Montana Happiness Project

08/10/2025

We presented in Billings on Wednesday the 6th at Jeremy Bullock Safe Schools Summit.

Tammy, John, Dylan, & Nancy had such a wonderful time talking about the Pursuit of Happiness at the JBSSS on Wednesday. Thank you for nourishing our tummies, minds, and hearts. It was such an honor and delight to get to present to so many smart and caring educators.
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07/14/2025

Join us in Billings August 6th and 7th for our train the trainers retreat!

07/14/2025

We are very excited to be in Billings for our train the trainers retreat August 6th and 7th. You should join us!

A friend and colleague in the Counseling Department at the University of Montana forwarded me an article by Lucy Foulkes of Oxford University titled, “Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a …

05/18/2025

Have you checked in with yourself yet this Mental Health Awareness week? Our family over here at the Montana Happiness Project are here with open arms if you’d like to learn more about where to get help, the range of resources we have (or recommend) or to find your community!
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01/22/2025

Montana Happiness Project’s Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan featured on a fascinating conversation with Flora McCormick. Check out the podcast episode on Sustainable Parenting!
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11/19/2024

What have we been up to? Over here at Montana Happiness Project, we are excited to announce our collaboration with the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation and Families First. Together we are all working on grounding ourselves through wellbeing techniques we are learning in our current 5-week happiness course.

10/12/2024

This is an excellent listen. Kathy Mangan hosts a great podcast and does an excellent interview of John Sommers-Flanagan

John Sommers-Flanagan is a Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana. He is a clinical psychologist and the author or co-author of over 100 publications, including nine books and many professional training videos. John has published many newspaper columns, and op-ed pieces, including arti...

09/27/2024

ALL THINGS VAGUS PODCAST
🎤 NEW EPISODE 🎤
Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan is a Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana. He is a clinical psychologist and the author or co-author of over 100 publications, including nine books and many professional training videos. John has published many newspaper columns, and op-ed pieces, including articles in Psychotherapy Networker, Counseling Today, and Slate Magazine.
In the Pursuit of Happiness, Episode 25:

John Sommers-Flanagan is a Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana. He is a clinical psychologist and the author or co-author of over 100 publications, including nine books and many professional training videos. John has published many newspaper columns, and op-ed pieces, including arti...

09/10/2024

The Montana Happiness Project acknowledges that life includes suffering and believe that coming alongside individuals and families in their pain is the best first step toward therapeutic outcomes. We also believe that everyone needs tools for being and staying positive in the face of life’s challenges.

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. We want to extend a big thank you for the heroes working in this field, including people that serve as their own heroes! Today is an important day for us all to be grateful that we are not alone, and reminded that there is always a support system available.

09/01/2024

Join us on Wednesday for this excellent training delivered via Zoom by Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan on working with parents!

This past Thursday, I heard the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, talking about the unprecedented challenges that contemporary parents are facing. As he talked, I tho…

07/10/2024

“The constitution can be a sword and a shield. But it can’t legislate and it can’t enforce the law.” - Rylee Sommers-Flanagan speaking to a crowd Palladium Draughthaus about the history and importance of the Montana Constitution.

Read Linda Halstead Acharya's full article "Constitutional roadshow kicks off tour in Columbus" in Stillwater County News: https://www.stillwatercountynews.com/news/constitutional-roadshow-kicks-off-tour-in-columbus/article_5e6f4a2c-3739-11ef-8a81-3bf976bf1f5f.html

07/08/2024

Recently a national organization, the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation requested that we travel to for the Heads Up Conference to talk about positive psychology with their young adult survivors. These amazing people brought an incredible amount of hope and heart to the material. It was such a great experience and in just a couple of weeks Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan will return to explore more MHP material with the teenaged survivors.