Flourish Project
The Flourish Project introduces a new and powerful framework for understanding and mapping human wellbeing that promotes community involvement and whole-systems thinking. Currently moving into its pilot period, it offers parents, teachers, schools, care-homes, businesses, city-leaders and national policymakers the ability to better understand and promote the health and wellbeing of both themselves and their own local communities and populations. In each case, it provides a quick and easy way to map and evaluate existing wellbeing scales and indicators that promotes eco-systemic thinking and the need to 'measure what matters'. Above all, it underpins the call for a more caring, sustainable and compassionate world. https://www.flourishproject.net/
Mission: To promote systemic, scalable change in partnership with others, by transforming narratives, attitudes and behaviours - resulting in enhanced human health and wellbeing and a flourishing planet. https://www.flourishproject.net/vision-and-values.html
Key People
- Wendy Ellyatt
Theory of Change
Inspirations & Influences
Individuals
Richard Barrett, Elinor Ostrom and David Sloan Wilson, the biologists Gregory Bateson, Alan Rayner and Humberto Maturana, the leading systems theorists David Bohm and Fritjof Capra, the economists Amaryta Sen, James Heckman and Richard Layard, the psychologists Abraham Maslow, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Edward Deci, Richard Ryan, Martin Seligman, Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber and Carol Dweck, the organisational experts Otto Scharmer and Peter Senge and the trauma experts Thomas Hubl and Gabor Mate.
Frameworks
- Systems Thinking
- Ecology of Wellbeing
Key Learning Resources
- Books and resources listed here: https://www.flourishproject.net/publications.html
Connections
Partners include: