WELLNESS COACHING WHITE PAPER HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACHING FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OUTCOMES The GWI Wellness Coaching Initiative, led by Chair Ellen Kocher and Vice Chair Jocelyn Pepe, was formed to empower individuals and businesses around the world to confidently partner with wellness coaches, optimizing health and wellbeing. The aim of their latest white paper, “Health and Wellness Coaching for Sustainable Business Outcomes,” is to help employers, providers, and employees…
Global Wellness Institute & BBC StoryWorks Win Three Prestigious Awards for “In Pursuit of Wellness” Series Drum roll please! We’re celebrating and want you to be the first to know that the Native Advertising Institute has awarded the Global Wellness Institute and BBC Storyworks top honors in three categories for the series In Pursuit of Wellness: The Art & Science of Living Well! The awards…
Collaborative Paper From the Digital Wellness Initiative & the Breathe Initiative As the fields of technology and telehealth evolve, health practitioners and experts are finding more preventive and holistic options that could be made available to everyone; making conscious and healthy living a right, rather than a luxurious lifestyle. Our collaboration with the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) is driving this vision one step closer to…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2023 Trends The growth of wellness real estate and communities is one of the strongest wellness trends of 2023. The Initiative team breaks this overarching trend into six “mini-trends,” each an important factor in this wellness sector. TREND 1: S for the Win! ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance as investors look to non-financial factors to identify growth…
Social media is fueling enthusiasm for new weight loss drugs. Are regulators watching?– CBS News, April 18, 2023 An in-depth look at the non-stop hype (and even misinformation) around the new weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. And at how competition to claim a market that could be worth $100 billion a year for drugmakers alone has triggered a wave of advertising that has provoked the concern…
A small new study from the University of Victoria compared the impact of “green exercise” vs. the same exercise done indoors (in this case, a short walk). Using electroencephalography to measure the impact on cognitive function across almost all brain measures, exercise in nature proved the winner. It had a significantly bigger impact on memory, concentration and thinking speed. The researchers concluded that with growing…
