Featured Research
Curated work at the intersection of flourishing, well-being, and contemplative pedagogy.
2024–2025 Healthy Minds Study National Data Report
Healthy Minds Network – 2025
National trends in college student mental health and well-being from a large-scale longitudinal study.
National Report
2024–2025 Healthy Minds Study National Data Report – Faculty and Staff
Healthy Minds Network – 2025
National trends in faculty and staff mental health and well-being from a large-scale longitudinal study.
National Report
What Works for Improving Mental Health in Higher Education?
American Council on Education – 2023
Evidence-informed mental health strategies being implemented across U.S. higher education institutions.
National Report
Youth Suicide: Current Trends and the Path to Prevention
The Jed Foundation – 2023
Outlines JED’s evidence-informed framework for building a comprehensive mental health system on college campuses.
Campus Framework
A Decade of Improving College Mental Health Systems:
JED Campus Impact Report
The Jed Foundation – 2024
Evaluation of 135 colleges participating in the JED Campus program, showing measurable improvements in mental health systems.
Program Evaluation
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being
Yuria Celidwen – 2024
A first-of-its-kind book that updates the Western paradigm of mental wellness with Indigenous wisdom for collective, sustainable happiness
Book
Mictlán: Our Shared Home
Yuria Celidwen – 2024
This chapter examines how traditional orality, ritual, and ceremonial customs relate to contemplation through remembrance and reverence of the Ancestors’ past.
Book Chapter
Kin Relationality and Ecological Belonging: a cultural psychology of Indigenous transcendence
Celidwen & Keltner – 2023
Journal Article
Beyond All Splits: Envisioning the Next Generation of Science on Mindfulness and Compassion in Schools for Students
Roeser, R.W., Greenberg, M.T., Frazier, T. et al – 2022
Journal Article
Centering justice in the co-design of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula
McKimmy, C., Avalos, N., Mejia, D., & Dimidjian, S. – 2025
Journal Article
Flourishing as Practice and an Activism of Belonging
Mark Dennis & Blake Hestir – forthcoming
Journal Article
Can the Academic and Experiential Study of Flourishing Improve Flourishing in College Students? A Multi-University Study
Hirshberg MJ, Colaianne BA, Greenberg MT, Inkelas KK, Davidson RJ, Germano D, Dunne JD, Roeser RW – 2022
Journal Article
Does variability across three universities in the implementation of a college course on human flourishing affect student outcomes?
Inkelas KK, Colaianne BA, Hirshberg MJ, Greenberg MT, Davidson RJ, Dunne JD, Germano D, Roeser RW. – 2023
Journal Article
College Course About Flourishing and Students’ Mental Health During SARS-CoV-2
Hirshberg MJ, Colaianne BA, Greenberg MT, Inkelas KK, Davidson RJ, Germano D, Dunne JD, Roeser RW – 2024
Journal Article
Can the virtual implementation of a college course on human flourishing improve student flourishing during COVID-19? A multi-university study
Colaianne BA, Hirshberg MJ, Inkelas KK, Dunne JD, Germano D, Greenberg MT, Davidson RJ, Roeser RW – 2025
Journal Article