Global Well-Being Summit 2026 – Free World Mental Health Day Event
Mental health can feel deeply personal, yet many of the challenges people face around trauma, loneliness, relationships, stress, and difficult seasons of life are shared far more widely than we often realize.
This free, full-day online gathering brings together leading voices in mental health, mindfulness, relationships, embodied healing, and personal growth for conversations and practices centered on individual and collective well-being.
The Embody Lab, Sounds True, DailyOM, and Mindfulness.com are bringing the event together for World Mental Health Day, with sessions exploring trauma, connection, the inner child, mindfulness, intimacy, compassion, spirituality, and the wisdom of the body.
You can follow the conversations that feel most relevant to you, join the movement break, and use the day as an opportunity to learn, reflect, and connect with practical perspectives on caring for mental health.
Why Attend A Global Well-Being Gathering
Mental health conversations are often separated into individual problems, techniques, or diagnoses, even though lived experience is usually more interconnected. This gathering creates space to explore trauma, loneliness, relationships, mindfulness, compassion, embodiment, and resilience as related dimensions of human well-being.
The full-day format brings multiple perspectives together rather than asking one teacher to address every concern. Sessions include conversations on healing trauma, strengthening intimacy and connection, working with the inner child, supporting mental health through mindfulness, and making room for movement and embodied experience.
The event is designed as an educational gathering rather than a replacement for therapy, medical care, or individualized support. You can listen selectively, notice what resonates, and use the day to deepen your understanding of yourself and the ways people connect, cope, and care for one another.
Who Should Attend A Global Well-Being Gathering
This gathering is for people who want thoughtful, accessible conversations about mental health and well-being without needing a professional background. The themes range from trauma and mindfulness to loneliness, intimacy, spirituality, embodiment, and navigating difficult seasons of life.
It may also be useful for therapists, coaches, educators, caregivers, community leaders, and others who want to hear a range of perspectives on how people understand themselves, relate to others, and build supportive practices.
- People interested in trauma-informed perspectives on healing and resilience
- Anyone exploring loneliness, belonging, intimacy, or stronger human connection
- People curious about mindfulness, compassion, and spirituality in mental well-being
- Those interested in inner-child work and approaches to understanding past experiences
- People navigating difficult seasons of life and looking for educational support
- Anyone interested in the relationship between mental health and the body
- Caregivers, educators, coaches, and community leaders interested in well-being
- Mental health professionals seeking broader conversations from respected voices
What You’ll Learn During A Global Well-Being Gathering
The day explores mental health through several complementary lenses, including trauma, relationships, mindfulness, compassion, spirituality, and embodied awareness. Rather than treating well-being as a single technique, the sessions show how different parts of human experience can influence one another.
You’ll hear conversations about how people relate to what they have lived through, how loneliness and connection affect well-being, and how inner-child perspectives can help people better understand emotional patterns. A dedicated mindfulness panel also explores how contemplative practices can support mental health.
The program includes discussion as well as experience, including a movement break with Daybreaker. The aim is educational and reflective, giving you ideas and practices you can consider alongside any professional mental health care or personal support you already use.
- Perspectives on healing from trauma and difficult past experiences
- How loneliness, intimacy, and connection relate to mental well-being
- Ways relationships can become places of greater understanding and support
- How inner-child work can offer a lens for exploring emotional patterns
- Ways mindfulness may support awareness and mental health
- The role compassion and spirituality can play in personal well-being
- Why the body can be an important part of understanding emotional experience
- How movement can create a practical pause during a day of reflection
- Ideas for meeting difficult seasons of life with greater awareness
- How different teachers approach individual and collective well-being
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The gathering brings together teachers, authors, clinicians, mindfulness leaders, and community voices for a series of live conversations. Several speakers appear together in panels, allowing different perspectives to meet around a shared topic.
Healing Trauma
Dr Scott Lyons, Dr Gabor Maté, and Prentis Hemphill come together for a live panel focused on trauma and healing.
Loneliness, Intimacy and Connection
Sara Kuberic, Baya Voce, and Nedra Glover Tawwab explore the loneliness epidemic and ways of strengthening intimacy and connection.
Movement and Embodied Connection
Radha Agrawal leads a movement break with Daybreaker, adding an experiential and body-based element to the day.
Healing the Inner Child
Dr Richard Schwartz, Tami Simon, and Gabby Bernstein discuss the inner child and perspectives for understanding and relating to earlier emotional experiences.
Mindfulness and Mental Health
Melli O’Brien, Justin Michael Williams, and Tami Simon explore how mindfulness can benefit mental health.
DailyOM Conversation
Daniel Millman and Madisyn Taylor appear in the closing scheduled panel hosted by DailyOM.
Additional featured voices include the presenters appearing throughout the gathering, with the day collectively centered on mental health, connection, resilience, mindfulness, relationships, and embodied well-being.
Live Schedule and Session Themes
The gathering takes place live online on Saturday, October 10, 2026. The published schedule uses Eastern Time and moves through trauma, relationships, movement, inner-child work, mindfulness, and a DailyOM-hosted closing conversation.
10:00 – 11:00 AM ET: Healing Trauma
- Live panelists: Dr Scott Lyons, Dr Gabor Maté, and Prentis Hemphill
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET: Healing the Loneliness Epidemic: Strengthening Intimacy & Connection
- Live panelists: Sara Kuberic, Baya Voce, and Nedra Glover Tawwab
12:20 – 12:40 PM ET: Movement Break with Daybreaker
- Presenter: Radha Agrawal
12:45 – 1:45 PM ET: Healing the Inner Child
- Live panelists: Dr Richard Schwartz, Tami Simon, and Gabby Bernstein
2:00 – 3:00 PM ET: How Mindfulness Can Powerfully Benefit Your Mental Health
- Live panelists: Melli O’Brien, Justin Michael Williams, and Tami Simon
3:15 – 4:15 PM ET: Hosted by DailyOM
- Live panelists: Daniel Millman and Madisyn Taylor
Check your email after registration for access links and any schedule updates before the event.
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
A Global Well-Being Gathering takes place on Saturday, October 10, 2026, in recognition of World Mental Health Day. It is a full-day online event, so you can participate remotely rather than traveling to a physical venue.
The gathering is free and open internationally. Registration includes access to the live event and replay.
Check your email after registration for viewing links and schedule updates. Keeping the event email easy to find will make it simpler to return to the access details when the gathering begins.
- Register with an email address you check regularly
- Save the event email so the viewing link is easy to locate
- Review the schedule in advance and note the panels you most want to attend
- Allow time between sessions for reflection, movement, or a short break
- Use the replay when you want to revisit or catch a session
How to Register for A Global Well-Being Gathering
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From the Gathering
A full day of conversations can be valuable without requiring you to absorb every idea at once. A simple plan can help you stay present while leaving enough space for reflection.
Review the schedule before the event and identify the conversations that connect most closely with what you are exploring in your own life, work, or relationships.
Choose Your Priority Sessions
Mark the panels that feel most relevant, whether your focus is trauma, loneliness, relationships, the inner child, mindfulness, or embodied connection.
Take Notes Selectively
- Write down one idea that expands your understanding
- Note one question you may want to explore further
- Record one practice or perspective you want to revisit
Use the Movement Break
The scheduled Daybreaker movement session creates a natural opportunity to step away from passive listening and reconnect with the body.
Keep Health Information in Context
Use the sessions as educational material. For questions involving your own mental health, diagnosis, treatment, medication, trauma care, or safety, work with an appropriately qualified healthcare or mental health professional.
Return to the Replay
Registration includes replay access, giving you another opportunity to revisit a conversation or watch a session you could not attend live.
About The Embody Lab, Sounds True, DailyOM and Mindfulness.com
The Embody Lab, Sounds True, DailyOM, and Mindfulness.com are presenting A Global Well-Being Gathering together as a free online event for World Mental Health Day.
The Embody Lab focuses on embodied education, self-discovery, and healing-oriented learning. Its role in this gathering reflects the event’s emphasis on understanding mental health through conversation, relationships, mindfulness, and the lived experience of the body.
Sounds True, DailyOM, and Mindfulness.com join The Embody Lab in bringing the gathering to an international audience. DailyOM also hosts the final scheduled panel featuring Daniel Millman and Madisyn Taylor.
The four organizations bring together a wide group of presenters for one day centered on mental health, resilience, connection, compassion, spirituality, and accessible educational support.
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Register for A Global Well-Being Gathering to receive access details for the October 10 live event and replay.
- Oct 10 2026
- 7:00 am - 1:15 pm
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- Timezone: Europe/Berlin
- Date: Oct 10 2026
- Time: 4:00 pm - 10:15 pm
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