Montana Happiness Project
Mental Health Care
Missoula, Montana 113 followers
Evidence-based happiness for all
About us
The Montana Happiness Project began when we realized that the opposite of an attempted or completed suicide is a meaningful, well-lived life. We teach professionals how to engage in suicide assessment, intervention, and prevention focusing on strengths while also teaching evidence-based happiness strategies everyone can use to live more fulfilling lives. We believe mindsets matter. When someone reports feeling suicidal, the natural reaction is to think, “What’s wrong?” Instead of focusing too narrowly on what’s wrong, our holistic, strengths-based approach to working with youth and adults who are considering suicide provides an array of positive tools for mental health professionals, educators, physicians, and first-responders. Our approach intentionally avoids toxic positivity. We acknowledge that life includes suffering and believe that coming alongside individuals and families in their pain is the best first step toward therapeutic outcomes. However, we also believe that everyone sometimes needs tools for being and staying positive in the face of life challenges. Based on our strengths-based model, we help professionals recognize that human suffering and suicidal thoughts are natural parts of life. We offer positive assessment and intervention strategies tailored to specific needs, ages, and groups of people. We address the many myths surrounding suicide, including the popular notion that all suicides can (or should) be prevented. Using our website, workshops, videos, publications, and consultation groups, we reach out to anyone interested in learning more about positive psychology, and its role in helping people live happier lives.
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https://montanahappinessproject.com/
External link for Montana Happiness Project
- Industry
- Mental Health Care
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Missoula, Montana
- Type
- Partnership
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Missoula, Montana 59801, US
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Updates
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Hello, Good news 😁. One of our happiness studies was published yesterday. A big thanks to the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, their editors, and reviewers. https://lnkd.in/gJee5fPV
Effects of a single‐session, online, experiential happiness workshop on graduate student mental health and wellness
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You can take this course from anywhere . . . or come to Missoula. https://lnkd.in/gWwxgN_C
Check Out This Happiness Class (and Experiential Small Group) for Older Adults (50 years+)
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How do you all feel about meditation? This week's Montana Happiness Challenge is all about the M word. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/g2s2dH-h
10 Minutes of Daily Meditation — The Montana Happiness Project
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Whether we’re talking self-forgiveness, forgiving others, or spiritual forgiveness, forgiveness is a big deal and a big ask. Explore the topic with this week's Happiness Challenge: Forgiveness in Theory. Thank you Spirit of Peace for supporting this week! For this learning activity, we don’t expect you to purge yourself of all personal guilt or become free from all resentments. Nevertheless, for this assignment, your job is to explore what forgiving yourself, forgiving others, and being forgiven might look like AND how forgiving yourself, forgiving others, and being forgiven might feel to you. To do this activity, you’re not expected to actually do the forgiveness work; instead, you get to think about doing the forgiveness work and speculate on its effects. . . FOR YOU. Find the full challenge here: https://lnkd.in/gr9pKDCm #MHPHappinessChallenge #montanahappiness
Forgiveness in Theory — The Montana Happiness Project
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This week's Happiness Challenge leans in to optimism with exploring the Best Possible Self (https://lnkd.in/g_tEyKuX). Thank you Spirit of Peace and Children's Clinic for supporting this week! Check out the activity below: - Spend 10 minutes a day for four consecutive days writing a narrative description of your “best possible future self.” - Pick a point in the future – write about what you’ll be doing/thinking then – and these things need to capture a vision of you being “your best” successful self or of having accomplished your life goals. - As with all these activities, monitor your reactions. Maybe you’ll love it and want to keep doing it. Maybe you won’t. - If you feel like it, you can share some of your hashtag #writing on social media. Make sure to tag us and use the hashtags hashtag #MHPHappinessChallenge hashtag #MontanaHappiness
Best Possible Self — The Montana Happiness Project
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Emotional journaling may bring many benefits, and in this week's Happiness Challenge, Emotional Journaling, we explore this more. https://lnkd.in/gdgHEDUY According to social psychologist and prominent researcher James Pennebaker’s, there are many benefits to emotional journaling with a “simple” technique. This challenge introduces his technique while acknowledging some critical thinking points. The activity is considering a few things: What do you think of his idea? Would you ever like to try his technique? If you chose to try to process some deeper emotional issues, would you prefer writing or talking about them? As always, please share feedback and comments with us by tagging and using the hashtags #MHPHappinessChallenge #montanahappiness
Emotional Journaling — The Montana Happiness Project
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