Participants from various backgrounds convened at FUSE Community Work Hub on Feb. 27 and 28 for WoW! A Weekend of Workshops for the Self-Employed. Six practical workshops were offered and spread over two days to allow plenty of social/networking time in between. Participants brought more creativity and inspiration into their lives while increasing their skills and knowledge in finance, website content and design, social media and speaking to an audience.
Val Labrecque, a full-weekend participant, was enthusiastic about her experience at the event. “WoW! exceeded my expectations. The presenters were engaging and friendly with interesting topics and I learned something from every workshop. A bonus to the weekend was creating new relationships with fellow participants.”
A definite highlight of the weekend was an inspiring keynote by local musician, Lowry Olafson.
Sheila Cameron, co-owner of FUSE Community Work Hub, created WoW! in response to the desire for more events like this to be made available for members of Sunshine Coast networks such as SEWN (Self-Employed Women’s Network).
“Women on the coast are looking for events that combine skills training with social time, and we felt we could meet that need,” Cameron said. “We had lower registration than expected for this event, but participants received excellent value and went away happy. That feels like success to us.”
This is only the second set of workshops offered at FUSE since its relocation to Gibsons last May. The Venture Forth series of workshops continues on Monday evenings until March 14 and still has space. See www.fuseworkhub.ca for more information.
