Courses
Each course stands on its own and runs on FlourishIQ. Together they build the person who builds the community.
Seven days, one small, real act of connection a day
One small, real act of connection a day for a week: free
So much of life now happens through a screen. This free week is an invitation back into the room: one small, real act of connection a day, each taking ten to fifteen minutes, from a conversation with the phone away to a shared meal and an invitation, with a short check at the start and the end to see what changed.
The foundation of the path: living ubuntu every day
Fourteen everyday lessons in being human through others, lived the South African way
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: a person is a person through other persons. A companion to Mungi Ngomane's Everyday Ubuntu, this course turns her fourteen lessons into an everyday practice across eight modules, each lived through a South African way of being together: the ninjani check-in, the shared pot, talking under the tree, the work party and the stokvel spirit.
The conversations every community runs on, including across difference
Your evidence-based companion to Kalina Silverman's Big Talk
Loneliness is one of the defining challenges of our time, and meaningful conversation is one of the most reliable answers. 22 evidence-based tools across 5 modules — from the three-criteria question test through vulnerability, listening, daily posture, the practice in the wild, and how to facilitate Big Talk events for others.
Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness: the four moves of good conversation, practised one conversation at a time.
Good conversation is a set of small, learnable moves. This course is a companion to Alison Wood Brooks' book Talk (2025): it follows her four TALK maxims, Topics, Asking, Levity and Kindness, then tests them where conversation is hardest: in groups, in disagreement, across difference and in repair.
Three levels of knowing someone, nine power questions, and every question answered by you first, then asked.
Most relationships stay where small talk leaves them. This course is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards' book Conversation (2026) and its workbook: it follows her Conversation Blueprint through three levels of knowing a person, from the facts to their goals to the story they tell about themselves.
Handle disagreement in the order it happens: body, mind, words, repair
A conflict-resolution course in four modules, ordered the way a conflict has to be handled: steady first, see it clearly, say it well, then repair and grow. Regulating comes before reasoning, seeing clearly comes before speaking, and repair is treated as a skill of its own.
Stay curious and connected across race, language, politics and belief, without giving up what you believe
Many of the conversations that matter most cross a line. A companion to Geoffrey L.
Design a gathering people remember, and hold the conversations that keep a group alive
One gathering, designed from its real purpose to its last minute
We spend much of our lives in gatherings, and most of them run on habit. A companion to Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, with Peter Block, Charles Vogl, Adam Grant and Bruce Feiler, this course walks you through one gathering of your own: its real purpose, the guests and the place, your role as host, the invitation and the opening, the questions and small groups at its heart, and an ending worth remembering.
Small groups, better questions, and a season of conversations that turns an audience into owners
Many groups meet for years and never really talk: people attend, listen and leave. A companion to Peter Block's Community: The Structure of Belonging, with Priya Parker, Adam Grant, David Yeager, Geoffrey Cohen and Marissa King, this course shows you how to hold six conversations in small groups over a season (invitation, possibility, ownership, dissent, commitment and gifts), so that the people in your community become its owners.
From loneliness to belonging, and the people closest to us
Your evidence-based journey from loneliness to genuine belonging, at your own pace
Loneliness is one of the most common human experiences, and one of the least talked about. Thirty practical tools across six modules and a bonus help you understand your own loneliness, build your inner foundation, grow social confidence, widen your circle, deepen the connections that matter and make a plan of your own.
A facilitator's kit of tested belonging exercises, run wisely with your group
Almost everyone who joins a group quietly wonders whether they belong. A companion to Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, with the Handbook of Wise Interventions, this facilitator's kit helps you run tested belonging exercises with a group you serve: belonging stories, letters to newcomers, an anonymous round, strength stories, a difference panel, norms as invitations and caring notes, always with people rather than to them.
Four kinds of connection, one balanced life: grow the ties you are missing
"Friend" is too small a word for all the people in our lives. A companion to Adam Grant's Vibe, with Marissa King's Social Chemistry, this course maps your people on four wavelengths of connection (associates, pals, allies and companions), helps you grow the thin ones on purpose, shows you the shape of your network, and keeps real human ties strong in the age of AI.
Love is something you do. Practise it together, on ordinary days.
Love lasts when two people keep practising it. Drawing on Suzie Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski's Happy Together, John Gottman's research with couples and the wider science of positive psychology, this course helps you see the good in each other, keep passion in balance with the rest of life, share warmth and savour each other, turn towards each other, celebrate what goes right, use your strengths together, give and receive thanks and kindness well, repair after hurt and look after the circle of people around you both.
Boundaries you can say out loud and live with, without losing the relationship
Most people who struggle with boundaries are not unkind; they are the opposite, and that is the problem. This course takes you from seeing where your limits sit, through the values they rest on and the reasons they slip, to saying them kindly and holding them where it is hardest: at work, at the edge of the working day, on the phone and with difficult people.
The practices of the Christian faith, with the evidence beside them.
Your faith is older and larger than any study of it. Flourish Through Faith is a course of practices: things a believer can actually do, week by week.
Culture, cooperation, mentoring and leading people well
Boundary, initiation, rituals, the space, stories, symbols and inner rings, applied to your community
A community is more than a group with shared interests: its members care about one another's welfare. A companion to Charles Vogl's The Art of Community, this course takes the seven principles of a lasting community, one module at a time, and helps you apply each to a real community you lead or belong to, so that by the end you have your community on one page.
The host's craft for the hard moments: kind but firm, calm, and clear about when to bring in help
Every group has hard moments: a disagreement that turns personal, one voice that fills the room, a member who is clearly not okay, a meeting that goes wrong. A companion to Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, with Adam Grant and others, this course builds the host's craft: kind but firm authority, safety to speak, good conflict, sharing the floor, helping someone reach help, and repair.
A short anonymous pulse, a privacy promise, and answers read honestly and acted on
Hosts often guess how their community is doing, and guesses can be wrong. A companion to Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, with Peter Block, this course shows you how to listen to a whole community: ask a few fair questions anonymously, keep a privacy promise, read numbers and stories honestly, report back, and change one thing together.
Grow people, share the work, write down what matters, and hand over well
Many good communities fade when the person who carries them steps away. A companion to Charles Vogl's The Art of Community, with Martin Seligman, Adam Grant, David Yeager, Bruce Feiler and Priya Parker, this course helps you build a community that can go on without you: growing people, sharing roles and decisions, writing down what matters, handing over well, and knowing when to renew it or to end it with gratitude.
High standards with real support: how to guide young people and newcomers well
Most of us guide someone, and most of us fall into one of two habits: the enforcer, with high standards and little support, or the protector, with plenty of support and low standards. A companion to David Yeager's 10 to 25, with Adam Grant's Hidden Potential and Gregory Walton's Ordinary Magic, this course builds the third way: the mentor mindset, through respect, transparency, questions, stress and purpose, belonging, wise feedback and scaffolding.
Ask for what you need, and give generously in a way that lasts
Most help happens because someone asked, and people say yes far more often than we expect. A companion to Wayne Baker's All You Have to Do Is Ask, with Adam Grant's Give and Take, this course builds both halves of one habit: asking clearly and without apology, and giving generously without burning out, then making asking and giving normal in your team, residence, workplace or community.
See your group's culture, say it, and practise it on purpose
Every group that does things together has a culture, whether anyone chose it or not. TeamSmart helps a group see it, name it and practise it on purpose, through 29 tools in 5 modules, one for each moment every group meets: when we start, every week, when it is hard, when we look back, and when we see each other.
One building block at a time: choose it, practise it with your team, and see whether it worked
A course for one person who wants to make their team a better place to work. You read the nine building blocks of flourishing at work, the PERMA+4 framework, for yourself and for your team as you see it, ask the team one question, and choose one block.
The part of the job nobody taught you: helping other people grow
Most managers were promoted for doing the work well, then handed a team without being taught how to develop people. This course teaches the coaching conversation itself: when to coach, mentor or manage; asking before telling; one conversation structure run properly; curious questions; listening and the pause; feedback that lands; the hard conversations; development on the job; the hidden commitments that keep good intentions stuck; and a team in which everyone develops someone.
Seven lessons that build a team by design, not by chance
A course in the Compete Well series for coaches, mental coaches and their teams. Three modules carry seven teamwork lessons, completed in order with the team: what makes a great team, each player's place and mission, and roles and positive communication.
Agency, changemaking and lifting others
Grow your group's shared belief that, together, it can change things
Agency is the belief that what you do matters, and it has a we form: a group's shared belief that together it can change things. A companion to Martin Seligman's Agency, this course turns his exercises for agency into practice for a group you belong to: questioning a belief that nothing can change, imagining your community at its best, starting with small shared wins, opening the doors that are closed, and sharing agency so it lasts.
Know what to accept, what to change, and what to change together
This course starts from the Serenity Prayer and does what the prayer never does: it shows you how to tell apart what to accept, what to change, and what can only be changed together, and what to do once you know. It brings together Angela Duckworth's work on the power of your situation, the Positive World Collective's widening circles of shared change, Martin Seligman's work on agency, and Alex Budak's changemaker skills.
Turn good intentions into a life you steer: willpower, curiosity, values, attention and habits.
Most of us drift more than we choose: through scripts we never wrote, habits we never meant to form and attention that others steer for us. This course trains the five skills that turn good intentions into a life you steer, on your own and with the people around you.
Five SEEDS for Reaching Higher Together
Adaptation of Achor's 2018 book — the part of your potential you cannot reach alone. 20 tools across 7 modules with 9 Foundation Notes.
Six resources, eighteen components: positive leadership you can practise
ALIGHT is a model of positive leadership developed by Cornelia Lucey and Jolanta Burke: six resources, Abundance, Limberness, Inspiration, Grand Design, Health and Tribe, each with three components. The course gives one module to each of the eighteen components, between an opening module that takes your baseline and a closing module that takes it again and turns the difference into a development plan.
The moments people most need a community, and the rituals that mark them
Design the rituals that mark welcoming, becoming, loving, mourning and renewing
Our lives turn on moments of change, and for most of human history people marked them together. A companion to Bruce Feiler's A Time to Gather, with his Life Is in the Transitions, this course helps you design rituals, small or large, for the moments that matter: welcoming a child or a newcomer, a coming of age, a commitment, a loss or an ending, a fresh start, and the traditions your family, team or community keeps.
A whole first year of wellbeing and success, one week at a time, measured so you can watch it move
A self-paced wellbeing and success course for the whole of your first year. Twenty-six weeks run from a gauge week through twenty content weeks in two semesters, with two project fortnights and re-gauges at mid-year and at the end.
There is no correct speed and no schedule to fall behind on
Grief tools in five short modules, for the things people need to do while grieving: understanding what grief is doing to you, getting it out of your head, carrying the person with you, living alongside the loss, and not doing it alone. The course will not speed grief up; what it offers is company and structure, and a clear account of when grief needs more than a course.
For family carers: from taking it on, through the long middle, to when caring ends.
A practical, evidence-based companion for anyone caring for a parent, partner, child, relative or friend. It follows the whole journey of caring: recognising the role and taking it on, bringing the family in, speaking up with doctors and services, the long middle years of pressure, guilt, rest and meaning, keeping the person you care for at the centre, planning ahead, the times when care changes shape, and life when caring ends.
Approach the later chapters of life with clarity, courage, and vitality
Research shows that how you think about ageing powerfully shapes how you age — people with positive views of growing older live longer and report deeper satisfaction. 20 tools across 5 modules: challenge ageing beliefs, explore identity across your life arc, practise self-compassion and gratitude, clarify your legacy, and sustain daily energy, joy, and connection.
Values, kindness to yourself and resilience for the long haul
Discover what matters most and live in alignment with your deepest values
50 evidence-based tools and 18 structured practices — one of the most thorough values-discovery programmes available. Five phases: baseline assessment, values exploration with 120+ values to consider, deep creative exploration (ikigai, eulogy, vision board), behaviour-to-values bridging, and final measurement.
Meet yourself with the warmth you would offer a good friend
Self-compassion means treating yourself with the same kindness and care you would offer a good friend who is struggling. Built on Kristin Neff's three elements of mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness, the toolkit is designed to be felt in the body, not only understood in the head.
Find the resilience you already have and build four foundations on it
Resilience is not a rare gift but ordinary magic, built from everyday skills and relationships, and you have used it many times already. The first course of RiseWell: The Resilience Series begins with your own resilience story and a short check-in you can use after any setback, then adds four foundations: curiosity over judgement in the mind, befriending difficult emotions and growing positive ones in the heart, movement as a tool in the body, and knowing that you matter in connection and spirit.
You do not have to feel confident to start. Every rep counts.
Most people wait to feel confident before they act, yet confidence usually arrives after the action. This course treats confidence as something you practise: the way you talk to yourself, handle a mistake, read your nerves and choose who backs you.
Reshape your current role to align with your values, strengths, and interests
Job crafting is not about changing jobs — it is about changing how you do this one. 16 tools across 4 modules guide you through the complete process: task crafting changes what you do, relational crafting changes who you connect with, and cognitive crafting changes how you think about your work.