<aside> 💡 We conduct research that will help to understand, articulate, and implement a new vision of what it means to flourish in the 21st Century.
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Human Flourishing is the ability for every individual to live well and actualize their fullest potential into the world. Inspired by Berkman Klein Center’s research sprints, this guild will focus on conducting research through 3 lenses that focus on flourishing at every level: as an individual, in community, and within broader cultural political and economic systems. Each person will write an essay inquiring into one of these areas that will be refined and finished at the end of the quarter. We will support one another though social accountability, animated discussion, and peer editing. At the end of 8-weeks we will publish our research into an online and physical journal called Cohere (inspired by the verb "cohere", which means to integrate, clarify, and come together to create a unified whole in an ongoing manner).
Guild requirements:
A note on research groups: We have distinguished separate research groups which focus on theories of flourishing at different levels: the individual, communal, and socio-political. These are not separate processes, but rather one coherent, nested system in which each level feeds into and out of each other. Each group will be zooming in on one level, taking that point of view, but we will also focus on how they all feed into and build off of each other.
Inner Work
Culture and Community: Sense-making
Political, Social, and Economic Systems