TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Engineering Social Connection & Community A storm of forces is creating a new wave of loneliness and a decline in what’s called “social capital” (connection and trust in other people): More people now live alone, with later marriages, fewer children, the demise of the intergenerational household, and the rise of the isolating “gig” or remote working economy. With face-to-face human community…
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…
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…
Summit Trend in the News: Wellness Meets Happiness Early Facebook and Google employees form coalition to fight what they built–The New York Times Alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, a group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build. Addicted to your smartphone? Now there’s an app…
Trend Exploration: Wellness Meets Happiness Wellness in the Age of Technology —Global Wellness Summit Jeremy McCarthy, group director of Spa & Wellness, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, told the Summit audience in his keynote titled “Wellness in the Age of Technology” that not all technology, of course, is bad—the real problem is that it is so good. But McCarthy points out that “…(technology) is (still) the…
TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Traveling Off-the-Grid for Happiness Smartphones/screens have shackled people to bad news, social media, and work every waking minute, decimating work-life balance; sleep; and any true peace, human connection or contemplation (as well as destroying vacations). It’s creating new desires to leave the shrieking world behind. So, the biggest trend in wellness travel is destinations that are off-the-grid or deep in nature…
