The Conscious Club Chat Series #3 - Mental Health & Wellbeing

The Conscious Club present you with Part 3 of The Conscious Chat Series! 

We will have speakers sharing their journey with mental health & wellbeing through their platforms & businesses.

This is a great line up of people that are promoting self-love, resilience, empowerment and opening their doors in times of need. 4 guest speakers with a passion for wellbeing.

With each ticket you will get one free drink courtesy of Clean Collective - there will be amazing vegan nibbles and a bar serving drinks.

FIRST GUEST SPEAKER: Kotte Aguilar - @YogaByKotte ⁠

Kotte Aguilar founded Yoga By Kotte as a youth when she saw a gap in the yoga industry that inspired her to make change. She works on de-commecializing the yoga industry with great success. Kotte was also a Tedx Youth speaker in 2015.

Her passion is obvious, she is determined to changed the suicide youth stats in the country. Since 2014 she is helped over 10.000 youth, kids and adults.

Her yoga is fun, creative, unusual, she stands out by making yoga accessible, creative and fun.From yoga-hikes to free yoga clean ups, helping create awareness about global issues such as environment and social. With a full schedule she will always welcome you with a smile and say yes if she can help.

Kotte's dreams are big and almost seem impossible to some but she says that nothing and no one will ever stop her, she wants change and that is what she is doing slowly but steadily.

SECOND GUEST SPEAKER: Alan Cox & Savanna Ornsby @Akimboapp

Akimbo™ is a social enterprise on a mission to improve mental wellbeing through a completely new kind of mobile app that provides personalised fitness training for the mind.
The genesis for Akimbo™ came from founder Alan Cox's own struggles with mental wellbeing. What Alan discovered through his personal journey, was that by applying the techniques and science now underpinning Akimbo, his own wellbeing increased significantly.
Akimbo™ delivers a stream personalised coaching messages against a backdrop of emotive music and sounds. This personalised experience helps individuals make incremental positive changes to the way they think, feel and behave. The ultimate goal is to help people realise and achieve a better quality of life.
Akimbo™ is based on research from positive psychology and neuroscience. The 'coaching' content includes material that has been developed exclusively for AkimboTM from a team of psychologists and real people who have been through their own wellbeing journeys.


THIRD GUEST SPEAKER: Mataio Brown- My Fathers Barber

A 34 year old, New Zealand born Samoan, Matt is an internationally acclaimed barber and hair artist, communicator, husband, and father of three children known for ‘giving great cuts’ and ‘inspiring great men.’

He is a survivor of family violence and childhood sexual abuse and shares his story with the men who frequent his busy Christchurch and Palmerston North barbershops, My Fathers Barbers, as a way to foster vulnerability, healing, and connection. He has facilitated a barbering program inside Christchurch Men’s Prison, Te Puna Wai O Tuhinapo, a Christchurch youth justice facility and will continue to work alongside Corrections NZ as a patron in 2020.

Matt started his business with a simple set up in a garden shed in Aranui, Christchurch; and as his talent and client list steadily grew, he gained an engaged following on social media, which he now uses to share messages of inspiration and overcoming.

He co-founded ‘She Is Not Your Rehab’ with his wife Sarah and launched the concept in his 2019 TEDx talk. He says the movement is simply an invitation for men to acknowledge their own childhood trauma and to take responsibility for their healing so that they can transform their pain instead of transmitting it on those around them.


FOURTH GUEST SPEAKER: Lauren Hill - Camp Wondergirl

Lauren is a Certified Life Coach, Yoga Teacher and Artist obsessed with empowering girls to live their authentic power. She is the Camp Director, Founder and Wonder Woman Leader of Love behind the magic of Camp Wondergirl. Camp Wondergirl encourages, inspires and empowers girls ages 8-12 to explore mindfulness, embrace uniqueness, and express their superpowers! The mission is to make sure every girl knows she is a Wondergirl - powerful, loving, and unique. @campwondergirl offers after school, holiday and online programmes as well as workshops, events and parties. Lauren's positive, infectious energy instantly connects her to young girls making her the perfect Wonder Woman to lead this mission.⁠