Filipe is the founder and main teacher and author of the Center for Human Flourishing. He is a teacher, trainer, and author in the fields of mental and emotional balance, emotional intelligence, awareness, and regulation, meditation and contemplative practices, mental health, happiness and well-being, and personal growth and transformation. He is currently a 6th and final year medical student at the Abel Salazar Institute for Biomedical Sciences – University of Porto (ICBAS-UP), having begun his course in 2015, and he is also a voluntary paramedic at the Portuguese Red Cross.