GWI Releases Preliminary Agenda for Its First Wellness Real Estate and Communities Symposium

  Media Contact: Beth McGroarty [email protected] • +1.213.300.0107 Global Wellness Institute Releases Preliminary Agenda for Its First Wellness Real Estate and Communities Symposium Full-day event on September 28 will bring together experts to give a 360-degree view of the future for “building well”: from the new concepts that are shaking up architecture and design (whether materials or new technologies) to the hottest trends in investment, development…

GWI Launches BREATHE Initiative

Breath practices are generating buzz because they’re free, accessible and increasingly science-based solutions that tackle what ails us most now: stress and anxiety. In response, the GWI just launched a BREATHE Initiative, bringing together a global group of breath practitioners, scientists/researchers, doctors and wellness leaders that will work to bring a broader awareness to breath modalities and the science behind breathwork. The Initiative co-chairs are…

August’s Wellness Moonshot: PREPARE

No one has the definitive wellness playbook. If they did, we’d all be using it by now. Nevertheless, in a time of accelerated crises, there are many ways to, as the Chinese proverb says, “dig the well before you’re thirsty.” You can put conditions and resources in place to cultivate high levels of wellbeing before crises happen so that people have the tools to deal with the…

Study: Just One Night of Bad Sleep Harms Your Wellbeing–At Six Nights Toll Is Severe

A new study (of 2,000 adults) found that just one night of fewer than six hours of sleep significantly hurts mental and physical wellbeing, and as the number of consecutive days of sleep loss increased, the severity of negative emotions and physical issues (body aches, gastrointestinal issues and respiratory problems) became severe. Problems spiked on day three and plateaued until day six when mental and…

30 Mini Wellness Trends Reports by Sector Released by GWI Initiatives

The GWI supports 30+ Wellness Industry Initiatives, which are global taskforces on dozens of different wellness sectors and issues. Today, the GWI released thirty brief and wide-ranging trends reports from these Initiatives–an expert view of what’s unfolding now in everything from wellness tourism to mental wellness to nutrition to sleep to wellness architecture and design to workplace wellness and digital wellness (and many more!). Access…

“Aging Well” Is a Pipedream without a Focus on Loneliness and Financial Wellness

“Aging Well” Is a Pipedream without a Focus on Loneliness and Financial Wellness By Thierry Malleret, economist   A new report (“Long and happy lives – The future of wellbeing in an ageing society”) published by the Danish Happiness Research Institute sheds some interesting light on the way in which wellbeing in later life is being threatened by increasing rates of loneliness and mental health problems.…