WISE visited the Carrefour office in Hong Kong to deliver a fun & active session focused on staying active and promoting wellness in the workplace!

Here’s what happened:

🤸‍♀️Movement Charades: Participants split into teams for a fun game of charades, where they acted out various activities without speaking! This engaging icebreaker not only brought lots of laughter but also highlighted how movement plays a crucial role in our lives.

🧘‍♀️ Chair Stretches: We introduced some easy stretches that everyone could do right at their desks with chairs, emphasizing the importance of movement during busy workdays.

💬 Wellness Insights: The session wrapped up with valuable insights on the benefits of staying active, including stress reduction and improved focus, making it clear how these habits can enhance our professional lives.

It was inspiring to witness everyone’s enthusiasm for health and well-being! Thank you to all who participated and contributed to such a wonderful gathering! Carrefour has also kindly donated several items for our students such as skipping ropes, resistance bands, boxing gloves, goal posts and water bottles. Thank you for supporting our school-based activities, we really appreciate it! If you’re interested in supporting our wellness initiatives or hosting an event with us, please reach out to our team.

Looking forward to seeing you at our next session!

WISE celebrated International Women’s Day with some amazing folks from JLL, HandsOn HongKong and students from our school partner, Yan Chai hospital Wong Wha San secondary school.

Here’s what happened:

🧊 icebreaker games to foster connections

⛹️‍♀️ fun activities for teams to work together and match the athlete with their sports as well as answering some questions during the rapid fire round. We play such an activity to bring out awareness about the importance of visibility and how it parallels to our career choices and leadership aspirations 

👩‍🏫the last hour of the event was dedicated to having meaningful conversations between students and JLL volunteers were so impressed with everybody’s enthusiasm to learn about one another. The invaluable advice from the JLL mentors gave great insights to our students on what career paths and professional development looks like across various sectors. 

We were so impressed with everybody’s enthusiasm to learn about one another. The invaluable advice from the JLL mentors gave great insights to our students on what career paths and professional development looks like across various sectors. 

Thank you to Hands On Hong Kong and JLL once again for giving us this opportunity. The participation from everyone made the event extremely rewarding and such a success. If you are interested in supporting us or hosting an engagement event for your employees, please reach out to us! 

Looking forward to seeing you at our next event! 

Women In Sports Empowered Hong Kong (“WISE”) invites you to join us on 16 October for an inspirational film festival. This is a fundraiser where your admission fees and proceeds will be used to support us to scale our work to enable more local and grassroots communities in Hong Kong to access opportunities in sports.

Watch the trailer: https://www.instagram.com/p/CikFKenA4uL/

WISE Screens 2022 No Man’s Land Film Festival (“NMLFF”)

Women In Sports Empowered Hong Kong (WISE) is screening the 2022 No Man’s Land Film Festival, an all-women outdoor adventure and conservation film festival. The films shown will showcase the intensity, passion, grit, genius and drive that all women carry.

By screening NMLFF, we hope to not just equalize, but to also normalize what it means to live as a woman and connect athletes, artists and storytellers who share a vision of equality, diversity and inclusion in sport, film and adventure. We are additionally inviting in speakers to share their experiences and passion for outdoor adventure.

About No Man’s Land Film Festival

As the premier all-women adventure film festival, NMLFF has celebrated the full scope of female athletes and adventurers by un-defining what it means to be a woman in adventure, sport and film since 2015. Based out of Denver, Colorado, NMLFF meets a need and desire to highlight and connect women in pursuit of the radical. No Man’s Land is deeply engaged in enhancing the feminine presence in the outdoor adventure arena.

NMLFF revised its mission statement in 2020 to create safe and inclusive platforms that further champion women, transgender, and gender-fluid communities with grit, hustle, determination, and boundless passion, investing them with the respect, support, and media recognition they deserve.

Event Rundown and Details

This is a family-friendly event, although we suggest children to be at least 6 years of age or older. There will also be door prizes where you have the chance to win prizes! Discounts available for group size of 4 or more, or if you are joining representing a S88 NGO in Hong Kong. Please email us for details: wise@wisewomenhk.com

The films shown will be (not in the below order):

• Ability

• Annapurna ’78

• Mardi & the Whites

• Normal People Would Drive

• Sailing Cita

• Still River, Silent Jungle

• TranSending

• We Are Like Waves

Besides awe-inspiring films, we’ve got:

• Sponsored Gifts from Octopus: Wonder Woman for all: Everyone will get a 3D Wonder Woman Octopus Ornament! (Worth HK$188)

• Panel Discussion: Fiona Chan, a champion wakeboarder and Carina Lee, a professional off-road motorcycling athlete, will share their journeys in outdoor extreme sports

• Small bite: Sponsored cookies by Butler

Tentative Flow of the day:

• 2:00pm – Doors open for registration

• 2:30pm – 1st segment

• 3:00pm – 1st speaker session

• 3:20pm – 2nd segment

• 3:55 pm – 2nd speaker session

• 4:15pm – 3rd segment

• 4:45 pm – Door Prizes announced

• 5:00pm – Close

Our event is proudly supported by Recoil with venue support from WLAB by Club Wheelock x The DO. Thanks also to silver sponsor Project S. We’ll additionally have gifts and prizes from Adidas, Bamboa, BamPads!, Joint Dynamics Evolve, Freedom2Sparkle, Flow With Me, Funky Pants, Grumpy Monkey, Jennifer Pollock accessories, Kibo, Lantau Base Camp, Sergio Tacchini, Stretch Asia, Sunkissed. Please see below for more details about them.

About WISE

Women In Sports Empowered Hong Kong (“WISE“) is on a mission to build a world where women and girls can thrive without limitations through sports. We use sports as a tool for gender empowerment to drive the equality agenda in all areas such as the workplace, education, and community. We champion the advancement of women and girls’ leadership in and through sport, with the aim to achieve gender equality and diverse and inclusive culture in Hong Kong.

We are registered as a charitable Section 88 tax-exempt entity in Hong Kong with tax file number IR91/16449. Follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/wisewomenhk or on Instagram @wisehongkong

How your admission fees help us

We can further our mission to:

• Educate why sports matter to women and girls

• Empower by combining sporting opportunities with educational content

• Connect women and girls in and through sports to raise their value and visibility