Rethink Wellbeing offers proven, engaging and affordable programs to nurture mental wellbeing and resilience at scale. Rethink Wellbeing acts as an impact multiplier: their programs are specially designed to help ambitiously altruistic individuals feel and perform better, supercharging their ability to do good in the world.
Rethink Wellbeing was founded in early 2022 by Dr Inga Grossman[1], together with a team of four. It was the most promising of three mental health-related project ideas that the team tested. In its first year, Rethink Wellbeing successfully piloted its first flagship program, the CBT Lab, indicating effectiveness and demand within the target group. They are now focused on scaling their services to reach more ambitious altruists and further increase their cost-effectiveness.
As of October 2024, Rethink Wellbeing has supported over 200 ambitious altruists. They still have four employees in the core team and a network of 50+ volunteers and advisors[2].
Rethink Wellbeing facilitates 8-16-week guided online mental health programs for ambitious altruists, including The CBT Lab and The IFS Lab–both group-based peer support formats guided by trained laypeople. In each program, participants learn to apply evidence-based psychotherapeutic and behaviour change methods to improve their mental wellbeing and thereby their productivity.
~10% of money and time invested in EA is lost to poor mental health:
Rethink Wellbeing publishes its research into the effectiveness of each program on its website on a rolling basis.
Based on the 2023 program study, participants in Rethink Wellbeing’s CBT Lab increased their productivity by ~5-9 hours per week and decreased their mental health burden (including symptoms of depression and anxiety) by ~16-28%[3].
Effectiveness research using standardized self-assessments is run for every cohort to:
The research is longitudinal and employs gold-standard methods used in clinical trials where possible.
Our World in Data, Mental Health research
EA Mental Health and Productivity Survey 2023, RW & MHN.
Rethink Wellbeing (official website)
Inga is also the Co-Founder and Team Lead for High Impact Psychology