Human Flourishing
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Human Flourishing
The phrase Human Flourishingis the process of fully developing, expressing, and embodying one's highest potential in all aspects of life—psychological, emotional, spiritual, creative, and social. It represents the unfolding of innate human capacities and the realization of a balanced, empowered, and authentic existence. Human Flourishing is the opposite of stagnation, suppression, and disconnection. It emerges when individuals and societies heal from Toxic Socialization, align with their authentic selves, and cultivate environments that support health, growth, healing, connection, and well-being.
Related LP Terms
Human Flourishing > Lightning Path Human Development Framework, Pathfinder Educational Model, Post-Capitalist Skills, The Lightning Path, Toxic Socialization
Non-LP Related Terms
Human Flourishing > Conscientização, Culture of Silence, Dialogic Method, Generative Themes, Love, Empathy, and Hope, Potential Realization, Praxis, Problem-Posing Education, Seven Components of Human Development
Notes
Human potential may be broken into Individual Potential and Species Potential.
Human potential consists of Actual Realization, which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and Potential Realization, what is possible.
According to the Lightning Path Human Development Framework, actuation of full potential requires Sufficient Satisfaction of the Seven Essential Needs, from birth through old age.[1]
Failure to meet essential needs undermines potential, stunts development, and causes damage.
Active suppression of needs within a Toxic Socialization process leads to the 5Ds of Toxic Existence
There is, of course, the important question of "What is full human potential?" That's hard to tell because the human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all Seven Essential Needs and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible.
Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.[2]
Nasa scientists Dr. George Land has some thoughts.[3]. View his brief talk below where he suggests that all children are born creative geniuses but that something (i.e., The System) dumbs them down.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.
- ↑ Engels, Coert. “We Are Born Creative Geniuses and the Education System Dumbs Us down, According to NASA Scientists - Ideapod.” Ideapod (blog), December 16, 2017. https://ideapod.com/born-creative-geniuses-education-system-dumbs-us-according-nasa-scientists/