Ryan Antiel, MD is currently spearheading The Project on the Good Surgeon, a program for surgery residents at the Duke University School of Medicine that helps them consider both their ethical and technical formation as surgeons. The Project’s vision “is focused on helping residents rediscover meaning and purpose in their work, develop the character traits necessary to sustain their calling, and ultimately promote flourishing in their surgical practice.”

Since 2020, the Leadership for Flourishing network has hosted an online community of practice to help members connect leadership practices to ecosystem-wide flourishing. With participants from institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, and West Point, there are a wide variety of experiences and perspectives represented as members work to grow and support each other.

Former Bates College president Clayton Spencer reflects on the Bates College Purposeful Work program and the role of the liberal arts in cultivating vocation.

What began as just a class has started to catch on in a much bigger way. The Dialogue Project now encompasses a number of initiatives at Saint Mary’s. Over the years, dialogue and civil discourse material has been integrated into first-year courses, a peer dialogue facilitator program, and training for student leaders on campus.

What does liberal learning look like at Tulsa’s new honors college? Built around helping students discover the true, the good, and the beautiful, the curriculum centers the study and discussion of some of the most influential texts of the liberal arts tradition – including works by Aristotle, Homer, Rene Descartes, Virginia Woolf, Frederick Douglas, and Toni Morrison.