Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being: A Global and Multidisciplinary Approach

About

Victor Counted Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University and Faculty Affiliate of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Psychology at Western Sydney University and has a second PhD in Religion at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the science and practice of human flourishing and well-being grounded in everyday psychosocial and psychospiritual processes including how the interactions between people and their environments affect health and behavior.  Haywantee Ramkissoon Ph.D. is a Professor at UniSA Business University of South Australia and at the College of Business Law and Social Sciences University of Derby UK Johannesburg Business School University of Johannesburg South Africa and Centre for Innovation in Tourism Taylors University Malaysia. She has also been in teaching and research roles at Monash Business School Department of Marketing Monash University Australia and the Faculty of Biosciences Fisheries and Economics UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Her expertise is in Sustainability Research including Social and Environmental Psychology Tourism Marketing and Healthcare. She is recognised as one of the Clarivate Highly Cited Elite Group of Researchers for 2021 and 2022. She is also in Stanford list of Worlds top 2% most cited scientists for 2021 and 2022.Laura E. Captari Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research explores the developmental and relational impacts of trauma disaster and loss with attention to the intersections of culture spirituality and the mind-body connection as potential pathways to resilience and flourishing.Richard G. Cowden Ph.D. is a social-personality psychologist and Research Associate for the Human FlourishingProgram at Harvard University. He is broadly interested in psychological social and religious/spiritual dynamics that shape adaptive functioning personal growth and well-being. Much of his research agenda focuses on topics related to adversity (e.g. suffering) character strengths (e.g. forgiveness) and religion/spirituality (e.g. religious/spiritual struggles) and their implications for health and well-being in diverse cultures and contexts. He has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters that address various aspects of human flourishing in a wide range of populations and recently co-authored Place and Post-Pandemic Flourishing: Disruption Adjustment and Healthy Behaviors (Springer 2021).