Edelman organized an assemble of prominent leaders and game changers from a variety of industries such as health and wellness, media, financial, technology and the pharmaceutical industry, just to name a few, to come together and create dialogue regarding approaching wellness from a collective, community perspective.
This ethnographic approach re-appraises the social scientific and health literature on patron-client relationships, social support, and family exchange, while introducing a new social lens to approach wellness.
Organizations need partnerships and processes in place to learn about how a particular population approaches health and wellness, and to share that knowledge throughout the enterprise so insights don't get stuck in a silo, but instead get shared across the organization.
But if you're approaching corporate wellness programs with a simple, short-term payback outlook, you're probably having a difficult time.
It takes time to break old habits and develop new ones; companies, like people, cannot approach wellness as a short-term or quick-fix solution.
As the president of a corporate wellness company, Kinema Fitness, I have noticed a recent trend in the way companies are approaching employee-based wellness programs.
This fits very well with our corporate approach to wellness, which includes working with our employees on mindfulness and making stress-reduction techniques available to them.
But in health, unlike politics, an alternative approach called wellness has emerged, focused on investing in health before it breaks down.
The Cases column "A No-Drug Approach to Wellness" (Jan . 23 underscoring the case of Mr. J., who insisted on having his depression treated without psychotropic medication, is highly instructive for a number of reasons.
allcove, the very first US implementation of the model, approaches youth wellness in a comprehensive and youth-friendly way, reaching them in clinical sites, online, and in schools.
But though she is entrepreneurial and rich, Oprah is not Jeff Bezos; though she is famous, she is not the Rock; though she has elevated various dubious approaches to wellness, she is not Gwyneth Paltrow.
