Social Impact Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Change for Good A shift from performative “social washing” to taking action to help achieve the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. TREND 2: Nothing About Us Without Us Including people with lived experience of social problems in developing solutions to these problems. TREND 3: Stories are as Important as Numbers Increased use of qualitative data in the…
Sleep Initiative Trends for 2021
Sleep Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: Hotels shift focus to good sleep while traveling Recent research (linked here) shows that an important predictor of hotel guest satisfaction is the guest’s ability to get a great night’s sleep during their stay. What are hotels doing today to promote restful sleep, and what else could/should they be doing to help their guests and their ratings? TREND 2:…
Sleep Initiative Trends for 2022
Sleep Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Hotels increasingly prioritize sleep for travelers Awareness about the importance of sleep has only grown in recent years, and more hotels are stepping up their efforts to help guests truly rest and recharge during their stay. Better sleep in hotels can not only lead to happier, healthier, and more productive guests but also serve as a means of positively…
Respiratory Wellness Initiative Trends for 2022
Respiratory Wellness Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Respiratory Conditions on the Rise Major indicators predict a significant increase in respiratory conditions throughout the world due to new and evolving airborne pathogens along with the impact that climate change is having on the environment such as extended seasonal allergies, shifting conditions of wildfires, and black carbon and methane—which all affect the quality of the air we…
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative Trends for 2021
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: Expanding University Centers From the founding of the world’s first formal center for psychiatric research at Imperial College in London in 2019, followed that same year by the opening of the Center for Psychedelics and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, other dedicated centers for psychedelic study include the 2020 arrival of the UC Berkeley Center for the…
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative Trends for 2022
Psychedelics & Healing Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Peaceful Psychedelic Civil Disobedience Psychedelic peaceful civil disobedience arrived in the Nation’s Capital when a sit-in was held May 9, 2022 at the doorstep of the Drug Enforcement Agency to protest the agency’s block of psilocybin (known in its fungal form as “magic mushrooms”) for the terminally ill, despite the federal “right to try” law passed with…
