About GettingHAPPI Project
The inspiration for the GettingHAPPI project is to provide an injured athlete and any athlete a home and a team.
There is a discordance between the healthy athlete and the injured athlete. Athletes are part of a team composed of teammates, coaches and cheers of support. Then when injured, they are left alone and vulnerable.
In addition, athletes are left unprepared with how to cope with an injury and without coaches to help them recover from injury and successfully get back to sport.
Athletics and being part of a team provides purpose. One can feel their purpose lost with injury. Athletics helps sustain mental health which can be submarined both by the loss of actively exercising and the loss of their team goals and team purpose.
There are many goals of GettingHAPPI and chief among them is creating a community of support.
One of the goals of the GettingHAPPI project is connecting athletes both healthy and injured to workout and grow together.
Other goals include: Providing resources to the community and educational opportunities.
Another prime motivation for GettingHAPPI is to offer a platform to help athletes, both injured and healthy, to find a collaborative purpose to improve their community, both within their team and their larger community that is independent of athletic status. This includes "Unselfie Projects" that improve the community. Collaboration and community support are essential to the success of GettingHAPPI.