A Room with Intention
Design a mental health break that demonstrates how easy self-care can be.
The Moment Lounge began with the idea of offering a mini retreat as part of the Dubbo Women's Festival. The result was a space for stillness, breath, and the kind of quiet that changes everything.
We set up the spa-like retreat in the Black Box Theatre with soft furnishings, calming lights, and plants. Playing on a loop was a quiet film demonstrating gentle stretches, guided self-care, breath work, and mindfulness. Women were supported with child minding if they needed.
It is a testament to what happens when women actively support other women's well-being through intentional, grounded action.
Every moment of pause is a chance to return to ourselves. That is powerful.
Good People doing Great things
Rose Prout and Charnie Tuckey funded and shaped the space from day one — not just with financial support, but with shared vision and community care. Rose, Charnie, and Dubbo Regional Council, were the very believers and supporters of the Dubbo Women's Festival.
Rose, founder of Centric Movement, is a trauma-informed practitioner and movement educator whose calm, strength-centred approach offers women a new relationship with their bodies. Her belief in embodied healing and local connection made her a natural supporter of this space.
Charnie Tuckey, a holistic counsellor, speaker, and businesswoman, brings deep care to every conversation — whether one-on-one in her practice or through community events. She was a featured guest at our 2024 Taco'Bout It session, where she explored the power of uncertainty, emotional resilience, and how mindfulness can be a daily practice of self-reconnection.
"Taking a moment doesn't have to be big or dramatic — it just needs to be yours. That space between inhale and exhale? That's where we find ourselves again."
— Charnie Tuckey
Experience the benefits of mindfulness, positive messaging, breath work, meditation, and other methods for self-care, emotional regulation, and well-being.
This 20-minute film can be viewed wherever you are and shows gentle seated stretches and a mindfulness exercise to show how easy it can be to enjoy a mindful moment like this every day.
This film was created for the Dubbo Women's Festival and was played all day long in the Black Box Theatre of the Western Plains Cultural Centre.
The theatre was transformed into a mini-retreat but you don't need to go anywhere, or do anything else other than watch this video to experience how powerful taking a mental health break can be.
The Collaboration
With support from curator and filmmaker Erifili Davies (Studio 138), The Moment Lounge included guided breath work and meditation and six local women across generations, demonstrating gentle stretches filmed on Centric Movement's deck surrounded by greenery.
This kind of local, values-aligned sponsorship captures what Social Gain stands for: partnerships that go beyond logos. It's about bringing good people together to do great things — like these amazing women creating a cut-through experience.
The Moment Lounge shows what happens when community vision is funded with trust, time, and aligned purpose.
