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Wellness Communities & Real Estate Trends for 2025

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

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…

Initiative Webinar Series: Blueprints of Wellbeing

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…

Inspirational & Innovative Wellness Real Estate Project Profiles

Inspirational & Innovative Wellness Real Estate Project Profiles The Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative’s goals are to guide, communicate and inspire wellness in the built environment—in new developments, in re-thinking existing developments, and by assisting smaller global wellness innovators—to create wellness real estate that is transformative. In our Inspirational & Innovative Wellness Real Estate Project Profiles, we want to share, illustrate, and give a shoutout…

GWI Initiatives Are Instrumental in Empowering Wellness Worldwide

GWI Initiatives Are Instrumental in Empowering Wellness Worldwide The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI) supports a wide range of important industry initiatives that further the growth of the various sectors of the wellness economy. Led by Initiative Chairs who are renowned thought-leaders in their field, GWI Initiatives have been instrumental in powering the growth of the multi-trillion-dollar wellness economy and uniting the health and wellness…