The Project Happiness Handbook
An illustrated, hands-on guide to exploring happiness, personal strengths, emotions, relationships, and the choices that shape everyday life. Use it on your own or share the exercises with others.
Explore the HandbookFor Groups & Communities
Bring Wellbeing to Life, Together
Some of the most meaningful discoveries happen when we have the chance to learn, reflect, and try something new with others.
Project Happiness offers practical tools for strengthening awareness, emotional resilience, and connection. We’re exploring new ways to bring these practices into classrooms, Happiness Clubs, and community gatherings, with room for everyone to participate in their own way.
Explore Group ExperiencesLearning Together.
Putting It Into Practice.
We are developing flexible, experiential resources for groups and peer-led Happiness Clubs. The journey begins with learning to notice our thoughts, attention, and emotions, finding ways to steady ourselves, and exploring the strengths and values that help us feel most like ourselves.
From there, the focus turns outward: listening, belonging, working with others, and bringing a shared idea to life. A student might discover an unexpected strength. A small group might welcome someone new or create something useful for its community. The learning becomes real through participation.
This group approach is still in development, with early materials being piloted with educators in Nigeria. We are gathering feedback before offering a complete set of resources more broadly.
- Notice
- Steady
- Discover
- Connect
- Contribute
Who am I becoming? · What can we create together?
The Project Happiness Library
Some resources are worth returning to. Explore the original books and film that continue to offer thoughtful questions, practical exercises, and ways to begin meaningful conversations.
The Handbook + Facilitator’s Guide Kit
For people bringing the material into a group. The existing kit includes the Handbook, facilitator guidance on an eLearning platform, and meditation downloads to accompany the chapters.
Explore the Group Kit
Project Happiness Documentary
An earlier Project Happiness film following young people from different parts of the world as they ask what it means to live a meaningful and happy life. Their conversations still offer a starting point for reflection and discussion.
Watch the Documentary
Emotional Advantage
Randy Taran’s book on understanding the full range of our emotions, including the difficult ones, and learning how they can inform our choices and relationships.
Explore the BookInterested in Bringing These Ideas to Your Group?
Are you part of a school club, youth group, or community organization? If you’d like to explore how Project Happiness could be used in your setting, we’d love to hear from you. Our newer group resources are still being developed, and we can share updates as they become available.
