Center for the Advancement of Well-Being
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences

In recent years, research on gratitude and its impact on well-being has flourished. Research has found that grateful people tend to be happier, healthier, more resilient, more prosocial, and less narcissistic:

Students in our center’s Mindful Living LLC are using the power of well-being practices to optimize their Mason experience. The education they’re engaged in there is bringing positive change to every part of their college life, they said:

What do you like most and do best? How would your life be different if you stopped worrying about your weaknesses and started focusing on your strengths? Mason's Strengths Academy can empower you to do so:

Music is energy in the form of sound that can profoundly heal us humans at our core. Students studying music and well-being at Mason are learning about the amazing healing power of music:

Enjoy the inaugural issue of our center's newsletter, "Thriving Together":

Supporting well-being education is vital in today's world, says business leader Kerry D. Kirk, who generously supports our center: