Permission to Flow: Building a More Sustainable Way to Work

Permission to Flow
Building a More Sustainable Way to Work

Format: Full workshop — 5.5 hours (in person) | Focused version — 3.5 hours (in person)
Designed by specialists in mental health, leadership, and adult learning

Constant pressure · Urgency · Overload · Disconnection

For many professionals, this has become the baseline. Always moving. Always responding. Always trying to keep up.

This workshop offers a space to slow down, step back, and take a closer look at what is shaping the way you work.

Together, we explore the patterns that drive performance day to day, from personal habits to organizational dynamics, and how they impact your mental load, your energy, and your decision-making. The goal is not to do less, but to work in a way that is more sustainable, more intentional, and less reactive.

Through a mix of guided discussions and activities, you will explore:

Your relationship to performance and expectations
Patterns of urgency, perfectionism, and over-adaptation
Visible and invisible workplace pressures
How organizational dynamics impact your well-being
The gap between the organization's values and everyday practices.

You will leave with practical ways to:

Recognize early signs of overload
Make more intentional, aligned decisions
Adjust how you approach your work
Contribute to a healthier work environment
Redefine performance in a way that is sustainable.

This workshop helps professionals build workplaces
where people can do their best work without sacrificing
their health, identity, or sense of purpose.

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Meet the facilitators and creators of this workshop

Adult Education Specialist

Rachel Anne Hamelin

Rachel Anne is an adult-education specialist and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience designing, developing, and facilitating learning experiences in educational and organizational settings. Her work draws on deep expertise in pedagogy, curriculum design, and knowledge translation.

Over the years, she has collaborated with numerous organizations to create meaningful, accessible content that supports learning, reflection, and change.

Following a long and transformative burnout of her own, she engaged in extensive research and therapeutic work to better understand its signs, impacts, and pathways toward healing.

Today, she brings together her professional background, leadership experience, and lived insight through Project Permission, where education becomes a space for clarity, self-awareness, and sustainable change.

Registered Social Worker

Mélissa-Anne Leduc, MSS RSW

Mélissa-Anne is a social worker with over 15 years of experience and holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Ottawa. Her work bridges mental health, somatic practices, and systems-based support.

She works within an educational setting, where her role focuses on capacity building through training and professional development on trauma-informed approaches, nervous system regulation, and well-being. She also serves as a consultant on complex cases in school environments.

Her training includes somatic and trauma-informed approaches such as Polyvagal Theory, EFT, ACT, and CBT, as well as restorative yoga and movement-based practices.

Shaped by her own experience with chronic pain, Mélissa-Anne brings a grounded, compassionate perspective to conversations around stress, burnout, and healing.