Trend: Lo-Fi Longevity We’ve been bombarded in 2023 with high-tech and medical longevity solutions and products, but low-key longevity is again having a moment. It’s in part spurred by Netflix’s new series on Blue Zones communities that make healthy choices the “mindless” ones, and by countries like Singapore doing some modern engineering of Blue Zones principles, because we can’t all be Sardinian farmers. Expensive or…
Work Is Under Intense Review and the Old Superficial “Workplace Wellness” Is History With a profound questioning of the script that your work is your life, the pandemic making remote work permanent, and a worsening burnout crisis, all the shallow, shiny workplace wellness tokens—the nap pods and free yoga classes—now feel like cynical band-aids. Workplace wellness has been forced to get real, from a profound…
Trend: Work is Under Intense Review and the Old Superficial “Workplace Wellness” Is History Week of July 12th, 2023 Five new benefits and perks employers will tailor to your needs–The Wall Street Journal The workforce of the future will be made up of a greater mix of employees of all ages as people live and work longer. Companies will offer more benefits tailored to needs at different…
Wild Swimming’s “Death” Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: There’s Actually Important Momentum From Paris planning open-air swimming in the Seine for its 2024 Olympics (and for the people in 2025) to more global travel destinations offering safe, social programs Snapshot: A trend so hyped that it inevitably saw a recent backlash, wild swimming is actually seeing recent meaningful moves to make it safer and more accessible—from…
Trend: Wild Swimming’s “Death” Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: There’s Actually Important Momentum Week of June 12th, 2023 Will swimming in the Seine River be possible by 2024? Paris is aiming for it–Paris Unlocked More details on the city of Paris’s complex plan to clean up the Seine to allow wild swimming for the public by 2025. It’s part of their mayor’s wider ambitious ecological plans…
Trend: Governments Ramp Up the War on Loneliness Week of May 10th, 2023 New Surgeon General Advisory raises alarm about the devastating impact of the epidemic of loneliness and isolation in the United States – US Dept. of Health and Human Services The official government announcement about the Surgeon General’s call for action to address the loneliness-fueled health crisis and the new framework for a…
Governments Ramp Up the War on Loneliness From the US Surgeon General’s unprecedented public health advisory and new national framework on the American loneliness crisis last week, to South Korea announcing that it would give isolated young people $500 a month to get out of the house, there are recent signs that more governments are taking loneliness seriously Our 2023 trend, “Wellness Comes for the…
Wellness Tourism’s Next Wave: Indigenous Travel One of our 2023 trends focuses on how the future of wellness travel is a move from “placeless global smorgasbord to culturally-specific courses.” Written by New York Times columnist, Elaine Glusac, it explores how if wellness and wellness tourism has long resembled Disney’s “It’s a Small World,” buffets of global experiences too often divorced from place (…that Hawaiian lomi…
Trend: The Wellness World Begins to Teach “Relational Fitness” Week of March 8th, 2023 Inside SoulCycle founder’s relational fitness group, Peoplehood – NBC Today video While much has been written about Peoplehood, this NBC reporter’s video of her experiencing an actual “gathering” makes the new concept tangible. You see how Peoplehood’s guided “relational fitness” conversation sessions mean listening more than talking and how they’re focused…
Trend: The Wellness World Begins to Teach “Relational Fitness” With our social skills atrophied, the wellness world is doing something new: teaching people to communicate, connect and empathize more deeply–from the new Peoplehood, a group conversation model built upon “active listening” to compassion-building techniques, whether loving-kindness meditation or freudenfreude training Our 2023 trend, “Wellness Comes for the Loneliness Epidemic,” is about how the most powerful…
