Cambridge Wellness Festival 10th September

We know you loved last year’s event as much as we did, so we’re bringing back the Cambridge Wellness Festival for the second year running! 🤩

Join us on The Green on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus between Royal Papworth Hospital and AstraZeneca, you can’t miss us! Look out for the tents and the festival flags! To find us use this link: https://w3w.co/poker.jazzy.fuel

Runs from 11 am until 6 pm

We’ve got an incredibly exciting day planned come rain or shine in our huge stretch tents on the Green. There is no charge for entry and no charge for anything except refreshments – and as an added bonus all our activities run throughout the day-whatever time you arrive! 🎉 No pre-booking required – just turn up!

**Activities**

All day drop-in Menopause Café with free coffee and cake!

Massage Gazebo – five masseurs giving free head neck and shoulder massages throughout the day

Reiki tasters with Siobhan from Art Willow Soul

Positive Psychology Drop-In Pod: NINE Lab’s Positive Psychology Pod invites you to explore scientifically-backed well-being interventions designed to increase your happiness. Join us to discover self-administered techniques that have been evidenced to boost well-being.

Urban Smoothie Bikes – kindly sponsored by Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust and Royal Papworth Hospital Charity: pedal-powered smoothie bikes. Participants pedal one of our eye-catching bikes to blend their own delicious smoothie.

Meditation sessions for beginners and those who are experienced – with Elevate Wellness

Mobile Fitness Facility – Delivering complimentary exercise and well-being support from a state-of-the-art mobile fitness facility.

Dementia and Autism Experience: mobile simulators allow you to experience firsthand, what it might be like to have dementia or autism.  The Virtual Dementia and Virtual Autism experiences use specialised and patented equipment that will make you feel and act like a person with dementia without you even realising.  Afterwards you will be debriefed to help you understand how to take your experience and change to improve the lives of people that have dementia or autism.

Dementia experience 11 am – 2 pm / Autism experience 3.30 pm – 6 pm

All day Art-therapy Drop In run by:

• Rowan Charity 11 am – 2 pm
• Kimberley Iyemere Independent Art Therapist 2 pm to 6 pm: Kimberley returns for her second year with us – her sessions were overwhelming popular last year. Restorative, grounded and relaxing sessions which provide creative opportunities for self-expression, and exploring thoughts, feelings and new ideas through the non-verbal medium of art.
  • To provide an opportunity for new creative and innovative ideas articulated through Art
  • To help increase motivation with positive thinking and mindfulness through art.
  • To develop self-awareness and empowerment through creativity.
  • To increase confidence through self-discovery as a result of the art-making process
  

**Talks (times to be confirmed)**

Menopause – Dr Susanna Unsworth Cambridge Women’s Health

I Can (not) Avoid Stress – How About Burnout? – Ivana Stulic, personal development, coaching. Ivana has flown in from Croatia to be with us at the CWF.  According to one of Gallup’s surveys, nearly two-thirds of full-time employees experience burnout at some point on the job. Although burnout is formally defined as an “occupational phenomenon” symptoms of burnout (with harmful consequences for people’s physical and mental health) can also occur because of other extremely stressful circumstances so it is smart to be able to recognize it. In this talk, you will learn whether healthy stress exists and when it is okay, what is the difference between stress and burnout, and how to spot symptoms early on and prevent burnout. With positive habits, we can greatly influence how we deal with stress, and sometimes we have to ask ourselves if the (work) environment is really good for us and whether we are taking care of our own needs adequately. From the perspective of managers and employers, it is good to understand what leads to burnout and how we can avoid it by our actions and encouraging a healthier work culture. The talk will be informative, practical and hopefully inspiring for all attendees.

Positive Ageing –  Matt Freeman at Viva Positiva

How to Come Home: The Profound Loving Power of Listening – Henry Johnstone TRIGGER WARNING This talk will be centered around the profound power of listening and opening up. covering subjects as addiction, mental health illness, self-worth, family, and relationships. i will explore how silence creates disconnection and suffering and community and openness creates the simplest most profound opportunities to bring us all home. This talk is in support of the Samaritans.

Premenstrual Disorder – Dr Ola Abdellatif at Ola Womens’s Health

Nutrition for Better Health – Dr Maria Chondronikola – Principal Investigator and Lead for Human Nutrition, Institute of Metabolic Science · University of Cambridge. In this Maria reviews the role of nutrition in health and pathological conditions affecting a large number of people in the UK(obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer). She will discuss practical information that can be used to improve one’s nutrition habits for better health. There will also be time for a Q&A session.

Eating Disorders – Jane Poppit – Modern Matron/Service Manager Adult Inpatient Eating Disorders at CPFT

**Workshops (times to be confirmed)**

No Booze Workshop from Zoe Godfrey at No Booze Network

Cultivating Happiness: How to Build Optimal Well-Being from Briony Quested at NINE Lab. This workshop introduces the key components of enduring well-being and helps you to create a personalised roadmap for increased happiness.

Journalling Workshop from Jane Jennison – using the science of positive psychology to guide our reflections to boost wellbeing: Journalling is a great way to boost our mood, but it can be easy to fall into negative reflection or being self-critical. In this workshop, Jane will share some positive psychology-based tools and techniques to help you reflect positively as you journal. You will learn why journalling is a great way to have a positive focus, and how your journal can be your guide when you feel low. We’ll share the mental health benefits of journalling. Finally, we’ll look at some examples, and share some tools that you can use to help you on your journalling journey.

Resilience Workshop from Emma Warren, Workforce Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
at Royal Papworth Hospital. What is Resilience? How do we build our Resilience?

Playfulness Workshop from Sarah Creevey, Playfulness Coach: are you in touch with your playful self? We tend to think of playfulness as something we grow out of as we get older, but there are huge benefits to our well-being in engaging playfully with life as adults. Playfulness in adults has been linked to better cognitive functioning, better coping during times of stress, higher motivation, a greater sense of meaning and overall well-being and satisfaction with life. The effects can be truly profound, and some experts even say play should be a matter for public health. This workshop will show you how to get back in touch with your playful self, even if it’s buried deep, and give you the tools and confidence to start engaging playfully in life and work once more!

Restart a Heart Workshop – CPR competition: bring your friends and colleagues – a fun way to see who can restart the heart the quickest! Join in the competition and learn CPR at the same time!

**Chilling Tent (times to be confirmed but running all day)**

Pilates

Yoga

Sound-Baths – from Golden-Bliss Retreats: Sound-baths use frequency and vibration from sacred instruments to help relax and de-stress and give us a break from busy lives.

Qi Gong –  from Golden-Bliss Retreats: Qi-Gong is the art of movement & meditation to help decrease stress and increase energy. 

**Stands**

Mindful Explorers – mindfulness sessions for children and parents in Cambridge and online

The ever-popular PAT dogs – come and chat to volunteers and pet a dog!

Dentistry & More (private dentistry and GP service): Providing information about dental services and procedures, GP services, womens health services, MPS, PMDD, organic oral care products, treatment offers

Golden-Bliss Retreats – massage, retreats. Also running Qi Gong and sound-baths in the side tent.

No Booze Network Sober coaching – becoming more mindful of alcohol consumption without necessarily committing to complete abstinence. https://www.noboozenetwork.co.uk/

Menopause  – Cambridge Women’s Health and Joyful Menopause

Prostate Information – Addenbrooke’s

Nutritionist

Hypnotherapy

• Integrative Hypnotherapy with Henry Johnstone “Profound peace and limitless freedom” Henry’s stand will be an opportunity to demystify the fascinating world of your subconscious mind. And to try out some light hypnosis journeys too. Henry loves welcoming people into the most wonderful world of hypnosis, that we so rarely get to experience from this amazingly versatile art. Come and learn how your subconscious mind works, and how you might use it to move more beautifully and freely through your obstacles and challenges.
• Heather Fletcher Providing information regarding what hypnotherapy is; issues clients come to see me about and the benefits of receiving hypnotherapy on line, in the comfort of your home.

Thrive Tribe – NHS diabetes prevention programme

ACED Cohort Study – The Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) Cohort is a group of volunteers willing to consider participating in early cancer detection research.

Goodbye Breasts! is an inspiring artistic exploration of breast cancer and the paths to recovery. This stand is promoting the art installation coming to campus from  11^th – 13^th September on the Oval on the campus https://w3w.co/print.ruled.humid https://www.goodbyebreasts.com/

NIHR Bioresource Recruitment Stand

Frank Lee Centre – Promoting on-site leisure centre for CBC employees

Viva Positiva – Positive Ageing

How are you? South Cambs

Healthy You – free health checks

Smoking Cessation

Careership – Partnering with individuals to help them achieve career fulfilment

Sing! Choirs Campus Choir – open to everyone, free of charge weekly term-time choir on campus

Live Brighter NOW – Neuroscience of wellbeing: sleep, managing stress and creating lasting behaviour change.

Well:o Dental Care – easy, enjoyable, expert dental hygiene treatments.  Running mini-workshops at the stand 12:00 / 14:00 / 16:00 (20min)

Full of Beans – Mental Health Awareness: Full of Beans aims to reduce eating disorder stigma and raise awareness by sharing collective experiences and fostering shared conversations. Han hosts weekly talks with guests, including those with lived experiences, researchers, clinicians, and charities, all working to enhance understanding and end stigma. By blending personal stories with research and clinical insights, Full of Beans creates a compassionate space, amplifies voices, and builds a network of strength and understanding of eating disorders.

Cacao van

Cam Cycle – free bike marking from 12 noon til 3 pm

Bike Works – bicycle maintenance information stand

VG Coffee for vegan food and coffee all day

Ice cream cart from Toni’s Ices

Cambridge Fruit Company

**Charity Stands**

Mind: Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire Mind (CPSL Mind) is a values-based mental health charity. Everything CPSL Mind does is underpinned by its core values of respect, empowerment, inclusivity, integrity, courage and compassion. The charity supports local people on their road to recovery from a wide range of mental health challenges. CPSL Mind promotes wellbeing across local communities and campaigns against the stigma and discrimination faced by so many people experiencing mental health challenges.

Poppy Study

Maggie’s

Rowan Charity

Royal Papworth Charity

Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust

Alzheimer’s Research UK

Cambridge Samaritans