Meetings and Events
We currently hold an Inspiration Power Hour in the morning of the third Friday of each month and in the evening on the third Thursday of each month. In addition, we host a guest speaker or workshop in the evening of the first Thursday of each month. Specific meeting dates/topics, special events, and notes from previous meetings are available below.
May 17: Evening Inspiration Power Hour
Thursday, May 17, 2012
7:00 PM, Panera Bread, Williamsville
Open discussion format - bring your ideas, your problems, your burning questions to a roundtable of your entrepreneurial peers! Please join us for our last evening power hour of the season!
May 18: Inspiration Power Hour
Friday, May 18, 2012
10:00 AM, Panera Bread, Williamsville
Open discussion format - bring your ideas, your problems, your burning questions to a roundtable of your entrepreneurial peers! Please join us for our last morning power hour of the season!
No registration necessary - email dani@bwer.org if you have questions.
June 7: Thriving within Your Soul Contract
Thursday, June 7, 2012
7:00 PM, Linda Bucher's Coaching Center, Cheektowaga
Prior to your birth and before incarnating into your present physical body, each of you crafted a contract, a plan, for the life that you intended to live. You set the plan in motion by engaging with a set of energetic 'stencils' or archetypes who agreed to assist in guiding your 'myth of now'. Your personal mythology is a vibrant infrastructure that informs your life, whether or not you are aware of it. It is the source of your motivations, your imagination, your emotions, and of your awareness itself. These 'myths' are the stories that you tell yourself to explain your circumstances and your behavior.
Join Susan Koehler as we delve into a personal interpretation of your life's mission - your Soul Contract - through four survival archetypes...Victim, Saboteur, Prostitute and Child!
Susan Koehler (nasushealing.com) works with individuals and groups to explore the metaphysical effects of bodyfield theories and dis-ease. She is focused on the ways in which archetypal muths of family and culture influence health and wellness. In addition, she is researching the effects of microbial balancing and stabilization, both 'in the field' and in the human (body) environment.
Please arrive at 7:00 to get settled and socialize; Susan will begin speaking at 7:30.
Summer 2012
Our last event of the season will be June's workshop with Susan Koehler; there will be no power hours in June, and no workshops or power hours in July or August. We'll kick our new season off in September by re-launching the power hours, and our very own Linda Bucher will be leading the first group workshop in October. Enjoy your summer!
Upcoming Events
Topics for future events include:
- Self-Care : Why a healthy owner is important for a healthy business
- The New CEO: If an outsider bought your company today, what is the first thing they would change?
- Secrets of Success: Things we've all found helpful, at work and at play
- Mentoring: How to find one, when to be one
- Make More Choices (and choose love if you can!)
- Advisory Board: bring your toughest questions, and get open feedback from a group of your peers
- The Pursuit of Work/Life Balance - does it exist, and why are we chasing it?
Your Name Here
Have an idea for an upcoming event, or something you'd like to share with the group? Is there someone you'd like to hear speak? Are you interested in leading a discussion, or presenting to the group? Send us your ideas today!
Art Out Loud!
Plans are in the works for a community art auction featuring local and national artists. Want to get involved? Let us know!
Past Events
Defining Success and Wealth
If you don't know what you want, how will you know when you get there? It's time to break away from your limiting beliefs and define success and wealth on your own terms, so that you can build a healthier and more fulfilling business and life. BWER's own Christine Mathieu and Danielle Nelson joined forces to help lead you on a journey to discover and create your own definitions of wealth and success - each in four easy steps.
Ten Easy Steps to Better Health
Dr. Jen Williamson joined us in April 2012 to teach "Ten Easy Steps to Better Health", which gave us tips on how to make simple changes in our diet, lifestyle, and supplementation to get the biggest benefits for our ultimate wellness.
Money Quotient (Guest Speaker Christine Mathieu)
Improve your relationship with money by increasing personal awareness of both the fact and feeling aspects of your financial life. We learned how to achieve financial well-being through recognition, resilience, resourcefulness, relationships, and reliable insights and wisdom
Business Intuition (Guest Speaker Ellen Bourn)
Learning to listen to your Intuition is important for business owners. This special sense can assist you in applying more creativity to your endeavors, which in turn gives you the ability to be open to your sixth sense, enhancing your practical decisions. It is often difficult for people with hectic schedules to tune into this aspect of themselves, as the circuits are frequently preoccupied with other concerns. Clearing a space that allows you to focus and receive information from the Highest Source is a technique that we practiced together.
True Strengths Workshop (Guest Speaker Kim David)
We're taught that our strengths are the things we're good at, when in fact they are something entirely different. Strenghts are meant to strengthen you. To inspire you. To get your mojo flowin'. And when you're leveraging your true strengths, not only do you shine but so does your business! Life change artist Kim David helped us identify what things in your business strengthen you and those that weaken you a la Danielle LaPorte's digital Firestarter Sessions. We came away inspired with a clearer vision of the things that we're doing in your business that are holding us back and how we can create positive and lasting changes that will give us more energy than even that little pink bunny has...ok, well maybe not THAT much energy, but you get the point!
Find your Wow! Workshop (Guest Speaker Linda Bucher)
Linda Bucher from Essential Life Designed shared her amazing "Find your Wow!" course with the group. We imagined what life would be like if every day we were living out WOW...if every day we felt on purpose, empowered, energized, and jazzed about what we do! All it takes is a little less conversation, a little more action...Click to View Event Poster
Web Strategy Workshop (Guest Speaker Danielle Nelson)
We learned what web strategy is, why it’s important, and why it should be part of our marketing plans; the importance of killer content; what honest search engine optimization and search engine marketing are really about; and how to breathe new life into our websites and make them work for our messages. If you missed the workshop, you can download the free workbook here.
Healing with Essential Oils (Guest Speaker Kathleen Boldt)
Kathleen Boldt shared with us how to bring "Scents and Sensibility" into our lives. We learned how we can use natural plant medicines–Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade oils–as empowering tools for effective self-care, and simple, safe and practical methods of enhancing beauty, strengthening the immune response, managing pain, restoring balance, enhancing healing and engaging the spirit.
Law of Attraction for Business (Guest Speaker Catherine Martin)
A free evening of fun and inspiration with Law of Attraction coach Catherine Martin. Catherine taught us how to juice up our businesses using LoA and prepared us for taking our lives and businesses to the next level! Click to View Event Poster
Finding Your Why & Attracting More Business
How to find the core purpose of your business--your why--and how that will help you attract more business. Why you do what you do is the key ingredient in reaching any goals you set for yourself, so join us as we explore the path of how to get there or examine your current why to see if it's still working!
Marketing! and Marketing Expanded!
What to do, what not to do, and how to find those pesky ideal clients! Marketing is a huge topic - networking, social media, workshops, advertising - that we expended it into two sessions.
Buy Local
What does "buy local" mean to you as an entrepreneur? How do you incorporate local goods/services into your daily life (business and personal)? In today's global marketplace, is location an advantage? How does the "buy local" movement impact your business?