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Project Happiness Launches Timeline Covers for Facebook

Most people, if they haven’t already, will soon be switched to the new Facebook Timeline. As with most changes to Facebook, some of you might not be so happy with these new changes. While there isn’t much we can do about embarrassing posts from several years ago reappearing on your wall, what we are doing is offering original Project Happiness images that allow you a chance to pretty up your Timeline while also showing your friends that YOU CHOOSE HAPPINESS!

Adding the images to your Timeline is fairly simple. For complete directions and an assortment of Project Happiness images, visit our Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/projecthappiness

Our Programs

Seven Doors to Happiness – For Everyone

Course One is an online foundations course that takes you on a journey to explore your own path to happiness. Course Two offers adults, parents, grandparents, athletic coaches, retired teachers and therapists training to become Happiness Leaders, and detailed lesson plans to teach the Seven Doors to Happiness. Through after school programs, evening classes and weekend workshops in local schools and community centers, our Leaders will create powerful ripples of change for us all.

Classroom Resources – For Educators

Educators can incorporate helpful and pertinent social and emotional learning (SEL) lessons into day to day instruction, through detailed lesson plans and emotional resilience building activities. Topics include teacher training in anti-bullying techniques and mindfulness for both students and teachers.

Visionary Leadership Initiative – For Students

Not everyone can be student body president, head cheerleader, or captain of the football team, but everyone can make a difference. Students will learn how to make a lasting impression on those around them by developing leadership skills, while competing for prizes, joining in group activities, and making a name for themselves and for their school. Warning: Friendships May Deepen.

Our Film


Dalai Lama, George Lucas, Richard Gere, neuroscientist Richard Davidson

The Dalai Lama, George Lucas, Richard Gere, neuroscientist Richard Davidson – all answer this question: “How does one achieve lasting Happiness?”. How will you answer it?
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Project Happiness Handbook

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Participants’ Voices


“I enjoyed Project Happiness because it allowed me to reflect upon my thoughts and notice how I am built emotionally. It helped me understand myself so that I could become a more positive person.”

“Recently I went through an anger stage, and I just stepped back, took a deep breath, and realized that it wasn’t worth getting upset over the situation. Project Happiness taught me the tools to do that. Thank you for everything!”

“I couldn’t be more happier to realize who I am and what I represent and that I shouldn’t be afraid to be myself or be different than my friends, that being different makes me unique.”

“I just wanted to tell you that this work is honest, and incredibly meaningful and helps people like me believe that there is hope. (Especially during those times when I feel all hope is lost.)”

What Youth Are Saying About Project Happiness


Latest Blog Posts

Holiday Happiness — Be Here Now

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From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/gratitude_b_1165364.html So many people grumble and gripe about the holidays — too much family, too much food, too many obligations. But what if you approached it all with another perspective — as though this might be … Continue reading

Thanksgiving Holds Key to Happiness

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From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/thanksgiving-happiness_b_1103501.html The idea of Thanksgiving, that is giving thanks, makes it one of my all-time favorite holidays. It has built into it one of the timeless keys to happiness: gratitude. Thanksgiving actually directs us to tune … Continue reading

Modern Society and Happiness Through the Eyes of His Holiness

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Mercy Bisi Olatunji Mercy Bisi Olatunji is one of the students from the original Project Happiness program. As part of their original curriculum, the students read and reviewed the Dalai Lama’s book Ethics for the New Millenium and discussed how … Continue reading