Why it matters to talk about wellbeing in a different way?

It is not a secret that despite many online events on wellbeing, awareness discussions, guidebooks... the biggest proportion of people are still in the red zone of their mental health.

We are living times of rupture with the past, times of reconsideration of our human purpose. If you think about it, there is a high chance that this period of time is reflected in history books as an important moment: pandemic, business uncertainty, half of people reconsidering their jobs, presenteeism on the rise. It is really normal that most of us have challenges to move out of the red zone.

To feel supported - people need to have alternatives to understand how to manage their wellbeing: making the content more relatable, inspirational and straight to the point. That's how Elena Agaragimova and I decided to produce an event that would be mainly visual, with personal stories and of course short! (we have far too many Zooms nowadays).

In the last live event of Reimagine Wellbeing, we invited 9 impressive thought leaders sharing their personal stories and we wanted to share a recap of the topics of the event:

1. Happiness and Purpose

by DR. LOUISE LAMBERT, she is a psychologist and one of the most recognized researchers in positive psychology. She is also the editor of the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology

Happiness is systemic and it is often hard to be happy on your own

2. The Myth of Work Life Balance

by BEN EUBANKS - a human capital management analyst helping companies with advisory strategic services and research. He is the author of the book 'Artificial Intelligence for HR: Use AI to Support and Develop a Successful Workforce'.

Every individual wants to make the most out of their life and we often get stretched between balancing our work and our life properly. Ben tells us how important it is to prioritize time for people or things we love.

Very successful people say No to almost everything and one person’s idea of success doesn’t have to match with another’s

3. Finding our balance despite extreme situations

By ALEXANDRA KODJABACHI - the founder & CEO of PersEd - where she and her team create transformative learning experiences. Alexandra takes us through a series of drastic events including protests, financial collapses, pandemic and more. In such times, the 3 most important things to hold on are: alignment, getting closer to people that inspire us and our momentum.

When everything around you is negative you need to create space for the positive

?? Watch the full recoding of the Reimagine Wellbeing event

4. Building our own purpose and our own choices

By ABHIJIT DABHADE - ?Founder of Joygraphy. Abhijit and his team have developed an ?? analytical platform for assessing wellbeing and its impact on people's performance.

We live our lives through conventional choices and use this thinking system while planning our families, careers, relationships. Only our internal standards make us who we are make us truly happy.

?? THE BIG NEWS: We are launching the SIMPLY HUMAN! AWARDS

To recognize HR professionals making an impact on Humans in their Organizations. The simple human awards is about creating inspiration for others. We want to share their journeys & actions... so that it can inspire others to do the same. ? Nominations for the Simply Human Awards can be done here ?

5. Using Self-Awareness as a tool to regain control of your life

By ANA TOROMAN - an emotional intelligence strategist and HR advisor for global organizations. In her speech, she gives us great insights on how emotional intelligence is impacts our sense of well-being.

Our brains don't always allow us to percieve our own reality and only when we are emotionally aware of our state of mind we can do something about it

6. How mindfulness can change lives

By FIONNA MCKINNON, she is the CEO of the Moment Company - creators of mental wellbeing products that help reduce stress by making the benefits of mindfulness, meditation and breathwork simple, quick and effective. In her session, she shares her personal story on how she could recover from setbacks through meditation and mindfulness.

7. The science behind Mindset and how to reach your human potential by using your emotions

By?MOISES SANTOS, he is an entrepreneur on a mission to reform education. He left his career as a teacher to build a school that reforms education for both adults and children in the USA. He is also the founder of LIFEProject. In his speech, he talks about the connection between the brain and our body and how our emotions gives us the energy to drive our actions.?

Sometimes our beliefs have so much influence on our daily lives, our relationships and even our careers that they overpower what is actually true

8. How to get 1% better daily aligning your body and mind to optimize your wellbeing

By ELENA AGARAGIMOVA - a recognized thought leader in talent development and education, she is the co-founder of Bessern.

One of the biggest blockers of well-being are often the simple basics in life that we tend to ignore

9. How to gain perspective in times of crisis and change?

By AMANDO BROWN - an inspirational executive director with over 30 years of experience delivering high level education strategies across a range of complex sectors.

During his session, he gives us great insights about how perspective can affect positively our life and how we can make the most out of the challenges in our life

My last words...

Overall, the session had a good number of people attending (close to 500), we noticed that sometimes talking about a topic that is sentitive, in a different way can give more people an extra choice to act on their wellbeing.

Let's continue! We all need some inspiration and dont forget to nominate HR people who are making the world more human .