Come Find Your People
The event industry’s NEW community for wellbeing, neuroinclusion and better event experiences.
Event Wellbeing Matters is a free professional community for the events industry, bringing together people who care about creating healthier, more accessible, neuroinclusive and human-centred events.
Whether you’re an event organiser, venue professional, supplier, freelancer, student, educator or simply someone who believes our industry can do better for people, there’s a place for you here.
This isn’t about having all the answers, it’s about having somewhere to ask the questions, share what you’re learning, hear different perspectives and turn good intentions into practical action.
Come learn. Come share. Come find your people.
What are we talking about?
The things that affect real people working at and attending real events.
We explore:
- Neuroinclusive and sensory-aware event design
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Sensory accessibility
- Psychological safety
- Burnout, recovery and sustainable working
- Inclusive communication and attendee journeys
- Accessibility and universal design
- Workforce wellbeing and event culture
- Practical changes that make events work better for more people
Sometimes they’re big industry conversations. Sometimes they’re very small changes that make a surprisingly big difference. Both matter.
What happens when you join?
You’ll get access to the Event Wellbeing Matters Member Hub, our online home for conversation, learning, resources and connection.
Inside you’ll find practical resources you can download and use, member conversations, industry insights, regular wellbeing content, workshops, events and opportunities to connect with other people across the industry.
But we’d really like you to do more than simply download things.
Ask a question. Share an experience. Join a conversation. Come to a Coffee Break. Tell us when you disagree.
This community becomes more useful when we learn from each other.
Your free membership includes
- Access to the EWM Member Hub
- Practical resources, guides and factsheets
- Community discussions and peer support
- Regular wellbeing ideas and Daily Actions
- Member workshops and learning sessions
- Coffee Break – our weekly informal community catch-up
- Student learning and community spaces
- Industry insight and emerging good practice
- Invitations to EWM events and community sessions
- Member offers on selected EventWell training and learning
Most of our community activity and resources are completely free. From time to time, we also run specialist training or extended learning sessions which carry a small additional member fee. We’ll always make this clear before you book.
You don’t need to be an expert.
In fact, we’d rather you weren’t pretending to be one. Event wellbeing, accessibility and neuroinclusion are continually evolving. We’re all learning.
You might have worked in events for thirty years. You might be studying your first events module. You might be responsible for thousands of attendees. You might simply have experienced something at an event and thought:
“There has to be a better way of doing this.”
That’s enough to start a conversation.
A community for the people shaping what events become next.
We want Event Wellbeing Matters to be somewhere people can have thoughtful, sometimes challenging conversations without fear of getting everything perfectly right.
A place where lived experience matters. Where professional experience matters. Where curiosity is encouraged, and where people can take what they learn back into their events, organisations, venues, classrooms and teams.
Because changing event culture doesn’t happen through one awareness day, one quiet room or one wellbeing initiative, it happens when thousands of small decisions start being made differently.
Come Find Your People.
Joining Event Wellbeing Matters is free.
Come for the resources.
Stay for the conversations.
Meet people who care about the same things you do.
And help us build an events industry that works better for the people within it.
A few community ground rules
We want EWM to feel welcoming, useful and safe, so we keep things pretty simple.
Be kind and professional.
Different experiences and perspectives are welcome. Disrespect, discrimination, harassment or harmful behaviour aren’t.
No hard selling.
This is a community, not a prospecting database. Genuine recommendations and collaboration are absolutely welcome; unsolicited selling and spam aren’t.
Be curious.
Nobody gets everything right. Ask questions, listen, challenge ideas respectfully and be willing to learn.
Respect lived experience.
You don’t need to share someone’s experience to listen to it and learn from it.
Contribute when you can.
You don’t have to post every day, goodness knows none of us needs another digital obligation, but say hello, join a conversation or share something useful when the moment feels right.
Look after yourself.
Dip in and out. Mute notifications. Miss a week. Come back when you have the capacity. Community shouldn’t become another item on your to-do list.
From awareness to action.
We don’t need events to become less exciting, less creative or less ambitious. We want them to become more human. More thoughtful. More accessible. More understanding of the different people who experience them.
And that starts with people willing to learn from each other.
Come Find Your People
