Early Years Wellbeing Week, 9th-15th October 2023

[Jules]

The 9^th October marks the beginning of the 6^th Early Years Wellbeing Week.

Founded by Kate Moxley, the purpose is to raise mental health awareness and increase mental health literacy, to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of educators everywhere.

Kate says: Collectively we must champion wellbeing and stand up for ourselves and each other.

We recorded a special edition of the FSF and Tapestry podcast for Early Years Wellbeing Week, with Warda Farah, Professor Eunice Lumsden and Kate Moxley. Their discussion centred on an intersectional approach to cultivating wellbeing. You can listen here.

Early Years Wellbeing Week is in October, which is Black History Month. The theme for this year is ‘Saluting Our Sisters’.

You can download Warda’s free Beginner’s Guide to Intersectionality here.

Eunice’s Mandela Model Workbook is available for free here. This is designed to support early years leaders in developing belonging for families and staff in their setting’s community.

Kate has written a Beginner’s Guide to Educator Wellbeing which you can download for free here.

This year, in recognition of Early Years Wellbeing Week, Kate has designed a wellbeing toolkit - Championing Wellbeing: A Toolkit for Early Years Educators. Use the toolkit to advocate for individual activism and community collectivism, and to aid prevention, early intervention, signposting and postvention. Download it here.

Find out more about Early Years Wellbeing Week at https://www.earlyyearswellbeingweek.co.uk/