24 Nov 2016
GWI launches Mental Wellness Initiative
BY Jane Kitchen
The Global Wellness Institute has launched a Mental Wellness Initiative, which aims to understand the pathways that help people stay well and thrive mentally as well as physically.
Chaired by professor Gerry Bodeker – who is also one of the three co-chairs for the 2017 Global Wellness Summit – the initiative will look at mental wellness from inner aspects of individual experience through to the influence and condition of what is sometimes called the ‘social mind’ – or the mental condition of the surrounding society and its effect on and contribution to mental wellness.
The GWI's Mental Wellness Initiative will collect and share evidence on a range of mental, nutritional and physical modalities that support lifelong growth of mental wellbeing and happiness, creativity and generativity, wisdom, inner peace and transcendence.
Professor Bodeker completed his doctoral studies at Harvard, and researches and advises on integrative medicine and wellness. He has researched and taught in medical sciences at Oxford for two decades, and is adjunct professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. He works with private sectors, governments and UN organisations, including WHO and the UN University, advising on culturally themed wellness strategies.
Additional Initiative members include Nancy Board, Bryan Hoare, Vivienne O’Keeffe, Dr Harald Stossier, Margareth Brepohl, Dr Fikry Isaac, Robert Ranzi, Paulina Tracz, Dr Daniel Friedland, Jeremy McCarthy, Vanessa Stoessel, Alina Hernandez, Marie Nygren and Dr Christine Stossier.
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