Designing for Happiness

Summit Trend in the News: Wellness Meets Happiness How to Create Long-Lasting Happiness (Without Even Trying)—Well+Good Susie Ellis, Summit CEO and chairman and member of the Well+Good Council, explores the latest happiness research from the Blue Zones. How Major Real Estate Developers Are Experimenting with Co-Living—Forbes In the last decade, co-working has proven itself to be more than just a trend. It has dramatically changed…

Making the Case for Mushrooms

Summit Trend Exploration: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Could Be Legal for Therapy by 2021—Rolling Stone For the first time in US history, a psychedelic drug is on the fast track to getting approved for treating depression by the federal government. Medical psilocybin initiative launched in Oregon—The Leaf Online Oregon locals seek to reclassify psilocybin with a ballot initiative campaign aiming to legalize access to…

Psilocybin Research Surges

TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Psilocybin Research Surges Psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, has been used by cultures worldwide for millennia—from the Ancient Greeks to the Aztecs. And in the 1960s, top medical institutions, such as Harvard, undertook studies indicating their promise for conditions such as depression and addiction. But that research came to a crashing halt when many countries made psilocybin a highly illegal drug,…

Can Technology Help Us Be Our Best Selves?

Summit Trend Exploration: Extreme Wellness Good News/Bad News: Mental Wellness and Technology—Global Wellness Summit Experts discuss the intersection and opportunities in mental wellness and technology during this Summit Roundtable. Would you plunk down $30,000 to get the most from your brain?—Fast Company A growing field of science is now working to literally rewire your brain waves for the ultimate biohack. 5 Natural Ways to Optimize…

This is Your Brain Fully Optimized

TREND: Extreme Wellness Your Brain Fully Optimized The “designer brain” has arrived. The technology and know-how that enables us to rewire our brains to perform better—whether it’s cognitive improvement or mental wellness or a greater sense of happiness—there’s now a brain hack you can try. Brain health is already big business. The market for brain supplements is forecast to reach $11.6 billion by 2024, up…

Kitchens Finally Get a Wellness Makeover

Summit Trend Exploration: The Wellness Kitchen How kitchens are (finally) getting the wellness makeover healthy eaters deserve—Well+Good From virtual sous chefs to appliances that know what food you have at home better than you do, wellness is front and center of this home model moment. The kitchen reimagined—Well Home Architect Veronica Schreibeis Smith has designed the kitchen of the future by prioritizing the health of…

Healthy Air, Healthy People

TREND: The Wellness Kitchen Healthy Air, Healthy People If kitchens have been essentially stuck for 70 years, the healthy kitchen of the future completely re-imagines every way we consume food at home—including delivery, storage, prepping, cooking, enjoying and disposal. One key aspect of the wellness kitchen is to tackle the problem of air quality. This is a new focus for every room in the “well…

Millennials Seek Transformative Travel Vacations

Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel Myths of monsters and men – CLADglobal Surrealist folk tales and moss-covered lava fields have inspired an Icelandic spa retreat that promises to take guests on a journey to enlightenment. Kim Megson highlights the details for CLADglobal. How travel agencies avoided extinction and became a luxury service – Vox Millennials are using travel agencies to find…

You’re the Hero of a Wellness Saga

TREND: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel You’re the Hero of a Wellness Saga More wellness/spa destinations will (and should) inject more theater and fantasy into wellness experiences to create epic-level sagas that can fire up emotion. The Red Mountain Resort (featured above, photo credit: Johannes Torpe Studios) under development north of Reykjavik, Iceland, is just one cool example. The proposed resort, with its…

Unplugging in the New Cool

TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Unplugging is the New Cool A life that feels like a barrage of emails, texts and always-on work—the constant reminders that everyone else is succeeding and having a great time via social media—our faces glued to screens as we ignore the present world and the people we’re physically right next to…We don’t need all the new research to explain to us…

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