In the Workshops | Survive & Thrive

In the Workshops at Survive & Thrive there's plenty to choose from.

Top five money tools & tips | Russell Toplis

In this session Russell discusses five common themes (of many) that put you in charge of managing your money; while also highlighting other tips and tools. If you are serious about a creative practice and a business and enterprise, getting on top of your money management is essential.

Russell Toplis is a highly experienced top business accountant with PKF Melville Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. He loves working with creative people and businesses and is able to make people feel at ease around discussing accountancy and financial management.

Your creativity can transform your business | Lorraine Blackley

Lorraine provides a brief introduction to the Creative Process and its relevance as a focus in all matters of business. The session includes engagement in small groups reflecting on one’s own creative process in business. Participants will have an opportunity to strengthen their vision and gain insights of what stands in their way. They will leave with actions to move forward in their business or enterprise.

A creative and social entrepreneur Lorraine has 20 years experience in designing and facilitating programmes supporting people to step into their full potential. Author of "Creative Process Chart" an illustrated book that you can use in personal and professional settings to stay motivated and on track to manifest whatever it is you want. She is a creative process consultant and transformational coach.

Marketing on a shoestring | Vicki Allpress-Hill

Developing a skill, a marketable talent, product or service is only worthwhile if you are able to successfully market it to buyers and your message translates into sales. Most small businesses struggle to find significant marketing budgets and time to do a good job. In this session Vicki helps you identify viable options, especially through the use of internet based opportunities, to get your offer out into the market place.

Vicki Allpress Hill has spent nearly two decades bringing audiences to the arts. She has held senior marketing roles with a number of high profile performing arts and online music organisations in Wellington, Auckland, London and New York. Since 2000, she has had a particular interest and involvement in e-marketing in the arts and is a regular international speaker, writer and consultant on the subject of using online channels effectively to attract and retain arts patrons.

With Roger Tomlinson, she co-wrote A Practical Guide to Developing and Managing Websites (2004) and she was a contributing author, along with Roger Tomlinson and Tim Roberts, of the New Zealand version of FULL HOUSE: Turning Data into Audiences (2006).

In 2010, Vicki has created The Audience Connection to provide strategic marketing services to the creative industries, and works with a range of clients in the cultural sector in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.

Money & you: A healthy relationship? | Sian Jaquet

People have all kinds of useful and not so useful perspectives on money and they may impact positively or negatively on their financial competence and performance within their business (and their broader lives).

Often the attitudes and ideas, which may not even be your own, are deeply entrenched and even hidden. In this session Sian Jaquet, will help you identify what drives your awareness and behavior around money and money management and she will encourage you to consider new options. You should expect to participate in this dynamic, interactive session.

Sian Jaquet’s career path has been boundary-less in every sense, culminating in her present role as a professional development coach. Sian’s approach is simple; she tells it like it is – 'it' being your life! With honesty and integrity, she assists in reviewing who you are, deciding your core values, and discovering what’s holding you back from the life you want to live. She then opens her “tool box” and offers solutions to the challenges of living in a world where there are so many demands placed upon us and our time.

Work smarter – not harder | Helen Baxter

Who better than Ms Behaviour (Helen Baxter), radio presenter (g33k show) and media trainer to lead an information packed, enriching practical session on how you can minimize your efforts and energies in your working practice through application of on-line tools and the current wisdom around working smarter. Helen always has new on-line and IT discoveries to share.

Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media training & consultancy (Wellington), and reporter for the g33k show on Kiwi FM, Helen loathes commuting, loves computing and is on the edge of the autistic spectrum. When living in Auckland, she provided expert input into The Big Idea for which she later wrote a regular column. She is a “hunter gatherer” of media developments and solutions with huge passion.

Getting your story out there | Paul Blomfield

Branding: More than just a logo | Baruch Ter Wal

Branding is your business and product identity which often carries the essence and expressions of the values and aspirations you personally and professionally wish to convey. It should communicate your distinctive point of difference. It can often act as an anchor point for how you choose to think, act and develop within your business. In this session Baruch will point the way to entering the branding space and you will be able to mine his rich knowledge and experience.

Baruch is the architect of successful sales and branding campaigns for companies like WhereScape Software, Aquaflow and The ICEHOUSE. He is a Trustee of the Centre for Social Innovation and serves as a creative industries advisor to Auckland City.

Success intelligence | Richard Howard

Is being successful such a big deal anyway? In this session you will be challenged to think about your motivations and ideas about personal and professional success. You will be made more aware of the true nature of the phenomena and be encouraged to proceed with direction and intention, smart, not harder around achieving your success goals. More questions will be opened in your mind than will be answered within the session.

References for this session come from a broad variety of sources including the work of Robert Holden (Author: Success intelligence), Simon Blackburn Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge (Author: The Big Questions), Richard Dawkins (Author: River Out of Eden)

Richard Howard has a developed a multi-faceted career path in the arts and creative sector which has included drama and musical theatre performance, arts management and production, events and promotions management, creative sector infrastructure development and the design and delivery of professional development opportunities for creative entrepreneurs. He has been behind projects such as The Big Idea website development, the New Space Programme, ART Venture, ART Generator network, Survive & Thrive 09/10, Kingsland Central Studios and the Arts Cooperative Resource exchange.

Open Space: Bring your ‘offer’ or ‘request’ | Elisabeth Vaneveld

Bring an offer in the form of a tool, connection or resource to share; or bring a request for assistance that a group jam can answer to help you . . .

Elisabeth Vaneveld is a strategist, project leader and process facilitator with extensive experience in the cultural, community and public sectors in New Zealand and Australia. The Executive Director of The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui Trust, she is also the Programme Director of ART Venture, a leading acceleration and development programme for creative entrepreneurs working in Auckland who are keen to fast-track their projects, organisations and enterprises.