Join us at City Lit's Mental Wealth Festival 2024 for the 10th Anniversary!

City Lit, London’s leading adult education institution, is thrilled to announce the tenth annual Mental Wealth Festival, coinciding with World Mental Health Day. Running from 10th-12th October, with special taster sessions starting on 7th October, this year’s festival will feature a vibrant line-up of inspiring talks, workshops, and panel discussions, available both online and in-person.

To mark a decade of the Mental Wealth Festival, City Lit has assembled an impressive roster of contributors, including City Lit Fellow and award-winning artist Sir Grayson Perry, promising an extraordinary celebration of mental health and well-being. With tickets now available, attendees will have access to a variety of experiences aimed at supporting and enriching mental health. The festival has grown into one of the college’s flagship events, building momentum year after year.

Festival Highlights: From panel discussions and creative workshops to live performances and interactive experiences, the event will explore all aspects of mental wealth. City Lit has partnered with renowned organisations including Beyond Words, the National Gallery, the Royal Ballet and Opera, Age UK, Bloomsbury Festival, and many more, to present a wide range of free and low-cost events. Activities include in-person and online workshops, talks, exhibitions, and performances, all focused on fostering mental well-being.

Complimentary Kindness will be there on Saturday 12th October and we look forward to seeing you. Come along and share your compliments, thank you’s and kindness and uplift someone’s day!

The Feathers Association Careers Day

Come along and join us at The @feathercharity Community Careers Day on Wednesday 29 May at their club in Marylebone. We will be there from 10 am until 4 pm providing a platform for participants to connect with each other, give compliments and express kind words and positive feedback. We will also host a mini seminar on Confidence & Employability.

The aim of the event is to help support the community in gaining experience and the skills needed to secure employment and work experience.  The day is open to anybody of any age in search of employment or career advice.

To secure your tickets visit https://t.ly/Dn_hi

City Lit Mental Wealth Festival 2023

This year’s Festival focuses on connections, exploring ways that connection supports and enhances mental health and wellbeing and celebrating the numerous ways in which we connect with others, ourselves, and the world around us through a series of events talks, panel discussions, and workshops. Festival Programme

They will also host a new art exhibition 'Out of Mind' in the City Lit Gallery featuring work by artists and makers from City Lit’s creative community on the theme of creativity and mental health.

Here is their line up of Speakers & Special Guests

Location:

City Lit - Keeley Street,
Covent Garden,
London WC2B 4BA

SouthWestFest 20th Anniversary 1st July 12pm-6pm

Our friends at @SWFest are back with SouthWestFest 2023 and this year they are celebrating their 20th festival!

Complimentary Kindness are excited to be part of the Festival Day once again. With 40 stalls, workshop zones, food, entertainment and more, there are plenty of fun packed activities throughout the day.

Come and join us on Saturday 1st July at 12pm - 6.00pm at St George’s Square, SW1V 3QU. We look forward to seeing you there :-)

Find out more here: https://southwestfest.org.uk/events/festival-day/ #SouthWestFest2023

Join us at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival 2022

This year’s Mental Wealth Festival launches on World Mental Health Day and runs from 10 – 14 October. Hosted by City Lit in partnership with Beyond Words, the National Gallery, Royal Opera House, Frazzled Café, Thrive LDN, Mad World, and South London and Maudsley & Bethlem Hospital, it will offer free or low-fee events, including in person and online workshops, talks, discussions, exhibitions, and other activities.

There is a great line up of Speakers and Complimentary Kindness will be there on 12th October from 12.30pm.

Join us there and give someone a compliment to make their day!

SouthWestFest - Saturday 25th June

SouthWestFest 2022

Our friends at @SouthWestFest are producing the SouthWestFest – and this year’s theme is ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’.

The SouthWestFest is running from the 24th June - 15th July, and Complimentary Kindness will be joining them at their amazing Festival Day, on Saturday 25th June at:

St George’s Square,

London

SW1V 3QU

Come along and join us at our Complimentary Kindness stand from 12pm to 5.30pm where you can give and receive compliments or express kind words of gratitude to friends, colleagues and family members.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Give Someone a Compliment and Make their Day!

Find out more here: https://southwestfest.org.uk/events/festival-day/

#ABreathOfFreshAir #SouthWestFest2021

World Kindness Day 2021 - Expressing Kindness with Words

Celebrate World Kindness Day by sending:

  • A Compliment

  • Thank You

  • Or Kind words of Gratitude,

To a friend, colleague, family member or that special person in your life. 

Research suggests, acts of giving and kindness, small and large, are associated with positive mental wellbeing. According to the NHS well-being guide giving to others and co-operating with them can stimulate the reward areas in the brain and create positive feelings.  As kindness is contagious it causes a ripple affect and is the complimentary gift that keeps on giving.

Send an electronic kindness postcard and make someone’s day.

 

Send a Kind Compliment to Someone Special on Valentine’s Day

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary one of the definitions of the word Valentine is “a sweetheart chosen or complimented on Valentine's Day”.  Although Valentine’s Day is traditionally dedicated to partners, husbands and wives, we can all think of someone who is a “special” part of our lives and use this day to send them a compliment and express what we “LOVE” about them.

It could be the way they make your laugh or feel……the way they have supported you through these unusual times, or the way they provide a listening ear and valuable advice when needed. 

During this lockdown period many of us have been separated from our friends, family and loved ones so now is the ideal time to send someone an e-card to tell them how much you miss and appreciate them and are looking forward to connecting again.

Send someone special a Complimentary Kindness postcard and make their day………………

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In this difficult time, send someone a compliment and make their day!

With most of us now working remotely and isolated from our friends and family, this is the ideal time to show them how much they are missed, by sending them a virtual compliment, instead of face to face. The compliments can be in the form of a short video or written text and this is how it’s done:

Video Compliment

Step 1

Create a short video (ideally 1 minute in length) that gives a compliment to someone you are missing and include the names (first names are enough) of a few others that you would like to nominate to create compliment videos also.

Step 2

Upload your video onto your Instagram, if you have one, and include the Instagram name of the person receiving the compliment as well as the nominees. Please also include @complimentarykindness #complimentarykindness so we reshare your video.

Written Text Compliment

For those of you that would prefer to send a written compliment:

Step 1

Go to our send a compliment page and type in your compliment

Step 2

Your compliment will be delivered virtually to the recipient on a Complimentary Kindness postcard by email.

*If you, or the person you are sending the compliment to, do not use Instagram then please email your videos directly to them and send us a copy also at complimentarykindness@gmail.com and with your permission we will post on our Instagram page. Support our Kindness Campaign and send someone a compliment to make their day!!!