CRASH COURSE: How Storytelling Can Bring Soul & Sales to Your Business – FRI September 27th 2019
As entrepreneurs, start ups, and small businesses, we are in love with how our products and/or services can help others. As we should be. For the short term, people buy for solving a problem, but most recurring sales are based on clients and customers identifying with our brand as it relates to our “story.” Storytelling […]
BOOK RELEASE PERFORMANCE and PARTY for DAYBREAK, poetry by MICHAEL GIOTIS
Who: A performance of selected poems from Daybreak by Michael Giotis, plus original poems from two renowned local poets, Stacey Tuel and Jonah Raskin. What: Mingling, light refreshments and nibbles available at start of show. Some music + poetic stylings. Books available for sale. Where/When: Saturday August 24th, 2019 at 7PM at WORK Petaluma, 10 […]
CLIMATE CHAT: Video Interview with Dr. David Suzuki – Fri Sept 13th, 2019
Someone suggested we do daytime documentary screenings, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to watch this powerful one-hour video of Dr David Suzuki. Interviewed by Australian entrepreneur and business strategist Kerwin Rae, Suzuki talks about climate change and the need to move beyond business as usual. The environmentalist, activist, professor of genetics […]
CRASH COURSE: Unblock Those Creative Blocks – FRI August 16th 2019
Still writing that Great American Novel? Why is your self-portrait only half painted? Is your film project in permanent post-production? And why didn’t you pitch on that coveted project? Creatives and artists frequently find themselves blocked and in a shame spiral of self-sabotage. Identities are questioned, life goals are sidelined, and your calling “calling” becomes […]
PIZZA and a MOVIE: Pill Head – Filmed in Petaluma! Fri Aug 2nd 2019
Join us for a special screening of the art-house, cult comedy, feature film, Pill Head! Our coWORKers and Petaluma natives Karen Hess & Daedalus Howell shot a feature film here in town with a good portion of it taking place inside WORK! If you missed the screenings at the Mystic and Boulevard Cinemas or you […]
CLIMATE CHAT: Where Do Our Clothes Come From? – Fri August 2nd 2019
The climate discussion often focuses around alternative energy production, transportation options, building construction, and food systems. But we’ve been neglecting an important component of our consumption: FIBER. In this age of fast fashion, Americans, on average, buy about 65 garments per person per year, with much ending up in landfills. Communities around the world often […]
CRASH COURSE: PR for Entrepreneurs, Small Biz and Non-Profits – Fri June 21st 2019
If you want to be an influencer in your industry or the non-profit everyone wants to support, you’ve got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill Lublin shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, Jill […]
WORKSHOP: From Overwhelm to Focused Action – Fri June 14th 2019
Do you wish for more progress in some area of your work, or life? Would you like to move forward at a sustainable pace, yet accomplish more of what is truly important to you? Although we keep working hard, most of us feel like we are spread too thin and easily get distracted by the […]
CLIMATE CHAT: The Sonoma Climate Challenge – Join the Action! Fri June 7th 2019
The Sonoma Climate Challenge is about rising up in this historic moment and coming together to take action towards the shared goal of richer, more resilient lives and communities. This joint action of the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Agency and Daily Acts has the ambitious—and achievable!—goal to have 500 households participate and collectively reduce […]
Coffee Social – Tuesdays at 10 AM – NOW VIA ZOOM!
Every Tuesday from 10-11 AM we’ve gathered at WORK. For now we are still virtual, but check back. As the weather warms up, we’ll be able to switch back to outside gatherings. Old friends, new friends – you are all welcome! BYOC. 😉 Email Natasha with subject “social” for the zoom link: natasha@workpetaluma.com