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About Montana Happiness Project

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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