Free Happiness:
the art and science of positivity
The happiness toolkit - written by Dr Vikki Barnes and endorsed by Sir Richard Branson
Helping people and organisations perform at their best
Inspiring and improving wellbeing and culture strategies around the world
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Free Happiness for you
Backed by science, Free Happiness will give you practical tools you can use and personal stories to relate to. This book is for anyone wanting to be their best and help others do the same. No matter who or where you are, or what you do, you can influence yourself and those around you in amazing ways. We all have a part to play in the world’s happiness.
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Free Happiness for teams
Packed with chapters to boost personal and professional growth, this book is a handy takeaway for your team, a great addition to your wellness strategy or a reward for your people. Positive Wellbeing also offers consultation + book packages to suit your budget and requirements.
"Thank you for this beautiful soul, who looks after everybody. We've all got to play our part in protecting the world, we need to work as one."
— Sir Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, Necker Island
We need to get back to happiness.
We've been searching in the wrong places. More success. More stuff. One more milestone before we finally let ourselves feel it. But decades of research keep landing on the same uncomfortable truth: none of that moves the needle much. What actually predicts a happy life isn't your salary, your achievements, or even your health — it's the quality of your connections. To others. To meaning. To the present moment you're standing in right now.
Free Happiness takes the latest science of wellbeing — the studies on gratitude, awe, kindness, and belonging — and turns it into something you can actually use. Not someday. Today.
Dr Vikki Barnes has spent her career studying what makes humans thrive, from boardrooms to communities in crisis. Here, she distils it all into one clear message: happiness isn't something you find. It's something you build, in small moments, through the people and choices around you.
This isn't a book about positive thinking. It's a book about positive living — grounded in evidence, shaped by real stories and built for a world that's forgotten how simple this can be.
Because the data is in: connection beats achievement. Presence beats perfection. And happiness, it turns out, was never that far away.
Praise for Free Happiness
“I have read and re-read this book 3 times and each time I get something from it. Brilliantly written and full of helpful ideas. One of my top 5 books to reference regularly.”
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“A wide range of tools that help improve happiness, described in a way that makes them easy to put into practice. Vikki has great credibility as a scientist, but it's her honesty and vulnerability that really draws you in and moves the book far beyond theory. Free Happiness is for anybody interested in working on their personal development and happiness strategy.”
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“I continue to use the chapters for myself and for my business in helping everyone be their best, be happier, be healthier. There's nothing I believe is more important or more impactful than this.”
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