Create Your Own Pop-Up Wellbeing Event
Everything you need to create a pop-up wellbeing event in your organisation
A pop-up wellbeing event provides employees with an ad-hoc wellbeing experience designed to:
- Reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and increase employee engagement
- Provide employees with tools and resources to proactively support their wellbeing
- Highlight the internal and external support available
- Boost employee morale, happiness and wellbeing
- Demonstrate your commitment to supporting employee wellbeing
Your pop-up wellbeing event is what you make it. Typically, organisations run various activities and wellbeing sessions to give employees the opportunity to try new things, talk about mental health and build on their personal toolkits. The best pop-up wellbeing events are those that are inclusive and support the wellbeing needs of your employees. When planning your event, you therefore need to keep this in mind. For organisations that work remotely, video conferencing and breakout sessions will be your best friend! For those in a physical location, utilise your space effectively. You might choose to block out a whole day or an afternoon to run everything at the same time or opt to run each activity on a different day across a specific week. The choice is yours – but hopefully, the contents of this page will lighten the load when planning your pop-up wellbeing event!
Wellbeing Pop-Up Ideas & Resources
Here, we have provided you with everything you need for six ‘wellbeing stations’, as well as other ideas to consider. You do not need to use all of them, feel free to pick and choose the ones you believe will land well in your workplace.
The Power of Breathing
Regular intentioned breathing can be great for our overall wellbeing and can help with minimising stress. This can be done together or alone.
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Mindful Meditation
Have a go at this great introductory meditation with your teams to calm both your mind and body. We recommend doing it together, but it can be done individually too.
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Gratitude Journaling
The true practice of gratitude aims to encourage deep reflection. Why not teach employees how to get started at your pop-up?
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Colouring Relaxation
Not just for kids! Colouring has a number of benefits in supporting our wellbeing. Give it a go using our templates!
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Conversation Starter
Talking reduces stigma. Encourage teams to talk about mental health at your event by introducing our conversation starter game.
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Share-A-Story Activity
At Everymind at Work, we believe in the power of storytelling to break through barriers and a plethora of stigma.
Take a lookWant to do more? Here are some extra ideas you could implement...
When it comes to wellbeing, there is never too much you can do! We’ve created this non-exhaustive list of other activities you could implement within your pop-up wellbeing event for your employees:
- In-person or virtual wellbeing talks
- Keynote speaker
- Lunch and learn sessions
- On-site/virtual yoga sessions
- Massages
- Morning coffee chat
- Walking groups
- Nap pods
- Recreational activities, e.g ping pong, pool
- Fitness challenges
- On-site/virtual exercise sessions
- Healthy snack/drink stations
- Team volunteering activity
- Nutrition demonstration
- Team building activities
Promotional Resources
Promo Poster
Use this poster to help promote and share the details of your pop-up wellbeing event with your employees.
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Welcome Poster
If you are hosting your wellbeing pop-event in person, this poster is great to welcome guests to the location!
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Internal Comms
Use these graphics to remind employees about your upcoming event and to encourage them to join you.
DownloadUse our email template below to share your event details with your employees!
Hi XXX,
With the help of Everymind at Work we are putting together a Pop-Up Wellbeing Event and everyone is invited!
The aim of this event is to support your wellbeing through a variety of activities, all the while getting together to do so.
Our pop-up wellbeing event will be held on at
At the event, you’ll find the following activities:
- insert station name here
- insert station name here
- insert station name here
- insert station name here
Each of these activities has been selected to help you try something new and/or build a proactive toolbox when it comes to wellbeing. So come down and join us for as much or as little as you would like, we would love as many of you to get involved as possible. 😃
As your employer, we really value your wellbeing and understand how important it is to be proactive in supporting our mental health, so take this time away from your work, for you.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes,
XXX