For the past 40+ years, applied research at Dr. Selye’s Canadian Institute of Stress has translated the Institute’s insights into evidence-based tools and know-how evaluated and refined in corporations internationally.
We are pleased to celebrate the September 2015 opening of our first co-developed Associate Center in the USA. Vital Organization LLC headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. USA. Vital Organization LLC, headed by Ed Adib, MD, SWC(c) joins our other two Centers in Japan (2007) and in Saudi Arabia (2011) to provide evidence-based personal and corporate services.
Since 2003, the Institute’s online certification training for workplace, counseling and medical professionals as an SWC(c) has accelerated scientific evaluation of solutions warranted to bear the Selye name. Our website highlights the Institute and Foundation’s next steps in this 40-year tradition.
R.Buckminster Fuller
Southern Illinois University
Sir Hans A.Krebs
Nobel Prize Laureate
Marshall Mcluhan
University of Toronto
Julius Axelrod
Nobel Prize Laureate
Michael E. DeBakey
Baylor College of Medicine
Rene Dubos
Rockefeller University
Claude Fortier
Science Council of Canada
Naoharu Fuji
Tokio Stress Research Fndn
Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien
Telemedia Communications
S.I. Hayakawa
U. S Senator
Robert Mallet
The Sorbonne
Peter C. Newman
Author
Severo Ochoa
Nobel Prize Laureate
Linus Pauling
The Pauilng Institute
Jonas Salk
The Salk Institute
Aurelio Peccei
The Club of Rome
Hans Selye (1907 -1982) is internationally acknowledged as “the father of the stress field” and, as such, a Canadian resource to the world. Since publishing the first scientific paper to identify and define “stress” in 1936, Dr. Selye wrote more than 1700 scholarly papers and 39 books on the subject. At the time of his death in late 1982, his work had been cited in more than 362,000 scientific papers, and in countless popular magazine stories, in most major languages and in all countries worldwide. He is still by far the world’s most frequently cited author on stress topics.
Dr. Selye gained enduring international respect not only for his scientific innovations, but equally for his commitment to sharing the practical benefits of his work with everyday people. Two of his books, “The Stress of Life” and “Stress Without Distress” were unequalled bestsellers(the latter in 17 languages). His collaborative research with Dr. Richard Earle resulted in his two final contributions “Stress and the Workplace” and “Your Vitality Quotient”.
Dr. Selye held three earned doctorates (M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.) plus 43 honorary doctorates. He was an elected member of many of the world’s most recognized medical and scientific associations.
Alvin Toffler(1928 – 2016) and Heidi Toffler are among the world’s most renowned social thinkers. Their books, including Future Shock, The Third Wave, Powershift, and War and Anti-War, well express a hallmark of the Canadian Institute of Stress… the mutual enrichment of scholarly research and the world of practical concerns.
Alvin Toffler has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and a faculty member of the New School for Social Research. He holds honorary doctorates in letters, law and science. He has been named an Officier de l’ordre des Artes et Lettres in France and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
With deep regret, we note the passing of Dr. Toffler on June 27, 2016. Many insights arising in his discussions with Dr. Selye continue to guide our Making Change Successful, not Stressful programs.
Dr. Richard Earle (1945 -) is an internationally respected and published authority on stress and controlling its impacts on productive wellbeing both in individuals and in rapidly changing workplaces.
He earned his Ph.D. [behavioral Science in health] at the University of Toronto, and has done post-doctoral studies both at Harvard and with the University of Montreal’s Hans Selye who is internationally regarded as “the father of the stress field”. While directing Ontario’s Ministry of Health research programs, Richard was Dr. Selye’s last post-Doc student [1980-82]. Drs. Selye and Earle worked with eight Nobel Laureates to co-found, in 1979, the Canadian Institute of Stress. Since 1971, Dr. Earle has taught at several Ontario universities, including in the graduate faculties of Behavioral Science, of Nursing and of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Since 1984, he has frequently returned to Japan to lecture at leading universities and to consult with the Japan Public Health Research Foundation and the Japan Management Association
