In this episode of Take a Seat, we sat down with Dr. Matt Lee, an expert on the science of flourishing at the Harvard Flourishing Project. In our conversation, we dug into the various components of flourishing (happiness and life satisfaction, physical and mental health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships), as well as how we might re-imagine our systems of education to better support human flourishing and a regenerative way of life for individuals and our planet.

As the Director of Empirical Research at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Project, Dr. Matt Lee is “integrating the deep wisdom of the humanities with rigorous social science research” to define and investigate the measurable aspects of flourishing. The interdisciplinary program is aimed at pulling together knowledge from a variety of disciplines to better understand and promote human well-being.

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Human Flourishing Measure

2:31 Measuring Well-Being
2:50 Career background
4:51 The Joyous Recovery - Lundy Bancroft
7:08 Domains of flourishing
13:04 Transcend Scott Barry Kaufman
13:30 Why Good Things Happen to Good People Stephen Post
15:02 The Heart of Religion - Matthew Lee, Margaret Poloma &  Stephen Post
15:15 Should Pediatricians Prescribe Kindness
16:55 Do schools kill creativity? - Sir Ken Robinsons
25:19 Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model
25:47 We Dare Say Love - Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Jarvis Givens & Christopher Chatmon
28:29 Mathematics for Human Flourishing - Francis Su
31:35 Power of a good mentor or teacher
32:44 I and Thou - Martin Buber
35:26 The Science of Abundance - Jim Ritchie-Dunham
39:16 Dr. Paul Wong
42:20 Joy & suffering
43:03 Open Space, Transformative Education, and the Pursuit of Flourishing - Matthew T. Lee, Molly Hartsough, Sam Borick & Brooks Gathagan
44:23 “Students experienced a moment of being seen fully, both in their strengths but also in their flaws, in a classroom context”.
45:06 Is it possible to be seen fully?
46:30 Regenerative soil conditions