A curated list of videos & podcasts to begin getting you oriented with the wider conversation on flourishing. We recommend watching them in order as the ideas kind of build on one another.

Martin Seligman, Ph.D

Considered “the father of Modern Positive Psychology” (i.e., instead of just studying what’s wrong with everybody, what if we study what good looks like?).

(25 minutes)

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Richard Davidson, Ph.D.

Richard “Richie" Davidson is another important figure in the academic space of flourishing. Some of his most significant contributions center around proving that well-being can grow & studying connections between science & spiritual traditions.

(25 minutes)

Stephen Kotler on Flow States & Cycles

Kotler shares some fascinating discoveries helping us better understand what flow states are, how the Flow Cycle works, and how powerful flow can be helping us be fully alive.

(1 hour, 10 minutes)

(4 minutes)

Dr. Gabor Maté, MD

Dr. Maté’s unique perspective on trauma as separation and healing as wholeness is especially powerful given his life experiences as an infant Holocaust survivor & his work with addiction, hospice, & plant medicine.

(1 hour, 8 minutes)

Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv

Dr. Rediger, author of Cured, is faculty at Harvard Medical, a medical director at McClean Psychiatric Hospital, has spent the last 20 years studying super-stars of human health who have regained full health after being diagnosed with incurable disease.

(58 minutes)

Oren Lyons

Oren is a faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs, Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy). Here he shares foundational teaching he received about who we are.

(7 minutes)

(1 hour, 11 minutes)

Dr. Randy Woodley & Erma Kim Hackett

A fantastic conversation with Dr. Randy Woodley (Keetoowah Cherokee) Co-Creator and Co-Sustainer of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Erna Kim Hackett Founder of Liberated Together.

(42 minutes)

Devorah Brous & Charles Eisenstein

Listen to Devorah share about regenerative practices for soul care, community care, and earth care. Devorah Brous is a regenerative consultant at the nexus of urban gardening and burnout recovery.

(1 hour, 16 minutes)

Robert Waldinger

As the director of a 75-year-old Harvard study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. He concludes, “The clearest message we get from this study: good relationships keep us healthier and happier. Period.” And, “Loneliness kills.”

(13 minutes)

Lissa Rankin, MD

When asked "What's the greatest risk factor for disease?" she found that perhaps it's not our diet, our exercise regimen, the absence of bad habits like smoking, or genetics that most profoundly affect the health of the body. To her surprise, she found that scientific evidence suggests that loneliness may be the greatest public health. (She shares research suggesting loneliness is as dangerous for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day!)

(19 minutes)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh, a friend of MLK, Jr., is a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.

(22 minutes)