The Happiness Project

A comprehensive and practical resource to create session infrastructures for safe, stimulating, purposeful and inclusive learning environments. This is a substantial resource which explores practical ways in which aspects of ‘theory’, together with ‘facts’ from recent developments in neuroscience, can be translated and transformed into a deceptively simple set of building blocks to help develop person-centred learning environments, which promote growth, change and flourishing.

Based on the story of the author’s practical experiences of working with children, young people and adults, the activities, exercises and ideas in this book will:

• Increase both the adults and young people’s awareness and ability to express feelings
• Raise self-esteem, self-confidence and self-efficacy
• Improve social integration
• Increase the ability to share ideas and to work collaboratively
• Improve participants’ emotional resilience
• Encourage students to form more positive and stronger relationships with each other.

The Happiness Project provides:

• Simple building blocks to form the framework and infrastructure for developing natural, holistic learning environments built on a solid foundation of unconditional acceptance and trust with a strong focus on the positive aspects of human nature.
• Practical session ideas to support the PSHE curriculum and SEAL initiative.
• Case studies, handouts, suggested reading and websites, games and activities for all age groups.
• The neuroscience and theory behind the Project, and the story of how it developed in response to real needs and situations with real students.
• This book is invaluable for developing learning programmes that connect brains, bodies and emotions, and which aim to improve emotional health and wellbeing.

Age: 11+