The End of Retirement–The Walrus, December 2023 The article focuses on Canada, but is equally valid across the developed world, and soon much of the developing world. People reaching their sixties are now in a dramatically different situation than that of their parents: they can’t assume that work has come to an end. Stagnating revenues (or pensions), higher life expectancy, and rising healthcare costs are…
The Climate Crisis’s Toll on Mental Wellbeing By Thierry Malleret, economist The science of climate psychology (the climate crisis’s impact on mental wellbeing) goes back roughly 15 years. There is fast-rising global evidence that it dramatically increases anxiety, stress and depression, and that humans as a species now live in a state of increasing “systemic uncertainty,” a psychological condition that takes a huge toll on…
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 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…
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? 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…
