a voice for human flourishing

"I live to flourish. How about you?"
Rosie von Lila

WHAT DOES A WORLD OF MASS HUMAN FLOURISHING LOOK LIKE?

7 Ingredients for Human Flourishing by Rosie von Lila

Everyone has the opportunity to:

1. meet basic needs healthfully with dignity

2. create belonging

3. access the forms of care essential to flourishing

4. earn an education that nurtures curiosity and passion

5. be creative and solve meaningful "puzzles" in life and community

6. endeavor and achieve in meaningful ways

7. be a contribution in personally meaningful ways

You can choose to make
your flourishing the purpose of your life.

Flourishing can be the purpose of every business, economy, and governance structure.

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What is human flourishing?

Biologically speaking, every living being exists to flourish before we perish.

To flourish is to cultivate your excellence as a human being.

A PRACTICAL DEFINITION OF HUMAN FLOURISHING:

You are flourishing when most of the areas of your life are working sufficiently for you according to you, you've developed the skills for resilience to navigate adversity, and you practice being your best each day.

"Rosie has her finger on the pulse of

what's next for humanity."

Riane Eisler

bestselling author

The Chalice and The Blade

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It's time for mass human flourishing.

Storyteller Rosie von Lila’s métier is human flourishing. A multi-disciplinary creative, Rosie uses the arts, theatre, and video and audio technologies to tell stories that bring people together and communicate a love of human flourishing and what academic research teaches us about the subject.

Rosie co-authored The Practical Flourishing Assessment, and is a research partner with New York University's Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, where she studies how the practice of monthly measurement of flourishing can decrease Learned Helplessness and increase Learned Optimism, two of the most important factors in living a flourishing life.

Rosie weaves together the wildly unexpected from her professional experience: nearly a decade working in Wall Street finance, a long history of working with Burning Man globally, and engaging the US Army, Navy, and Marines with her framework on participatory culture.

Uniquely, Rosie is one of the world's rare historians of Burning Man culture and philosophy, having worked directly with Larry Harvey and all of the Burning Man founders; as such, she was featured in Steven Kotler’s and Jamie Wheal's Stealing Fire. Rosie's most recent published work is an essay on Living With Indigenous Wisdom, co-authored with Sun Rose Ironshell, which is the first chapter in Burning Man Co-Founder Will Roger's anthology Habitat Annihilation (Norfolk Press, 2025).

Rosie is a protegé of Riane Eisler, whose canon on partnership and domination systems informs Rosie's thinking and realistic optimism about human flourishing.

"The energy, honesty and enthusiasm that Rosie brings to the audience are what conference organizers dream of seeing. She literally had them dancing in the aisles!"

Rebecca Croll

Chief Content Officer

StartupFest

"There is no long-term mass human flourishing without planetary flourishing."

- Rosie von Lila

rosie interviews leading minds in discovery of human flourishing

Theatre & Audio Creations:

Developing Fellow Human, for theatrical production in NYC
Co-host, 100 Days of Human Flourishing on Clubhouse
What Comes Now, podcast on books and leadership, covering all things that bring people together and pull us apart

Rosie wrote a framework about stakeholder engagement. People around the world have taken interest in it and it's been a blessing to share it in many countries.

The von Lila Framework is the powerful catalyst to foster engagement and participation toward liberty and flourishing for all.

The Framework was written through research spanning the globe, and 25 years of generating participatory culture, working with Burning Man, and studying what goes into making highly engaged creative cultures.

“Simple. Elegant. Powerful. The von Lila Framework starts with the right questions.”

Duleesha Kulasooriya

Head of Strategy and Research

Deloitte Center For The Edge

Experience from which Rosie draws inspiration:

Rosie has been invited as a guest to the U.S. Pentagon multiple times, and as a guest lecturer at the U.S. National Defense University
Two time international TEDx speaker: Norway on "Human Engagement", and Bhutan on "The Complexity of a Good Life" (on behalf of Burning Man HQ)
Podcasts! Rosie created WHAT COMES NOW
Fun fact: Rosie has attended Burning Man 20 times and has worked with Burning Man headquarters for over a decade. She has served as a correspondent for Burning Man LIVE, and is a historian of Burning Man culture and philosophy
You can no longer find her speaking her mind on Twitter because she deleted her account... along with Facebook and Instagram. Cheerio, Infinite Scroll!