Towards a Leeds Festival of Compassion and Wellbeing 2020

Building a wider story of wellbeing, kindness, collaboration & care

• What makes communities healthy supportive places to live?

• How are neighbourhoods already contributing to personal and social wellbeing in a wider way?

• How can we discover and spread the positive work already being done in areas of compassion and wellbeing in Leeds?

• How could a Festival of Compassion and Wellbeing offer an opportunity to support, acknowledge and celebrate local people helping local people?

This event is for people who are interested in supporting and developing kindness and wellbeing in their communities in Leeds whether informally as a local person, as a community activist or professionally in, at or through their work.

Exploring Common Ground is one of a series of events over the next 18 months aimed at bringing people together who see the value of a festival in offering an opportunity for people to share and develop a wider story of compassion, care, and wellbeing at the neighbourhood level and in the public space across Leeds.

The purpose of this event is to gather and co-create communities of practice in Compassion and Wellbeing which will move forward and grow together to explore, discover, connect, and celebrate Leeds as a City of compassion and wellbeing in 2020.

Cost: Attendance at the event, which also includes lunch, is by voluntary donation. Our suggested donation for those in full employment is £25 or £15 for others. Note there are some free places available for local community activists - please contact the organisers below for further information.
You will receive details by email on how to make a donation once you register on eventbrite. If you are unable to attend for the full day please contact us by email before booking.

Speakers include Zoe Ferguson, Matthew Barber, Philipa Bragman and Andy Bradley.

Further information: https://networkofwellbeing.org/events/exploring-common-ground/

Or contact:

Angela Burnett at Compassion and Wellbeing 2020 or Josh Malkin at The Network of Wellbeing

Email 2020leedsfestival@gmail.com or josh@networkofwellbeing.org

Mobile: 07890 682026

Supporting partners:

Carnegie UK Trust | Change People | Frameworks 4 Change | Jamyang Buddhist Centre | Leeds City Council | Shine | Spaces of Hope | The Network of Wellbeing | Respiratory Care Solutions | RSA