Youth Flourishing Leadership Academy

Youth Flourishing Leadership Academy (YFLA) is a cohort-based program that promotes the overall well-being and flourishing of youth. The primary goal of YFLA is to instill a sense of hope, courage, curiosity, and meaning and purpose among the youth. YFLA also aims to foster a sense of connectedness to self, others, and the world at large among the youth.

YFLA Key Elements

  • Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing

  • Emotional Literacy, Character, and Virtue

  • Meaning and Purpose

  • Network of Support & Social Relationships

  • Happiness and Life Satisfaction

To achieve this goal, the academy provides participants with hands on skills, knowledge, and practical tools to live well and do well physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually so they can live a flourishing life.

“Anything less than flourishing is problematic.”
— Keyes*

YFLA cohort participants will:

  1. Receive weekly lessons on flourishing.

  2. Co-develop an Individualized Flourishing Plan.

  3. Receive 1:1 Mentoring for Flourishing

  4. Be part of a global Youth Flourishing Network

  5. Create and implement a Global Project for Flourishing

*Keyes, C. (2024). Languishing: how to feel alive again in a world that wears you down; Chicago/Turabian.