The Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival is a motivating and inspiring all-day festival taking place on 19th June 2025 at Glow in County Durham. Featuring expert speakers, interactive workshops, exhibitors, and a chance to network with like-minded mental health and well-being professionals.
The day will be a transformative wellbeing festival dedicated to highlighting the unique mental health challenges that women face, and empowering the attendees with practical tools for growth and resilience.
If you are a professional working in women’s mental health, wellbeing, or healthcare, or have a personal interest in women’s mental health, you will be welcome at this inclusive wellbeing festival.
Book before 23rd May 2025 and you will be entitled to the special Early Bird Offer of 50% off the standard entry price of £95 +VAT. If you grab the Early Bird Offer it means that your ticket will only be £47.50 +VAT for the whole day of activities, including a light lunch - Book now!
The Women’s Mental Health and Well-being event is a one-day festival that aims to foster awareness, inclusivity, and support for women’s mental health.
The well-being event includes interactive workshops, insightful panel discussions, networking opportunities and empowerment through sharing.
Interactive workshops
Hands-on sessions designed to build resilience, promote mindfulness, and increase women’s mental health awareness.
Expert speakers
Hear from leading women’s mental health and well-being experts as they explore topics such as workplace wellbeing, inclusive mental health policies, and overcoming stigma.
Networking
Throughout the day, and over a light lunch provided, attendees will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals in women’s mental health and wellbeing.
This well-being event will be a safe and welcoming space where everyone’s voice matters. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their stories, learn from others, and feel truly heard in a mental health and wellbeing community that values empathy and understanding.
The Palomino Trust
A driving force behind the Palomino Trust, Shan Louise-Simpson is a PhD candidate and developer of the Equine-Assisted Neuro-Therapy Programme.
The Palomino Trust offers a comprehensive range of emotional wellbeing activities including Equine Assisted Therapy at their stable facilities in Rowlands Gill. Their primary aim is to improve mental health and emotional wellbeing of those experiencing mental health conditions, trauma, and bereavement, using evidence-based therapy.
Shan’s session will include insights into the healing connection between humans and horses, along with opportunities to engage with therapy ponies Sidney and Lacey for hands-on experiences.
Dandelion Coaching
Lynsey’s own early menopause journey ignited a passion to empower women navigating life’s transformative moments. With over a decade of experience in mental health and wellbeing, she founded Dandelion Coaching, a social enterprise dedicated to Menopause and Peri-Menopause Awareness.
Lynsey’s session will explore feeling lost and overwhelmed by menopause and how to make it a positive story; understanding how past trauma can amplify emotional challenges during this transition. In this 45-minute session, she will share a mini-guide filled with tools and insights to help you.
Bryony Rowntree works with people to ‘Root Deep, Stand Strong, and Branch Out’. She does this through 1:1 coaching and her group coaching programmes for women: Stand in Your Space, and Return to Work. She also delivers Mental Health First Aid training. Bryony works from her principle of opening up awareness, so that space is made for wiser choice...from there we have more clarity, ease, power, capacity, courage and so much more!
Bryony will talk about the importance of having healthy boundaries for upholding positive mental health, whether we are in a place of healing and recovery or sustaining good health. Bryony will deliver an interactive session on boundaries; why they are important, when they are a particular challenge and need to be in place more than ever (e.g. returning to work after maternity/adoption leave, perimenopause, being a carer), and some key strategies to help you implement and maintain healthy boundaries.
Jess is an advanced Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping practitioner and trainer, and the founder of Tap into Transformation. Having experienced the life changing impact of EFT in her own journey through chronic anxiety, Jess is passionate about sharing tapping, both therapeutically and as a powerful self-help tool.
Health and Wellbeing Strategist
Nicole Brûlé-Walker is a dedicated Health & Wellbeing Strategist known for
her holistic and integrative approach to healing. With a passion for empowering women, Nicole has spent years exploring the intersections of human movement, breathwork, neuroscience, and bodywork, developing her signature Integrated Healing Protocol to address the challenges of stress, injury, trauma, and illness.
Nicole’s Integrated Healing Protocol offers a transformative path for women to reclaim their physical and emotional wellbeing. Through her innovative methods, she guides her clients to not only move through life’s challenges but to emerge stronger, healthier, and more resilient.
PAPYRUS
Zander Godden (They/Them) is a Community Development Officer for PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide. This UK charity is dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people. Based in the North East, Zander delivers suicide prevention training, raises awareness of PAPYRUS resources, and contributes to local authority prevention groups.
Zander’s session will focus on equipping attendees with life-saving suicide prevention skills and promoting positive mental health for young people.
Rebecca is a fully qualified, ICF accredited life and business coach who set up her
coaching practice Space and Clarity Coaching six years ago after a successful
career in the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry. In 2022, at the age of 50 she was diagnosed with ADHD and in her words ‘finally got the answers to the whole square peg/round hole thing’. Her diagnosis has helped her make sense of years of feeling like she didn’t quite fit in with the world and the people around her.
Rebecca’s talk will be focussing on her ADHD journey, sharing her experience of what she calls the ‘lightbulb moment’ when she realised that she had been effectively masking and internalising her difficulties all her life. She will also talk about how neurodivergence presents differently in women and girls, many of whom are also mis-diagnosed with multiple mental health conditions well into adulthood.
She will end by sharing how empowering a diagnosis can be and with the correct
help and support how many ADHD and neurodivergent traits can be turned into
positives, allowing individuals to truly reach their potential and express themselves openly and honestly.
Andrew has over 20 years of experience managing projects, campaigns, and teams in the voluntary sector, as well as a short stint as a Primary School Teacher. He has directly worked with homeless young people, individuals struggling with drug/alcohol addiction, offenders, and those living with dementia all affected by and coping with poor mental health. Throughout his career, he has emphasised employee well-being as one of the most crucial factors in achieving a team’s objectives, believing that when a team thrives, so does the organisation.
Andrew’s session will explore practical strategies for fostering resilience, improving workplace mental health, and building inclusive, person-centred teams.
Monica is a student dietitian, climbing instructor, adventure seeker, friend, daughter, partner and living with severe mental illness. By exploring a journey of lived experience, research, data and anecdotes of living with severe mental illness, she aims to shed light on the struggle young women face in accessing the correct mental health treatments and diagnoses, the consequences of inaccurate diagnoses and the associated stigma on recovery outcomes.
Firewalking Instructor and Motivational Coach
John is a Sundoor-trained Firewalking Instructor and motivational coach who helps individuals unlock their potential by embracing opportunities for growth.
He focuses on mental strength, overcoming barriers, and reconnecting with inner fire to achieve personal transformation. Passionate about challenging perceptions, John explores how image impacts relationships and encourages deeper, more authentic connections.
We think you will agree that the range of interactive sessions and expert speakers promise a packed day of sharing and learning. The Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival will be a motivating and inspiring all-day festival that is not to be missed!
Let’s come together to celebrate resilience, foster inclusivity, and empower women to thrive.
Join us on 19th June 2025 at Glow in County Durham. Book before 23rd May 2025 and you will be entitled to the special Early Bird Offer of 50% off the standard entry price of £95 +VAT. If you grab the Early Bird Offer it means that your ticket will only be £47.50 +VAT for the whole day of activities, including a light lunch - Book now!
