On October 10, 2025, the Mentara attended the 5th Health and Wellbeing Fair, held at the Ajuda Botanical Garden, in Lisbon.

The presence of Maria del Mar, founder and director of Mentara, was one of the most inspiring moments of the event, which brought together professionals, students and curious visitors around the promotion of a more conscious and balanced life.

In her talk, Maria del Mar reflected on the role of human relationships and emotional consistency in building wellbeing.

"What makes a person truly happy is not the number of relationships they have, but the number of consistent, deep and lasting relationships throughout their life."

The conversation also brought to light themes that run through clinical practice and the humanistic outlook that guides Mentara's work:

"What truly matters is affection."

"We live in a permanent state of alert — all the time, the news tells us the world is always ending and that there is a lot of war."

With her usual sensitivity, Maria del Mar stressed the importance of reconnecting body and soul, recovering natural rhythms and listening more deeply to ourselves:

"We are the only animal that does not eat when it is hungry and does not sleep when it is tired."

"Who sustains what? Is it the soul that sustains the body or the body that sustains the soul?"

In a moving close, she offered a reflection on time and finitude:

"Finitude does not guarantee change, but it has the power to bring it about."

Mentara's participation in this fair reinforces the project's commitment to the promotion of mental, emotional and somatic health, through an integrative, human and transformative outlook.