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Africa Wellness Initiative Trends
AFRICA WELLNESS INITIATIVE TRENDS 2025 Trends TREND 1: The Resurgence of Indigenous Birthing Models TREND 2: Fonio : The Ancient Grain of the Future TREND 3: African Wellness Tourism: Beyond the Safari Experience TREND 4: Breaking the Shade Barrier: The Rise of Inclusive Beauty and Representation TREND 5: The Mental Health Revolution- Community-Driven Healing READ MORE The Global Wellness Institute serves as an umbrella…

Industry Research: Charting Your Own Mental Wellness Pathways
There are numerous pathways to mental wellness, many of which are known to us but often seem like an impossible to-do list. In GWI’s report Defining the Mental Wellness Economy, we segment them into four broad categories: 1) activity and creativity, 2) growth and nourishment, 3) rest and rejuvenation, and 4) connection and meaning. These domains have mind-body and internal-external dimensions, although their boundaries may…

Q&A with Victor Brick: Why the Wellness Pie Has Never Been Bigger
C. Victor Brick, CEO of Planet Fitness Growth Partners and the founder of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, on the Future of Wellness. C. Victor Brick has 35 years of success in the fitness industry and is CEO of Planet Fitness Growth Partners (PFGP), the largest privately owned Planet Fitness franchise with 80+ clubs in the US and Australia. He’s chairman of the…
Living Well From Within Initiative Members
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Industry Research: Defining “Mental Wellness” vs. “Mental Health”
Defining Mental Wellness Mental wellness is a term that is increasingly used in the popular lexicon, but it is vague and not well-understood. People associate mental wellness with many different types of activities: meditating, listening to music, talking to a friend, taking a walk in nature, taking a vacation, getting a massage, taking a bubble bath, squeezing a stress ball, or just carving out some…