The Psychology of Success, Happiness and Meaning

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Ash Humphrey

Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecuture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.

Your Topic:

The Psychology of Success, Happiness and Meaning

Drawing on extensive psychological research and years of work in challenged environments, this talk explores how modern Western cultures have reshaped our ideas about success, happiness, meaning, and wellbeing, in ways that can actually be harmful to them. Guided by lessons from alternate cultural environments including wartime Ukraine, it lays out a series of practical tools that can help us reconnect with community and meaning, while encouraging us to take a more holistic approach to our wellbeing.

Your Speaker:

Ash Humphrey

Ashley completed his PhD in Psychology at Monash University, Melbourne, where he continues to work as a researcher and lecturer in the Social Sciences. Fascinated by the nature of wellbeing and how it is understood and pursued in different cultures, this is a curiosity that has led him to conduct research all over the world. More recently this work has focused on the wellbeing of vulnerable population groups, including those living in Ukraine. His written work has been published in leading scientific journals and popular media outlets, culminating in the publication of his first book Cultural Deceptions. He is also the founder of the JET Program, an organization that has worked with thousands of young people addressing topics of values and mental health.