Check out your workshop & activity options
Your core programme is supplemented by a range of workshops and activities designed to inspire, nurture and / or challenge you. You choose your morning kickstarters and your afternoon electives.
Core Feature Sessions
Amanda Fleming | Activate Your Superpowers
This workshop focuses on the five naturally occurring powers we all have, the three relationships we all have, how to recognise and eliminate BUGS in your system and learn the basics of composting your 'crap' so it can fertilise your future.
Jenny Bean | Making Your Own Red Shoes
This workshop focuses on identifying your personal and professional calling, through accessing archetypes, values and gifts – taking a whole of life holistic view towards realising and becoming your authentic self.
Expert Panel Discussion | Becoming Unstuck
Join us for this panel discussion in the Ōamaru Opera House Inkbox Theatre. We’ve brought the experts to share together to share top tips and tricks on how to best manage those times when things seem to come unstuck in life and how to become unstuck, move through the moment and create the life we want to lead.
Justine Smith | Live
Revel in one of New Zealand’s best comedians, the award-winning and always hilarious Justine Smith with her latest show, "Actually, I'm a Cat Person”. This is an exclusive and intimate performance on the Ōamaru Opera House stage, cabaret style including finger food and cash bar.
Well, it’s been decided and, according to Justine – Best Foods Comedy Gala, The Project, 7 Days, Taskmaster NZ - cats have won. So now we can concentrate on Justine and her brand-new hour-long show that’s been about 100 years in the making (time seems to have changed recently).
This is your must-see show and one you’ll be thinking about for ages afterwards. Chuckling away like Muttley. Leave the kids (and cats, and dogs) at home, and make a night of it.
Winner - 2003 Billy T Award, NZICF
Winner - 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Best Female Comic, New Zealand Comedy Gala
Winner - 2015, 2016, 2020 Best MC, New Zealand Comedy Gala
Your choice of optional workshops - all included in your ticket price!
Nutrition for Vitality
Mel Smith, qualified nutritionist and personal trainer helps us navigate a minefield of popular mythology to show us the science that will help us choose nutrition for maximum vitality and energy for ourselves and our loved ones.
Letting Go with Emotional Freedom Technique
Jenny Malcolm leads us in learning the evidence-based Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Also known as 'tapping', the technique can help us easily let go of what no longer serves us - from past trauma and negative self-thinking right through the seemingly inescapable attraction to chocolate (emotional eating).
Women & Leadership
Together with Amanda Fleming we will explore how the 21st Century creates great leadership opportunities that play to women’s strengths. Bring your questions and challenges, and bring your big (or small) ideas. Be ready to use your voice. Your new business partner may be in the room!
Personal Recovery
Lichelle Guyan leads us through a journey of personal recovery, reflecting on the tragic and untimely loss of her daughter, its impact and the lessons she can share to help us all move through grief to something more bearable.
** Please note this workshop covers topics that include women's health and suicide.
Esssential Core & Pelvic Floor
Join Stacey Pine, Exercise Physiologist to learn a whole-body approach to a happy, healthy core system. In the part lecture, part movement-based workshop you will learn how to optimise your core and pelvic floor during exercise and in every day life.
Financials from Go to Whoa
Intimidated by profit and loss? Too scared to invest because the numbers don't make sense? Don't want to ask your accountant that "dumb" question? Join us as small business advisor and accountant Loren Manning gives us a layperson's lesson in finance 101. All "dumb" questions, welcome.
Extended Superpowers
This is a session for serious players who really want to get to grips with the process of ‘midwifing’ your own evolution and deliberately improving your quality of life across the board. Amanda will help you deepen your understanding of the superpowers growth framework in a smaller group setting.
Digging Deeper into Making Your Own Red Shoes
Following Jenny Bean's feature workshop on personal and professional calling, this is your opportunity to dig deeper and explore those themes, guided by Jenny in a more intimate setting.
Movement & Menopause
Exercise physiologist, Stacey Pine leads this evidence-based workshop about the importance of movement through the menopause transition and how we can best support our bodies and beyond throughout this time.
Dare to Design 'My Amazing Life'
Jenny Malcolm, clarity coach and EFT practitioner shows us how EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique aka Tapping) can be harnessed to seed and support future aspirations with this clarity enhancing process. This is the next step in harnessing EFT to seed the future we want.
** Attendance in the previous day’s workshop on EFT (Letting Go) is advised to make the most of this workshop.
Vag & Vulva Talk
Meet Linda Direen, beauty therapist with over 20 years experience in supporting women to love, appreciate and take care of our bodies as we really are. Linda's workshop is a frank and fun learning to help us better understand our intimate parts, what healthy looks and feels like and some new alternatives for self-pleasure.
Writing as an Outlet - Janet Frame House
Diane Page, professional writing coach and copyeditor meets us in the childhood home of Janet Frame for a writing workshop to practice creative writing as both an outlet and tool for reflection.
One-Page Business Plan
Got a business idea but don't know where to start? Join local business owners, Cara Tipping Smith and Loren Manning for this workshop which will take you through your own one-page business plan along with some key guidance in your future business financials.
Plus your choice of an array of activities (included in price unless otherwise noted).
To see full details, timing of sessions and availability, check out our registration page. Or use our handy cheat sheet to record your preferences before you book.
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Ōamaru - the heart of Waitaki, where everything grows and good old fashioned values meet inspired capability.
