WellFests

Through making wellbeing feel like a festival via beneficial microbreaks, WellFests helps businesses keep their workforce mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. The company designs 10 to 15 minutes workday breaks and wellness movement sequences for its clients’ workforce. “As a virtual wellness company, we offer practices (sequences) that help workforces avoid burnout, enhance productivity and energy, and reduce stress and anxiety, which often contributes to chronic illness,” says Matt Thomas, Co-founder, WellFests. It’s easily adaptable wellness and mindfulness sessions can be weaved into even the busiest work schedules.

WellFests’ proprietary offerings include Well-Being Sync- Ups, Take a Breather, Wellness Workshops, and Conference Refreshers to counterbalance mental and physical health damage from long-stretch working hours. These expert-led sessions provide space within a day-to-day workflow for any typical workforce to pause, breathe, reset, and refresh. This allows employees to recalibrate their brain, move their body to help relieve joint pain, prevent injury, connect themselves to the present, and boost energy directly from their work desk.

WellFests has designed its offerings in as simple and accessible ways as possible so that people of any age and profession can benefit from it. The company even conducts tailored mindfulness and guided meditation for business-specific activities. For example, they can help the sales team boost their energy levels to deliver the best performance needed to close a deal. In contrast, they can also help relax, reduce anxiety, and release stress through breathing and meditation techniques.

WellFests’ wellness sequences are based on physical therapy theories that its founders have researched, tried, and tested in light of their rich experience in the corporate world as managers and coaches. The sequences include stretching and releasing tension through the neck and shoulders, a few gentle movements of arms and wrists, and encouraging participants to close their eyes for 30 seconds, to name a few. On the mental health front, WellFests’ sequences include breathing exercises and meditation that calm and refresh participants’ brains.

WellFests even offers sessions that encourage HR managers or team leads to cultivate a culture of prioritizing wellness. It could be through something as simple as encouraging breath or water breaks, where the team takes breaks together at the same time and takes care of themselves.

Another key differentiator of WellFests is that its services meet individuals where they are—in their calendars and inbox—to make it more realistic and practical for people to effectively and consistently utilize their programs. This approach eliminates the need to open up an app on the phone, leading to distractions like scrolling through news during the wellness breaks instead of participating in breathing or movement exercises. Going by the American businessman, author, and keynote speaker Stephen Covey’s quote, “the key is not to prioritize with on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities,” WellFests enables employees to enter the session right from their calendars. An expert facilitator would guide individuals through the exercises after they are welcomed through refreshing music, engaging chats, thoughtful quotes, and visual cues that deliver a sense of connectivity and community. WellFests does not force individuals on anything they are not interested in. Instead, they provide a calendar of wellness events with world class facilitators for team members to choose their own wellness festival every week.

Employees across industries, including software engineers, finance professionals, and project managers, utilize WellFests’ Well-Being Sync-Ups and Wellness Workshops to ease joint pain, prevent MSK issues, and mitigate stress. “During the trying times of the pandemic, Well-Being Sync-Ups has been an excellent remedy for individuals who tend to sit long hours working,” says Shannan Slevin, Co-Founder, WellFests.

Continually helping organizations cultivate a culture to support and encourage the workforce for self-care in remote, office, and hybrid work environments, WellFests aims to create a compounding effect by encouraging individuals to dedicate a few minutes of their day for wellness. “Our ultimate goal is to create a culture of well-being within an organization,” concludes Shannan.