The groups change each semester, shaped by what faculty are working on and what students are eager to discuss. Recent offerings have included:Forgiveness. Working through the evidence-based REACH Forgiveness Workbook alongside the latest empirical research on how forgiveness shapes mental health and flourishing.AI and Social Flourishing. Reading and discussing how social AI is reshaping four central places of human life: family, friendship, work, and religion.Till We Have Faces. A close reading of C. S. Lewis's last novel that delves into issues such as love, self-understanding, and the hiddenness of the divine.Confessions (“Just Show Up” Reading Group). Listening to Augustine's Confessions together over a weekly meal.

Flourishing Fellows

Q: Fall 2026 Forums

Love: What Is It? How Do We Live?This group will explore the limits and possibilities of love through the book, "Love Is Our Greatest Untapped Resource," a collection of passages and journal questions. The book engages a variety of contemporary authors, such as Bryan Stevenson, Bob Goff, Fr. Boyle, Brene Brown, and Rev. Liz Walker. Students will not only explore conceptual issues, but will also have the opportunity to think about concrete ways to spread love in their lives. Students will receive a free copy of the book. One meeting will be held at a restaurant in Cambridge. Meeting Dates and TimesDates: Mondays: 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/9Time: 3:30-4:30pmFlourish Forward: Positive Psychology and Your FutureDoes empirical science and research have evidence for how to live a good life? This group will read and discuss research and texts that suggests how to manage our emotional lives, relationships, careers, and philosophies of life to evolve into better versions of ourselves. We'll sample the work of Abraham Maslow, Bertrand Russell, Martin Seligman, Tyler VanderWeele, Thomas Aquinas, and the Dalai Lama.Meeting Dates and TimesDate: Mondays, 9/14, 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/16Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm

Q: Spring 2027 Forums

ForgivenessThis group invites students to work through the evidence-based REACH Forgiveness Workbook, a workbook of educational, reflective, and embodied exercises. Students will meet to discuss the experience of working through the workbook. Spring Forum Registration will open in December 2026!

Q: Samuel Oji

Samuel Oji is a Flourishing Fellows Ambassador at the Human Flourishing Program and an undergraduate at Harvard College. He is pursuing a double concentration in Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology and Economics, along with a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy. He maintains scholarly interests in philosophy, theology, and the arts, which shape his thinking about meaning, wellbeing, and human flourishing. In addition to his academic work, Samuel conducts genetics research at Massachusetts General Hospital, advocates for heart screenings with LongLiveJJ, directs a program at the Phillips Brooks House Association, provides college admissions tutoring, works as a personal care assistant, and serves as an analyst for nonprofits through Harvard Global Research and Consulting. He intends to apply to medical school and pursue a career as a physician following graduation.He can be reached at samueloji@college.harvard.edu

Kate Jackson-Meyer
Jun 5
4 min read

Updated: 6 hours ago

The Flourishing Fellows program invites Harvard undergraduates into the work of the Human Flourishing Program through various pathways.

Join us for a Flourishing Fellows Info Session!

When: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026 @4pm ET

Where: Human Flourishing Program Offices

12 Arrow Street, Cambridge

What: Join us for a donut and learn more about the Flourishing Fellow Forums, the Flourishing Fellow Research Intern Program, and the Oxford Vivarium

Email Kate with questions, kjacksonmeyer@fas.harvard.edu

Flourishing Fellows Forums

In Forum meetings, Flourishing Fellows gather alongside program researchers to discuss some of the big questions our research touches on and what these questions mean for living a flourishing life. Topics include love, forgiveness, friendship, technology, faith, and what it means to live a good life.

Each semester, the Human Flourishing Program offers a slate of Forums led by faculty and program staff. Forums typically meet three to five times over the course of the semester at our offices in Cambridge. Reading commitments are intentionally modest—a workbook, a novel, a few essays—so that the conversation in the room, not the volume of pre-reading, carries the meeting.

There is no application beyond a sign-up form, and there is no cost. Fellows simply commit to showing up and to reading the materials for the groups they join.

Participation in a Flourishing Fellows Forum is also the prerequisite for applying to the Oxford Vivarium.

Register for a Fall 2026 Forum by September 12, 2026!

Fall 2026 Forum Registration

Fall 2026 Forums

Love: What Is It? How Do We Live?

This group will explore the limits and possibilities of love through the book, "Love Is Our Greatest Untapped Resource," a collection of passages and journal questions. The book engages a variety of contemporary authors, such as Bryan Stevenson, Bob Goff, Fr. Boyle, Brene Brown, and Rev. Liz Walker. Students will not only explore conceptual issues, but will also have the opportunity to think about concrete ways to spread love in their lives. Students will receive a free copy of the book. One meeting will be held at a restaurant in Cambridge.

Meeting Dates and Times

Dates: Mondays: 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/9

Time: 3:30-4:30pm

Flourish Forward: Positive Psychology and Your Future

Does empirical science and research have evidence for how to live a good life? This group will read and discuss research and texts that suggests how to manage our emotional lives, relationships, careers, and philosophies of life to evolve into better versions of ourselves. We'll sample the work of Abraham Maslow, Bertrand Russell, Martin Seligman, Tyler VanderWeele, Thomas Aquinas, and the Dalai Lama.

Meeting Dates and Times

Date: Mondays, 9/14, 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/16

Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm

Spring 2027 Forums

Forgiveness

This group invites students to work through the evidence-based REACH Forgiveness Workbook, a workbook of educational, reflective, and embodied exercises. Students will meet to discuss the experience of working through the workbook.

Spring Forum Registration will open in December 2026!

Past Forums

The groups change each semester, shaped by what faculty are working on and what students are eager to discuss. Recent offerings have included:

Forgiveness. Working through the evidence-based REACH Forgiveness Workbook alongside the latest empirical research on how forgiveness shapes mental health and flourishing.
AI and Social Flourishing. Reading and discussing how social AI is reshaping four central places of human life: family, friendship, work, and religion.
Till We Have Faces. A close reading of C. S. Lewis's last novel that delves into issues such as love, self-understanding, and the hiddenness of the divine.
Confessions (“Just Show Up” Reading Group). Listening to Augustine's Confessions together over a weekly meal.

Oxford Vivarium

The Vivarium consists of a week of seminars, conversation, and community in Oxford with students and scholars from across the program.

In order to be eligible to apply for the Vivarium, students must participate in one Forum.

The 2027 Vivarium will take place August 8-14 in Oxford. Applications will open late fall or early spring.

Check out the Oxford Vivarium

Read about the 2026 Oxford Vivarium

Click here to read about the 2026 Oxford Vivarium

Flourishing Fellow Research Internship Program

The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard will be hosting a group of Harvard undergraduate students to conduct qualitative research on flourishing at the university over the '26-'27 academic year.

Students will work with researchers at the Human Flourishing program to examine the Human Flourishing Program's academic flourishing survey, develop an interview protocol to examine academic flourishing on campus, be part of the IRB approval process, conduct interviews, perform data analysis, and present the data to the Human Flourishing team.

Apply by September 12, 2026!

Research Intern Application

Flourishing Fellows Ambassadors

Flourishing Fellows Ambassadors are Harvard undergraduates who commits to spreading the word about this year’s programming. This might include sending emails, posting flyers, and sharing details with other students. Ambassadors will also help organize one social event for the Flourishing Fellows. This is an unpaid position, but the Ambassadors receive early acceptance into the 2027 Vivarium.

Meet our '26-'27 Flourishing Fellow Ambassadors!

Samuel Oji

Samuel Oji is a Flourishing Fellows Ambassador at the Human Flourishing Program and an undergraduate at Harvard College. He is pursuing a double concentration in Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology and Economics, along with a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy. He maintains scholarly interests in philosophy, theology, and the arts, which shape his thinking about meaning, wellbeing, and human flourishing. In addition to his academic work, Samuel conducts genetics research at Massachusetts General Hospital, advocates for heart screenings with LongLiveJJ, directs a program at the Phillips Brooks House Association, provides college admissions tutoring, works as a personal care assistant, and serves as an analyst for nonprofits through Harvard Global Research and Consulting. He intends to apply to medical school and pursue a career as a physician following graduation.

He can be reached at samueloji@college.harvard.edu

Ulyana Kubini

For more information, email Kate Jackson-Meyer at kjacksonmeyer@fas.harvard.edu