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Retreats

As an instructor, Mel partners with studios and organizations to offer retreats that are a couple days to a couple weeks long (average is about one week). Retreats are a wonderful way to focus on training, health, and wellness, while staying in exotic locations that offer opportunities for tourism, relaxing, and new experiences!

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Upcoming retreats:  â€‹

 

June 14-21, 2025

Dynamic Aerial Silks: Advanced Level Retreat

Sweet Retreats

Puerto Escondido, Mexico 

https://www.sweetretreatsdr.com/advanced-dynamic-silks-retreat/ ​

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*Includes accommodation, three meals per day, and photoshoots!

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Prerequisites: straight arm inversions, double star and propeller/helicopter/windmill/wheel down.


Questions or requests - email me at info@acromel.ca

Events, Workshops, and Customized Programming

As a workshop leader, Mel partners with various organizations around the world for workshops, festivals, and customized programming that suit client, studio, student, and organizational needs. Mel is also known as a conference speaker, moderator, and as a master of ceremonies, comfortable engaging with multinational audiences. Events may be focused on health and wellness, circus, yoga, fitness, and/or may include non-physical components, such as organizational culture, student development theory and practice, leadership, and healthy business practices. ​

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Mel has worked with universities, executive leadership, corporations, healthcare professionals, women's caucuses, and more for enhancing individual and organizational success. ​For more information, please email info@acromel.ca including your organization, event (if applicable), audience demographic, expected outcomes, dates (if applicable), and location (in person, hybrid, or online). 

​​​Past (public) workshops include: 

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  •      Applicability of Leadership Styles in the MENA Region (Conference, USA, 2024)

  •      The Warmth-Competence Line Looking at Women in the Workplace (Conference, USA, 2024)

  •      Programs and Services: A Critique and Discussion (Indiana State University, USA, 2024)

  •      Global Student Affairs Practices (Conference, USA, 2024)

  •      Overcoming Ageism in the Workplace: Two Perspectives (Conference, USA, 2024)

  •      The Warmth-Competence Line: Women in the Workplace (Women’s Caucus, Webinar, 2024)

  •      Moderator: Living at the Edge of Climate Change (Keynote Lecture, Saudi Arabia, 2023)

  •      The Role of Servant Leadership (Conference, Online, 2023)

  •      Response Practice in the Workplace (Science and Research Conference, Saudi Arabia, 2023)

  •      Student Development Theory: Self-Authorship (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)

  •      Women in the Workplace (Conference, USA, 2023)

  •      Gender and Gender Identity Development (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)

  •      The Future of Student Affairs Practices (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)

  •      Women in the Workplace (Women in Science and Research Conference, Saudi Arabia, 2022)

  •      Corporate Health and Wellness Workshop (Dow Chemical Company, Saudi Arabia, 2021)

  •      Yoga and Wellness (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2021)

  •      Health and Wellness Workshop (Saudi Leadership Program, Saudi Arabia, 2019)

  •      Yoga and Wellness (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2019)

  •      Health and Fitness Workshop (University of Calgary in Qatar, Qatar, 2015)

  •      Fitness Workshop (Qatar Canadian School, Qatar, 2013) 

  •      Health and Wellness Workshop (Qatar Sports Day, Qatar, 2013)

  •      Master of Ceremonies (University of Victoria, Canada, 2012) ​​​​​

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