In today’s world of positive psychology, the body beautiful and hipster idols, it can be easy to slip into the idea that happiness equals having all the right thoughts and feelings (and body, friends, clothes, job, house, technology..) all the time. Yet we all know its never possible to control the contents of our experience, no matter how hard we try – life has a way of delivering the unexpected. In this panel we explore the idea of a never-ending quest for ‘happiness’ as potentially unhealthy and demoralising. Is happiness a state, or is it a way of being with whatever arises..?