Calm Over Chaos: Navigating end of year burnout and surviving the Christmas Rush is an uplifting and relatable session designed to help wāhine/women and non-binary people navigate the stress, business, and emotional load of the holiday season. Jess shares honest insights, humour, and practical tips to help you shift from survival mode to a sense of calm and contentment, even when life feels full.

Offering tangible ways to reduce being overwhelmed, create breathing space, and reconnect with what truly matters. Audiences leave feeling seen, grounded, and inspired to approach the festive season with more ease, joy, and calm.

We have made this event incredibly reasonable with the hope it will make it accessible to all, and will encourage you to come and have a drink (wine or non-alcoholic) with us to finish off the W3 events for 2025 whilst also supporting our beautiful Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke/The Waiheke Art Gallery in Oneroa.

If you haven’t ever been to the Gallery or haven’t been recently, this will be an inspiring and entertaining evening, catch up socially, meet some new people, plus it’s a chance to see the Walker & Hall Art Award exhibition. The Gallery’s gift shop is also full of taonga/treasures that make stunning Christmas gifts.

More information about Jess Stuart

Jess is a highly sought after international speaker and an author of eight books on her speciality subject of work-life balance. She is a huge supporter of wāhine/woman and gender equity, a proud member of the rainbow community, and you may recognise her from TV as she is a regular on Breakfast TV – she’s even done a TEDX talk!

Jess is described as inspiring, articulate and relatable by audiences and has a passion for sharing her knowledge and motivating others with her words. In the past 20 years Jess has burnt out, came out and spoken out and now worked out the secret to a happy and whole life. After a decade studying with Buddhist monks and nuns she uses ancient wisdom to solve modern problems and is on a mission to put the ‘being’ back into human-being.