The bwf Summit
Calling all wellness professionals, advocates, allies, and curious hearts! Join us on Saturday 4th October at Plat9rm in Hove at the inaugural BWF Summit - a full day of panel discussions, talks, workshops, community-led market stalls and experiences designed to stretch perspectives, ignite creativity and nurture the soul.
Gather, connect, learn…
What’s Included?
5 honest, energising panel conversations
12 workshops, practices and provocations
Community-led market stalls
A complementary breakfast bite
A spacious, choose-your-own-adventure format
Complementary refreshments by Pop Culture Kombucha at lunch
The details:
Saturday 4th October 2025
08:30 (doors open) – 18:00
The Grounds, Platf9rm, Brighton & Hove
A Full-Day Immersive Experience Across 9 Spaces
Standard Tickets: £60,
BWF Community Members: £55
Concessions: £50
The line up
morning:
08:30 | Registration and Breakfast Treat TBA
09:30 | Welcome with Founder Natasha Jackson
09:45 | Panel Discussion: It’s All Connected
How Can we Move Beyond Personal Healing to Collective Care?
09:45 | Workshop: Matcha Magic
Whisk & taste workshop by Bird & Blend Tea Co.
09:45 | Art Therapy for Collective Impact
Drop in all day to to-create a living installation with Catherine Black
09:45 | Experience: Unwind with Infinity Massage
Available all day, treat yourself to a 15 min massage
09:45 | Talk: Radical Noticing
Rewiring through witnessing kindness with Kind Brave Leader
09:45 | Class: Salsa & Flow
Experience the true joy of movement with Verity Cooper
09:45 | Experience: Tactile Sound
Open all day, try out the 'sound bench', a prototype by Anderson Acoustics set to transform psychedelic therapy
10:00 | Talk: Soul Psychology
Returning to the imaginal with Adhip Rawal
10:00 | Experience: A Quite Space
Journaling and reflection room, open all day
11:00 | Panel Discussion: The Tides of Change
How Can We Disrupt the Systems Making Us Sick?
11:15 | Talk: Holistic Coaching
Expanding your practice beyond physical therapy with Wellness Professionals at Work
11:15 | Class: Somatics for Social Justice
Regulation as resistance with Eloise Reed
11:15 | Experience: Sister Stories Circle Work
Discover the healing power of Circle with Gemma Brady
11:30 | Experience: Scents & Mood
Explore the sense of smell with Salvaged
11:00 | Panel Discussion: The Tides of Change:
How Can We Disrupt the Systems Making Us Sick?
afternoon:
12:15: Lunch served by Taroof
Food as resistance, celebrating Palestinian culture - £8 per bowl
13:15 | Experience: Sound Healing & Traditional Tea Ceremony
Awakens all five senses with Flying Bear
13:30 | Panel Discussion: Old Medicines for Modern Wounds:
What Did the West Forget that We Need to Remember?
13:30 | Experience: Mini Facials with Tropics Skincare
Indulge in a bit of you time and try a natural beauty range
13:30 | Workshop: Realising Your Creative Magic
An interactive workshop with actor and teacher Rich Watkins
1:30 | Talk: The Art & Science of Fermentation
Gut Health, Microbes and Food as Medicine with The Jungle Goddess
13:30 | Workshop: Powerful Allyship
Four Steps to Safer Wellness Spaces with Proud Wellness CIC
13:30 | Workshop: Reframing Sex for Pleasure
With Nikki Scott of Sex Ed Club
14:45 | Panel Discussion: The Evolving Mind:
What's the Latest Research in Healing, Awareness and Neurodiversity?
14:45 | Workshop: InFLOWence
Speaking Flow for Change-Makers & Culture-Shapers with Thea May
14:45 | Experience: Radical Rest
Reimagining Rest as Resistance and Renewal with Risa Gabrielle Merl
15:00 | Experience: Men’s Circle
With Matt Jones from Full Circle Healing and John Scaife
16:30 | Workshop: How Do You Feel?
Match how you feel with colours with Mind, Body, Art
16:00 | Panel Discussion: The Art of Healing
How Does Therapeutic Creativity Work?
16:00 | Experience: Micro-dosing Joy
A Guided Practice in Cultivating Resilience with Blooming Queer
16:15 | Class: Embodied Presence:
An Introduction to Breathwork with Liz Lilley
17:00 | Closing & Networking
Our Speakers:
It’s All Connected: How Can We Move Beyond Personal Healing to Collective Care? A big picture discussion on modern life and what it means to be well.
Megan Cooper (Host): Trauma-Informed Therapist, podcast host and activist
Kaia Allen-Bevan: Multi-Award-Winning Activist, Founder of YouthTheGap & Director at Edge Of Difference
Dr. Gemma Houldey: Wellness and social justice expert, empowers change-makers to overcome burnout.
Matt Bagwell: CMO of Deep Green Energy, climate activist, master Oxygen Advantage instructor and author.
The Tides of Change: How Can We Disrupt the Systems Making Us Sick? Join the local change-makers creating a better future for all.
Ariana Alexander-Sefre (Host): multi-award-winning founder of SPOKE, delivers mental healthcare through music while driving global social innovation and community wellbeing.
Kate Edgcumbe-Rendle: Founder of ID YOU and digital wellbeing educator.
Richard Hussainey: Founder of Men Behind Sport, empowering coaches and to transform the sporting world with purpose, integrity and athlete-centered support.
Ryan Lakhan-Bunbury: Founder of Calm That Anxiety, uses his lived experience to break stigma, expand mental health access, and champion inclusive, resilient communities.
Old Medicines for Modern Wounds: What Did the West Forget that We Need to Remember? Through story, movement and ancient wisdom, explore why the return to our ancestors' wisdom is needed more than ever.
Gemma Brady (Host): Founder of Sister Stories, collective belonging through the transformative practice of Circle.
John Scaife: Ritualist, storyteller and diviner, bringing indigenous wisdom to contemporary life- offering rites of passage, grief rituals, and Fathers & Sons experiences.
Lorina Ventura: Traveller, Senior Psychosomatic Therapist and Mental Health in Education practitioner
Matt Jones: Shamanic practitioner and co-founder of Full Circle Healing.
The Evolving Mind: What's the Latest Research in Healing, Awareness and Neurodiversity? Explore the breakthroughs at the intersection of science, consciousness, and diverse ways of experiencing the world.
Laura Phelan (Host): Self-Image Specialist, Speaker and ‘neuro spicy’ Coach empowering ambitious females lead with presence.
Dr Sandeep Singh-Dernevik: Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist & Founder of the Autism ADHD Centre
Oil Marsh: Mycology Consultant with expert knowledge on psychedelics, functional mushrooms, bioactive compounds, and the science behind their health benefits
Liz Lilley: Psychotherapist, Breathwork Facilitator and Psychedelic Therapist.
The Art of Healing: How Does Therapeutic Creativity Work? Exploring sound, story, art, and imagination as doorways into transformation.
Richard Watkins (Host): Actor, writer, comedian, teacher.
Emma Greenland: Leading specialist in educational acoustics at Anderson Acoustics
Catherine Black: Artist, Transpersonal Art Counsellor, Yoga Facilitator, and Reiki Practitioner
Hema Patel: RTT Hypnotherapist and Coach, helps people overcome fear and self-doubt