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906: How to Optimize Your Workspace for Your Wellbeing with Dr. Esther Sternberg

Oct 12, 2023

Dr. Esther Sternberg discusses optimizing your workspace for wellbeing, including how your surroundings impact sleep and small changes in lighting and sound that improve your environment. She advises the Vatican and talks about her experiences meeting Pope Benedict. The importance of early morning sunlight for healthy sleep is discussed, along with integrating spirituality and wellbeing in the workplace. Tips for optimizing workspace and advocating for wellbeing are offered.

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Esther Sternberg

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Your workspace has a significant impact on your well-being, productivity, and overall happiness.

Your surroundings can greatly impact your sleep quality.

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The Impact of Workspace on Well-being

Your workspace has a significant impact on your well-being, productivity, and overall happiness. Simple changes in your work environment can make a world of difference in how you feel and perform at your job and in your life. Design elements that contribute to feeling great include optimizing your workspace, considering lighting and sound, and making tiny changes that create an improved environment.

Embedding Integrative Health Considerations into Your Working Environment

01:05

Attracting People Back to the Office: Lessons from Entertainment and Hospitality Industries

00:47

Introduction

3min

Advising the Vatican and Meeting Pope Benedict: Creating Well-being in Any Workspace

4min

Optimizing Workspace for Well-being

14min

The Impact of Early Morning Sunlight on Sleep

15min

Spirituality and Well-being in the Workplace

9min

Optimizing Workspaces for Wellbeing

2min

Dr. Esther Sternberg reveals how to enhance your office environment to improve your health and boost performance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How your workspace affects your wellbeing.

2) How your surroundings impact your sleep.

3) Tiny changes in lighting and sound that immediately improve your environment.

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— ABOUT ESTHER —

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona and has been internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries on the mind-body-stress interaction in healing and the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness. She’s advised the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, the Vatican, and more, and has been featured on national stages, including CBS’ 60 Minutes, SXSW, NPR, ABC News, and more.

• Book: Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

• Book: The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

• Book: Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace

• Website: https://esthersternberg.com/

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “The Basque Sheepherder and the Shepherd Psalm by James K. Wallace

• Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Study: Discovery of associative patterns between workplace sound level and physiological wellbeing using wearable devices and empirical Bayes modeling

• Podcaster: Andrew Huberman

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