Connecting Wellness and Wellbeing Frameworks to Help People Thrive Author: Reena U. Sheth, MBA The workplace is one of the places where personal wellness is either supported or constrained every single day. That is the premise connecting two frameworks now shaping the wellness conversation: World Wellness Weekend’s Five Pillars of Wellness, and the Global Wellness Institute Workplace Wellbeing Initiative’s (WWI) newly released Workplace Wellbeing Strategic…
What is Inclusive Wellness? The Global Wellness Institute defines wellness as the active pursuit of activities, choices, and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. Inclusive wellness asks a further question: active for whom, and defined by whose experience? Inclusive wellness means wellness guidelines, definitions, resources, and businesses are built with the input and ownership of the populations they serve, rather than built around one group’s assumptions…
And William (Bill) Hall, President, Ipsos Healthcare Japan Japan has a word for it: kodokushi. Literally translated as “lonely death”. It describes a person dying alone at home and remaining undiscovered for days, weeks, or in some cases years. This is not a new phenomenon. The term entered public consciousness in the 1980s. In 2025, the first wave of surviving postwar baby boomers (1947 -1949)…
Dave McCaughan, Storyteller @ BIBLIOSEXUAL, Vice-Chair Global Wellness Institute Ageing Well Initiative William (Bill) Hall, President, Ipsos Healthcare Japan Japan has a word for it:Â kodokushi. Literally translated as “lonely death”. It describes a person dying alone at home and remaining undiscovered for days, weeks, or in some cases years. This is not a new phenomenon. The term entered public consciousness in the 1980s. In 2025,…
I believe that the essence of wellness is love. We are encouraged to take care of ourselves by letting ourselves be treated well; like we matter. Â But what about the people whose traditions and wisdom we excavate? And in some cases, appropriate? How does that love and mattering translate into the spaces we create, and for whom? I am watching intently as we are reconnecting…
Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Introduces a New Strategic Framework for Advancing Employee Wellbeing Developed by members of the Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Employers are dealing with a workforce under real strain. Burnout, disconnection, and rising mental health risks are cutting into performance, and the biggest opportunity for most organizations is treating wellbeing as an investment, not just a cost to contain. The number that matters more is…
