Date: 13 October 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Join us for a FREE in-depth virtual class on “How to Transition Digitally”
Learn how three entrepreneurs transitioned their business to digital platforms in the face of this pandemic, and how it challenged them to think of solutions outside the box.
Meet our speakers for our upcoming workshop “How To Transition Digitally” – 3 different people with 3 inspiring stories that will encourage you to think about how the current economic climate can work for you and your business.
Meet our Panel of Speakers:
Adelene Tutu
Adelene Tutu is a mother of three and the Founder and Director of Get Lean Fiji, a boutique fitness provider offering a range of curated high-intensity workouts and meal plans. Established in 2017 in Adelene’s backyard, Get Lean Fiji now offers face to face classes on two levels at the Get Lean HIIT Lab, in Suva, as well as live and pre-recorded workouts at the Get Lean Virtual Trainer on Instagram which has had over 700 paid subscriptions since April 2021.
Adelene was an inaugural recipient of the Fiji Government’s Young Entrepreneur Scheme in 2018 and in 2019 was recognised as one of the 30 under 30:The Faces of Fiji’s Future. She is also the host of Move Fiji on FBC TV.
Apakuki Nalawa
Apakuki Nalawa also known as “Kuki” is a musician, singer, songwriter and music producer with close to 10 years of experience in the industry. He hails from Drauniivi village in Ra, is happily married to Fine Nalawa and together they have two sons, Levi and Ratu Kaliova.
Ana Johanah Bovoro
Ana Johanah Bovoro is the owner of Helpmate Fiji, who had the idea of starting an errand business years ago when she was in-between work as a film crew contractor. In 2020, the film industry was affected by the pandemic and so was her livelihood. After a few months of putting together a business plan, she launched Helpmate Fiji on Facebook, in June 2020. A year after starting her business in Nadi, she decided to branch out and offer the same services in Suva, and has not looked back.
As the host partner for this online event by The Poetry Shop, Greenhouse Coworking proudly supports the growth of all creative minds and creative spaces. We hope to see you there!
Visit The Poetry Shop on Facebook: The Poetry Shop Fiji
Dr Mohit – Friday 8th Oct @ 6pm
To register, please see the link below.
Registration Link: https://form.jotform.com/212757535997069
You can also register straight onto the form below:
Date: 22 October 2021 (Friday)
Time: 4.30 – 5:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Our network events are a great way to unwind from a hectic week, build your network, and be a part of our growing virtual community!
Join us for our second Free TED Talks Watch Party 2.0! Our Community Manager, Lana Smith will host this session, and we’ll watch videos of Shonda Rhimes and David Brooks, speaking about life and work and how to keep a balance of both. Grab your snacks, baby mix, glass of wine, whatever will help you unwind with us for an hour of networking and learning!
Speaker Bio: Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes is known for her groundbreaking storytelling, her candor and humor in the face of her critics, and for never shying away from speaking her mind.
Speaker Bio: David Brooks
Writer and thinker David Brooks has covered business, crime and politics over a long career in journalism.
Date: 17 September (Friday)
Time: 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Our network events are a great way to unwind from a hectic week, build your network, and be a part of our growing virtual community!
We have something special lined up for this week – we’re hosting a Free TED Talk Watch Party, facilitated by our Community Manager, Lana Smith. There’ll be a viewing of two TED Talks, by motivational speakers, Angela Lee Duckworth and Seth Godin. Grab your snacks, baby mix, glass of wine, whatever will help you unwind with us for an hour of networking and learning! We’ll watch together for about 20+ minutes and then have loads of time for sharing and networking straight after.
Speaker Bio: Angela Lee Duckworth
At the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Lee Duckworth studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success.
Speaker Bio: Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead.
Date: 1 September and 8 September (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Are you tired of seeing too many unchecked to-dos in your list? Too many late nights, early mornings, and missing out on a beautiful weekend? Don’t worry we’ve all been there!
Ready for some new ass-kicking set of lessons, habits and tools to whip you into a productive, goal-getting machine? Come join this powerful class designed to help you quickly remove your productivity roadblocks, build habits that will help you conquer your workload, and manage your time to get more done.
Your facilitators Ronna and Lana will meet for a 1.5 hour class on 1 September (Wednesday), and then you will receive your challenge daily on email and on a private group chat. The challenge culminates in another 1.5 hour class on 8 September (Wednesday).
About the Facilitators:
Momma to Māui & Mayari, Mrs to Mr #Sexyguchi, Greenhouse Coworking and The Greenhouse Studio Founder, Graduate Women (Fiji) President, Branding and Marketing Coach for FCEF’s Fiji Enterprise Engine, Pacific Greenpreneurship Program Mentor, East-West Centre Alumni Executive Board 2021-2024, Vital Voices Global Ambassador, VVGrow Fellow, Obama Foundation Leader, and TEDx Speaker. I am passionate about entrepreneurship, design thinking, and empowering women and children through education. I am on a mission to inspire change in others to live full, extraordinary lives, and empower them to do the same.
My Linkedin profile / My blog post full of productivity gems
Community Manager at Greenhouse Coworking. Also, Mama of two not so little humans, a partner, cook, cleaner, advisor, hugger, problem solver, and home keeper. I am realising and fulfilling my purpose, one day at a time, through love, faith, and resilience.
Event Photo Credit: Minh Pham from Unsplash
Date: 12 September 2021, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Platform: Zoom and In-person
What if we told you there is a way to hack into your consciousness so you are able to tap into your state of flow to get those big items done and done?
Sign up for our Getting in the Zone Sprint to find focus and flow on IMPORTANT over urgent work (like writing that book, starting a side hustle, writing that big proposal, working ON your business, not IN your business, and many others) with other Greenhouse coworking community members.
“Flow is a mental state of focused attention so intense that it does not allow us to have cognitive bandwidth left for anything else. It is a state of such profound task-absorption and intense concentration that makes a person feel one with the activity.”
Positive psychology
Our Community Manager will guide you through this 3-hour event and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in this virtual AND in-person coworking activity! Now that we have opened, we can actually cowork and get in the zone in person. If you are based in Suva, we invite you get your free day pass this Friday so you can join us at 33 Des Veoux Road for this event. We have limited spots available if you are joining us in person so make sure you SIGN UP NOW FOR OUR FREE DAY PASS. Please make sure you choose Friday, 12 November.
About the Host:
Lana Smith is the Community Manager at Greenhouse Coworking. Also, Mama of two not so little humans, a partner, cook, cleaner, advisor, hugger, problem solver, and home keeper.
With a diverse background in Fashion Design, Administration, Film Production, Sales and Marketing, I am able to draw from different experiences and knowledge that will help me navigate, and be impactful in both my career and personal life.
I am realising and fulfilling my purpose, one day at a time, through love, faith, and resilience.
Armed with the right attitude, a strong support system, and kindness …. the possibilities are endless.
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
– Tony Robbins
More info about me:
Event Photo Credit: Chase Clark from Unsplash
Date: 3 September 2021, Friday
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Platform: Zoom
Event before the pandemic hit, most of us found it really difficult to focus and get important things done at a time where constant distractions and noise are the norm. So many emails, text messages, chat messages, phone calls, Youtube, Netflix, Facebook posts and the list goes on of everything interrupting your workflow. Now that most of us are working from home, it’s even become even more challenging with the addition of being around your children, housework, homeschooling, and if you live on your own, just so incredibly isolating and lonely.
We get it! Most of us are still learning how to work from home effectively. What if we told you there is a way to hack into your consciousness so you are able to tap into your state of flow to get those big items done and done?
Sign up for our Getting in the Zone Sprint to find focus and flow on IMPORTANT over urgent work (like writing that book, starting a side hustle, writing that big proposal, working ON your business, not IN your business, and many others) with other Greenhouse coworking community members.
“Flow is a mental state of focused attention so intense that it does not allow us to have cognitive bandwidth left for anything else. It is a state of such profound task-absorption and intense concentration that makes a person feel one with the activity.”
Positive psychology
Our Community Manager will guide you through this 3-hour event and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in this virtual coworking activity!
About the Host:
Community Manager at Greenhouse Coworking. Also, Mama of two not so little humans, a partner, cook, cleaner, advisor, hugger, problem solver, and home keeper.
With a diverse background in Fashion Design, Administration, Film Production, Sales and Marketing, I am able to draw from different experiences and knowledge that will help me navigate, and be impactful in both my career and personal life.
I am realising and fulfilling my purpose, one day at a time, through love, faith, and resilience.
Armed with the right attitude, a strong support system, and kindness …. the possibilities are endless.
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
– Tony Robbins
More info about me:
Event Photo Credit: Chase Clark from Unsplash
Date: 14th January 2022 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Platform: Zoom and In-person / Members-only event
Whether you are our in-person or virtual member, you can sign up for our Coffee & Cakes: How to get shit done! session and enjoy a catch up with other Greenhouse Coworking community members over coffee and cake, at our first networking event of 2022.
Our Founder, Ronna, will discuss “How to get shit done” during this hour long event and you will be pumped to start your year on the right foot, surrounded by like minded people with the same sentiments.
Date: 8 September 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Our How-to-Series are monthly classes that will elevate you from zero to hero in a chosen topic as we bring experts and leaders in the Zoom room.
How-to in September:
Have you noticed that more and more potential grant funding for MSMEs are on the rise as organisations channel their efforts to supporting small businesses to survive the pandemic’s effects? This is especially true for ventures whose goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But who has any clue on how to write these proposals? These organisations certainly have a totally different “language” don’t they?
For this September’s class, we’re organising a panel of three who can guide the class on how to write grant proposals that may get you that funding you desperately need!
Meet our Panel of Speakers:
Ken Katafono
Ken is an ICT professional, consultant, and entrepreneur working in technology, agriculture, and fisheries. He co-founded Traseable Solutions in 2017 with his wife, Shauna, and together they have led innovative projects and digitisation efforts in the Pacific agriculture and fisheries sectors.
Rebecca Mcnaught
Rebecca has worked internationally and locally in the areas of climate change, disaster risk management, disaster resilience, sustainable agriculture and revegetation programmes. She currently runs her own consultancy business, Pacific Connections (Aust) which provides research, advisory and training services, and is undertaking her PhD on local level collaboration for resilience.
Marita Manley
Marita is the co-founder of two Fiji companies, Talanoa Treks and Talanoa Consulting, working on agriculture, environmental conservation, sustainable tourism, women’s economic empowerment and community development. She’s an environmental economist and has developed proposals and managed projects of all sizes.
Date: 25 August 2021, Wednesday
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Join the Greenhouse Coworking Community for this FREE class where our Founder, Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi, breaks it down on how you can get those BIG dreams and goals now. Does fear overcome you and stop you from taking any steps to achieving your dreams? Do you question yourself on whether you are doing the right things? Are you unsure on how to even begin?
Three takeaways that you are guaranteed to learn in this class:
- Learn a practical framework on how to turn your dreams into achievable goals (yes even during a pandemic).
- What to do when the fear and uncertainty steps in.
- How to create strategies and use tools that actually work for you so you are not giving up months later and throwing your long to-do list out the window!
Message from the Facilitator:
Bula I’m Ronna! Chief Dream-Achiever and Boss Momma of Dragons at Greenhouse Coworking and The Greenhouse Studio.
I know what it’s like, to dream so big that you’re left scared shitless. That and the thousand thoughts running in your head on how can you even begin with your multitude of roles, bills to pay, mouths to feed and you maybe think that people will laugh at you.
Over the years I’ve learned that there is a framework and a certain type of mindset that transforms dreamers to doers, and this has helped me in making things happen in every aspect of my life. From conquering the fear of the deep by learning how to scuba dive, hiking up and swimming on a volcano crater, traveling around Europe, bootstrapping a business, meeting President Obama and Michelle Obama (with other chosen Obama leaders but we were in the same room ok?😂), marrying my soulmate and bringing two little souls into the world!
My intention is to inspire and create that spark in you so you can begin to truly take charge of your life. Hope to see you in my class!
More info about me:
My TEDx Suva talk (Courage in Business)
Event Photo Credit: Danielle Macinnes from Unsplash
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