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Researchers have begun to test the idea that work and family can benefit, rather than just conflict with one another; yet, theoretical development is lacking. In this paper, we define work–family facilitation — or the positive influence of an individual's engagement in a domain on functioning of another life system. We merge and extend ideas from Positive Organizational Scholarship [Cameron, K. S., Dutton, J. E., & Quinn, R. E. (2003). Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship. In K. S. Cameron, J. E. Dutton, & R. E. Quinn, (Eds.), Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a new discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler], Ecological Systems Theory [Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press] and Conservation of Resources Theory [Hobfoll, S. E. (1989). Conservation of resources: A new attempt at …