Centre for Human Flourishing
We help people discover what flourishing means for them and create space for different answers to coexist
What Makes for a Life Well Lived?
Research shows that there's no single answer.
Our idea of a good life comes from our culture, our community, the land we live on, the wisdom we partake, and the choices we make.
At the Centre for Human Flourishing, our mission is to help individuals and communities develop their own lineage of practical wisdom, while also fostering ongoing discovery and expansion.
Two Ways to Begin
Whether you're just curious or ready to dive deep, we've created two pathways for you.
Seeds of Flourishing
Join us monthly (February-June) for conversations that will shift how you think about a good life. Each month, we bring in someone with a unique perspective and we ask them the question: "What does flourishing look like in your world?"
These are opportunities to listen, question, connect with others who are curious about the same path, and leave with new ideas to explore.
Free to attend. Donations welcome.
Flourishing Immersions
For those who want to go deeper, thse are multi-day intensive seminars where you move beyond ideas into practice, including small groups, deep dialogue and experiential learning.
Explore what flourishing actually means for your life, with your people, grounded in what you care about most.
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Featured events
No upcoming events at this time.
Why This Matters Now
We're living through a time of major changes.
Climate disruption. Cross-cultural migration. Communities fracturing. Disruptive technologies like AI that could lead anywhere from utopia to extinction.
Amidst this unprecedented uncertainty about the future, we are called to carve a path toward a meaningful existence. We are called to honour and claim our traditions and practices, as well as to understand and be inspired by those of others.
How Flourishing Works
Flourishing: Same and Different Everywhere
Over 60+ years of serving communities and organizations, we have discovered that people across cultures build meaningful lives through three interconnected ways of being:
RELATIONAL - You don’t Flourish Alone
We're built for connection. Flourishing always involves relationships, whether it’s with the people you love, your community, the land you live on, or the wider world around you. The form changes, but an underlying truth keeps showing up: you flourish because of who and what you're connected to.
ADAPTIVE - Life Changes, You Keep Growing
Change is constant: loss, uncertainty, transformation. Flourishing means moving through these moments without losing what's important to you. It's the ability to adapt, learn, and stay connected to the people and purposes that matter, even when everything around you shifts.
PURPOSEFUL - You Act on What Matters
Flourishing is something you do. It's taking action on what you care about, pursuing commitments that feel meaningful, and showing up for what matters. This might be raising your kids, creating art, serving your community, practicing your religion, or building something new. The content varies; what's universal is that you're actively engaged in living out your values.
THE SPARK
The spark of flourishing happens as these three forces come together. Like a wildflower grows thanks to the interaction of its roots, the soil microorganisms and the light of the sun, the combination of strong relationships, adaptability and purposeful action awakens the human spirit’s capacity for thriving.
Our approach
At the Centre for Human Flourishing, we bring together people from different worlds, with different ways of knowing, different experiences, different relationships with meaning and purpose.
We create space for you to discover and expand what flourishing means for you, in your context, with your people, grounded in what you care about most.
We also know we bring our own biases. The Centre has its own culture and assumptions. We honor them at the same time as we strive to reflect on them so they don’t prevent us from holding the space for others.
