Pacific Women's Day
Come make connections with your community at the MFRC's 20th annual women’s conference!
It is all about feeling good and re-energizing! Pacific Women’s Day is a chance for you to relax, recharge and restore. Join us on Saturday November 6 to connect with other women in your community, experience great food, learn something new and have fun. So come and escape to the castle!
An event for women in the Defence Community.
- Saturday November 6, 2010
8:30am-4:30pm
Royal Roads University, Hatley Castle
2005 Sooke Road
$50 by September 11
$55 after September 11
$65 for non-military
*Cost includes three workshops, keynote speaker and buffet lunch
**Buy a ticket by September 11 and you'll be entered to win a $800 makeover
- Early Bird Prize - Win a $800 Makeover
- Keynote Speaker
- Workshop Descriptions
- Great Escape Door Prize
Win an $800 Makeover!
Register by September 11 for Pacific Women's Day (last chance is at West Coast Welcome) and your name will be entered into a draw for a complete makeover.
- 2 hours with personal shopper Hilary Jordan, Image Stylist (value $120)
- Clothing and accessories complements of The Bay (value $500)
- Makeup application on Pacific Women’s Day (value $30)
- Hair cut and colour by Lindsay Case of Applause Hair Studio (value $150)
The winner will have her photo taken before and after the transformation. The reveal will take place at Pacific Women’s Day!
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University
Former Commonwealth, World, and Olympic Champion Rower
2-time Olympic Gold Medalist
Topic: Energy Management
Learn how to unlock creative and sustainable strategies for achieving optimal energy in work and life. Explore techniques on how to optimize time and resources so that you are energized, not drained, by your challenges. Energy Management introduces you to the principles of managing energy, not time, using a more integrated focus.
Workshop Descriptions
Session A
Understand Your Digital Camera
Kerrisdale Camera
If you are not exactly sure what your digital camera is capable of … here is your chance for find out, and ask all those “I’m not sure what or how?” questions. Bring your camera along with you. www.kerrisdalecameras.com
Code: A010
Step into Your Style
Style File Image Consulting – Shelley Brown, AICI FLC
A closet full of clothes and nothing to wear? You will be excited to shop when you see how easy it is to step into your style. Join Shelley and find out how to look fabulous in a wardrobe that fits and flatters. www.stylefilesystem.com
Code: A020
Know Yourself, Know Your Family
Fiona Prince, RRU Associate Faculty
Fiona works from the premise that miscommunication is inevitable and when we know how and why a miscommunication occurs, we are better able to manage it, paving the way for healthy relationships and well-adjusted families.
Code: A030
Spa Experience
- Massage (West Coast Massage Therapy Clinic): Work out tension and relax with a professional chair massage.
- Makeup (The Bay): Allow experienced makeup artists from MAC and Clinique to revive your look with makeup application and tips.
- Hair Consultations (Applause Hair Studios): Learn how to update your style. www.applausehairstudio.com
- Tarot Reading (Andrea Mattson & Courtenay Cato): Find out what your future has in store. www.psychicsong.com, www.calicocatteahouse.com
- Reiki (Two Healing Chicks): Treatments and information to energize, relax and alleviate stress.
- Body Talk (Innerlife Health Services): Relaxing, gentle and transformational healing sessions that stimulate your innate ability to balance and heal. www.turnstonebodytalk.com
- Photography (Colleen Fifield Photography): Get your portrait done from a professional photographer and take home a digital copy. www.colleenfifieldphotography.com
- Hand Treatments (Michelle Norton & Marie Amoto, Mary Kay Consultants): Revitalize your hands with a soothing hand treatment.
Session B
Truffle Making
Truffles Catering
Victoria’s leading professional caterer will demonstrate how to make decadent Truffles. The Chef from Habitat, a division of Truffles Catering, will create delectable treats while communicating the interesting history of chocolate. Yes, sampling will be on the agenda – yum!
Code: B010
Burlesque
Cheesecake Burlesque
Armed with a love of sequins, glamour and sass, the cheesecake burlesque revue was officially born in 2007. They have won 5 Monday Magazine M-Awards, performed in Las Vegas, Victoria and Vancouver. The “girls” will present a brief history of burlesque, select burlesque names and teach some classic burlesque move (bump & grind, shimmy, etc.), we would also present one classic burlesque act to the group. www.cheesecakeburlesque.com
Code: B020
How Cheating on your Diet can help you Lose Weight
Dani, Health & Nutrition Services and Anneke Vink, Registered Dietician
According to the latest research on successful weight loss, we don't need to try
harder to be faithful to our diets. Instead, we should be learning to cheat better!
Join Registered Dietitian, Anneke Vink, to learn how cheating on your diet actually
help you achieve your weight-loss goals. www.danihealth.com
Code: B030
Spa Experience
(See A040 for full description)
Code: B040
Session C
Terrific Travel Tips for a Successful Trip
Nicola Greeley, Travel Counsellors Canada
Travelling is all about the chance to escape. Join travel professional Nicola Greeley as she offers you unique tips and tricks to make your vacation better than you could ever dream it to be. www.travelcounsellors.ca/nicola.greeley
Code: C010
Wine Tasting
Truffles Catering
Relax with your fellow PWD attendees while sipping a variety of BC wines and learn about their characteristics and food pairing suggestions. Expected to be a popular event, so book your spot early!
Code: C020
Gardening & Tour of Royal Roads Garden and Greenhouse
Barrie Agar, Head Gardener, RRU
Barrie will provide attendees with a tour and history of the RRU Greenhouse and have participants pot some bulbs, which will be yours to keep. If weather cooperates there will be a garden and grounds tour included or, in case of rain, a narrated slide show in the Commandant’s House meeting room. Space is limited due to building restrictions so sign up early!
Code: C030
Spa Experience
(See A040 for full description)
Code: C040
Prizes
Buy a ticket to Pacific Women’s Day and you’ll be entered to win the Great Escape Door Prize which includes a two-night stay at the Fairmont Vancouver.
View some pictures of the 2009 event.
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