Members Wellbeing - Time to ACT on your own wellbeing?

Resources to support the most important people in our network, You! The local wellbeing workforce.

We believe that those who work and volunteer in our area doing great work around wellbeing put in a lot of time and effort, often working beyond the call of duty to empower others. What we don’t always see is enough of those people deciding to ACT on their own self-care and kindness to themselves. We want to change that. We also think that changing work culture, passes down to our own local communities and those we work with in the ethos we all demonstrate.

Members wellbeing then is about you, our paid or unpaid workforce. We seek resources and constantly share several pieces of work for the South Tees workforce to ACT on their wellbeing needs, do that inner work and start that personal growth and mental wellbeing improvement journey. Some is written or linked throughout our site, digital for sharing and accessing in your own way or some face to face offerings for our network members; and sometimes, their friends and families.

We will be inviting all providers from our now completed ‘Saturday Wellness Taster Sessions) and network members to a celebration event in Spring 2026 to meet the wellbeing providers, touching base to take up your own choices to invest in your future health and wellbeing. This event will also launch phase two of our popular libraries programme, Books for Wellbeing. It will also host the final opportunity to get a network wellbeing journal and attend a one hour introduction to journaling workshop at the event.

Watch our e-mails and calls to action and socials to book your place when we launch the event booking.

Check back regularly and join up to hear about new initiatives you can ACT on as we develop and work with our partners to offer those exclusive places.

  • We're excited to share 'Books for Wellbeing' with our members and open up high quality self help and psychoeducation to the public through this programme.

    DUE TO THE POPULARITY OF THE FIRST PHASE, A SECOND PHASE WITH NEW BOOKS IS BEING PLANNED TO LAUNCH IN 2026 as part of the National Year of Reading.

    To join up to the public libraries in South Tees, or access if you are already a library member,

    click the buttons below:

    Middlesbrough Libraries - Click here

    Redcar and Cleveland Libraries - Click here

    Borrowbox website for app access - Click here

    Free to all, including the general public, they are a brilliant resource for the general public, and network members, as well as those you work with who are change and growth ready.

    From practical self-care tips to deep insights on happiness, resilience, and mindfulness, these books cover a wide range of topics to support your overall wellbeing.

    We partnered with the Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland Library Services across our area to get hold of as many of the Greater Good Science Centre's 'Favourite Books of 2022' so that all of our members can access them.

    You can read more about the books here:

    Our Favourite Books of 2022 | Greater Good (berkeley.edu)

    (Depending on availability, you can access them, for free, in print, eBook or audiobook format, using the borrow box app for eBooks/audiobooks.

  • Journaling is a great way of expressing your thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment. The evidence is clear for its varying benefits, in many, sometimes life changing ways.

    Last chance to get a journal and attend a free workshop.

    FINAL JOURNALS WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN MIDDLESBROUGH IN SPRING 2026 AS PART OF A WELLBEING IN PRACTICE CELEBRATION EVENT.

    WATCH THIS SPACE AND OUR NEWSLETTER/CALL TO ACTION E-MAILS.

    We have partnered up with a local Teesside company, 'Growth Planner's' Joe Hilton and Nathan Marr to develop our own journal, completely bespoke for members of the Wellbeing Network, free of charge.

    Alongside your free copy, Joe and Nathan deliver wellbeing workshops on getting the best out of your journal and the digital tools for you and in your work. Within the journal, comes a stack of prompts to get you planning, reflecting and journaling to better wellbeing, especially when journaling isn’t something that always comes naturally to many of us.

    The 500 journals were created bespoke for the network with feedback from local stakeholders and members in their design.

    *Please note, there are no virtual places planned at this time; face to face only.

  • Our lovely colleague Terry Doyle, well known in the Teesside area for his wellness work, especially with those on the fringes of society, carefully curated a new range of activities for our members.

    We funded a massive range of monthly wellbeing taster sessions from 2023 through till 2025 on Saturdays.

    The tasters ranged from Art Psychotherapy and Fire and Ice Community Sauna Contrast therpay to Rewilding and Anxiety Management Workshops.

    We will be inviting all providers from our now completed ‘Saturday Wellness Taster Sessions) and network members to a celebration event in Spring 2026 to meet the wellbeing providers, touching base to take up your own choices to invest in your future health and wellbeing. This event will also launch phase two of our popular libraries programme, Books for Wellbeing. It will also host the final opportunity to get a network wellbeing journal and attend a one hour introduction to journaling workshop at the event.

    Watch our e-mails and calls to action and socials to book your place when we launch the event booking.