EventWell opens fifth annual Event Wellbeing Week

EventWell, the UK-based charitable social enterprise that campaigns for better mental health and wellbeing in events, has opened its fifth Event Wellbeing Week for the industry. Taking place 20-26 September, the 2021 campaign, #EWW21, has as its theme: ‘The Culture of Self Care’ to recognise taking care of ourselves and our teams. The schedule will include: 20 September 8.00am – Re-entry Shock – returning to the workplace, with Gavin Percy 12.00pm – Are you fuelling the fire or heading for burnout? with Emily Woodward 3.00pm – What’s keeping you up at night? Learning how to fail forward together, with Alycia Angle 21 September 8:00am – The power of smell, essential oils and their support of our emotions, mood and wellbeing, with Mira Calvey 12.00pm – Know Thyself! Creating meaning and fulfilment in work through self-knowledge, with Nicolina Werther 3.00pm – Transform your mood in under 10-minutes with music, with Karen Agro 22 September 8.00am Talking Anxiety, with Nick Elston 12.00pm – Rebalance with sound, with Selma Studer 3.00pm – Fun and engaging Origami workshop, with Michael Trew 23 September 12.00pm – Speaking with Confidence, with Kevin Harvey 3.00pm – Powering up and winding down, cultivating morning and evening rituals for success, with Jacqui Edmiston 24 September 12.30pm – Body Confidence, with Michelle Wheatley 25 and 26 September The #EventWell21 Weekend Pledgeathon Helen Moon, CEO, EventWell, said: “We are delighted with this year’s Event Wellbeing Week programme and thrilled that we are celebrating our fifth anniversary, showing how far the industry has come since we started and launched the first event wellbeing week in 2017. As we come out of what has been a turbulent 18-months for the industry, it’s important that we don’t forget the important health lessons the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, particularly of balance. “Making self-care and mental health and wellbeing a priority is going to be crucial to our resilience and bounce back over the coming months and years, and we have lots of free education to support this over the next seven days.”