As in previous years, we in Fora Form mark World Mental Health Day. Our social relationships are the most important and decisive source of meaning.
According to World Mental Health Day, far more people than before say they never use the phone to make calls. We must also overestimate how well we interpret each other's text messages.
One in three people under the age of 44 say they experience little meaning in life and report a generally poorer quality of life. Feeling that you are living a meaningful life is a basic need that acts protectively during life crises and other crises.
This year, we encourage you to pick up the phone and call. Hearing the voice of someone we love does much more to us than we think.
Research shows that just 8 minutes on the phone with someone you care about can significantly affect the relationship and mental health.
How about calling a colleague, customer, or other relationship to follow up on an email? See what a conversation can be led to beyond the specific case. Belonging to work has more to say about well-being than pay and recognition.
We often underestimate the value of compliments we give to others and the importance of making contact. Giving to others can evoke happiness, bring us closer together, and reduce the risk of burnout.
We need to talk more together!
#give8minutes
At Fora Form, we’ve been designing social furniture and meeting places since 1929. Our ambition has always been to create great indoor experiences.
We don’t design furniture for offices – we design for open and valuable meetings between people. We don't make furniture to impress – we make furniture that motivate. We don’t design for directors, or to uphold power structures. We design to break down differences.
Our goal is creating workplaces good enough to match our homes. Our vision is creating furniture and meeting places that enable good meetings between people. Because at Fora Form, we know that people shape culture, and that culture shapes people.
This is our guiding star on our journey to discover more great indoor experiences – wherever people meet.
"Start the day by inviting someone for a proper chat in an informal place."
This campaign is in collaboration with World Mental Health Day.
Last year, World Mental Health Day entered a new three-year strategy period where they invited joint efforts against loneliness and alienation, which are central challenges for public mental health:
Feeling a sense of belonging is a basic need. It is the feeling of being a desired part of a community where you are respected, seen, and understood for who you are. Surrounding ourselves with people who can tolerate our feelings is protective against long-term stress and anxiety. It can also reduce the risk of emotional escape through, for example, intoxication or isolation. Several studies also point out that belonging in the workplace has more to say for well-being than pay and recognition.
