How We Flourish – Volume 1
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How We Flourish: Volume 1 teaches practical well-being skills rooted in positive psychology and real-world practice. Organized around the PERMA-V framework, this practitioner-led volume offers research-backed tools for resilience, meaning, relationships, vitality, and lasting well-being.
Description
How We Flourish: Volume 1 is a science-based guide to human flourishing—designed to teach the well-being skills most of us were never taught, yet rely on every day.
Decades of research show that well-being is not a fixed trait. It is a set of learnable, teachable skills. And yet, most people were never taught how emotions work, how resilience is built, how habits form, or how meaning and vitality are sustained over time. We are left navigating life with good intentions—but without a clear map.
How We Flourish: Volume 1 offers that map.
Part of an ongoing series exploring how humans flourish—individually and collectively—this volume brings together evidence-based practices drawn from positive psychology research and nearly twenty years of real-world application. Organized around the PERMA-V framework—Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, and Vitality—each chapter explores a core skill that supports flourishing across life domains.
Conceived, curated, and edited by positive psychology pioneer Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, founder of The Flourishing Center, this book bridges rigorous science with lived experience. Each chapter is written by a graduate of the world’s longest-running Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) program—practitioners actively applying these tools across schools, organizations, healthcare, coaching, leadership, and communities worldwide.
The chapters are joyful, grounded, and deeply human—pairing research with stories, reflections, and practical applications that invite insight and integration. Together, they offer not just knowledge, but lived wisdom.
What you’ll explore in Volume 1:
Topics include Gratitude, Resilience, Curiosity, Mindfulness, Character Strengths, Flow, Mattering, Kindness, Purpose, Hope, Habit Change, Motivation, Stress, Sleep, Nature, Breath, and more—each offering a distinct doorway into understanding how we flourish.
You can read this book cover to cover or explore each chapter as a standalone—knowing it is part of a larger, integrated system designed to support flourishing over time.
Whether you are a coach, educator, clinician, leader, caregiver, or simply someone seeking a grounded, science-based approach to living well, How We Flourish: Volume 1 serves as a literacy manual for the inner life—helping you cultivate well-being with clarity, compassion, and care.
Proceeds from this book support the CAPP Scholarship Fund, expanding access to applied positive psychology education and training more practitioners equipped to bring evidence-based well-being skills into the world.
Welcome to How We Flourish.
Meet the Authors:
Main author and Editor:
- Emiliya Zhivotovskaya
Contributing Authors (CAPP Authors Collective):
- Fatin Bundagji
- Laurie Butson
- Jennifer Clay
- Laura Cooke
- Ariyo Cummings
- Patricia C. Ehret
- Maria Elshamy
- Katrina Goff
- Nené Gómez
- Anna Irani
- Ginger Lerner
- Shelley Lippman
- Meera Mathur
- Michele Mavissakalian
- Elizabeth O’Neil Meurehg
- Jessica Morgenthal
- Yumiko Yokochi Ordal
- Molly Peterson
- Karen Riddell
- Elize Simon
- Cristina Tijerina Sepulveda
- Tara Tiefenthaler
- Melinda Weber
- Lisa Wozniak
- Karim Zayed