The Public Launch of Human Flourishing

The Case for Optimism

Why we’re hopeful about human flourishing, and how
we get there — one honest conversation at a time.

Friday, October 16, 2026 · Arizona Grand Resort · Phoenix, Arizona
Doors 5:30 · Program 6:00–9:00

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Human Flourishing is built on one question:

what allows people, and the societies they build together, to flourish?

The question is ancient. Our way of pursuing it is specific — honest inquiry, evidence before assumption, and a framework of seven pillars holding what humanity has learned about living well. At the center is the Pledge: a commitment to that inquiry and to one another, on its way to one million signatures.

An inquiry that large has a precondition: people who can actually talk to each other. So the work begins with conversation — the kind where you stay in the room long enough to understand someone who answers the question differently, and come away with something you didn’t walk in with.

October 16, 2026 is the night this work launches to the world. You’ll hear from people who’ve spent years on the question, and then the room turns and the question becomes yours.

The question of the evening sits beneath nearly every exchange that goes wrong and every one that goes right.

It is the choice between fear and love.

The shape of the evening

5:30 pm

Doors open. Check in, find a seat, meet someone you didn’t arrive with. The Pledge table is open all evening.

6:00 pm

Welcome & The Forum. An introduction to Human Flourishing, followed by a moderated conversation with people who have experience with the question of what fear does to us and what love makes possible.

7:00 pm

Circles. The  question becomes yours. This is the format the movement runs on, and the part of the night to remember. 

8:30 pm

Together again. What the Circles found, shared with the group, and the signing of the Pledge for anyone ready.

What you’ll leave with

A meaningful conversation, new connections, and a renewed optimism on the future of human flourishing.

And the Circle format itself, which is built to be run in living rooms around the world. Take what you’ve learned and share it with others. 

Your seat

General admission is $50 and covers the room, the recording, and food and drink.
Advocate members and above: cost is $5. Check your email for your discount code.

Seventy seats. Circles only work at a size the room can accommodate.

*ticket purchase price for this event can be applied toward membership.

Getting there

Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
8000 South Arizona Grand E
Phoenix, AZ 85144
Roughly ten minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor.

The evening is photographed and recorded.

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General Admission
Includes the evening Forum and a Circle
$50.00

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Human Flourishing is a non-partisan movement pursuing an old question with new seriousness: what allows people, and the societies they build together, to flourish? The Pledge is the commitment a person chooses to make to that question. The seven pillars are the framework for pursuing it. The aim is a world where people flourish together across every difference that could keep them apart — where division no longer decides what’s possible.