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Meditation Without Expectations™: A novel meditation program

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Organizations can empower employees to build resilience.

Levels of stress and worry have increased globally in recent years. This emotional strain paired with workplace pressures can negatively affect employee wellbeing and be detrimental to an organization’s performance. Developed by Dr. Annie Weisbrod, Meditation Without Expectations™ (MWE) is an eight-week live-streaming meditation program that has been scientifically proven to positively impact employee wellbeing. By offering access to the […]

Embracing Indigenous knowledge for sustainable urban transformation

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Dionisio studies Indigenous understandings of holistic wellbeing.

Mainstream governance structures are rooted in Eurocentric approaches. At the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, Dr Rita Dionisio studies culturally reflective, place-based approaches to improving and measuring socio-ecological wellbeing in the face of climate change and declining socio-economic conditions. Dionisio argues that Indigenous-led philosophies and practices offer the opportunity to decolonise urban governance and embrace collaborative planning and partnerships […]

Considering environmental impact in happiness rankings

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Emeritus Professor Yew-Kwang Ng, a leading MalaysianAustralian economist has a particular interest in welfare economics – the optimal allocation of economic resources, goods, and income to best improve the overall good of society. While many may see a country’s GDP and its per capita values as measures of its success, Ng is concerned with its citizens’ overall wellbeing, and their happiness is key to that.

Most, if not all, people want to live a happy life, so surely a measure of a country’s success as a nation is how happy its citizens are? Most international success indices rank countries according to how they perform against various measures and include happiness as a key value, but fail to include the cost, especially to others. Emeritus Professor […]

Science and Oslerian friendship support therapeutic caring of the neglected in India and China

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Professor Terence Ryan, dermatologist and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College in Oxford, UK, is currently mentoring two studies that explore how friendship can impact on health and wellbeing. Both programmes centre on the principles of William Osler, who maintained that science (a care technology) and humanity (a care attitude) must work together holistically, and they demonstrate that friendliness can […]