The Saint Louis University Human Flourishing Leadership Academy (HFLA) is a school-year-long program focusing on educators’ and leaders’ personal and professional well-being and flourishing. Its ...

Human flourishing is not masked in complexity; it is present in the simplest longings of our nature: Loving, Learning, and Playing, or LLP. As we go through the process of socialization, we learn the ...

Members of the Consortium for Human Flourishing at Saint Louis University represent a wide array of disciplines such as education, psychology, philosophy, public health, sociology and nursing. We have ...

We seek to flourish as individuals, as communities, as nations, and as a global society. The opportunities to flourish are tremendous, but so are the obstacles. We must employ numerous strategies to ...

“The happiness curve is collapsing.” That’s the way Tyler J. VanderWeele, director of Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, characterized the state of worldwide well-being in 2025. For decades, ...

There is happiness, and then there is flourishing. And as new research has found, having one doesn’t always mean having the other, too. Flourishing indicates you’re living a good life, and it is more ...