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SUMMARY:From Passion to Paycheck: How to Launch a Successful Side Hustle
DESCRIPTION:General Assembly\, in partnership with Fiverr\, hosts an evening workshop to inspire and empower budding and beginning entrepreneurs: From Passion to Paycheck: How to Launch a Successful Side Hustle \n\nHave you been sitting on an idea for a while but haven’t had time\, money or confidence to start it? \nWanting to branch out on your own and create something is a very common desire – yet so few of us act on it\, because of our other commitments or the fear that it won’t take off. This event will provide you tools\, tricks and inspiration to set up your dream business while maintaining your full-time job. \nHere’s what you can expect: \nIdeas: How do we form them? How do we choose which one to work on? \nBuilding: How do we build a first version of an idea with minimal time and money? \nHustle: How do you keep up momentum and create opportunities for your new business while working full time? \nWho is this for? \nThe entrepreneurially frustrated: learn what small steps can enable you to explore that entrepreneurial itch alongside your current day to day. \nCommunity lovers: build your network Advice hunters: practical tips to help you start your side hustle \nDoers: action focused exercises to launch your business in an evening
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/from-passion-to-paycheck-how-to-launch-a-successful-side-hustle/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Professional Development,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Engage Your Audience at Company Gatherings
DESCRIPTION:We are the authority on everything Meetings-related. With the goal of growing and sharing knowledge among our peers\, our lunch-hour workshops focus on the ins and outs of our industry.  We invite Facilitators\, Meeting Planners\, Retreat Programming Coordinators\, Administrative Assistants and everyone in between to get insider insight with a delectable meal. \nJoin us as Linda Whitlock teaches creative ways to maximize engagement among peers at company meetings and events!\n\n\n\n\n\nLunch & Learn: Engage Your Audience at Company Gatherings\n \nHow do you keep your team and/or participants engaged during meetings\, conferences or other gatherings? How do you encourage your team to show up\, get excited and truly take advantage of every opportunity to learn and grow and bond. \nLinda Whitlock\, President of Corporate Event Interactive\, will draw from her 25+ years’ experience producing interactive and team events\, to provide you with creative ways to engage your audience of peers and professionals. In this interactive and hands-on session\, Linda and her CEI colleague Trent Snyder will teach attendees practical strategies to better engage with their target audiences\, which include stakeholders\, presenters\, the community\, and each other. \nSession topics will include… \n\nLearn how to foster relationships through ice-breaker and networking activities\nHelp your team and participants spark conversation through small group/table top discussion\nCultivate fun with a friendly competition\nPromote philanthropy within your organization by giving back to the community\nParticipating in Sample Activities\n\n\n  \nAdmission price of $12 includes a mouth-watering meal from our catering partner Big Delicious Planet.\n\nPurchase your admission by Thursday\, January 30.\nPlease email bryan@catalystranch.com with any dietary restrictions.\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Our Guest Presenters:\n \nLinda Whitlock-Graziano is President and Co-owner of Corporate Event Interactive\, Inc.  She specializes in creating custom interactive & team experiences for corporate meetings and events.  Her genuine and collaborative approach brings authenticity to each program she produces. \nSome of her favorite programs include bringing contentious corporate teams together in friendly competition\, engaging new-hires and students with their new setting\, and coordinating hundreds of heartwarming charitable team events. \nLinda started at CEI as Production Coordinator in 1993. Now\, as President\, she continues to guide the enthusiastic CEI team in producing award-wining events. She is a longtime contributor to the meetings and events industry\, actively involved in the MPI and ILEA Chicago chapters. When she isn’t collaborating with clients\, she enjoys attending her son’s sports games\, hanging out with her college-bound daughter and traveling anywhere with her husband Ed. You can reach her at Linda@CorpEvent.com or www.linkedin.com/in/lindawhitlock. \n  \nAn ambitious and creative event specialist\, Trent Snyder brings to Corporate Event Interactive an ideal combination of work ethic\, practical business skills and customer service experience. He is able to balance many tasks simultaneously and never gets rattled. In many ways he is the backbone of the organization as he plays a part in almost everything in the office from designing and creating the latest techno hunt to coordinating event logistics. Trent received is BA from Northern Illinois University in 2016. \nIn his free time you can catch Trent singing a cappella on stage\, running on the lakefront\, or freelancing for local events. You can reach him at Trent@corpevent.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/trent-snyder. \n  \n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/lunch-learn-engage-your-audience-at-company-gatherings/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:FEBRUARY OPEN HOUSE: Tour our venue!
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to our monthly OPEN HOUSE: Tour our venue with our friendly staff and get the full Catalyst Ranch experience. \nCatalyst Ranch’s FEBRUARY OPEN HOUSE: Tour our venue!\nLooking for the perfect venue for an upcoming corporate meeting or an unforgettable party? \nCurious about what it’s ACTUALLY like when you’re ACTUALLY here? \nThen come ACTUALLY be here February 10\, and immerse yourself in the Catalyst Ranch experience! \n \nCatalyst Ranch is a one-of-a-kind venue that is best experienced first-hand. Stop in between 5pm and 7pm\, on Monday\, February 10 to see for yourself: \n\nMeet our friendly Client Services and Special Events staff—the heroes who guide your meeting or event planning every step of the way.\nSnack on goodies—house-made and served with our signature flair—while you EXPLORE our lively and stimulating rooms\, just waiting to make your next meeting or event unforgettable.\n\nAnd to thank you for visiting\, each person we meet will be entered to win a $50 GIFT CARD to one of our hot West Loop neighbor restaurants!\nAll this is FREE. There’s no admission. We want to meet you! \nGatherings at Catalyst Ranch are uniquely creative and always unforgettable. Come meet us and tour our venue to see how great YOUR meeting or special event can be. See you at the OPEN HOUSE… \n>>Register to let us know you’re coming!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/february-open-house-tour-our-venue/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House
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SUMMARY:LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois Mix & Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Join the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois for their February Mix n Mingle. Enjoy an evening of networking\, appetizers\, and drinks while experiencing an amazing venue within the city of Chicago. We will have free format as well as structured networking opportunities available. \n \nSilver Members (Before February 4th) – $20\nSilver Members (After February 4th) – $25\nGuests: $30\nGold\, Platinum\, Rainbow\, and Corporate – Included with membership
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/lgbt-chamber-of-commerce-of-illinois-mix-mingle/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking
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SUMMARY:LIVE: Your Health
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin Ritter of Live for Yourself Consulting brings his LIVE series to Catalyst Ranch with speakers sparking conversations around the theme of “Your Health”. \n— \nHave you ever wanted to attend an event that was focused on YOU and your growth? \nHave you ever been to a “networking” event and wished you could just have a real conversation and not small talk? \nLIVE events give the stage to men and women who make a difference in their community\, providing an open forum to talk about life struggles\, challenges\, keys to success and lessons in relationships\, health\, business and more. \nEach event is focused on a specific theme and involves incredible thought-provoking speakers\, and networking activities in-between. \nMake sure to get to the event by 6:30 PM to grab some refreshments and chat with other attendees. The event will start promptly at 7 PM. \nTentative agenda: \n\n6:30 PM – Doors Open\n7:00 PM – Introduction\n7:10 PM – 1st Speaker\n7:25 PM – Facilitated discussion\n7:45 PM – 2nd Speaker\n8:00 PM – Facilitated discussion\n8:20 PM – 3rd Speaker\n8:35 PM – Q&A\n8:50 PM – Closing\n\n— \nNote: This is NOT a networking business professional event. You will get real\, open\, authentic\, and vulnerable\, and warning\, you may be inspired\, transform\, meet some new people\, and grow personally. \nTickets will increase to $20 the Monday before the event. \n— \nSpeakers:\n\nCorene Summers\nRegina Trillo\nEvan Shy\n\nClick the ticket link to read bios for each of the evening’s guests. \n— \nLIVE event director and host:\n \nDr. Benjamin Ritter\, is a Chicago based social entrepreneur\, coach\, consultant\, mentor\, and expert in the fields of personal and professional internal leadership development. \nThroughout his career he has worked in the areas of hospitality\, the entertainment industry\, public health\, education\, childcare\, healthcare\, and personal and professional development\, constantly seeking new experiences to learn more about the world\, and himself. \nThe culmination of his previous personal\, professional\, and educational experiences led him to create Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting\, a coaching/consulting company that is focused on helping successful professionals find more meaning at life and in work. \nLFY Consulting bases its coaching practices on the unique LIVE system\, which integrates doctoral level applied learning theory\, and curriculum and leadership development research. \nDr. Benjamin Ritter is also the host of the Live for yourself podcast and Live for Yourself events\, author of The Live for Yourself Workbook\, and The Essentials\, creator of The Breakup Supplement\, and the online instructor for the course “Craft a Job you Love from a Job you Have.”
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/live-your-health/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Talk
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SUMMARY:THE HUMAN JOURNEY® Conductor Training: 6-CEU Professional Development for Clinicians Feb 22
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch welcomes frequent collaborator and facilitator Sara K. Schneider for a one-day class in THE HUMAN JOURNEY®\, a new and important Professional Development training for therapists\, nurses\, and counselors. \n\n\nTHE HUMAN JOURNEY®: Helping families face the challenge of their lives\n“For families needing to lean forward in the face of big challenges\, THE HUMAN JOURNEY® is a novel method that draws on archetypal psychology\, narrative facilitation\, systems theory\, and group process to help groups build belonging\, and individuals construct meaning\, when challenges lie on the road ahead. \nStyled as a game\, and organized as a facilitated experience with the dramatic shape of a three-act play\, THE HUMAN JOURNEY® boosts listening and inquiring skills\, the respectful sharing of disparate experiences\, and the commitment to going forward together.” \nSara K. Schneider\, PhD\, leads one-day trainings for clinicians on Jan 31 and Feb 22. 6 CEUs are included for social workers\, nurses\, and counselors. \n\nFor more information about THE HUMAN JOURNEY® program and the one-day Conductor Trainings\, please see http://the-human-journey.com and the Eventbrite registration page.\n\n\n \nSara K. Schneider\, Ph.D.\nFounder & CEO\, THE HUMAN JOURNEY®\nSara K. Schneider\, Ph.D. is a Yale- and NYU-educated book author\, organizational consultant\, workshop leader\, and theatre-maker who analyzes  groups from a social-science perspective. From data-derived insights\, she creates experiences for service enhancement in healthcare and the deepening of the web of service provider and family relationships.   \nSara has been a tenured education professor in leadership studies\, guiding working professionals in education\, healthcare\, the clergy\, and law enforcement in accessing and growing their own and their colleagues’ wisdom and resources. Her deep experience across the social sciences and applied performing arts\, along with her practical role as a learning and retreat design consultant\, make her workshops an experience of rich insight for professionals striving to enrich what they already do so well. \n\n*We at Catalyst Ranch were pleased to feature Sara among five pioneering women entrepreneurs celebrated at our 17th Anniversary Party in 2019. The gathering recognized inspired\, Chicagoland small businesses and the amazing women behind them!\n\n 
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/the-human-journey-professional-development-for-clinicians-feb-22/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Class,Professional Development
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