In March 2021, Crisis’ Enterprise team, together with the House of St Barnabas, Hotel School, Beyond Food and LinkedIn, delivered a series of interactive, online workshops for people with experience of homelessness and an interest in hospitality. The series put a hospitality twist on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ at a time when many doors in the industry were forced to stay closed and many of our graduates were furloughed or unemployed.  

Here are some highlights, told using the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’: 

1. CONNECT: We huddled around our screens and shared the ancient magic of preparing and sipping a hot drink together by flavour profiling Crisis’ coffee. 

2. BE ACTIVE: We really did ‘move our mood’ by dancing and learning stretching routines together. 

3. KEEP LEARNING: Too many to choose… Learning to fillet a mackerel was pretty unexpected, and breathing techniques to help manage stress were very well received.  

4. GIVE: The gift of recommendations created a joyful playlist of songs that made us feel good.

5. TAKE NOTICE: Award-winning photographer Tom Oldham set a photography challenge to accompany the series “to shoot one, or all, of the five stages of wellbeing.” Below you’ll see the outcomes of that challenge. Find out more about Tom, the brief and the tips he gave to photographers before they got started. 

We hope you enjoy the exhibition. Click a photo to enlarge and see any text relating to it. 

Thank you to everyone who took part in this series or helped make it happen, it was wonderful to take refuge from the storm together.  

For future opportunities, find out more about Crisis Enterprises.