Services
About our huddles (on- and offline)
Short experiential workshops to learn about and practise wholebeing.
Our huddles (on- and offline) provide both introductory and deeper-level experience into wholebeing for individuals, teams, organisations, and communities. We create immersive huddles that allow for meaningful engagement and foster a deeper sense of bonding among participants.
⚠️ Importantly, all our huddles are tailored to the specific group or target audience, to ensure an impactful experience which transcends the duration of the huddle itself. They offer a lower-entry commitment to wholebeing for changemakers and their teams.
TOPICS
Our huddles (usually 1–2 hours) cover a variety of topics connected to our wholebeing dimensions and wholebeing across systems, such as*:
- Holistic wellbeing: Introduction to personal OR organisational wellbeing.
- Mental wellbeing: Make friends with your mind.
- Physical wellbeing: Find harmony using your body.
- Emotional wellbeing: Pull weeds and grow gratitude.
- Spiritual wellbeing: Discover your Guiding Star.
- Digital wellbeing: How to be well and mindful in a digital age.
*The list is not exhaustive – it’s just to give you an example of topics we cover.
“We did it outside in a very nice patio with loads of plants which was lovely. […] It went really well, we had quite a different group to what I’m used to (several women in their 40s or even 50s). People really opened up and liked the bad-being activity a lot. A few people in the group are ‘stuck in their corporate jobs’ and not daring to do their next move and opening up to their difficult professional day to day, as well as seeing they’re not alone, seemed liberating for them. Overall everyone was really touched by the workshop and in the closing several of them said this had been very meaningful for them at this stage in their lives. They were all curious to learn more about Recipes for Wellbeing and I will share your recipes with them. I was feeling really light and happy after the workshop.”
Julie Murat, Bridge for Billions
About our coaching (online)
1:1 or group guidance to support your wholebeing journey.
Our coaching (online) offers a safe and stimulating space for changemakers to explore ways to boost their wholebeing, tap into their leadership potential, and track their progress over a set period of time. We offer both individual and group coaching journeys (usually 6 sessions for individuals and 3 for groups; one-off sessions also possible).
⚠️ Importantly, coaching cannot be a substitute for therapy. We cannot diagnose mental illnesses or provide medical treatment or advice. If you are dealing with clinical issues such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, PTSD, etc. we recommend reaching out to trained therapists such as psychologists and psychiatrists.
TOPICS
Our coaching (usually 1–2 hours) covers a variety of topics such as*:
- Wellbeing and work-life balance.
- Mastering changes and transitions in the organisation.
- Building confidence to optimise one’s leadership presence.
- Developing emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-management, empathy, relationship-building, etc.
- Improving interpersonal skills such as communicating clearly, motivating others, transforming conflict, etc.
- Dealing with work–based stressors.
- How to navigate our Wholebeing Library to meet your individual or organisational needs.
*The list is not exhaustive – it’s just to give you an example of topics we cover.
About our labs (on- and offline)
Immersive retreats for a full-on wholebeing experience.
Our labs (on- and offline) offer transformative experiences for individual changemakers and their teams to savour wholebeing. We host and facilitate emergent retreats (on- and offline) lasting from 3 half-days (3.5 hours / day) for online labs and 2–4 days for offline labs. These are great opportunities for changemakers and their teams to step into wholebeing, which is an ever-unfolding process requiring ongoing commitment, effort, and practice.
⚠️ Importantly, our labs are tailored to the specific group or target audience, to ensure an impactful experience which transcends the duration of the lab itself. They require a stronger commitment than huddles and their impact can be deeper.
TOPICS
Our labs are co-created with participants to ensure they meet the needs of participants and plant seeds for long-lasting change. In general, they focus on achieving the following goals*:
- Participants become aware of the concept (and importance) of holistic wellbeing, both on an individual and organisational level.
- Participants map the main challenges, conditions, and causes that prevent individual and team wellbeing and lead to burnout.
- Participants assess which challenges they might wish to address to boost individual and team wellbeing.
- Participants explore and practice different activities and tools to foster individual and team wellbeing and work to develop a collaborative, possibility-focused, and action-oriented mindset.
- Participants deepen their connections to other changemakers (or their team members) and feel an increased sensed of belonging, openness, and trust.
- Participants build in feedback loops to promote ongoing learning and assess their progress.
*The list is not exhaustive – it’s just to give you an example of goals we focus on during our labs.
About our facilitation trainings (on- and offline)
Practical training courses to learn to facilitate for wholebeing.
Our facilitation training courses (on- and offline) guide changemaker teams through a tailored journey to become wholebeing facilitators and be able to design and deliver modular wholebeing huddles (or full-on wholebeing labs) for their teams, organisations, and communities. These trainings offer unique opportunities to learn about the power of facilitation and understand the pedagogy behind wholebeing journeys. They are particularly aimed at:
- Changemaker teams who want to build their capacity and competencies to facilitate wholebeing experiences for their organisations.
- Facilitator communities who are looking to deepen their knowledge and expertise around wholebeing to support their facilitation.
⚠️ Importantly, our training courses are tailored to the specific group or target audience, to ensure we meet learners at their level and support them in a meaningful way. They require participants to have some prior facilitation knowledge and experience.
TOPICS
Our facilitation trainings cover a variety of topics such as*:
- Key principles of facilitation
- Tips for online/offline facilitation
- Do’s & don’ts for wholebeing facilitators
- Designing online/offline wholebeing sessions
- Facilitating for wholebeing
- Learning models to cater for different learners
- Harvesting & feedback principles
- Wholebeing for facilitators
- Additional wholebeing tools & resources
*The list is not exhaustive – it’s just to give you an example of the modules that could be covered.
About events & conferences (on- and offline)
Tailored support to infuse your events & conference with wholebeing.
Participants are often overwhelmed by the amount of input and stimuli received at events and conferences, they struggle to make meaningful connection with others during the networking session, and they are forced into a chair-less corridor or overcrowded café to give their brain and body a little break. And this is true online: too packed agendas, too little time for meaningful conversations, and zero consideration for different learning styles.
As we have attended many events and conference all over the world (and digitally!), we have realised that the current settings are not unleashing the full potential of participants because they lack intentional spaces and moments to nurture attendees’ wellbeing. A combination of factors such as lack of awareness of and expertise in the topic and time constraints contributes to the feeling of overwhelm many participants experience at such events. Timetables are fully packed and there is no space for participants (as well as speakers and organisers) to rest and regain energy. There is also no time or space for personal care, for individual and collective reflection to better integrate learnings, and for recharging activities such as mindfulness meditation.
SUPPORT
When it comes to our support for on- and offline events and conferences, we focus on two main interventions, which can be implemented separately or jointly for maximum impact:
- Checklist and toolbox: A personalised guide for conference and event organisers to use ahead of time to raise awareness of the topic and integrate wholebeing in their event. The toolbox is a unique set of recipes that organisers can easily integrate in future events, from mindfulness meditations to help attendees step back and observe non-judgmentally, to team activities to ignite their collaborative spirit. We also understand that being an event organiser comes with an extremely busy schedule and often a lot of stress, so this also includes a checklist for the wholebeing of the organising team.
- Talk and/or workshop: A talk and/or workshop on wholebeing to introduce attendees to the importance of holistic wellbeing in an inspiring and interactive manner so participants feel empowered to take action for their own wholebeing journey. The talk is most effective as a keynote speech to optimise the inspiration element whereas the workshop can be delivered for a smaller audience to enhance the participants’ interaction and engagement.
About digital (on- and offline)
Expertise to balance your relationship with all things digital.
For some an oxymoron, a new concept has emerged in our vocabulary recently: that of “Digital Wellbeing”. Perhaps it is not surprising that academics have been researching the impact of new digital technologies on people’s wellbeing for quite some time already, but the fact that tech-giants like Google are now paying attention to the topic is a sign of its relevance for modern society. We have partnered with them to create educational content on digital wellbeing, which is available in more than 30 languages across 64 countries.
Most people are somehow connected “digitally” from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed. There is an increasing amount of research that points out the impact of digital technologies on people’s lives, both personally and professionally. What is also emerging though is that most people are ill-equipped to cope with these new ways of being and working so a conversation about digital wellbeing can help them get the benefits of technology without the unwanted distractions. Technology can help people enhance their wellbeing and achieve their goals, not the other way around.
Our support when it comes to digital wellbeing can take various forms, such as inspiring talks to interactive huddles. In general, participants will develop an increased awareness of their digital habits and tech usage; they will understand the concept of digital wellbeing; they will gain clarity on the main obstacles to digital wellbeing; they will receive practical tools and tips to boost their digital wellbeing; and they will cultivate wellbeing throughout the talk or huddle.
“I attended the Wellbeing in a Digital Age workshop at the WISE Summit in Doha. Greta and Alessia were great facilitators. As facilitator myself, I often find workshops and sessions can be unengaging. Greta and Alessia truly centered their workshop on engaging participants as much as possible. Activities included a fishbowl and small breakout group. Participants, myself included, were very active, making the learning opportunities effective.
When I returned to my organization, I had the opportunity to present the content back to my staff. Since the format was different, a 15 minute gallery walk with many presentations rather than a single workshop, I had to adapt Greta and Alessia’s content. I made posters, inspired by their graphics, including questions and post-it’s to engage participants. Greta and Alessia’s workshop was very easily adapted and still engaging for a totally different format. I love their content and facilitation style. Thank you Greta and Alessia!”
Amy Tran-Calhoun, Education Opens Doors
Pricing Model
In the pursuit of a Wellbeing Economy
Recipes for Wellbeing works towards shifting the culture of changemaking to include a focus on wholebeing to enable anyone to contribute more effectively to creating positive change in the world. This includes a focus on promoting a wellbeing economy that aims to put the wellbeing of people and planet first (as one), and understands that economic systems change is needed to unblock issues across the spectrum of different social, economic, and environmental struggles.
This is particularly important in the economic context that many changemakers are operating in. New data from the Possibilists Report 2023 revealsthat the financial situation for young changemakers globally has worsened since 2023. Only 6.4% can cover all their necessary expenses through their initiatives, with 78.9% unable to live off their initiatives and having to supplement their income through various side gigs (P26). Not everyone is able to compensate themselves equally: women and marginalised changemakers are less likely to be able to remunerate themselves, as well as younger changemakers, less educated changemakers, and changemakers with early-stage initiatives.
There are a range of organisations, movements, and alliances addressing the different components of this challenging context, which are based on wellbeing-centric, degrowth, and post-growth models of thriving and abundance. Recipes for Wellbeing are proud to be a member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, which is a global collaboration of 200 individuals, organisations, governments, academics, communities, and businesses working towards a wellbeing economy, delivering human and ecological wellbeing. We have also included an entire new systemic wellbeing economy set of recipes in our open-access library, including themes such as Doughnut Economics, Community Wealth Building, Economic democracy, and Cultivating a Core Economy.
Sliding scale pricing model
Within this context, we have adopted a pricing model on a sliding scale to ensure accessibility of our services to changemakers and organisations in line with a wellbeing economy approach.
- Redistribution rate: This rate is for changemakers and organisations who can afford to pay the full rate. Paying this rate would enable RfW to support changemakers and organisations who access our solidarity rate, as well as continuing to offer freely accessible resources and tools to young changemakers across the world. Consider this rate as “paying it forward”, so that RfW are able to support changemakers faced by structural and systemic disadvantages.
- Wholebeing rate: This rate is for changemakers and organisations who are able to sustain themselves through their work. This rate represents the ‘true cost’ at which we would break even after paying our expenses (including compensation for our facilitators and team members).
- Solidarity rate: This rate is for changemakers and organisations who are surviving or where the founders cannot live off their initiatives. This rate represents an attempt to be in solidarity with you, but we recognise that in some cases it may still not be accessible and if that is the case, please get in contact with the team.
- In-kind rate: This rate is for changemakers and organisations where any amount is a true barrier to participation. We value your incredible work and we are open to discussing value-exchange and in-kind agreements in place of traditional payments for services. Please get in touch with us if you would like to explore this.
Why is this important for Recipes for Wellbeing?
There are three main reasons why we have decided to adopt a pricing model based on a sliding scale:
- Economic accessibility: We want to ensure that more changemakers and organisations can access our services and offerings, regardless of their financial situation. This is particularly important for changemakers and organisations that are currently unable to compensate themselves, even partly, for their impact work.
- Economic redistribution: We strive to redistribute wealth from those who are able to pay more to those who cannot, therefore promoting economic equity and social justice.
- Economic diversity: We wish to celebrate the diversity of the changemakers and organisations we are able to collaborate and learn with, representing the full spectrum of perspectives and lived experiences.
Assess where you stand on the sliding scale
We have developed a simple and quick assessment quiz to help you navigate where you stand on our sliding scale as a changemaker or organisation to inform how we may approach collaborating with you. We recognise that it is not an exact science and that your assessment can different month-to-month based on the changing local, regional, and global socio-economic contexts in which you operate.
It is also important to note that in line with our values, RfW fees are structured to be accessible and below typical market rates. Even at the “higher-end” of our pricing scale, we strive to make it affordable and accessible for individuals and organisations.
For individuals
- Do you primarily reside in a high-income country (scroll down for list of countries), and earn an upper-middle or high income?
- Do you have access to a trust fund or family support to cover your living expenses? E.g In the form of rent and mortgage free housing.
- Do you have full-time employment and/or earn a full-time salary?
- Do you regularly pay to attend relevant trainings or conferences?
- Are you currently part of a fellowship / grant program that provides support to attend conferences and workshops?
- Are you of European origin and male identifying?
Now count the number of answers you responded “Yes” to find where you are on our individual sliding scale:
- 0–2 points: Solidarity rate
- 3–4 points: Wholebeing rate
- 5–6 points: Redistribution rate
For organisations
- Does your organisation have an annual revenue of over €100,000?
- Does your organisation have more than 8 paid part-time and/or full-time employees?
- Does your organisation pay to attend relevant trainings or conferences?
- Does your organisation have access to reserves and/or credit in excess of 5 months of operating expenses?
- Does your organisation have a profit margin of over 15% in the last financial year?
- Has your organisation received grant or sponsorship funding to cover for the operational work over the past 12 months, exceeding €20,000?
- Given the gender pay gap in the social impact sector, is your organisation based / primarily operates in a high-income country (scroll down for list of countries) and has a team of majority male identifying members?
- Is your organisation primarily publicly funded and/or owned (i.e a state backed institution)?
Now count the number of answers you responded “Yes” to find where you are on our individual sliding scale:
- 0–2 points: Solidarity rate
- 3–5 points: Wholebeing rate
- 6–8 points: Redistribution rate