Flourish51
Where design-thinking meets human flourishing.
OUR DESIGN CHALLENGE
How might we awaken our innate creativity to design flourishing, lives, communities & futures?
Our Solution
Flourish51 (version 2.0). A design studio & innovation lab dedicated to helping people, families, and organizations create lives and systems that feel more alive, coherent, and sustainable.
Our Services
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Flourishing Life Design
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Flourishing Systems Design
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The GEM Lab
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The Flourishing Youth Academy
Flourish51 is prototyping a new design approach…
..one that blends human-centered design with the science of human flourishing & the wisdom of nature. We are calling it flourishing-centered design.
Today, Flourish51 operates as a global design studio & innovation lab supporting individuals, organizations, and young people through life design, career design, and organizational design—alongside The Flourishing Youth Academy, our youth-centered design studio dedicated to cultivating the next generation of flourishing designers.
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Flourish51 is a design studio and living laboratory exploring the integration of human-centered design with well-being science. Our ecosystem of services, Youth Design (FYA), Life Design, Systems Design, and GEM Lab, is structured around natural rhythms of growth, integration, and renewal.
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Flourish51 operates like a iving learning laboratory. Every engagement operates as a prototype—cyclical, strengths-based, and grounded in awareness, experimentation, and measurable flourishing outcomes.
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Flourish51 works with people and organizations ready to awaken creative agency — designing lives and cultures where well-being, meaning, and high-performance thrive together.
Meet the Founder
Sharyn Tenn, Founder & Chief Design Officer
For more than 15 years, my work sat at the intersection of health, medicine, and scientific research. I served as a advocate for global public health and a human-centered design expert to some of the world’s most complex and persistent health challenges. That work gave me deep exposure to the global R&D ecosystem—its brilliance, its blind spots, and its limits—as well as a strong foundation in scientific and medical knowledge.
Over time, however, a deeper question began to guide me. Not simply how do we treat disease? But how do humans truly flourish?
Both my professional experience and my personal life made it clear that systems designed solely around fixing problems often miss what allows people to thrive. That realization led me to embark on a scientific journey of my own: to understand flourishing itself.
I immersed myself in the science of human flourishing—commonly known as positive psychology—earning certifications as a practitioner, educator, and coach. As part of that training, I launched a real-world experiment: applying evidence-based flourishing practices in my own life and in collaboration with others. That experiment became Flourish51 in 2021—and it continues to this day.
What People Are Saying
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— Quote Source
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— Quote Source
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— Quote Source
Let’s Flourish Together
