Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations. (Saint Exupery, 1939, p. 32) Where can children find the joy of human relationships in a setting where many persons gather? The school, of course, can provide such a place. Unfortunately, for many children, school is a place to be avoided. This article focuses on using a friendship group to create a setting in which children can experience themselves in positive ways. As they learn to feel more positively about themselves, the children will feel better about coming to school, at least on the day of the group meeting. But affiliations within the groups should generalize so that the children can experience more satisfying interpersonal relationships in a broader range of settings.This article illustrates how to approach the humanistic goal of improved personal relationships by multimodal means. In the multimodal approach, Keat (1979) has proposed the HELPING (health, emotions, learning, personal relationships, imagery, need to know, guidance of ABCs) model as an alternative to the BASIC ID (behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, drugs) (Lazarus, 1976,