Online learning journal Tapestry has partnered with Early Years Wellbeing Week to create a free toolkit to support practitioner wellbeing.

The Championing Wellbeing toolkit includes information on reducing wellbeing risk factors, everyday actions that can boost wellbeing, and cultivating mentally healthy workplaces.

Early Years Wellbeing Week 2023, sponsored by Tapestry and Siren Films, runs from 9 to 15 October 2023 with the theme “Mental health is a universal human right”.  The initiative was founded to support early years educators to to deal healthily with the demands of the role and to promote strategies for maintaining health and wellbeing.  

This year, founder Kate Moxley has also partnered with training organisation Siren Films to create a collection of bite size films with the theme of Mental Health Literacy. “We want to increase mental health literacy and raise awareness through Early Years Wellbeing Week, so people are able to have conversations, and also challenge ableism, and challenge this myth that you can’t work with children if you have a disability of a mental or physical health condition,” said Moxley.

Nursery groups taking part in Early Years Wellbeing Week include Cherubs Day Nurseries which has planned initiatives such as indoor and outdoor yoga sessions for staff and children, mindful colouring sheets in the staffroom with relaxing music and wellbeing walks.