The 2nd Annual Symposium on Human Flourishing — “Exploring Pathways to Thriving: Shifting from Deficit to Possibility” — will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 23 in Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom.

The symposium, led by the Human Flourishing Research Collaborative at the Pitt School of Social Work, brings together students, faculty, staff and community members to reimagine how to address social challenges. Rather than focusing solely on what's broken, participants will explore how to cultivate growth, resilience and well-being in individuals and communities.

The keynote speaker is Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath, professor of health communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also the faculty director of the health communication core and associate director of community outreach and engagement of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.