Permission to Rise
Rethinking Success as an Entrepreneur
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
What if success wasn’t only about productivity, growth, or always pushing for more?
Behind results, there’s often a quieter kind of pressure. The one that tells you to do more, do better, and keep going, even when you’re already at capacity. Over time, it starts to shape how you work, how you make decisions, and how you see yourself.
This workshop is for women entrepreneurs and leaders who feel that pressure and are ready to take a step back. To slow down without guilt. To better understand what’s driving it, and to start redefining success on their own terms.
In this workshop, you’ll explore:
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Your relationship to performance and expectations
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Patterns of overperformance and what they’re costing you
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The visible and invisible pressures you’re carrying
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The roles and “masks” you tend to take on
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The link between performance, guilt, and overload
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The beliefs that keep these patterns in place
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What success looks like when it’s truly aligned with you
Build a business that fits your energy, your values, and your life, not the other way around.
Want the full workshop outline or wondering if this is the right fit for your team or organization?
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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.