June 2024 – A Celebration of Workplace Wellbeing Month In June this year, the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI) Workplace Wellbeing Initiative launched a global online summit to bring greater recognition to Workplace Wellbeing and to present the expertise of a powerful line-up of International Experts who delivered relevant and often ground-breaking content. As is always the case, GWI is about stepping into the future…
Regenerative Development: Resilience & Wellness For Communities & Ecosystems PART OF THE “BLUEPRINTS OF WELLBEING” WEBINAR SERIES Join us for a compelling 60-minute webinar featuring Sarah Livia Brightwood and Martin Goebel, who will discuss their insights, successes, and challenges as some of the earliest makers of wellness real estate and communities. Hosted by Amy McDonald, this session will illuminate pioneering examples like 84 years of the world-renowned Rancho…
AI: Friend or Foe? GWI Consulting Initiative Webinar Recording It’s difficult to go one hour without hearing about Artificial Intelligence and its potential impact on ourselves, our work, the world! Those of us that work in the high-touch spa and wellness world may feel concerned about how our industry will be affected in the future. Like everything, there are pros and cons to AI and…
Have We Reached Peak Human Life Span?–The New York Times After decades of rising life expectancy, the increases appear to be slowing. A new study from the University of Illinois Chicago calls into question how long even the healthiest of populations can live. It analyzed data on life expectancy at birth (from 1990 and 2019), from places where people typically live the longest: Australia, France,…
Mindfulness Meditation Offers Real Pain Relief; Not a Placebo Mindfulness meditation, used for pain management in various cultures for centuries, has long been thought to work by activating the placebo response. However, a 2024 study from University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers showed that this appears not to be the case: the practice engages separate neural pathways from the well-documented “placebo effect.”…
Research Suggests We’re Passing “Peak Obesity”; Weight-Loss Drugs Are Likely Reason By Thierry Malleret, economist GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are a remarkable example of health and tech innovation that seems to be leading to a stunning reversal in obesity rates. New data shows an unprecedented decline in obesity levels, which fell about 2 percentage points between 2020 and 2023. The new study used weight and height…
