Permission to Pause

Are you feeling stretched too thin?

Juggling work, whānau and community involvements? 

Worn down by the mental load?

Welcome to a workshop for women who do too much!

This is your chance to pause and refocus. Get support to reclaim your time & energy. 

Held during Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, this workshop is part of a special series exploring The 5 Ways to Wellbeing. In this session, we focus on ‘Take Notice’ — creating space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. 

If you’re someone who’s always doing — for work, for family, for your community — but rarely taking time to check in with your own needs, this session is for you.

Led by qualified life coach Lynda Brodie, this calm and supportive workshop offers simple tools and mindset shifts to help you:

• Recognise early signs of stress and overwhelm

• Gently reset your boundaries and energy

• Reconnect with what truly matters to you

Lynda specialises in emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and helping women build deeper connections so they can show up more powerfully in their lives.

You’ll leave with renewed clarity, helpful strategies, and a reminder that you matter too.

This is a chance to pause — without guilt — and begin reclaiming your time, energy, and sense of self. Open to women of all cultures, ages and backgrounds.

Come as you are. Leave with more clarity, calm, and compassion for yourself.

Places are limited to 20 so please get your tickets ($10) before they sell out. If this event is ideal for you but cost prevents you from coming, please contact us to arrange a free ticket. 

This is the second of five events Keep Learning Mid Canterbury has organised during Mental Health Awareness Week to promote The 5 Ways to Wellbeing. Other events are:

• Learn to Knit (Keep Learning), Monday October 6 @ 10am

• Connect at Hemsworth Estate (Connect), Wednesday October 8 @ 2pm

• Give Bowls a Go (Be Active), Friday October 10 @ 5.30pm

• Made to Give (Give), Saturday October 11 @ 1pm