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!!!

The Festival of Sustainable Fashion – Sunday 24 Nov 2019

Panelist Aja Barber with the Complimentary Kindness team Sharon Wilson and James Clarke.

According to the waste Charity, Wrap, more than 300,000 tonnes of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK every year, with 5 per cent of the UK's total annual carbon and water footprint coming from clothing consumption. Fashion itself generates 4% of the world's waste each year equating to 92 million tons. The figures are alarming and the panelists at The Big Swish Festival of Sustainable Fashion event at the O2 Arena on Sunday 24th November shared with the audience ways in which we could take responsibility for our own carbon footprint and make a difference to reduce this.

Swapping our unwanted clothes was one option and Betsy’s Clothes Swap Shop was a huge success and attracted a constant stream of customers. There were also inspiring workshops, spoken word artists, sustainable fashion shows and an array of vegan food and sustainable products on sale.

The Complimentary Kindness Team was in full swing - capturing the compliments of the attendees and guest speakers who wanted to express kind words of appreciation and gratitude to people in their lives. The compliments were flowing and numerous people were inspired to post or distribute compliment cards to friends, work colleagues and family members who were not present but could also enjoy the experience. Founder of Complimentary Kindness, Sharon Wilson, also moderated a Panel Session titled Beauty Has No Size explored how size relates to sustainability and how inclusivity and diversity are needed in order to create a more sustainable future for fashion.

We would like to compliment Betsy’s Clothes Swap Shop for organizing an amazing event and to thank all the participants and attendees for their contribution to sustainability.

Kindness with Words @ at the Big Swish Event, O2 Academy - 24th Nov!

Nowadays the most popular way for people to communicate is on social media via their mobile phones. But the downside of this solitary method is that it can cause us to compare ourselves to others and leave us feeling insecure about our size, the way we look and even exposed to cyber-bullying.  So Complimentary Kindness has created a platform where people can express themselves in person with words that have a positive effect on the well-being of others, in the form of a compliment.  Research suggests acts of giving and kindness are associated with positive mental wellbeing so come along and join us at 11.00am-12.30pm on 24th November at the Big Swish Event at the O2 Academy in Islington. Give someone a compliment and make their day! #ComplimentaryKindness

Also join us for a Panel session at 14:00pm!

We will also be moderating the Panel 2 session Beauty Has No Size at 14:00pm – 14:45pm. This discussion aims to explore how size relates to sustainability and how inclusivity and diversity are needed in order to create a more sustainable future for fashion. The panellists are as follows:

Daisy Shubert - a qualified personal stylist and professional speaker with a passion for sustainable fashion. She loves extending the lifetime of a garment, wearing pre-loved instead of new and creating a community around saving clothes from landfill at her bi-annual WALK IN WARDROBE™ event.

Aja Barber - writer, stylist and fashion consultant based in London. Aja's work centres around fashion and intersectional feminism and how the many elements of power often intersect within the fashion and beauty industry. Aja can be found daily, microblogging at Instagram @ajabarber

Jade Bruce-Linton - a multi-disciplinary fashion innovator. She currently works as part of the creative team at Katharine Hamnett London whilst studying Fashion Design at UAL and breaking modelling norms in campaigns for Nick Knight, Harley Weir and Carlijn Jacobs featuring in Vogue Italia, I.D, Dazed and Marie Claire.