Trend Report: Future of Employee Experience Employee experience, and what counts as “wellness at work”, is a burning issue as people’s relationship with work increasingly gets called into question. Backslash, the cultural intelligence division of TBWA Worldwide, has released an in-depth report that identifies some dramatically new approaches to work that lie ahead, showing employers and employees how they can co-create an experience that benefits…
Wellness Tourism Will Cross the $1 Trillion Mark in 2024
Wellness Tourism Will Cross the $1 Trillion Mark in 2024 In the last year, as we emerged from the pandemic, survey after survey—whether from AMEX or Accenture—revealed that travelers were seeking wellness as never before. The GWI’s new report, Global Wellness Economy Monitor 2023, provides the first hard numbers to prove it, and the boom in the wellness tourism market is one of THE big…
Ophelia Yeung and Katherine Johnston — Surprising New Numbers from the Global Wellness Economy
80. Ophelia Yeung and Katherine Johnston — Surprising New Numbers from the Global Wellness Economy How has the global wellness economy fared since the massive economic shocks of the pandemic? Today we will talk to Global Wellness Institute’s Senior Research Fellows, Ophelia Yeung and Katherine Johnston, to find out why they say the global wellness economy has made one powerful recovery! This podcast is about wellness,…
What is a Health Coach?
What is a Health Coach? Coaches are common in sports and for career executives, but the field of Health and Wellness Coaching has less clarity. The field of Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC) is rapidly growing and on the path to becoming an essential role in integrative healthcare, public health, and workplace wellness programs; so it’s important to understand the value HWCs can offer to…
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Oct. 25th, 2023)
Why are we so bad at getting better? We must re-embrace convalescence–The New Yorker, October 18, 2023 Convalescence used to be central to medicine. Now we don’t talk about it. After an infection, a surgery, or even a panic attack, people rush back to daily life at half strength, feeling they need “permission to recover,” and neglecting the sleep, rest and follow-up care that could…
Gallup Research Finds Strong Association between Religion/Spirituality and Wellbeing
Gallup Research Finds Strong Association between Religion/Spirituality and Wellbeing The global mental health crisis is relentless and yet the relationship between mental wellbeing and spirituality and religion has been largely underexplored. New Gallup research (based on poll data in 152 countries and interviews with 1.5 million people) sought to shine some new light. It revealed a strong association between the importance of religiosity/spirituality in people’s…