Action for Happiness

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• Website:  Centre for Non-Violent Communication

  Promotes NVC and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflict

• Book:  Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life

  Explains how nonviolent communication helps us build compassionate relationships

• Book:  Connected

  The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

• Website:  Emotional Intelligence Quiz

  Take a short, fun quiz to see how well you can read other people's emotions

• Book:  Emotional Intelligence

  Why it Can Matter More Than IQ

• Book:  Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

  How to attain more loving, supportive and deeply satisfying relationships

• Website:  Relate

  Promoting health, respect and justice in couple and family relationships

• Website:  Centre for CBT Counselling

  Independent, specialist, psycho-educational, counselling and training centre

• Website:  COSRT: List of Therapists

  College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

• Website:  Horsesmouth

  Social network for informal mentoring

• Book:  The How of Happiness

  A Practical Guide to Getting The Life You Want

• Book:  Why Love Matters

  How affection shapes a baby's brain

• Website:  Fanx.com

  Send a unique thank you message to someone you care about

• Book:  The Happiness Project

  Gretchen Rubin offers practical advice, sharp insight, charm, and humour

• Book:  The Real Secret

  12-step programme using research from positive psychology, neuroscience and more

• Book:  Inside Out

  How to Have Authentic Relationships with Everyone in Your Life

• Book:  Instructions for Happiness

  A step-by-step mind manual for creating the life you choose

• Website:  People United

  Exploring how the arts can inspire kindness, community and social change

• Book:  The Relationship Cure

  Guide for building better connections with family, friends and lovers

• Website:  Campaign for summer camps

  Campaign to get more young people enjoying the benefits of summer camps

• Book:  People Skills

  How to listen to others and resolve conflicts

• Book:  People Skills

  Explores skills needed to develop more meaningful human relationships

• Book:  My Happy Place

  Book of happy thoughts and memories with beautiful illustrations from students

• Website:  The Big Lunch

  Annual one-day get together with your neighbours

• Website:  Mentoring and Befriending Foundation

  Putting mentoring and befriending are at the centre of national volunteering

• Website:  Street Party

  Top tips on how to organise a street party

• Website:  The Friends and Neighbours (FAN) charity

  Encourages creation of FAN Groups where people meet in a spirit of friendship

• Website:  TimeWith.co.uk

  Free online service which connects people with counsellors and psychotherapists

• Download:  Happiness Posters

  A set of inspiring posters to accompany our Ten Keys to Happier Living.