Wellness Communities and Real Estate Initiative 2026 Trends Initiative Chair: Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki, Principal, tst ink LLC, United States Initiative Vice-Chair: Jean-François Garneau, Chief Development Officer, INITIAL Real Estate, Founder & Chief Possibilities Officer, ALIŌ – Building Wellbeing, Switzerland TREND 1: The Wellbeing Address – Where You Live Is How Long You Live A fundamental shift is underway in what people expect from the places where they…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2025 Trends TREND 1: WAI: Brain-Friendly Buildings: Real Estate That Rewires Your Brain Integration of Neuro-Architecture for Mind Wellness Developers and design teams embrace neuroscience to create environments promoting mental clarity, emotional resilience, and overall well-being. Neuro-architecture integrates features like biophilic design, circadian lighting, attention to acoustics, and sensory elements to optimize human health. Iconic examples like The Spine…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2024 Trends TREND 1: WAI: Wellness as Infrastructure The next evolution in wellness real estate is embracing wellness as essential infrastructure, not as “amenities” to be added, but as elements that are at the core – from country, state, city, town, district, neighborhood, building and dwelling scale. This includes designing roads and transportation systems to support human-scale mobility and…
The inaugural webinar in the “Blueprints of Wellbeing” series, entitled “Making Healthy Places,” took place with the participation of the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI’s) Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative Co-chairs, Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki and Jean-François Garneau. They led a conversation featuring industry leaders and creators of transformative wellness real estate projects. This event aimed to explore innovative approaches to fostering health-oriented environments and engaged various…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Books Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders and Great Communities, Jim Heid, 2021, Urban Land Institute Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, Joseph G. Allen, John D. Macomber, 2020, Harvard University Press Brave New Home: Our Future is Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing, Diana Lind, 2020, Bold Type Books
ARTICLES America At Home: Consumers Place More Importance on Wellbeing Overabove: Living the New Wellness Liberate Health 2021: Housing is Key to Health IDEO: Every Business Has a Part to Play in Building Better Health Globalization and Health: Social Capital and Public Health – Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
