LG Experience Happiness Initiative Amplifies Awareness of Research-Backed Sustainable Happiness Skills

Electronics leader gives back by helping youth lead more confident, less stressful lives

Over 200 Teachers from Englewood, NJ School District Learn Techniques from “Life’s Good: Experience Happiness” partner Inner Explorer to Implement Mindfulness at Dwight Morrow H.S.

LG USA launched a new initiative in the Englewood and Englewood Cliffs public school districts to help teachers equip students with the tools and confidence they need for a productive, positive future by living mindful lives that will alleviate stress. LtoR Michael Pepperman, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Relations; Laurie Grossman, Inner Explorer Director of Social Justice & Educational Equity; Robert Kravitz, Superintendent of Schools Administrator Englewood Public School District; Denise V. Tighe, Esq. Director of Human Resources Englewood Public School District.

LG sponsors Englewood Cliffs annual fall festival where families participated in a mindfulness art project making “mindfulness glitter bottles” while learning about the “Life's Good: Experience Happiness” Initiative and Inner Explorer platform available within their public school district.

Monday, October 29, 2018 - 8:15am

NEWSROOM: LG Electronics USA, Inc.

CONTENT: Press Release

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., October 29, 2018 /3BL Media/ – Since launching the Life’s Good: Experience Happiness initiative a year ago, LG Electronics USA already has reached 530,000 youth across America with Sustainable Happiness Skills. LG has been working to increase awareness and usage of LG Experience Happiness partner programs across the U.S. with a goal of reaching 5.5 million over five years.

In Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, where the company’s North American Headquarters is located, LG has partnered with public school districts to provide access to a platform from LG Experience Happiness partner Inner Explorer at no cost. The Inner Explorer platform equips teachers and students with the six Sustainable Happiness Skills, starting with Mindfulness, through daily audio based lessons.

The Sustainable Happiness Skills have been proven through over 70 years of research to help youth better cope with the variety of stress that they face each day, leading to higher GPAs, fewer behavioral issues and reductions in teacher stress. The six Sustainable Happiness Skills are: mindfulness, human connection, positive outlook, purpose, generosity and gratitude.

In keeping with its commitment to giving back to the community and in support of Englewood Public Schools cutting edge position leveraging the latest learning tools available to help their students shine, LG collaborated to host a conference for more than 200 teachers. This event was designed to increase awareness of the benefits of mindfulness for students and teachers as well as continue to encourage increase usage among Englewood teachers. During this event, Inner Explorer's Laurie Grossman highlighted the benefits and the ease in which teachers can access it.

Over half of teens in the U.S. are affected by stress, and many lack the capabilities to manage the daunting pressures and challenges of today's increasingly fast-paced world. Inner Explorer’s series of daily 5-to-10-minute audio-guided mindfulness practices allows students learn to be present in the moment, calm their minds, make better decisions and reflect on ways to live more focused, productive and positive lives.

With LG's "Life's Good: Experience Happiness" program, Englewood teachers are creating positive atmospheres to benefit their students, their students' families and the larger community.

About LG Electronics: Experience Happiness

“Life’s Good: Experience Happiness” is focused on extending the reach of partner organizations that bring science-based tools for sustainable happiness to youth in the United States. Drawing on research from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, an organization dedicated to providing science-based insights for a more meaningful life, the LG Experience Happiness platform will provide resources focused on the six skills key to Sustainable Happiness: mindfulness, human connection, positive outlook, purpose, generosity and gratitude. LG Electronics USA – the “Life’s Good” home appliance, mobile communications and consumer electronics company – is leading this initiative, with a goal of reaching 5.5 million youth over five years.

To learn more about “Life’s Good: Experience Happiness,” please visit the website.