Time to check out the best awareness days for coaches and counsellors this May – and there are plenty of them. Not one but two important weeks to flag this month. First up is Mental Health Awareness Week starting on 9 May. Then, hot on its heels, International Coaching Week on 16 May. And, if you’re an executive coach, you won’t want to miss the awareness day on 1 May, though it falls on a Sunday this year.
Awareness days are a great way to reach new audiences. Plan ahead so that when you’re scheduling your content, you include the relevant hashtags on posts going out on that day. Make a note in your diary for the days/weeks that will resonate most with your followers and potential clients. Then, use the hashtag when you engage that day/week – make the most of it and get yourself in front of new people.
Also, if you have created content that could be re-shared with the hashtag, then do it. Old content that could be updated and re-posted with the hashtag also works well.
I’ve gone through all the awareness days for May 2022 and picked out those that best suit coaches, counsellors and psychotherapists. The days featured have a wellbeing slant or lend themselves to one.
Awareness days for life coaches in May 2022
National Walking Month – #WalkThisMay #NationalWalkingMonth
1 May
Executive Coaching Day – #ExecutiveCoachingDay
Pilates Day – #PilatesDay
Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day – #TherapeuticMassageAwarenessDay
Global Love Day – #GlobalLoveDay
World Laughter Day – #WorldLaughterDay
2 – 6 May
Dying Matters Awareness Week – #DMAW22
3 May
National Garden Meditation Day – #GardenMeditationDay #NationalGardenMeditationDay
6 May
No Diet Day – #NoDietDay
National Beverage Day – #NationalBeverageDay
7 May
Join Hands Day – #JoinHandsDay
9 – 15 May
Mental Health Awareness Week (theme is loneliness) – #mhaw #mhaw2022
National Marriage Week – #MarriageWeek #MarriageWeek2022
11 May
World Ego Awareness Day – #EgoAwarenessDay
Eat What You Want Day – #EatWhatYouWantDay
12 May
International Nurses’ Day – #IND2022 #NursesDay
13 May
Public Gardens Day – #PublicGardensDay
15 May
International Day of Families – #InternationalFamilyDay #IDOF2022
16 May
Drawing Day – #DrawingDay
National Children’s Day UK – #NCDUK #NCDUK22
16 – 20 May
Walk to School Week – #WalkToSchoolWeek #PowerUp
16 – 22 May
International Coaching Week (theme is reimagine the future) – #ICW22 #ICW2022 #internationalcoachingweek
Learning at Work Week – #LearningatWorkWeek
Dementia Action Week – #DementiaActionWeek
National Vegetarian Week – #NationalVegetarianWeek
17 May
Work From Home Day – #WorkFromHomeDay
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia – #DayAgainstHomophobiaTransphobiaandBiphobia #DayAgainstHomophobia
18 May
Visit Your Relatives Day – #VisitYourRelativesDay
20 May
World Meditation Day – #WorldMeditationDay
24 May
Brother’s Day – #BrothersDay
25 May
Geek Pride Day – #GeekPrideDay
30 May
Water a Flower Day – #WateraFlowerDay
31 May
No Tobacco Day – #NoTobaccoDay
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