Creating foundations for the Czech Wellness Institute

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Shinji Mizumura is one of the first wellness persons I have met when coming to the National Wellness Conference in Stevens Point in 2013. As members of the International group we spent some good time there, meeting each other and sharing the background of our wellness realities through our presentations. The Japanese Wellness Society is one of the oldest wellness organisations globally and every year they hold an annual meeting hosted at different universities across Japan. This year was unique, because they have for the first time opened their door for international speakers. Shinji invited me to share my journey that led to foundation of the Czech Wellness institute. Below I share it with you too.
Following text and video was prepared for the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Wellness Society in September 2021. You can see the slides here .    The Czech Republic is a country with a population of 10 million persons living in the very centre of Europe. It finds its cultural roots among Slavic and Celtic-Germanic tribes who inhabited the area in the 6th century. Among all the historical events that have passed through Central Europe since the old times until today, Czech people are trying to live their lives to their best. What role plays the wellness concept in the Czech culture? And what did it take to establish the Czech Wellness Institute?  You can watch the full...

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RWR # 823 -- Jana's letter to editor Don

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Don Ardell asked me the other day to read one of the 52 essays in his next book. It will be published in 2021, entitled "REAL Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs, Disease and Religion", a modern update of his original book. All 52 essays have been selected and updated from his own favorite articles once featured in 900-some editions of the REAL Wellness Report, produced and distributed worldwide since 1984. Well, I agreed and picked an essay "Week 17 -- Can Wellness Be Measured? If Not, Why Not? If So, How?". Below you can read the comment:
Don--Measuring wellness--what a lifetime challenge. Mart Twain is credited with saying that it's better to deserve honors than to have them. Your essay suggests it's also much better to live wellness than to study and try to measure it. But, of course, deserving and receiving honors, and exploring how to measure wellness and living accordingly, are quite possible. These things are not mutually exclusive.   Having lived 10 years in the world of books and research articles, that is having read it all, more or less, I can appreciate the challenge posed in seeking to grasp what wellness IS or SHOULD BE. Until this challenge is met with substantial consensus, measuring wellness will...

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Článek z konference: Wellness, jeho počátky, teorie a současná pojetí ve Spojených státech

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V českém a evropském prostředí je wellness silně spjato s lázeňskou tradicí, své počátky však má ve Spojených státech, kde vzniklo v 70. letech jako alternativa k tradičnímu přístupu k lidskému zdraví. Dnes se jedná o celosvětově rozšířené odvětví sahající od individuálního koučinku, přes firemní programy až po již zmiňované lázeňství. Znalost původních přístupů k wellness, stejně jako jejich soudobých alternativ, je nutná pro zdravý rozvoj tohoto odvětví, a to nejen v České republice. V tomto článku proto najdete fulltext příspěvku na konferenci Wellness zdraví a kvalita života z roku 2013, který shrnoval výsledky prvních dvou let mého pátrání po wellness. To byly začátky!
Obligátní otázka na úvod: Co je to wellness? Wellness je dnes hojně používaným výrazem jak profesionály v oblastech péče o zdraví či fitness, tak i širokou veřejností, mnohdy však úplně postrádá hlubší význam. Tento nedostatek obecně platné definice wellness způsobuje zmatek mezi odborníky i mezi klienty. Současně absence jasného vymezení znemožňuje vznik vědeckého poznání v oboru wellness, což může vést k nepochopení celého konceptu a jeho dezinterpretacím. (Corbin & Pangrazi, 2001) V odborné literatuře bývá slovo wellness používáno ve stejném kontextu jako well-being. Autoři Gord Miller a Leslie T. Foster v článku Critical synthesis of wellness literature  (2010), potvrzují,...

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