At Mad World we believe that we're on the cusp of a mental health revolution. As employers and employees start to feel that they can talk more openly about emotional wellbeing and mental health in the workplace, and organisations increasingly recognise that wellbeing underpins productivity and engagement, a new world of innovative solutions is emerging. One of these is mycoocoon. Created by PANTONEUNVERSE founders Valerie Corcias and Dominique Kelly in 2014, mycoocoonis a pod

Even with the spring sun starting to show its face, some still live under the dark cloud of seasonal affective disorder. Statistics on Seasonal Affective Disorder, according to MHA: -4 out of 5 SAD sufferers are women -The main age of onset of seasonal depression is between 20 and 30 years of age, however symptoms can appear earlier -In a given year, about 5 percent of people experience SAD -These bouts of depression can manifest as episodes classified as Seasonal Affective D

Last month, we launched the very first Spectrum Yoga session at The Shard, one of the most unique locations in London. This session represents the fruit of an intensive collaboration between 3 experts from different fields: Mandy Jhamat, Yogasphere founder, mycoocoon, colour wellbeing experts, and Pierre Van-Obberghen, colour therapist and e founder of the ISCTCP, the International School of Color Therapy and Color Psychology. Moving through the colours of the spectrum - from

According to www.travelweekly.com and the Global Wellness Summit's annual Global Wellness Trends Report 2018, 'the new "it" trend is "transformative." It involves "experiences that wrap people up in a dramatic story or sense of theater, that can incite that elusive perspective-changing interior journey." In this article Jeri Clausing illustrates this new trend with the Six Senses new program that will take guests to five resorts across different parts of the country, each of

The Spectra life review will help you identify the things you need to do to improve your life balance and personal happiness. From 'Wellness 2030 – The New Techniques of Happiness’ report– one of five technology trends that will shape the future wellness market: Humans and technology converge. The wellness industry will become an extension of the data economy The wellness industry must make itself for a data-driven future. It will become an extension of the data economy, hav

Recently Hyundai took on Blue Monday with psychology experiment to find the ‘most positive’ colour. During the experiment, Hyundai owners were placed in a large space which was then completely flooded with coloured light. The data was then collected from each of the participants and their responses tracked against the colour they were experiencing at the time they were feeling most positivity. For a long time, colour played an important role in trends prescribing/forecasting

After years of focusing on improving the customer experience (referred to as 'CX'businesses are now turning attention inward as employee experience (referred to as "EX") moves toward the top of executive priority lists. What is the Employee Experience? In a recent article for www.forbes.com, Denise Lee Yohn give us her defination of the EX: 'since CX is the sum of all interactions a customer has with a company, then:EX is sum of everything an employee experiences throughout h

Earth Day Celebration - Brasil For www.mindbodygreen.com, the definition of "wellness" shifted in 2017. The first wellness trend to watch in 2018, is "Protecting the planet will become an integral part of our wellness routine". According to the wellness website, 'popular wellness bloggers like Lee Tilghman have taken on zero-waste challenges of their own this year, following the lead of sustainable trailblazers like Bea Johnson and Trash Is for Tossers. he #zerowaste hashtag

Last month, TEDxParis inspired us with keynote speakers who shared their insights on how to build a better future by taking time to 'slow down' in order to : Create a positive and reflective Artificial Intelligence Focus on the invisible groups in our society Regulate the boom of virtual currencies Putting human mistakes at the service of science Slow down to see things differently Sleep to live better Consider time as an opportunity Learn to re-learn Think NOW and focus on w

Work-life balance is especially crucial to millennials According to the American Psychological Association, millennials experience more stress and are less able to manage it than any other generation before them. “Their overexposure to everything happening in the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week ― literally their whole lives ― is contributing to millennials’ inability to turn things off, including their thoughts,” Duley said in the Huffington post. http://www.huffingt