How to be 20% Happier – The Science of Happiness
Schedule
Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Community Library Sedona | Sedona, AZ
About this Event
The Science of Happiness: Rethinking Inner Wellbeing
A free public talk with international spiritual teachers, visiting Sedona for the first time.
Wednesday May 20, 2026, 3:00–4:30 PM Quiet Room, Community Library Sedona 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona AZ 86336 Free to attend. Booking required.
A lot of what people call happiness today is built on stimulation, achievement, distraction, or short emotional highs. Beneath the surface though, many still feel a kind of low-level restlessness, even when life looks fine from the outside.
This 90-minute talk looks at wellbeing from a different angle. Rather than treating it as something to chase or acquire, the talk explores how a sense of steadiness and contentment can come from within, through awareness, meditation, and inner work.
Dr Prashant Kakoday and Sarah FitzGerald will draw on meditation, consciousness, and many years of practice to explore questions like:
- Why happiness based on circumstances rarely holds
- How awareness shapes the quality of ordinary experience
- What a calmer, less reactive relationship with the mind looks like in daily life
- How a consistent meditation practice changes things over time
This is a reflective session rather than a formal lecture. Expect short guided meditations, space for questions, and room to sit with what comes up.
About the speakers
Dr Prashant Kakoday is an E.N.T. surgeon based in Cambridge, UK, with a background in integrated health and over 40 years of Raja Yoga meditation practice. He has spoken on the relationship between mind, emotion and health at institutions including the World Health Organization and within U.S. medical teaching programmes.
Sarah FitzGerald lives in Cambridge, UK. Her background is in design and education, and she works as Programme Coordinator at the Cambridge Brahma Kumaris centre.
This is their first visit to Arizona, and their only public talk in Sedona during the week.
To reserve your seat: https://www.cambridgeinnerspace.org/sedona-talk
Organised by Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization (BKWSO).
Where is it happening?
Community Library Sedona, 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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