A newsletter from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project about advancing the understanding, assessment, and cultivation of well-being by means of a deep and sustained collaboration between the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
April 2024: Using Arts and Humanities for Socialization
The arts and humanities provide significant opportunities for socialization through understanding social values and internalizing them, promoting positive social interaction and identity development.
March 2024: Building Self-Efficacy Through the Arts: How Arts Engagement Can Help You Believe in Yourself
Researchers have found that emotional, cognitive, and social processes involved in arts engagement stimulate self-efficacy. Arts engagement encourages creative freedom, agency, experiential skill-building, and self-trust that enable us to feel confident in our capacity to achieve our goals.
February 2024: Cultivate Belonging with the Arts
A growing body of research demonstrates the value of arts engagement as a life-enhancing means to cultivate belonging in diverse populations and contexts, illuminating novel pathways to a better tomorrow.
January 2024: Reflection: Using the Arts for Meaning-Making
Research across different populations supports the idea that reflection stimulated by arts and humanities engagement provides a source of insight, motivation and means for personal change.