Pause for a moment. How many times this week have you ignored fatigue, waved off pain, or reduced rest to aimless scrolling on your phone until your brain goes numb? In a world that constantly demands us to be faster, better, and more available, we often lose the most important thing – ourselves.
Theoretically, we all understand the importance of balance in personal and professional environments, but our daily lives often resemble a race without a real goal. That is precisely why DOBRObit conference, which will take place on October 2, 2026, at the Stil event in the Zagreb Fair, brings a much-needed and expert discussion on caring for mental and physical health.
A Mind That Doesn’t Stop and the Burnout Epidemic
We have become accustomed to chasing business goals, deadlines, and results, normalizing stress and suppressing fatigue to the brink of burnout. On the other hand, in our free time, we often do not know how to stop, making recovery a luxury we rarely afford.
How to Be Efficient Without Burning Out?
Simply put, we live in a time where stress is normalized, and fatigue is suppressed. To cope with this situation more easily, Dr. Darko Cvetković – a top NLP and Mindfulness expert, will explore through his lecture on fast living and mindfulness approach how to slow down without giving up, be efficient without burning out, and return to ourselves – while the world continues to move quickly. Because, as he emphasizes, the point is not to escape life, but to be present while we live it.
A Guide to Returning to Yourself
When we constantly strive to be perfect employees, partners, and parents, we easily forget who we actually are. Licensed psychologist and gestalt psychotherapist Ana Miletić will talk about this quiet process of losing one’s identity and the guide to returning to oneself. The ways we diminish and deny parts of ourselves, the consequences of neglecting ourselves, and how to get to know and be with ourselves to be more whole in relation to others are just part of the questions we will address.
Why Has Rest Become a Luxury?
The problem of “burnout” and the inability to rest properly will be further dissected in the panel “Burnout – We Know Everything, Yet We Don’t Rest.” Alongside panelists Ema Alagić – a spa and holistic wellness expert, Petra Seličanec – a fitness, NLP, and Mindfulness trainer, Iva Mikulić – a psychotherapist, Marija Habulinec – a board member and sales director at MultiSport Benefit Systems, and moderator Ivna Juranić – a psychologist, HR expert, and yoga instructor, answers will be sought to the questions of why rest has become a luxury and why we only stop when fatigue “sweeps” us away. It is time to stop theorizing about fatigue and start actively choosing recovery.
The Body as an Ally for the Decades Ahead
When was the last time you woke up without something hurting?
Physical and mental health are inextricably linked. Whether we sit for hours in front of office screens or juggle family obligations, we often ignore pain, treating it as a malfunction that needs to be silenced with a pill. Dr. Sandro Venier will show us that pain is actually our most sophisticated defense mechanism through which the body communicates with us; he will explain how science and practice clearly show that emotions can significantly affect the onset and persistence of pain and comfort us with the fact that there is often a solution for chronic pain.
We Train for Life, Not Beauty
To prepare our bodies for the demands of everyday life, and not just for aesthetic ideals, conditioning coach of numerous top athletes Marino Bašić brings us back to the basics of training adapted to our lifestyle and obligations. We break the myths that training must be exhausting to be effective; we explain why more is not always better and create a strategy of habits that last.
