Interactive online forum
The Happiness Trap Online Program will take you step-by-step through easy to learn, scientifically proven skills, to help you reduce stress, relieve anxiety and overcome depression to build the life you want.
Dr. Russ Harris will be there to support you every step of the way through our interactive online forum. You can ask him questions as you progress through the program and share your experiences with the other participants.
Stop Struggling and Start Living
Build Genuine and Lasting Happiness
Overcome
- Anxiety & stress
- Feelings of emptiness
- Harsh critical thoughts
- Lack of purpose
- Low self esteem
- Loneliness
Gain
- Genuine happiness
- Meaning & purpose
- Confidence
- Closer relationships
- Health & wellbeing
- Deep fulfilment
What is the Happiness Trap?
ACT is a science-based model of behaviour change, supported by a vast body of scientific research.
How it works
You’ll learn skills and strategies that you can immediately incorporate in your life. It takes just 1-2 hours to do per week on average plus practice time.
Engaging videos
From absorbing stories to cool animations, each entertaining week takes about 1-2 hours or so to do plus practice time.
Skills that really work
Easy to do and clearly explained, the skills and strategies you’ll learn are scientifically proven to actually work.
Helpful tools & techniques
Right from the start, you’ll be able to practice what you learn and feel the benefits in your daily life.
Old habits into new patterns
Week by week, apply easy to learn skills and strategies and move your life into fulfilment, meaning and genuine happiness.
What's in the program?
Designed to work best over an 8 week period, each week takes about 1-2 hrs to do plus some practice time. You’ll learn evidence based skills and strategies to help build genuine happiness from the inside out.
WEEK 1
Happiness & suffering
- The “happiness trap”: how popular notions of happiness make us miserable.
- Why we all suffer, and what we can do about it.
- The science of genuine happiness.
- Taking your first steps to a richer, fuller life.
WEEK 2
A new way
- How struggling with painful feelings makes them worse.
- A radically new way of responding to emotional pain.
- How to take the power out of anxiety.
- How to instantly reduce the impact of any painful feeling.
WEEK 3
Get off the hook
- How our minds have evolved to think negatively (& why positive thinking often fails).
- How to take the power out of unhelpful thoughts.
- How to disrupt worrying, rumination & other unhelpful thinking processes.
- How to break free from self-judgment, self-criticism, or self-hatred.
- How to transcend self-esteem.
WEEK 4
Being present
- Mindfulness without meditation.
- How to live in the present moment.
- How to enjoy and appreciate life.
- How to focus attention and engage in whatever you are doing.
WEEK 5
Meaning & purpose
- How to find your inner compass to guide your life’s journey.
- How to give any aspect of your life meaning and purpose.
- How to motivate yourself from deep within.
- How to enrich and enhance anything and everything you do.
WEEK 6
Doing what matters
- How to motivate yourself from deep within.
- How to get past barriers such as anxiety, self-doubt, and low self-confidence.
- How to do what matters to you, even when it’s hard.
- How to keep your positive changes going over time.
WEEK 7
Holding yourself kindly
- How to let painful feelings flow through you, without getting swept away.
- How to develop self-compassion and treat yourself kindly.
- How to build richer relationships with yourself and others.
- How to transform pain into an ally.
WEEK 8
A higher sense of self
- How to access a higher sense of self.
- How to find fulfilment in unexpected places.
- How to make the most of what life gives.
- Bringing it all together: the ongoing journey.
About Dr. Russ Harris
Hi, I’m Russ… doctor, therapist, father, trainer of health professionals, author of The Happiness Trap (plus eight other books) and creator of the Happiness Trap Online Program.
Built on the principles of simplicity, clarity, and having fun, the program will teach you how to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model, to live a more meaningful and joyful existence, regardless of your current circumstances.
FAQs
Yes, there’s a very high chance this program will make you happier, as long as you actively apply the principles. It will give you the tools and techniques you need to build a richer and more fulfilling life, to effectively handle the inevitable painful feelings that life brings, and to enhance pleasure, joy and satisfaction in everyday living.
The Happiness Trap Program is first and foremost an educational program designed to give you the tools and techniques to build a rich and rewarding life. Although it is based on a model of therapy (ACT), a model used in clinical psychotherapy, the program itself is not specifically designed as a treatment for depression or other clinical disorders.
Therapy involves amongst other things, taking into account your history, biology and your environment. These important factors about you fall outside of the scope of this program and as such, it is not therapy. The principles and tools of the program can however be used very successfully in conjunction with therapy. If you are seeing a therapist, we recommend you ask them to take a look at what the program involves and ask them whether they think the program is right for you.
The Happiness Trap Program is first and foremost an educational program designed to give you the tools and techniques to build a rich and rewarding life. Although it is based on a model of therapy (ACT), a model used in clinical psychotherapy, the program itself is not specifically designed as a treatment for depression or other clinical disorders.
Therapy involves amongst other things, taking into account your history, biology and your environment. These important factors about you fall outside of the scope of this program and as such, it is not therapy. The principles and tools of the program can however be used very successfully in conjunction with therapy. If you are seeing a therapist, we recommend you ask them to take a look at what the program involves and ask them whether they think the program is right for you.
The principles and tools of the program can be applied very successfully, whether you are on medication or not. The Happiness Trap Program is first and foremost an educational program, giving you the tools and techniques to build a rich and rewarding life, and to handle the difficult thoughts and feelings that go with it. Although it is based on a model of therapy (ACT), the program itself is not designed as a treatment for mental health disorders – it is not therapy.
The principles and tools of the program can however be used very successfully as an adjunct to other treatments, for a wide range of mental health disorders. We recommend you ask your doctor, therapist or other treating health professional to take a quick look at what the program involves and advise whether they think it’s right for you.
The Happiness Trap program is an educational program, giving you the tools and techniques to build a rich and rewarding life, and to handle the difficult thoughts and feelings that go with it. It is based on a scientifically-proven model of therapy called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) which has successfully helped millions of people around the world to significantly reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression, while building richer, more fulfilling lives.
The program itself is not specifically designed as a treatment for depression, anxiety or other clinical disorders, but the principles and tools of the program can be used very successfully in conjunction with therapy. If you are seeing a therapist, we recommend you ask them to take a quick look at what the program involves and ask them whether they think it is right for you. For more information about the scientific research on which this program is based, visit ‘The Science’ page.
What People Say About the Happiness Trap Online Program
“Very well put together and a lot more helpful than reading a book.”
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“I’m simply amazed. This course is everything I had hoped it would be – and more.”
