EventWell, a charitable social enterprise which educates and campaigns for better mental health and wellbeing in the events industry, has announced that Event Wellbeing Week will be Event Wellbeing Month this year.
Since launching in 2017, Event Wellbeing week has been a “platform for individuals and businesses in the events industry to come together to campaign and advocate for better mental health and wellbeing for all”. EventWell has announced that “due to the global pandemic and the effect it has had on the industry” Event Wellbeing Week will be turning into Event Wellbeing Month starting 1 September.
This year’s #EventWell20 campaign aims to “educate on the importance of a commitment to providing better support for employees and talent”, and to “make a positive change to workplace culture and mental health”. It will also aim to “educate on the importance of self-care and building resilience as creative professionals to better manage stress, drive productivity and creativity and stay event well”.
The four weeks of September will be split into four different focuses: 7 Days of Sleep (1-7 September), 7 Days of Movement (8-14 September), 7 Days of Nutrition (15-21 September), and 9 Days of Action (22-30 September).
Each week will see a series of events, podcasts, activities and blogs dedicated to getting a better night’s sleep, highlighting the importance of exercise, ensuring healthy diets and showing businesses and individuals how to take action to tackle poor mental health in the creative, event, hospitality and travel industry.
Helen Moon, CEO of EventWell, said: “2020 has been an extremely challenging year for our industry and so it was felt that our yearly September campaign week would just not be long enough, hence switching it to a month long.
“As part of the 9 days of action we will also be encouraging all event businesses to sign the EventWell Manifesto. We need to make an important step as an industry and a real commitment to positive culture change, for the benefit of all – as we all have mental health!”
Louise Warren, COO and co-founder of EventWell#17, said: “The challenges that we are facing as an industry right now mean that there has never been a more important time to be talking about mental health and wellbeing. Many of our industry professionals are currently facing trauma and real challenges and difficulties, due to redundancy, closure of businesses and venues. The aim not just for the month of September, but for always, is to provide not only help and support but to encourage further education and thought leadership for the industry.”
