Seminar on ‘Happiness at Work’ at IBM, Lowell
On Friday Jan 29th, More than 50 people turned up at noon for the interesting talk on “Happiness at Work” at the IBM campus in Lowell, MA. The seminar session was arranged by MAIN (Massachusetts Asian IBMers Network) which is an internal group in IBM. The concept of happiness and mind was dealt with by Mr. Ramanujam in the 90 minutes that was scheduled for the talk.
Towards the end, the floor was open for discussions whence many a participant expressed desire to attend a day-long session on Happiness by Mr. Ramanujam.
The program was coordinated by Mrs. Krithika Prakash and arranged by Mr. Ashish Cowligi of IBM.
Corporate Programs in WA
On Dec 9 2009, General Electric (GE) Healthcare IT, Seattle, WA hosted a workshop on Inner Peace and Stress Management conducted by Mr. Ramanujam.
Some of the testimonials that we received at the end of the session spoke about how wonderful this session was conducted by Mr. Ram.nbsp; His humbleness, passion, dedication and powerful presenting skills complemented his message that happiness and inner peace can truly be effected by inner transformation. Ram’s empty the cup’ paradigm specifically drew many people and they thought it was such a novel twist to many things they have heard before during these workshops.
Earlier in the week on December 7 2009, the City of Sammamish, WA hosted a Meditation and Stress Management Workshop which was Ram’s first corportate program during this trip. This was attended by a diverse population from various walks of life. The key message that ‘Happiness’ lies within and can be effected from from within was very well received by many and there were many ‘aha’s and keeper’s that stemmed from this interactive session. Some of them, especially, the principal of a very reputed school expressed his desire to host Ram at their school during his next visit to WA.
Stress Management and Happiness in Life
Date : Nov 9, 2009. Monday
Time : 6:30pm – 8pm
Venue : Buchar Family Chiropractic, New York St, Aurora, IL
Event : Talk by Mr. Ramanujam
Topic : Stress Management and Happiness in Life
Mr.Ramanujam said that a person’s happiness is definitely within his reach, and that happiness does not exist outside, but inside of each one of us. As a child, we tend to think that happiness is present in food, parents, toys etc, but as we grow, our thoughts change. We begin to believe that happiness lies in other things like success, wealth etc. We are so much deceived that we always tend to think happiness lies in something else. When Mahans opine that happiness really is within us, we find it so hard to accept that we tend to dismiss this idea.
Mind is like a child and when it goes out of control, all we have to do is, just watch it, and it will start to settle down, an easy way for all. Another tactic is to accept each one as he/she is. He mentioned that any work that leads to the strengthening of ego is definitely not holy and any work that leads to the destruction of ego IS holy. All this will help us find happiness in ourselves which eventually will keep stress away.
The event concluded with a question and answer session in which Ram patiently addressed each of the questions asked by 15 people who were present for the lecture.
Seminar at Motorola, Arlington Heights, IL
Date: October 18 2007
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30 pm
Topic: Being Confident to face Corporate Challenges.
Venue: Motorola, Arlington Heights, Illinois
Speakers: Mr. Ramanujam and Ms. Poornima Kumarasami
Mr. Ram and Ms. Poornima performed an inspiring talk on “Being Confident to face Corporate Challenges”. This speech was arranged by Asian Business Council Professional Development team for employees of Motorola. The session was very interactive with excellent feedback from the listeners.