Master Coach Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC joins us this Thursday for Seeds of Flourishing to share the power of metaphors to bring more truth 𝘢𝘯𝘥 more play into our lives... even in the most unexpected places.
Centre for Human Flourishing
Higher Education
Montreal, Quebec 454 followers
Promoting the flourishing of communities, organizations, groups and individuals
About us
The Centre for Human Flourishing is a research centre within the Faculty of Arts and Science engaged in action research, consultation, and training. Since its inception in 1963, the Centre has worked with hundreds of organizations, community groups, and agencies. The Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies (CHRCS) is a community of practitioners, researchers, community members, students, and other learners dedicated to improving the quality of life in human systems. History of the Centre The Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies has been serving its mission and purpose since 1963 by creating a direct link between the University and the community. Over the years the Centre has provided consultation and training services to over 375 organizations and has delivered hundreds of workshops open to the public and has developed one of Canada’s most established Human Relations Trainer Development Program. The Centre continues to create learning opportunities to students through internships and student placements in these various activities. The Centre has also been instrumental in developing curriculum and academic programs such as the “Family Life Education” and “Community Service” certificates, as well as the MA program in “Human Systems Intervention” have all been direct outgrowths of the Centre’s relationship between the University and the community. And, finally the R.D. McDonald endowment fund was established in 1994 to insure the financial viability of the Centre. Mission The mission of all activities within the Centre is dedicated to improving the quality of life in human systems through research and other programming. Goals To promote understanding of the human dimension of organizations and the social environment; To provide consultation and training programs to address the needs of groups and organizations; To provide opportunities for adults to understand life change processes and social change, and to gain more effect
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https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/chrcs.html
External link for Centre for Human Flourishing
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- Higher Education
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- 11-50 employees
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- Montreal, Quebec
- Founded
- 1963
Updates
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Tomorrow. One hour with Aruni Nan Futuronsky. Free, online, via Zoom. "The Power and Practice of Presence." A session on how to pace yourself, meet turbulence with some kindness intact, and return when you forget. "Practice, most imperfectly," as Aruni says. If the week has been a lot, come sit with us. Link in the first comment.
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Last month, Aruni Nan Futuronsky wrote this on her blog, quoting the Talmud: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." "The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism," she explains. "Compiled over several centuries, it was written between the 3rd and the 6th centuries CE. In other words, none of this is new." "None of this is new." Two thousand years ago, human beings were already asking the same question we ask now: how do you stay in contact with suffering you cannot fix, without being crushed by it or numbed out from it? The Talmud's answer, and Aruni's: a practice of small and faithful action, held within an explicit acknowledgment that you cannot finish the work. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. Every now matters. Aruni has been thinking about this in the shadow of a war, after a march, in the week after the Easter weekend news. She writes: "I feel and hear the otherworldly brilliance and profundity of these words. Its inherent power comforts me. Yet, how do we live into it? Each one of us may be called to interpret this within the riverbanks of our own lives." On April 30, she joins Concordia's Seeds of Flourishing for "The Power and Practice of Presence." If you have been trying to figure out how to act at all without being flattened, this is the conversation. Free, online, one hour. Link in the first comment.
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Aruni Nan Futuronsky, 77, senior Kripalu teacher, writes: "In yesteryear, I was a busy camper, trying to be the BEST LITTLE _____. Fill in the blank. The best little sober kid. The best lesbian feminist. The best spiritual disciple. The best Kripalu teacher." "I exhausted myself. Truly, I did. And it didn't work!" "I'm too tired to push in the same way. My expectations of myself are much more reasonable than in the past." This resonated for us. A lot of the wisdom we come across is about getting better at pushing. Be faster, be sharper, be more disciplined. Be the best little _____. Aruni's quiet late-career discovery: the exhaustion was itself the pushing she was being told to do more of. "I've landed much more securely into my own arms, it seems. Sometimes." She practices, most imperfectly, a different relationship with her own capacity. She writes about this in public, with humor and directness, because she thinks other people might be weary of the same thing. On April 30, she joins Concordia's Seeds of Flourishing for "The Power and Practice of Presence." Free, 45 min, online. An invitation to pace yourself honestly, whatever that turns out to mean for you. Link to register here: https://dub.sh/7NG1oqv
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The recording of Bhaskar's session, "The Way of Human Flourishing", is now available!
We are living in what some call a "meta-crisis," standing at a fork in the road between human diminishment and human flourishing. I was recently invited by Concordia University to facilitate an experience of clarity around this called, "The Way of Human Flourishing" Here is the recording. I trust that you will find it to be of value: https://lnkd.in/eBNPtEN7 Thank you, Nicolò Francesco Bernardi, Ph.D., PCC and Jim Gavin from the Concordia University Center of Human Flourishing, for this incredible initiative and the opportunity to contribute 🙏 #humanity #flourishing #MetaCrisis #concordiauniversity #wisdom #future
The Way of Human Flourishing | Bhaskar Goswami
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How do you meet a "world on fire" without becoming it? If you have been reading the news with your breath held, you know the feeling. Wound, depleted, looking for external signals that it is safe to exhale. Aruni Nan Futuronsky has been teaching this terrain for thirty-five years at Kripalu. Her work is about staying in the world, at your own pace, without burning through yourself in the process. Her central idea, in her own words: "There lives inside of me an infinite well of silence and serenity. It is always available to me. It's simply up to me to draw upon it." "Mostly I forget," she adds plainly. "My practice is not making the forgetting wrong. Simply, through kind awareness, returning back to my internal space." One hour to practice pacing yourself, honoring your body's signals, and meeting turbulence with some kindness intact. Bring whatever you are holding. This Thursday, April 30. Free. Online. Link in the first comment.
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Dr. Jessica Riddell is a beacon of inspiration, energy and practical wisdom. For anybody involved in transforming education and more broadly systems change, this is one you can't miss! Register here: https://lnkd.in/e7Kw8g-s Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University Department of Applied Human Sciences - Concordia University
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A story about how everything can fall apart in five days and how every moment is an opportunity to build something new. Don't miss tomorrow's opportunity to meet Steve Rio in person!
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What an amazing resource! Well done Centre for Teaching and Learning at Concordia (CTL)
🌱 NEW RESOURCE 🌱 We’re delighted to share that our open educational resource on “Contemplative practices and pedagogy in the classroom” is now published. This collection was co-created with our faculty interest group (FIG) in 2025 with contributions from instructors, staff, students and guest speakers from our fall Summit series. Free for educators in and out of Concordia University to reuse and adapt for their own teaching contexts. We invite you to begin with the foreword from our editors, Amy Cooper and Stephen Yeager. Cover art by Joseph Siddiqi #OpenEducation #OER #HigherEducation #TeachingAndLearning #Pedagogy #ContemplativePedagogy #FacultyDevelopment #EdInnovation Pressbooks, Open Education Global (OEGlobal), Open Education Network https://lnkd.in/enNnAM-E
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A lot of people who've done years of therapy can describe their patterns perfectly. They've mapped the childhood wound, the attachment style, the defense mechanism, and more. But Steve Rio, our speaker for the upcoming Seeds of Flourishing seminar, keeps seeing a gap: the map is complete, but the body hasn't moved. Understanding happens in the mind. But the pain lives somewhere else entirely, in the nervous system. Steve's framework starts there. Not with the story, but with the body that's been carrying it. That's where the real recalibration begins. Join us on April 2. Register here: https://lnkd.in/esRsjSJK
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