Building Resilience from the Inside Out
2021-02-16 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Virtual workshop focusing on well-being in the workplace, led by Moe Carrick, local author and coach with Moementum, Inc.
This interactive workshop will offer engaging ideas for business owners and leaders at every level to build your capacity in three essential areas:
1.Understanding the impact of 2020’s challenges on your people and what to do next.
2. How to show up and lead for humans by navigating emotional well-being, mental health, and burnout while building resilience.
3. How to foster accountability and build success in the next 12 months with flexible and hybrid approaches at work.

Environmental Justice Episode 5
2021-02-16
Join Central Oregon Womxn in Conservation the final episode of their Environmental Justice series. The focus for this episode will be to brainstorm how we can take action that reflects our commitment to environmental justice. You will spend time discussing barriers to action and how you can support others in making and achieving realistic activism goals.
Please come prepared with three things you are committed to or interested in that will help you further your values in relation to environmental justice.
If you haven’t already attended an episode, it’s not too late to join! You can sign up at the link below – all are welcome!

Self-Care and Work After 2020
2021-02-17
Virtual workshop focusing on well-being in the workplace, led by Moe Carrick, local author and coach with Moementum, Inc.
This interactive workshop will offer engaging ideas for employees to explore their well-being at work and craft strategies for bouncing back (or bouncing forward to the new uncharted “normal”). We’ll explore three areas:
1. Strategies for closing the stress cycle.
2. Courage as a strategy for wellness and how incorporating vulnerability can get us there.
3. Why team health matters and our part in it going forward.

Upcoming broadchats
2021-02-24
The Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads, a chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness will have a number of broadchats (educational opportunities) that will be virtual until folks can meet in person again. For more information or to sign up to participate, contact Mary Fleischmann at maryriverwoman@bendcable.com.

February 24th: Roads, Roads and More Roads. Did you know that roads and associated infrastructures are one of the greatest causes for loss of biodiversity? Join and look at road densities in nearby Ochoco National Forest.

Conversational Vulnerability-Building Trust to have Difficult Conversations
2021-03-11
How do we speak our own opinions without getting into a yelling match? Can we hold respect for others even when we don’t respect their ideals? Is it possible to have hard conversations that build relationships instead of breaking them? Dr. Rev. Steven Koski is going to try and help answer these hard questions, and help build a relational communication tool box.

Osher Lifelong Learning Open House
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-19
Join OLLI-UO From Your Home for a Week of Program Offerings!
OLLI-UO is now virtual! They offer thought-provoking lectures, discussions, and study groups for adults 50 and better. Their classes are offered via Zoom right now, and invite you to join for a sample of their programming.
Attend one session—or all!
Monday, March 15–Friday, March 19, 2021
The event is free and open to the public; however, advanced registration is required. Participants are asked to register only once for the week. Please note: Zoom links for each session will be sent out day before each session. Please register to get onto their email list.

OLCV Book Club: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
2021-03-22
OLCV’s Environmental Book Club is back for 2021!
Whether or not you’ve attended their past meetings, OLCV invites you to join their next bookn club—Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb. In this creative non-fiction book, Goldfarb explores the profound impact that beavers have on our world, from wetland creation, to salmon health, to drought prevention, to fighting climate change. Eager looks back at how the decline of beavers has changed landscapes worldwide, and how activists—called ‘Beaver Believers’—are working to restore this influential species to its former glory.

Upcoming broadchats
2021-03-24
The Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads, a chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness will have a number of broadchats (educational opportunities) that will be virtual until folks can meet in person again. For more information or to sign up to participate, contact Mary Fleischmann at maryriverwoman@bendcable.com.

March 24th: Eastside screenings, what does are the impacts to our forests with trees larger than 21 inches being logged? Join us for this very important conversation.

Bend YP Expert Webinar: Time Management and Self Motivation to Avoid Burnout
2021-04-08
Young Professionals are working from home, working from the office part-time, or working from the office full-time. Some have kids that are in school, or not in school. Work lives and personal lives have melded together and need help to keep it all organized!
Learn from Laura Boehme, Ph.D, Chief Information/Human Resources Officer at COCC and project management expert about how to manage time, energy, and how to actually implement the time management things we have heard a thousand times. Let’s learn together how to organize our time and avoid the burnout of always playing catch-up.

Upcoming broadchats
2021-04-28
The Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads, a chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness will have a number of broadchats (educational opportunities) that will be virtual until folks can meet in person again. For more information or to sign up to participate, contact Mary Fleischmann at maryriverwoman@bendcable.com.

April 28th: Invasive species – what do they look like, how to report their locations to the state. Learn how to use a very useful app when you are out on your hikes to identify and report invasive species.

Expert Webinar: The Entrepreneurial Spirit
2021-05-13
Learn how Shannon Keith, CEO and founder of Sudara, integrated her passion into her work and have that work connect to a global purpose!
Hear Shannon Keith speak on her amazing entrepreneurial journey, share advice for how to keep going when things get hard, and how important it is to have purpose driven work, no matter what we do.

Networking 2.0 - Gearing up to go live!
2021-06-03
Come spend an hour with Julie Harrelson, Managing Director at Cascade Seed Fund, for a refreshing conversation about networking (especially while we’re still in a global pandemic).
