The Next Gen Assembly 2024: Wellbeing Spiral Playbook

As the fashion industry faces the urgent need to redefine its values and practices, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly brings together voices from across the globe to explore, promote, and communicate how fashion can value economies of wellbeing. 

Central to this resource is the Wellbeing Spiral, a holistic framework, created by the 2024 Next Gen Assembly, that emphasises the iterative and personal nature of systemic transformation. The Wellbeing Spiral guides individuals and organisations through stages of Unlearning and Relearning, Ideating, and Shifting, offering actionable tools for advancing climate, social, and racial justice across local and global contexts.

This playbook highlights the collective perspectives of eight emerging professionals in fashion and sustainability from diverse nationalities and backgrounds. It serves not as a conventional industry report but as a thought piece rooted in lived experiences and shared ideas, offering a fresh lens to consider wellbeing as a pathway for transformation.

Whether you are an organisation, brand or individual creative practitioner, policymaker, industry professional or educator, if you are passionate about embedding wellbeing strategies in your practice, the Wellbeing Spiral Playbook is for you.

About The Next Gen Assembly

The Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s (CSF) Fashion Values (FV) programme.

Throughout the year, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly completed CSF's Fashion Values: Economy course, engaged in workshops by GFA and CSF, delivered an online Masterclass, facilitated collaborative workshops with industry, education and academia and participated in the 2024 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, including delivering their manifesto on the main stage and partaking in a roundtable with global industry leaders.