Participation in religious services is associated with numerous aspects of human flourishing, including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. Evidence for the effects of religious communities on these flourishing outcomes now comes from rigorous longitudinal study designs with extensive confounding...

Flourishing--a state of optimal mental health--has been linked to a host of benefits for the individual and society, including fewer workdays lost and the lowest incidence of chronic physical conditions. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether and how routine activities promote flourishing. The authors proposed that flourishers thrive because they capitalize on the processes featured i...

In this paper we explore ‘human flourishing’, a concept that we articulate through embodied creative methods of inquiry. In contemporary organisations, the recognition that persons need to exist in contexts that enable their potential to be maximised and realised has promoted a greater focus on identifying conditions that can help people to flourish in the workplace. In helping relationships in...

In Flourish, the positive psychologist Seligman (2011) identifies five commonly recognized factors that are characteristic of human flourishing or well-being: (1) "positive emotion," (2) "relationships," (3) "engagement," (4) "achievement," and (5) "meaning" (p. 24). Although there is no settled set of necessary and sufficient conditions neatly circumscribing the bounds of human flourishing (Se...

Dr. Francis Su uses an autobiography (or a dual autobiography) to discuss issue in mathematics: it is often non-flourishing. When crafting this Euler Book Prize winner, and his co-author, Christopher Jackson, drew on their own personal experiences educate inspire readers want do (and teach) mathematics.