Building Community while Building your Business

About the workshop

This workshop will show you how to create safe spaces with collaboration, collectivity and creativity for community engagement and community development in small business, and work in ways that supports you, your team and your community’s wellbeing.

What you will learn

Learn how to grow your business, engage your community, and thrive in a changing economy. This training workshop is designed to build the knowledge, skills, and capability of small to medium business to help them thrive and contribute to the future growth of the local economy and employment and ultimately learn how to imbed community engagement principles into your business.

Why you should attend

• Grow Smarter: Discover practical strategies to attract more customers, increase sales, and strengthen your business.

• Connect with Your Community: Learn how to weave community engagement into your business for lasting local impact.

• Stay innovative: Build the skills and knowledge to innovate, adapt, and thrive in a changing economy.

Your Facilitator

Rasha Tayeh is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, researcher, herbalist, and the founding director of Beit e’Shai Teahouse. Her practice is land-based, centring on storytelling and the relationships between people, community, and ecology. With over twenty years of experience as an exhibiting artist in Australia and abroad, and a curator since 2017, Rasha has curated and hosted a wide range of exhibitions, workshops, community events, live gigs, listening sessions, tea ceremonies, and poetry nights through her pop-up teahouse since its establishment in 2017.

Her work also spans business management, public health, herbalism, nutrition, health promotion, community development, and engagement, as well as academic research and teaching. This breadth of experience informs her approach as an educator—one rooted in collaboration, care, and the creation of spaces that nurture connection, learning, and transformation