About

No man is an island but an intricate part of the web of Us. Happenus with Shawn Hung is a series of in-depth conversations with people from all walks of life, bridging personal narratives with the emerging societal and environmental happenings we collectively share. The goal being to create a program that unravels fresh perspectives on how we view the world and, in turn, our place within it.

Team

Producer – Sweet Hsiao

Illustrator – Kay Lam

Graphics Design – Naim Solis

Music – Joaquin Nahuel Cornejo

Photography – Jonathan Chen

About the Host

Shawn Hung

Creator & Host

Chi-Hsiang (Shawn) Hung, founder of Happenus and host of the Happenus Podcast, is a certified systems thinking practitioner of MIT. As Taiwan's representative at the 2024 Jane Goodall Institute Global Leadership Meeting and the Asia-Pacific Advisor to the Youth Leadership Council for Jane Goodall Institute, India, he integrates mind-nature knowledge systems in environmental education and sustainability.

Based in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Shawn brings extensive experience in research, policy, and education. He has served as a Research Fellow in neurotechnology at Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology and as an Advisor on system dynamics at National Cheng Kung University's talent hubs. His previous work also includes coordinating Taiwan's largest semiconductor industry decarbonization expo and researching at the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), Taiwan's first non-governmental international public policy think tank.

In 2021, Shawn established an academic mental health program at National Cheng Kung University and led the National Youth Deliberative Democracy Forum, contributing to legislative reforms that expanded online counseling services to over one million youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. An active member of the Philosophical Society of England's reading group, Shawn's interdisciplinary interests span ecopsychology, philosophy, and cinema, reflecting his commitment to understanding human-environment interconnections.