Project Happiness, Communicating in Many Ways
As the world becomes increasingly stressful, one issue cuts across all borders, backgrounds, and religions: the quest for lasting happiness. In Project Happiness we’re opening up lines of communication among youth around the world, so they can study and discuss happiness.
Three groups of high school seniors, from schools on three different continents—Mount Madonna School in the U.S., Tibetan Children’s Village in India, and Dominion Heritage Academy in Nigeria—have been exploring the subject, keeping notes and journals.
They eventually had the opportunity to meet one another in India, and to have a conversation with the Dalai Lama about the essence of happiness.
The notes from this yearlong journey were originally posted at the web site of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and have now been integrated into one unified post at the Project Happiness blog. The story of their year together is also the subject of a documentary film, to be released in 2008.
We have several audio interviews related to Project Happiness, each dealing with some “behind the scenes” aspect of the journey. You can check them out at:
You can subscribe to Project Happiness podcasts using iTunes and your iPod, or play them in iTunes on your computer without having an iPod.
The journey continues as the students are using their insights to develop a student handbook on happiness, to be pilot tested over the next few months in over a dozen schools. And students all over the world will be able to create and post their own video and audio segments to the projectís web site.
If you’re interested in the curricular, educational or media aspects of the project, and would like to get involved, please contact info@projecthappiness.com. We can use lots of reviewing help as we enter the pilot test phase of Project Happiness.
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Shortly after its founding, the Foundation received, as a gift intended to support its programs, the 1966 Land Rover used as a conveyance by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for many years in Dharamsala, India.
Once again in 2007 the Foundation has been accepted to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), making it easy for over 1.3 Million Federal employees in the United States to make tax deductible donations to the Foundation through payroll deductions. 
