Take a break from the rush of student life and make your wellbeing a priority during Be Well Week.
Join us for a week packed with fun and relaxing activities designed to help you build healthy habits, improve your mental and physical wellbeing, and try something new. Whether you're into fitness, creativity, or mindfulness, there’s something for everyone.
You can also sign up to our Take 6 challenge, where we'll send you three suggested daily habits, complete one and you will be entered into our our prize draw.
Plus, all activities are aligned with the Six Ways to Be Well, so you can easily pick what best supports your wellbeing goals. You can also use the filters to help find events that fit you best.
View the timetable below to see what's on during the week. All events are free, but many will require booking.
Events
Take 6 Challenge – take part & win prizes
Take 6 is our six-day wellbeing challenge running alongside the week’s events. Each day, you’ll receive a simple theme and three small actions to choose from, from a quick 15-second challenge to something a little more stretching. It’s flexible, practical and designed to fit around your schedule. Complete a challenge on any day to be entered into our prize draw. Sign up and take six small steps towards feeling better.
Six Ways to Be Well
Six Ways to Be Well breaks down wellbeing into 6 themes. Wellbeing is about making small positive changes in each of these areas. Balance is the key and Be Well will help you identify the small areas you can focus on to improve your overall wellbeing. The Six Ways to Be Well are:
- Be Active
- Take Notice
- Be Healthy
- Connect
- Give
- Keep Learning
You can use the filters on the timetable to view events for each of the themes.
Wellbeing stands
There will be Wellbeing stands on the Parade during the week too. These include stand from Student Support, external companies and many well known charities around Bath. Come along to find out more and grab some freebies.
Fitness and exercise
Check out the SU Bath Active timetable for a number of free exercise sessions that take place all year. You can also activate your Sports Pass. It allows access to a host of facilities at the Team Bath Sports Training Village including our London 2012 Legacy Swimming Pool; squash and badminton courts; athletics track; astro pitches; indoor sports hall, and outdoor tennis courts.
Self learning
Wellbeing A-Z
The Wellbeing A-Z is a directory offering practical tips and resources to support your wellbeing. It provides easy-to-follow guides on a wide range of wellbeing topics, with practical steps you can try right now, plus trusted resources to explore. From exam stress to budgeting, loneliness and social anxiety, you’ll find advice, useful apps, podcasts, videos, and details on who you can talk to for extra support.
Be Well app
The Be Well app helps you build healthy habits. You can track your wellbeing, journal, explore the resources including podcasts, exercises and wellbeing tools or you can use it to keep up to date with the latest wellbeing activities on campus through the news feed. Download it for free and explore how it can support you.
Read Well
Read well is a collection of over 50 books covering several self-help topics from anxiety to change or body image to sleep. The books are available to borrow from the library with many available to read online. Visit the Read Well page for full details and the reading list. You can also try out the new Library Nook and the expanded reading for Wellbeing list.
Podcasts
Listen to our series of podcasts on the Be Well app where our Therapeutic Services and Mental Health team talk through and give tips on topics including exam stress, living with uncertainty, living with parents and procrastination.
More than just a week
Be Well is more than just a week. We run wellbeing activities and workshops all year round including many of those that are part of Be Well Week. To explore our wellbeing activities and workshops that run all year visit Be Well events.
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