HOW TO BUILD AN INFLUENCER MARKETING STRATEGY

With The Merit Club

1-2PM | Thursday 6th January

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In this workshop, Rosie Davies-Smith, founder of PR Dispatch, will show you how to build a well-thought-out influencer strategy. From establishing your objectives to ways to build meaningful relationships with influencers.

OUR SPEAKER, ROSIE DAVIES-SMITH

Rosie Davies-Smith is the founder of PR Dispatch – the UK’s first affordable PR membership platform dedicated to supporting product-based businesses in doing their own PR and gaining magazine coverage themselves. Their membership offering also includes an Influencer Membership where they teach businesses how to work with influencers.

Free for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event | Zoom required

LET’S BE MORE MINDFUL ABOUT DRINKING

With The Merit Club

8-9PM | Wednesday 5th January

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Susan Laurie uses her own experience to help people become more mindful about alcohol and drinking. She is not anti alcohol, but wants others to be aware of the things that she wishes she had known. Following university Susan had a successful career in marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and was then an entrepreneur with her own company, before succumbing to a serious drinking problem. This escalated to a life-threatening situation, despite many attempts at familiar interventions including counselling, rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous. After her recovery, she wrote the book ‘From Rock Bottom To Sober Forever’, which has provided inspiration and hope to thousands of people and has been praised for the exceptional account of the stealth-like progression of alcohol addiction, and she uses her unique experience to help people avoid alcohol becoming problematic.

Free for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event | Zoom required

NEW YEAR, NEW FINANCES

With The Merit Club

7:30-8:30PM | Tuesday 4th January 

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Are your finances creating worries, big or small, which are holding you back in creating the lifestyle you want for yourself? The Merit Club want to give you the support you need, so starting with our finances, their wealth experts will lead you to financial confidence through their monthly online round table discussions.

Free for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event | Zoom required

FACILITATING HYBRID COLLABS

With Curve

10AM | Monday 24 January

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Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.

You’ll come away with:

– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works

– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals

– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way

– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance

– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours

– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working

– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team

Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page

GET YOUR STARTUP ROCKING

With CoStartup & Go

8AM-6PM | Various December dates

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GROW AND SCALE YOUR STARTUP

With CoStartup & Go

9AM-6PM | Wednesday 15th December

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Free for Uncommon members

IKIGAI AND HAPPINESS

With Discover Your Bounce

1-1:45PM | Thursday 9th December

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Free for Uncommon members

WINTER SELF-CARE RITUALS

With Nicole Crentsil

4-4:30pm | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Explore Nicole’s favourite Winter Rituals (physical/fitness, mental wellbeing, self-care, skincare and bodycare).

About Nicole Crentsil

Nicole Crentsil is a Ghanaian-British cultural curator, entrepreneur and investor based in London. Nicole is the CEO of Black Girl Fest – a platform dedicated to Black women, girls and non-binary people. She’s also the founder of BIG SIS, a new network supporting the personal development of creative working women. 

Nicole currently sits on the Members Advisory Board for the Tate and is also a VC Scout and Angel Investor with Ada Ventures- a £34 million fund investing in underrepresented founders. 

In 2018, Forbes listed Nicole as one of 100 women to follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. In the same year, TimeOut named Nicole as 1 of 50 Londoner’s shaping the city’s cultural landscape. Nicole is passionate about connecting women, young people and underrepresented groups to art, culture and events.

Nicole’s Socials: | Instagram |Black Girl Fest Instagram | Website

HOSPITAL SCRUBS TO SKINCARE: MAINTAINING WINTER SKIN 

With Dr Kemi

1-1:30PM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Dr Kemi’s talk will be on how to switch your skincare routine from Summer to Winter in order to maintain healthy, glowing refreshed skin.

About Dr Kemi

NHS Doctor and Skinthusiast. Dr. Kemi has recently been working on the front-lines during COVID. She has recently swapped her hospital scrubs for skincare ingredients and is sharing her passion for skin.

Dr Kemi’s Socials: Instagram | Website

GLOW, TONE AND SOOTHE: OHANA SKINCARE’S CBD GUA SHA FACIAL

With Ohana Skin

11-11:30AM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Ohana will guide you through a gua sha facial massage to liberate your skin. Blood flow increases, fine lines and wrinkles reduce, and complexion calms with each stroke. This is as much about skincare to flush out toxins, tone, firm and revitalise the skin, as it is about the self care ritual. Using a rose quartz crystal promotes unconditional self love to support balance, energy and wellbeing. We will use our CBD face oil or serum as a foundation to help the gua sha glide and reduce existing tensions. CBD is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps to soothe the skin for a healthy glow. Join this self care skincare session!

About Ohana Skin

Jasmin Thomas is the founder of Ohana Skincare, a plant-based CBD company that prioritises your wellbeing through skincare products and self care tools. Ohana products are produced from natural ingredients and contain unique formulations that combine powerful plant properties that serve the skin, from seed to self. The brand provides solutions for women’s health, holistically, and will be launching a platform to better track this to overcome the gap many women experience in their journey of wellbeing. 

Jasmin was diagnosed with MS in 2015. She started using cannabis to alleviate various frustrating symptoms of her condition. Her medical journey led to her professional one, which now allows her to pursue her passions. 

In 2018, Jasmin co-founded entOURage Network, a women’s empowerment organisation that cultivates a platform for people to engage and explore Europe’s legal cannabis market. Jasmin speaks at conferences and events globally about skincare to self-care.

Ohana Skin’s Socials: Website | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

WINTER SELF-CARE WITH COCONUT OIL

With Virginutty

3-3:30PM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Coconuts aren’t just for sipping in summer! Virginutty founder Mel Legarda deep dives into how we can use the humble coconut to keep our bodies feeling nourished, moisturiser and glowing  through the winter months. In this session you’ll learn 3 top tips for involving coconut oil into your self care routine.

About Virginutty

Virginutty is an ethical coconut oil skincare, homeware and wellness brand hand-poured in London. Founded by Melissa Legarda, a British Filipina entrepreneur passionate about natural ingredients, Virginutty’s mission is to empower the minority through coconuts.

Virginutty’s Socials: Instagram | TikTok | Website

SHELF HELP: WHY WOO WOO WORKS, WITH DR DAVID R HAMILTON

With Shelf Help

1-2PM | Monday 15 November

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“The surprising science behind meditation, reiki, crystals and other alternative practices.

We LOVE it when science and spirituality come together, and in our opinion no one does it better than best-selling author, mind-body expert and ‘kindness tsar’ Dr David Hamilton.

In his latest book, David dives into some of the ‘woo’ practices that are becoming more mainstream, and presents the cutting-edge research and scientific evidence that proves how and why these traditional approaches actually work. And in this workshop the Hay House author and sought-after speaker will share some of his ‘out there’ findings.

He’ll also share some on how we can incorporate these practices into our everyday lives in order to find true balance and physical and mental health.”

More information/Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page.

REMOTE WORKSHOP WORKSHOP

With Curve

10AM-12PM | Wednesday 24 November

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In this hands-on workshop delivered on Teams or Zoom, you’ll learn how to re-think and re-structure your collaborative interactions for meetings, workshops and events in an online world. Whether you’re collaborating to create new concepts or to deliver at pace, we’ll show you how to apply different models of collaboration within your own organisation to achieve the outcomes you need.

Building Brilliant Collaborations is always delivered in two parts.

Part A is from 10:00am – 12:00pm

Part B is from 14:00pm – 16:00pm. 

Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page

REMOTE WORKSHOP WORKSHOP

With Curve

10AM-12PM | Tuesday 16 November

Register Your Place Here

In this hands-on workshop delivered on Teams or Zoom, you’ll learn how to re-think and re-structure your collaborative interactions for meetings, workshops and events in an online world. Whether you’re collaborating to create new concepts or to deliver at pace, we’ll show you how to apply different models of collaboration within your own organisation to achieve the outcomes you need.

You’ll come away with:

– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works

– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals

– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working

– Tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance

– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours

This workshop is delivered as 2 x 2-hour sessions:

Session One runs on October 20th from 10.00am – 12.00pm

Session Two runs on October 20th from 14:00pm – 16.00pm

Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page

BUILDING RESILIENT TEAMS

With Discover Your Bounce

1-2PM | Tuesday 9 November

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Free for Uncommon members

EATING FOR ENERGY 

With Sophie Trotman

9:30-10AM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

 In this session, Registered Nutritional Therapist Sophie Trotman will walk us through some ways that we can improve our energy levels in the Winter months.  Tune in for info on specific nutrients and ways of eating to optimise our energy.

About Sophie

Sophie is a Registered Nutritional Therapist DipION mBANT CNHC. Sophie sees clients on a 1:1 basis, helping them with a variety of concerns such as low energy, weight management, gut health issues, anxiety, poor sleep and skin conditions.  Sophie also runs workshops for businesses and writes for multiple publications.

A busy sales job and an active London social life left Sophie feeling low-energy. She desperately wanted information on how to improve her health, but was left confused reading conflicting online articles and taking advice off Instagram! She decided to study a four-year Nutritional Therapy Diploma at the prestigious and world-renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London, studying the latest evidence-based research from pioneering experts and partaking in clinical practice.

Sophie Trotman’s Socials: Website | Instagram

BENEFITS OF CBD OIL

With OTO CBD

9:30AM | Thursday 27 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

In this session, OTO will answer your questions about CBD Oil, its benefits, what it can help you with, and so much more.

About OTO

OTO started as a group of passionate, talented friends who sought to use the power of CBD to help themselves and others. Across most of the world, the benefits of CBD remained a mystery… misunderstood and mis-sold. That shouldn’t be the case. Their mission is to help people discover the power of CBD through thoughtful and effective products that easily and enjoyably fit into their daily lives.

OTO’s Socials: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn

FIND YOUR INNER CALM & MAINTAIN HEALTHY HABITS

With Finding Your Feet (Abby & Grace)

2:30PM-3PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Within this session, Abby & Grace will cover tips on how to implement new habits and actually stick to them. They will include journal prompts and a habit tracker which you can find here and download before and after the session. 

Find Your Inner Calm & Maintain Healthy Habits

Building New Habits

Don’t wait for the motivation, create it 

Start with why 

How long it takes to create a new habit 

Maintain Healthy Lockdown Habits

FYF habit tracker & habit stacking

Journal prompts 

Choice reduction 

Boundaries In The Return To ‘Normal’

Remember you get to choose, keep what you love & throw out what you don’t

Remove the pressure & define your own new normal

About Abby & Grace

Grace & Abby are two millennials on a mission to help others find a way back to their true authentic self and find their feet in life. They offer a young and modern take on self-development through their popular podcast and online workshops which focus on self-love, spirituality and mindfulness. Through their platform they actively work on combatting the stigmas surrounding mental health, by having open and vulnerable conversations between themselves and their incredible guests. Grace & Abby’s journey started 7 years ago in fashion school where they bonded over their passion for self-development, the special bond between the two is what makes the process of self-discovery even more fun, ensuring plenty of laughs along the way.

Abby & Grace’s Socials: Website | Instagram | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED: THE ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY IN CONSUMER WELLNESS

With Aly Rahimtoola

9:30-10AM | Thursday 27 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

We will start with sharing data and findings on how COVID-19 has shaped Consumer Wellness and what we can expect – what we can expect the new “normal” to be.

Linking this, Aly will speak a little about the highs and lows of his journey (which is not complete) and some of the tricks that he has adopted to manage the journey. A Q&A will then follow.

About Aly

Herbal Essentials founder Aly Rahimtoola is a global citizen with the perspective needed to lead a consumer goods company beyond its national borders. Aly was born in Pakistan and educated at Westminster School in London before graduating from Brown University in the United States. During a successful career in Shipping based in Dubai, Aly realized that more and more consumers were like him – yearning for brands that were genuinely authentic in everything they did but also high performance and affordable.

With these in mind, he founded Herbal Essentials, an award-winning skincare brand powered by pure Himalayan Spring Water which has been clinically proven to boost skin health. Herbal Essentials offers its customers affordable, clean, cruelty-free products that are made in France with minimum 90% natural origin content. The brand has launched in 13 global markets during the Pandemic and will launch with Superdrug in the UK this summer.

Herbal Essentials’ Socials: Website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok

UNDO THE DESK: GLUTE GAINS

With Rob from MobGroup

12:30PM-1PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Paying special attention to the lower body and glutes (a muscle group often neglected) this class will guide you through controlled exercises to strengthen and shape your lower body. Strong glutes help with knee, hip and lower back health, so if you spend most of the day sitting down, this class is for you!

Intensity: Medium

What you’ll need: Grab whatever weights you can find along with your mat

About Rob

Rob is a fitness & wellness coach, and the co-founder of the workplace wellness consultancy; Mob Group.

As an Uncommon member, you have free access to their fitness, cooking and mindset classes via the members dashboard.

MobGroup’s Socials: Website | Instagram | Rob’s Instagram

PLANT BASED DIET 101

With Talia Cecchele

5PM-5:30PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

In this session, Talia will answer your questions about plant based diets, including what plant-based eating is, tips on how to maximise your nutrition when following a plant-based diet, myth busting, gut health & more! 

About Talia

Talia Cecchele is a Registered Dietitian and founder of Talia Cecchele Nutrition. She works part-time in London’s leading private mental health hospital on a specialist eating disorders unit and part-time running her private practice where she and the team of Registered Dietitians support people to bring balance back to nutrition and improve their relationship with food. Talia also offers corporate wellness services.  

Talia’s Socials: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn

TEA RITUALS WITH TEA & ME – HOT & ICED TEAS

With Rianna Drake

9:30-10AM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Join us for an immersive experience in brewing Tea & Me’s blends across their Signature and Origins Collections. Enjoy a period to unwind and indulge in some me time. Their mantra is ‘Tea that embodies the phases of your day’, as their infusions are designed to aid you throughout your daily life and give your body what it needs in that moment. 

The session will include understanding the different types of tea, how to brew, the intentions behind them and the benefits they offer. 

Tea & Me’s Socials: Website | Instagram | Facebook

MASTER YOUR BREATH, MASTER YOUR LIFE

With Lucy Puttergill

6-6:30PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live

Session Overview

Breathing is the only way that we can consciously control our autonomic nervous system, it has the power to calm us down, wake us up, pull us out of a funk, help us sleep better, feel better, manage emotion better and generally get better at this old thing called life. In this session, Lucy will give you a brief introduction into the magic of breathing properly but rather than just stick with the science, you’ll also dive into a few breath practices which you can use to give yourself an energy boost, help you sleep at night and help you get centred before that big pitch at work. The secret is all in the nose. 

About Lucy

Lucy spent close to 10 years working in sales on the trading floor at two US investment banks but made the difficult decision back in 2020 to take a leap into the unknown and start over again which she wrote (and embarrassingly went viral) about here. Having secretly struggled with the pressures of juggling corporate life with a drive to find purpose, she spent a lot of time on her commutes diving into the world of self development, eastern philosophy and psychology in an effort to better manage her mind & find some sense of purpose. This journey led her to qualify as a yoga teacher back in 2019 whilst she was still working in finance and then subsequently as a Reiki practitioner, Breathwork facilitator, Ayurvedic consultant & coach. She is now working as a transformational coach, helping people transform their thinking, and in turn their lives, through deep guided self-reflection blended with bodywork, yoga & breath.

Lucy’s Socials: Website | Instagram

MOBGROUP LIVE

With MobGroup

Monday – Sunday

Register here for your complimentary MobGroup Account

Sign up here for classes if you’re already a member

MobGroup’s new online portal, keeping you physically and mentally fit, whilst being more productive than ever, all whilst working from home!

• At least seven live fitness classes every week, including HIIT, Yoga, Pilates, Boxing and more. New classes added every week.

• Morning Mindset – Make your tea or coffee, tidy your desk and start your day right with live mindfulness practises and productivity exercises. In just 15 minutes, learn to manage your emotions, stay motivated, and unlock higher levels of productivity through priming your mind.

• Live ‘Cookalongs’ with Mark – Our very own nutrition guru and future TV Chef will live stream as he cooks up a feast. We will post the ingredients list the day before, so you have time to get what you need and cook along with Mark.

Free for Uncommon members | Zoom required