Exploring SRH & Flourising
Thrive Together asks two questions:
1. What might shift if SRH practitioners designed their programs and partnerships to support young people’s self-defined experience of wellbeing?
And, further:
2. How might the field of human flourishing be bolstered by integrating young people’s experiences of SRH as an essential part of flourishing?
Thrive Together brings together practitioners, researchers, and community partners who want to understand what flourishing – or moments of thriving – mean to adolescent women and people who can get pregnant as they transition into adulthood and envision what this might mean for those working to support equitable health and wellbeing.
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Qualitative research workshops with women of reproductive age, using reflective and participatory research methods to explore their experiences and aspirations for a flourishing life. For example, we are using art-based qualitative methods with women in Wakiso, Uganda and California to explore what flourishing means to them and collectively make sense of their experiences through conversation and discussion.
In-depth story-making workshops with women who want to take their stories further through a collaborative artistic workshop where they can develop and craft their own stories. These workshops combine different forms and modalities of story-making with iteration and peer feedback, so that the women make stories that are meaningful to them about their own experience. These story workshops, planned for mid 2026, will centre coming of age experiences.
Participatory sense-making with story-making workshop participants to identify the ways in which young women’s experiences of and aspirations for thriving in their life intersects with sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.
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Transdisciplinary developmental science, SRH research, and emerging wellbeing frameworks.
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Facilitated dialogue workshops bringing people with experience of SRH together with wellbeing practitioners, to envision what women’s aspirations for a flourishing life could mean for wellbeing and SRH practice in their local communities.
Collaborative discussions within communities of practice to explore implications of research findings for future cross-disciplinary collaboration, practice, and research and measurement.
Our approach weaves together:
Our team works relationally, iteratively, and in partnership, supporting others to deepen work already in motion.
If you are also working at the intersection of human flourishing, wellbeing and/or SRH — or if you are exploring similar questions — we would like to hear from you.
