flourishing

If we are to work with people so that they may grow we need to have some idea about what might make for flourishing and happiness – what Aristotle talked about as eudaimonia.

[B]y happiness I mean feeling good - enjoying life and wanting the feeling to be maintained. By unhappiness I mean feeling bad and wishing things were different. (Richard Layard 2005: 12-13)

Subjective, objective and normative understandings of happiness