There are so many individuals to thank for this project, and those named here are just a few. Sincere thanks to everyone in my life for showing me how to love and teaching me to love more.

Dr. Nelly Noury Ossia, thank you for agreeing to work with me on this nontraditional project and advising me through the process of bringing it to fruition. Your thoughtful insights, warmhearted encouragement, and careful eye for excellence and thoroughness have been invaluable in helping make this project the best it can be. Merci beaucoup az taheh del.

Dr. Maryam Emami, thank you for giving me the space to pilot a wellbeing-focused French language learning workshop for your students. Your kind encouragement, comforting support, and thoughtful guidance have also been invaluable in the unfoldment of this project. Kheyli mamnoon pour tout.

Thank you to the French Cultures Festival, coordinated by Villa Albertine in Houston, for including the event Dr. Emami and I organized (Français pour le bien-être : apprendre à prendre soin de soi), promoting individual and community wellbeing through French language education.

Dr. Lamont Slater (Director of Honors and Humanities Faculty Chair at Rio Salado Community College), thank you for sharing your valuable insights into practical ways to put Ubuntu in practice in the classroom, and thank you for all you do to make the classroom and community a loving, caring space to learn and thrive.

Stephanie Taylor (Associate Director of Leader Development at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders), thank you for sharing your valuable insights on applying principles of professional coaching to language education, helping learners take charge of and reflect on their learning, and cultivating mutually fulfilling relationships and harmonious dialogue in the classroom.

To Leyla Shams and the rest of the Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation team, thank you for developing and nourishing a language-learning platform and community motivated by love and full of compassion. It planted the seed for this project. Kheyli mamnoon 💛

To my French teachers throughout my education, thank you for your kindness, patience, care, and nourishment of my learning and curiosity. You all have made learning French fun and fulfilling, and I'm so grateful to have you on my path.

Thank you to the individuals in my life and beyond who daily strive to exemplify what it means to live and be love--practically, sincerely, humbly. Your silent, selfless, love-motivated actions sweetly outroar all the world's storms, and your shining example for all of us is so dear.

Above all, endless gratitude to Love for inspiring, motivating, brightening, and guiding every step of the way.

With love and gratitude,

Paige