Landscape for Flourishing
Virtues & Relationships
Virtues & Relationships
In a successfully designed Landscape we need to have enough positive relationships that are a source of enrichment, vitality and growth in our lives. Science shows us that one of the common themes amongst people with higher levels of happiness and flourishing is the strength and quality of the relationships they have in their lives. Learning how to build positive relationships involves understanding the quality of behaviours and the attributes that contribute to strong and healthy relationships, what type of communication needs to occur in these relationships and how to move past difficulty and disappointment when there are conflicts or hurt.
These qualities and attributes are found in the virtues and values that make a life worth living. Learning how to cultivate these virtues and understanding what is most important to us and to others sets us up for building more positive relationships in our lives. It also assists us to nurture those relationships over time and find ways to forgive and repair them when mistakes are made.
The Five Domains of Positive Functioning
These domains serve as gateways to unlocking our potential for personal growth, fulfillment, and resilience, allowing us to navigate life’s challenges with greater wisdom and embrace its joys more fully.
Much of our experience is made up of what we pay attention to.
Our landscape is therefore made up from and biased by the things we pay the most attention to. Attention and Awareness is our first design element for our Landscape for Flourishing.
The second design element for our Landscape for Flourishing is Comprehension and Coping. After we pay attention, what happens next is determined by what we do with it.
Setting, pursuing and achieving goals is an essential part of our human make up and critical to designing our landscape. When we lack purpose and direction it is very difficult for us to be at our best.
In a successfully designed landscape we need to have enough positive relationships that are a source of enrichment, vitality and growth in our lives. Science shows us that one of the common themes amongst people who are happier in life is the strength and quality of the relationships they have in their lives.
