What is Flourishing?

We believe that the deepest and most fundamental longings within all of us are only three--to LOVE, to LEARN, and to PLAY (LLP)--and that if we approach everything in life with an LLP mindset, we will truly flourish.

We often long for a state of consciousness we can label to denote ‘life satisfaction’. At UEF, our intention is, rather, to flourish. Related to the word “flowering”, flourishing is about blossoming into who we are at our state of fullest potential. A flower blooms to its full potential as long as it gets enough sun, water, and air in the right proportions. A flower is happy in itself — a rose, for example, does not want to be a marigold. Flourishing can also be understood as being in a state of permanent contentment as opposed to the normal quest for transitory happiness, which is contingent on external objects. True happiness should be everlasting..

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Flourishing and the LLP Mindset

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How do you experience LLP in life?

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Living Consciously aka Living with LLP Mindset

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Love, Learn, Play: The Triple Helix of Human Flourishing

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Musical Creativity as Love, Learning, and Play

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Overcoming Racism Through Love, Learning and Play

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Knowledge acquired by human beings has been increasing at an exponential rate for over a century. However, we have yet to make commensurate progress in human flourishing. This is because knowledge has been getting increasingly fragmented and sits mostly in silos. The UEF believes that if we can integrate knowledge across the silos of time, civilizations, geographies and academic disciplines.