Each year, the Global Wellness Summit (GWS) identifies new trends that will have a meaningful impact on the multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry. Significantly, this is the only wellness forecast that draws from the insights of the hundreds of executives who attend the GWS each year. Our long track record of accurately predicting trends makes this report the “go to” authority on wellness trends for media, investors and wellness industry leaders. In addition, the GWS Trends incorporate the perspectives of renowned economists, medical and wellness professionals, academics and leaders across all sectors of the wellness industry.
The highly anticipated The Future of Wellness 2023 Trends global trends report identifies 12 key wellness trends impacting the wellness economy in 2023 and beyond. Rigorous, international research in this report unveils that the long, thoughtful pause forced by the pandemic has transformed the very idea of “wellness.” People are now more reflective, they seek more science, they’re less selfish (more concerned about each other and the planet) and want solutions that are meaningful and work.
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The National Wellness Institute’s 21-Day WELL Challenge is a self-guided, daily learning challenge designed to help participants expand their understanding of whole-person wellness through a multicultural lens. This exclusive challenge was developed in collaboration with The Privilege Institute and the University of West Georgia using NWI’s Multicultural Wellness Wheel, Six Dimensions of Wellness, and the well-known original 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.
The 21-Day WELL Challenge Toolkit was purposefully designed to help wellness professionals raise awareness and guide their clients and communities toward a more WELL life. The array of resources provided will equip you to take action on and evaluate your own 21-Day WELL Challenge while also offering suggestions to further engage and support both individuals and groups for the greatest impact and benefit.
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Those who lead the change need the skills to execute In February of 2021, the National Wellness Institute (NWI) released the findings of a study conducted in 2020 clarifying and validating the Wellness Promotion Competency Model1, which is the basis for what knowledge, skills, and abilities are needed to be proficient as a wellness practitioner. It is the only known evidence-based research on wellness competencies. The International Journal for Community Wellbeing, a peer-reviewed journal, has approved the publishing of these findings.
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) released its top nine wellness trends for 2021, the new directions that the organization believes will have the most meaningful impact on the multitrillion global wellness industry. The trends were presented at a virtual press event attended by thousands worldwide.
Forecasting trends in the fast-evolving wellness space is daunting every year. In 2020, we experienced a global pandemic, economic meltdown, racial injustice, polarizing politics, and a mental wellness crisis that changed every aspect of human life. The pandemic made wellness radically more important to people overnight, while COVID-19 exposed the terrible human cost for not controlling chronic, underlying conditions, radically strengthening the case for preventative wellness. At the same time, there was accelerated fatigue with a wellness industry overly focused on elitist, hyper-trendy, evidence-free wellness solutions—which suddenly feel “so 2019.”
Wellness today is at a watershed moment. The trends report reflects how wellness is poised to take a bigger seat at the health care table (see “The Self-Care Revolution” trend). It predicts a future industry that will be more inclusive, accessible and affordable (see the “Adding Color to Wellness,” “The Entertainment Industry Jumps into Wellness,” and “Just Breathe!” trends). How it will basically “get real” and more evidence-based (see “The Future of Immune Health: Stop Boosting, Start Balancing”)—and tackle tougher, more crucial human pain-points (see” “Money Out Loud: Financial Wellness Is Finding Its Voice”). And the report also predicts how wellness will continue to rewrite vast industries, from travel, to architecture and design, to the meetings industry.
This is the only wellness forecast based on the insights of hundreds of top executives of wellness companies, economists, doctors, investors, academics and technologists (from dozens of nations) that gathered in person and virtually at the recent Summit to debate where wellness was headed—making for a uniquely informed, global set of predictions.
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