Guided by Harvard-trained medical expertise, the EOV Wellness Project aimed to translate evidence-based practices into simple tools for everyday wellbeing.

The EOV Wellness Project was created by Robert Sutherland in collaboration with Dr. Chris Stewart-Patterson, an occupational medicine specialist and Harvard-trained medical educator. Drawing on his experience as a course director at Harvard Medical School and his training through the Harvard Macy Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Stewart-Patterson developed a research-informed blueprint designed to make evidence-based wellbeing practices accessible to a wider audience.

At a time when levels of stress, burnout, and anxiety are rising globally, the project set out to translate core pillars of lifestyle medicine—movement, restorative sleep, emotional regulation, and meaningful connection—into practical, human-centered tools that could support both physical and mental wellness.

Although the platform was ultimately discontinued for financial reasons, the collaboration remains an important part of my practice as a filmmaker: a demonstration that rigorous medical insight and poetic visual storytelling can come together to help people live with greater clarity, balance, and wellbeing.

Across six years of collaboration with Robert Sutherland and Dr. Chris Stewart-Patterson, I led the creative development of an eight-chapter wellbeing program—assembling the team and directing, filming, and editing the series from concept to completion.