Welcome to Global Wellness Day family set out to take the awareness of wellness to every corner of the world. First of all, let us congratulate you. The world needs people / brands that volunteer to live well and dedicate themselves to spread this vital message. Global Wellness Day is a single day, as the name suggests. However, this social movement is an integrated philosophy, proving that we can live each day like Global Wellness Day. As part of the movement, you can organize brand-specific celebration rituals throughout the year within the framework of this idea.
GWD Kids Project (2018-2019)
We go to school from the age of two, hoping that the education system is going to help prepare us for our future, but nobody is teaching us how to live, how to breathe, how to be mindful and how to love ourselves as these are things that are essential to be a happy adult in the future. Kids never learn in schools the fact that people can’t love others without loving
themselves first. Focusing on physical and mental wellness at such an early age is so important that it can even help decrease the worldwide depression and obesity rates, even crime rates.
I have announced the GWD Kids Project at the Global Wellness Summit in Palm Beach, Florida in October 10, 2017 to 600 leading delegates from 42 countries, with GWD Ambassadors and 40 kids joining me on stage.
In consultation with the reputable universities, clinics and international wellness leaders, the curriculum of the project which will be implemented between the years of 2018 – 2019 at preschools as 5 minute wellness circle time each morning and at elementary schools as 1 hour wellness class per week,
GWD Kids Project will be focusing on three different subjects; Self-Love, Breathing, Mindfulness. Kids will be learning about breathing exercises to improve their health and manage their stress; about mindfulness (from healthy eating to nature walks) to improve their emotional and physical wellbeing, and about self-love to let go of shame, anger, blame and to feel at peace, learning to accept themselves and others.
With Self-Love, the project will target depression by teaching how to love ourselves first and then people/animals around us, with Mindfulness the project will target obesity by teaching mindful eating and with breathing the project will target crime rates. A research that has done in jails has proved that, unless they have a neurotic mind, most of the criminals may undo their negative actions if they had a chance to know how to take that one more breath which will calm them down.
Belgin Aksoy Berkin
Founder, Global Wellness Day
