Who gets to be well and who doesn’t? This seminar invites you into a raw, honest, and possibly necessary conversation about the systems that shape our ability to thrive. Moving beyond surface-level discussions of “mental health” or “self-care,” we’ll examine how inequality, austerity, housing, prejudice, ableism, and other structural forces carve deep divides in people’s access to wellbeing. Grounded in lived experience, the seminar aims to place what we know from data within real, often painful, personal truths. We’ll hear provocations from different voices each reflecting on how the wellbeing divide shows up in their world.
Through collective reflection and small group work, we’ll surface the big questions and difficult tensions that need to be brought forwards. This won’t be a polished panel, it’s a working room and a space to name what hurts, ask better questions, and begin imagining change. If you're tired of wellbeing being reduced to buzzwords, and ready to listen, speak, and act differently, this seminar is for you. Come ready to feel, think, share and be part of shaping what comes next.
This seminar covers some sensitive topics related to wellbeing inequality, and aspects or experiences which are harmful to health.
Publications discussed in this seminar:
- NHS and the whole of society must act on social determinants of health for a healthier future (Hiam et al., 2024).
- Fair society, healthy lives: the Marmot Review: strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010 (Marmot, 2010).
- Marmot Review 10 Years On (Marmot et al., 2020).