilling lives for all involved.

Inclusivity must expand to address the neurodivergent mind, invisible disabilities, sensitivity, temperament, and caregiving responsibilities.

Check out the podcast, events, and programs all about working towards everyone having a Happy Space.

Being a highly sensitive person myself, I have taken a particular interest in building awareness of the trait. Did you know that the trait of high sensitivity appears in 1 in 5 people?  If it is not you, it is a family member, friend, colleague, or member of your community.

It is my goal to inspire a more tender world where all of us can make our richest contributions, HSPs included.

Want to be a part of the Happy Space movement?

You're invited to become a Podcast Champion by sharing the podcast with your friends, followers, and fans, and by leaving a review. Sign up for "the museletter" to get all the details!

Events

 

Every month - on the second Monday (except for October and December when it will be the third Monday) I host an open Zoom call from noon - 1 pm Eastern Time to explore a topic related to designing inclusive performance.

Taking a cue from a burning news story we'll explore the issues from a variety of prespectives: employee experience & culture, product, service, & workspace design, inclusivity & performance to name a few.

Sign up for the Happy Space Hot Topics list and you'll be sent the Zoom Link and reminders for each call. Please note that the Zoom room size is limited so join early to be sure of a spot. See you there!

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So you can plan ahead, please note these 2023 dates:

Monday, July 10
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Monday, October 16 (third Monday due to Canadian Thanksgiving)
Monday, November 13
Monday, December 11

*dates are subject to change so please subscribe to stay in the know.

 

 

Are you ready to spiral up instead of down? Every so often, I'll be holding a THRIVE SESSION on a different aspect of sustainable performance.

These are group experiences designed with sensitivity in mind. You'll have time for learning, reflection, and processing, along with an opportunity to access laser coaching at bonus pricing.

Our last Thrive Session - Design Your Best Year Yet! was a hit.

I'll be posting about upcoming session here but the best way to stay in the know is to sign up for "the museletter".

Tune In to the Happy Space Podcast

The "Happy Space Podcast" is about empowering Highly Sensitive People to stand in their strengths, celebrate their superpowers, and navigate the struggles that come with being highly perceptive and responsive. It is also about sharing inspiring stories of forward-thinking leaders and designers creating with sensitivity in mind.

  • Meet thriving HSPs and learn what they are doing to live their best lives
  • Hear from creators of neurologically safe experiences - work culture shapers, urban planners, and space, product, & service designers

The goal is to inspire a more tender world.
Doesn't everyone deserve a Happy Space?

Happy Space Pod podcast

Join the Happy Space Pod

The Happy Space Pod is our online community on Facebook

The Happy Space Pod is a community of like-minded professionals who are motivated to inspire and support a more inclusive world. 

It includes people who are in leadership roles shaping work cultures, shared spaces, products, services, and customer experiences with inclusivity and performance in mind.

We hold in common the belief that diversity is powerful and flexibility is the key to inviting the richest contributions from as many as possible.

You'll find highly sensitive people (HSPs), neurodivergent minds, and others who may have felt marginalized by our sometimes toxic world.

This is a place of hope, support, and advocacy for change.

We're thinking both bottom up - what can individuals do to ensure their sustainable performance, and top down - what can leaders to do design inclusive performance.

We must stop squandering talent. Everyone deserves a fulfilling life.

#everyone deserves a happy space.

The pod is a safe and supportive space to connect and explore:

INDIVIDUAL - DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE

  • successfully integrating work and life
  • sustaining energy
  • effectively setting boundaries
  • self-mastery with a huge dose of self-compassion
  • organizing & productivity practice


INDIVIDUAL - DESIGNING INCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE

  • expanding inclusivity to include temperament, neurodiversity, invisible disabilities, care-giving responsibilities, and more
  • shaping spaces, products, services, and experiences to suit more people
  • creating work practices to respect humanity
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Be a Podcast Guest

Do you have a story to share that is relevant to HSPs?
We are selecting guests for upcoming seasons.

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Are you a Culture Shaper?

A workplace leader, urban planner, space designer, product inventor, or service designer?

If you create neurologically safe experiences, join me in conversation to inspire others to do the same.

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Are you an HSP Thought Leader?

Someone who is researching, educating and/or helping HPSs? Let's share your perspective and insights to enrich the HSP journey.

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Are you a Thriving HSP?

Share how your sensitivity has contributed to your success and how you have managed the challenges of this world designed for the neurotypical.

If this is you – please apply to be a Happy Space Podcast guest! Please know you will also be added to "the museletter", the newsletter I send to keep my Happy Space friends informed about events, podcasts, and more.

Book a discovery call with Clare? Click here to contact me.

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Productivity catalyst, highly sensitive executive coach, and speaker, Clare Kumar cultivates sustainable performance in busy professionals so they can keep making rich contributions in all areas of life and achieve greater fulfillment.

She inspires leaders, professionals, employees and entrepreneurs to respect humanity and boost performance through marrying productivity and pleasure. After all, why shouldn’t you have fun while getting things done?

 

From the Blog

Hold that door….! Opportunities to Improve Accessibility are Closer Than You Think

Success Strategies for Back to School

Walking Into a Glass Wall and Why I Can Point a Finger at Poor Design

how should a leader behave? and how does this rela how should a leader behave? and how does this relate to pie?

Leadership Coach, @shedinspires , explains it best:

🥧 I think the biggest thing with leadership is there's no such thing as a perfect leader. there's no such thing as a perfect human. I think we can take a slice of many people's pies, to figure out what's our way. I don't think there's right and wrong. I think there's our way.

🏆 I think every leader, of which everyone can choose to be a leader because it's a behaviour set, we can figure out what are our values, what do I care about, and how do I behave in a way that is aligned with that, which is authenticity, and when you find people who believe what you believe and you behave in that way, you get a following. you're a leader.

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the comments 

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace 

#speakingup #inclusion #safety #leadership #culture #neurodiversity
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this beautiful voice made up for all the dirt, dis this beautiful voice made up for all the dirt, disrepair and the aggressively, angry rider in my car tonight. 

thank you @charmiemusic 

humans need you.
“hopefully we have cultures where the risk to sp “hopefully we have cultures where the risk to speak up, the fear to speak up is surmountable. we shouldn't have to make a point to speak up. It should just happen. that's the sign of a healthy speak-up culture is, it isn't a big deal. it's just what we do around here.”

🎙this powerful statement is from Leadership Coach, @shedinspires, in our conversation on the latest episode of the “Happy Space Podcast”.

Stephen shares 

📖 why he wrote “Speak-Up Culture”

🥒 how leaders can turn into bad pickles

🗣 advice for speaking up

🥇an opportunity to win a copy of his book! 

be the tenth person to comment on this episode on Instagram/Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin and tag both Stephen Shedletsky and Clare Kumar and the book is yours!

tune in to this conversation as we explore why Stephen felt the need to write this book now, how our environment can pressure us into being unethical, and the value of transitioning to a speak-up culture.

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio 

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#speakingup #inclusion #safety #leadership #culture #neurodiversity
🎙Director of Nook®, David O’Coimin explains 🎙Director of Nook®, David O’Coimin explains some of the ways a Nook Pod improves the soundscape in our conversation in episode 7 of the “Happy Space Podcast”.

📣 Nook has a scientifically different sound pressure inside than it does outside. we focus a lot on removing high-frequency noise. we focus a lot on creating a sort of low-frequency hum within the space, almost audible. 

😮 you put your head inside and you can see people go, “okay, how is that happening? I'm in one now, which has a door on, which is the solo booth.” and it's the only one we put a door on. the rest of the products are all open for the reason of inclusivity and feeling connected to the environment.

⛑ so when there's no door and it sounds different inside, people can be startled and quite taken aback by that. but after that first, sort of shock what you get is this, you see this relaxing that occurs, this calm that almost washes over people. so that calm is an important first element of the product.

where could you use a Nook® in your workplace?

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#neurodiversity #sensitivity #safespace #inclusivity #respect #noisereduction
we have a lot to be proud of. i saw “299 Queen S we have a lot to be proud of. i saw “299 Queen Street West” last night - a documentary about the ground-breaking nation’s music station. catch it on @cravecanada - streaming in Dec and touring the country as well through November. 

muchmusic was so very innovative and inclusive. 

props to the vj’s who shaped the show with their innate curiosity and love of trying new things. 
and to the film maker @seanmenard who bravely rented out roy thompson hall for and filled it!

@ericaehm  so much to be proud of!

@denisedonlon 
you were a queen in that suit. what great contributions you have made 

@sookyinleee loved learning more about you 

@billwelychka 
congrats on your book and happiness 

@steveanthonyonline so glad you didn’t go over the edge

@rick_campanelli aka “the temp”

@strombo your bowie interview is a fave of mine

@monica.deol it was wonderful to see an indian woman on tv. you inspired!

the movie also  included an all-time fave bowie interview where he asked mtv why they were not playing the amazing black music being made at the time. ♥️

speakers corner and electric circus were such fun. i think we could all use a daytime dance show now, don’t you @monica.deol ?

this movie made me proud to be 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

#muchmusic #canadianfilm #documentary #indie #culture #fun #fan
i eat this almost every day. breakfast is somethin i eat this almost every day. breakfast is something i choose to simplify. decisions take energy.

others might choose wardrobe.

what do you choose to think less about?
i ache for the challenge of this day for those in i ache for the challenge of this day for those in and close to this community. you are seen and you are loved.
how can we be neuroinclusive? Strategy Lead for G how can we be neuroinclusive?

Strategy Lead for Google Global Events, Megan Henshall, talks about designing with neuroinclusion in mind:

🧠 neuro-inclusion needs to be a main ingredient in your experience design recipe because there are a lot of people that are coming to events who are suffering in silence or not coming at all. 

🔀 there's a statistic from an organization called EventWell, and 85% of the neurodivergent people that they interviewed have not attended an event because they thought it would be triggering or overwhelming for them, but that's sad. they have every right to be there.

have you ever opted out of an event because it felt unwelcoming?

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#neurodiversity #inclusion #compassion #neuroinclusion #inclusiveleadership #hsp #leadershipstrategy #events
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