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Welcome to Creative Flourishing, a podcast that dives into the latest creative arts research and practice and asks how engaging with this might aid in human flourishing and have a positive impact upon our wellbeing. Each episode profiles a different form of creative practice, journeying from curating exhibitions at the Venice Biennale through to creative writing responses to apocalyptic futures and everything in between. Creative Flourishing is produced through the Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing at the University of Queensland, with funding support from the Faculty of ...

The ancient philosopher Aristotle often points to the idea that everything one does must move toward what he calls a “telos,” what we might call an “end goal.” To live well, he says, we must always be paying attention to the telos of what we are doing, and according to him, there is no higher telos than human flourishing. But how does one learn to flourish in a culture that often seems to care more about being right than being good, more about being loud than being loving, and more about being successful than being happy? We've featured a variety of Most Outstanding people, from poets ...