Wellbeing Festival 2026
What is a well-being event?
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.
Why attend the Women's Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival?
The Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival is a motivating and inspiring all-day festival taking place on 18th June 2026 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.
Your ticket price includes a light lunch, refreshments, parking and access to all speakers and exhibitors. Book before the 28th Feb to secure our early bird offer!
All profits are going to 4 local charities in the North East that work with women supporting their mental health and wellbeing.
The Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival Interactive Workshops
Alexandra Turner
Alexandra Turner is the founder of Valkyrie Protect, offering
female-only personal safety courses designed to empower women and girls with confidence and real-world skills.
Driven by the belief that every female deserves to feel safe, Valkyrie Protect equips participants to navigate daily life and unexpected situations with readiness and self-assurance.
Led by womenfor women, the courses create a supportive, empowering environment where participants can learn, share experiences, and build strength together regardless of age or physical capability or strength.
Folake Balogun
Folake Balogun is a mentor, author, and former co owner of a video production company that produced work for icons like Selena Gomez, Joan Collins, and global brands including MTV and the BBC. After experiencing and recovering from burnout herself, she now guides women across the world to reclaim their energy, confidence, and inner power. Her bestselling book Big Energy: A Mystical Guide to Reclaiming Your Power blends modern insight with ancient wisdom, offering a fresh perspective on women’s wellbeing and energetic resilience.
Website: innerpowergame.co.uk
Lou Wilkie
Lou offers a compassionate, holistic approach to supporting
animals’ emotional and physical wellbeing. As a certified practitioner of The Trust Technique, she works with animal parents to gently calm anxious, fearful, or over-excited animals.
By teaching people how to reduce mental and emotional
tension in their animals, she helps address behavioural challenges, strengthen the human–animal bond, and support recovery from trauma.
Her services are suitable for all animals — from dogs &
horses to cats, birds, small animals and farm animals — both animals and their guardians can experience greater harmony and wellbeing. In addition, Lou provides gentle, energy-based healing to enhance emotional balance and support physical healing, for animals & humans alike.
Bryony Rowntree
Bryony works with women who are working for people and
planet, as their wing woman for finding themselves (and some space to breathe!) amongst the overwhelm and overload of working life, managing care responsibilities, and being able to prioritise their own wellbeing and projects
to increase fulfilment, progress and impact.
Amanda Gardiner
Amanda is an experienced Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner and wellbeing facilitator with over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership and
supporting people through change. Known for her calm, grounding presence, she creates safe, nurturing spaces where women can slow down, reset and reconnect with themselves.
Alongside her coaching work, Amanda runs group relaxation experiences incorporating guided hypnotherapy, deep relaxation and restorative
practices designed to calm the nervous system and support emotional wellbeing.
As a Temple Spa Lifestyle Consultant, she also weaves luxurious aromatherapy products into her sessions and delivers skincare and wellness experiences that honour self-care from the inside out.
Amanda’s work is rooted in compassion, empowerment and the belief that when women are supported holistically — mind, body and skin — they
don’t just cope, they thrive.
Lisa Unger
Lisa will join us to talk about –
Unlocking Your Lifeline:
A Guided Workshop to Discover the Root-Cause of Why You Eat the Way You Do. This is a practical, interactive workshop for anyone who feels stuck in a difficult relationship with food or their body and uses food to help regulate their emotions.
You will gently explore key life experiences, beliefs and patterns to better understand the emotional and psychological factors that may be influencing your eating habits.
By recognising the deeper patterns that shape your eating and self-perception, you can begin to respond to yourself with greater awareness, self-compassion and calmness.
Speaker To Be Announced
Speaker information TBA
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 18th June 2026 at Glow in County Durham.