about 10 oktober
Why we started 10 oktober
We come from different generations, different backgrounds and different experiences. We do not always see the world the same way, and we do not always have the same answers.
But we share one conviction: we need to get better at seeing the human being, and real change begins when people truly meet.
Mental ill health affects us all. Directly, or through someone we love, work with or are responsible for.
Yet mental health is still far too often treated as something on the margins of life. Something we talk about only once a person can no longer cope.
Both of us, in different places and for different reasons, had been carrying the same question: why do we so often wait until people are really unwell before we start listening?
But the question was too important to wait.
We began to build, and together we turned the conversation into action. It became 10 oktober.
10 oktober does not belong to us. It is to be built by everyone who shares the conviction that we need to get better at seeing one another, listening to one another and meeting as human beings.
You do not need a diagnosis. You do not need to tell your story or know exactly what you want to change. You may come for yourself, for someone you love, for someone you miss, or for someone who cannot yet walk on their own.
We are different. That is not an obstacle. That is the whole point. Because real change does not begin with someone claiming to have all the answers. It begins with us seeing each other.
The people behind 10 oktober
Mats Wernheim
Mats is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Jobbfestivalen and Inclusion Awards, as well as an adviser and part-owner of Nordic Tech Week. For many years he has worked on questions of inclusion and on creating encounters between people, companies and society.
His commitment to mental health also rests on his own experiences and on many years of supporting people going through difficult periods in life.
Viveca Karima Viso
Viveca is an investor, adviser and professional board member with over 20 years of experience in building, leading and developing businesses. She specialises in commercial and operational growth as well as change management, and has worked with everything from startups and scale-ups to some of Sweden's larger organisations.
She is the founder of Viso Collective, where she helps entrepreneurs and companies start, run, build and develop their operations and create new business.
Alongside her professional work, Viveca has a long-standing commitment to people, inclusion and mental health. Through #Food4Thought she has for more than ten years offered free advice to entrepreneurs and specialists who need perspective, support or help to move forward.
Contribute to
We are looking for companies and organisations that want to become partners of 10 oktober and contribute knowledge and their own unique perspective as part of the collaboration.
Do you work with mental health, brain health, prevention, research, treatment, physical health, relationships, working life or other ways of strengthening people's health and wellbeing?
Then we would love to talk about how you can take part as a partner. Depending on the format and partner level, our partnerships can also include the opportunity to contribute to the content and the conversations during the day.
