Building on the TWCF-funded Exploring our Common Humanity in Diverse Contexts (ECoH) Landscape Review: Africa, South Asia, this project led by Moitreyee Sinha of citiesRISE, aims to expand global human flourishing research through educational programs, a youth-led media lab, and collaborative hubs connecting science, spirituality, and Indigenous wisdom. It includes methodological innovations to distill insights from non-academic knowledge sources and advances an emerging framework for the science of the inner, blending insights from psychology and cognitive science with spirituality and autochthonous ways of knowing.

To ensure that they leverage the rich insights and the network of knowledge experts who have been engaging in this work — and to tap into existing relationships that TWCF has in these regions — this project will spark inter-generational collaborations to drive a dissemination campaign over an 18-month period.

The project will:

(1) develop a post-graduate course on human flourishing that will be piloted at the California Institute of Integral Studies and then made available to other institutions, with a practicum component that will require ongoing research products to get created and disseminated,

(2) develop educational materials that will be made available to future researchers of human flourishing with an online certification component,

(3) create a youth-participatory media lab where youth leaders from global south countries will partner with scholars of human flourishing to socialize the concepts and implement a campaign, and

(4) create a knowledge facilitation hub within citiesRISE to convene funders, researchers and practitioners to activate greater awareness, action and investment into this field.

Together, these pathways will translate ECoH’s knowledge into accessible, actionable, and culturally resonant forms, anchoring Global South-led human flourishing ecosystem building efforts with young people at the center.