Global Wellness Institute Launches Beauty Initiative

Beauty can be represented as a superficial form of consumption, but it serves as a foundation for human feelings, health and happiness. Beauty is wellness, and to better quantify this unsung hero of the wellness/spa industry, the GWI has just launched a Beauty Initiative. Chaired by Mark Wuttke, a global expert in natural, sustainable spa and boutique retail, this Initiative will help the world understand the emotional, physical, psychological, and social relationships between beauty, health and wellness. 

Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of May 31, 2016)

“Out With the Old” (New Study Shows Why It’s Better to Tackle Bad Habits All at Once)
– The New York Times, May 12, 2016

New research suggests that it’s better to address all of our bad habits at once rather than try to make incremental changes in our lives. According to one of the scientists involved in the project, “The limits of the human capacity for change may be much greater than we, as scientists, have given people credit for.”

Global Wellness Institute Reaches Milestone of 16 Wide-Ranging Initiatives

This month, the GWI announced it has reached a critical mass of 16 diverse Initiatives. Each of these global taskforces tackles a key industry issue and is chaired by an impassioned leader in that wellness field. As Philippe Bourguignon, partner at Revolution and former co-CEO of the World Economic Forum, put it, ”These Initiatives are really a brilliant structure for encouraging impartial, top-level collaboration among world-renowned experts in wellness to effect positive, global change in their areas of expertise.”