University Mental Health Day gives us an opportunity to raise awareness about mental health and bring our community together to create ongoing change to the future of student and staff mental wellbeing.
University of Greenwich 2020 graduate Ella Stewart has been passionate about better understanding and raising awareness for mental health from a young age. Ella, aged 22, combined her love of baking and supporting mental health awareness to create Bake Well Being, after winning the social category in the university Generator Enterprise Challenge.
Ella is a Mental Health First Aider and training Wellness and Resilience Coach, and wants to get everyone talking, baking and eating cake for better mental health.
I’ve been passionate about better understanding and raising awareness for mental health from a young age. I witnessed the extremities of how mental ill-health can affect a person and everyone around them when a close family member experienced chronic depression. This sparked a mission in me to work towards intervention and prevention practices in an effort to avoid anyone else reaching that position in their life.
Ella Stewart, Founder, Bake Well Being
As a part of University Mental Health Day, Ella will be hosting a webinar about building resilience – to bring awareness to the daily experiences that challenge our mental wellbeing and discuss how we can build greater resilience in responding to them.
This session will help you to gain a better understanding of mental resilience, how you can build it, and why is it so important (now more than ever) to do so. Ella will discuss the characteristics, mindsets and behaviours of a resilience person and we will reflect on how we, as individuals, can develop and strengthen these factors within ourselves.
You can join the Building Resilience session at 10.00am on Thursday 4 March via Teams here.
For more information visit our University Mental Health Day web page.
We must build resilience to better manage all areas of our lives, including, our careers, our studies and our personal relationships.
About Bake Well Being
Bake Well Being takes creative coaching to a whole new level! Hosting one-to-one coaching sessions, workshops, webinars and events we're working to encourage baking as a positive coping strategy for all. Providing cathartic bakes, filled with skilful techniques, topped with creative expression and release. Baking for your wellbeing provides the additional element of a practical skill, which enhances your sense of achievement as you’re able to create something from scratch, and you can then enjoy it yourself or share with loved ones!
