

Fuel Your Fire – a self-care and motivational retreat
Sunday 17 August 2025
9.15am – 3pm
Booking Deadline:
Thursday 14 August 2025
Event Date:
Sunday 17 August 2025
Event Time:
9.15am – 3pm
Location:
Available Online?
No
Who’s it for?
Movement, yoga, Pilates, dance teachers
Fee:
See course information
Contact:
Treat yourself to a day just for you – your wellbeing matters! This special in-person CPD course is all about you. In partnership with the Christchurch Ballet Society, this one-day event is brimming with inspiration and practical tools to refresh, inspire, and support your wellbeing– mentally and physically. Across 3 engaging sessions, expert coaches in movement, nutrition, and physiology, will guide you through a deep and holistic exploration of personal wellness so you can keep doing what you love, and feel great doing it.
Aims:
The aims of this activity are to:
- Provide an enjoyable day that energises the participants for their own teaching
- Offer a day in which tutors have time and space for self-reflection
- Motivate movement tutors in their work providing fresh ideas and approaches
- Provide strategies for relaxation to cope with the physical and mental challenges and stresses of teaching, running a business etc
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the activity, participants will:
- Have had an opportunity to reflect on their work and their life and feel refreshed
- Feel re-motivated with new ideas for their teaching
- Have coping strategies to call upon at times of stress
- Have had an enjoyable day with like-minded people
Schedule
9.15am | Registration |
9.30am | Ignite the Journey facilitated by Abbey Parsons |
10.40am | Morning Tea |
11.00am | Fuelling Up for Strength and Stamina facilitated by Lucy Carey |
12.00pm | Lunch (provided) |
1.00pm | Embers to Energy facilitated by Hazel Boot |
2.45pm | Wrap Up |
3.00pm | Finish |
Tutors
Abbey Parsons – https://www.movementorpilates.co.nz/about-us/
Lucy Carey – https://eattypelive.com/about-me/
Hazel Boot – https://www.mindinmovement.co.nz/meet-hazel
Fees
Fees – including lunch
Earlybird – up to 31 July
Members (RAD & CBS) $175
Non Members $205
Full cost (from 1 August)
Members (RAD & CBS) $195
Non Members $225
CPD Hours
5 time valued hours
Further information
Zoom information
Please ensure that you have both video and audio functions on your computer. You must have the video switched on throughout the course, but you will be asked to mute the audio when not engaged in discussion or group work. You also need to ensure that you have enough space to participate fully.
Due to privacy considerations and the importance of maintaining the trust and confidence of our participants and tutors, we do not record CPD courses. It is essential for participants to feel confident that they can fully engage in their training, knowing that their comments or images will not be shared, taken out of context, or misrepresented.
Payment
If paying by internet banking (please quote your full name as the reference and email a copy of the Internet Banking confirmation to office@rad.org.nz) Payment should be made to: Account Name: Royal Academy of Dance Bank Name: ANZ Bank Account No: 01 0517 0198208 00
If paying by Credit Card – we will send an invoice and there will be an option to pay by debit/credit card. Please note this will incur a surcharge.
How to book
Fill out the form below and submit, we will be in touch within 2 business days with payment information and confirmation of registration. Please note payment of the fee secures your place.
Terms and Conditions
Fees
- All fees are inclusive of GST. The Academy reserves the right to amend fees where either tax changes take place during a calendar year or circumstances, such as the introduction of or a devaluation of a currency.
- We reserve the right to charge a surcharge for application forms received after the closing date.
- 3.Payment for activities should be submitted separately from payment for resources.
Closing Dates
Closing dates will be published locally, but the general rule is that closing dates is two weeks prior to the date of the Seminar.
- Applicants are asked to apply early to ensure a place as each Seminar has a limited number of places.
General Terms and Conditions
- All applications and payments will be processed in order of receipt.
- Correspondence will be sent primarily via email, if the email address is incorrect the RAD cannot be held responsible for missed or misdirected email communications.
- Written confirmation of your application will not be sent until the closing date.
- Applications are non-transferable.
- All participants must be aged 16 and over.
- A Tax Invoice/Receipt will be issued and posted after the course together with the Certificate of Attendance and Transcript.
- The Academy reserves the right to alter the advertised programme and/or tutor without prior notice. The information in this and other printed or electronic brochures/notices is correct at the time of print or going online.
- If participant information is not received it is the responsibility of the individual who completed the booking to contact CPD department to arrange for the information to be reissued:
- Any CPD Value that an activity may carry is awarded in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of the RAD CPD Scheme. Any CPD Value accrued cannot be transferred between applicants.
Withdrawals, Transfers and Refunds
Participants who withdraw voluntarily will have their activity fees refunded, as follows:
a. Withdrawals before the final closing date will receive a 90% refund.
b. Withdrawals between the final closing date and six (6) working days prior to the activity will receive a 50% refund.
c. There will be no refund for withdrawals made five (5) or fewer working days prior to the start of the activity.
d. Participants who have to withdraw due to injury or illness, either before or after the closing date but before the activity starts, will receive a 90% refund, subject to the receipt of medical evidence.
Participants are strongly advised not to book travel or accommodation until receipt of final participant confirmation that the activity is taking place, usually 5 working days prior to the activity start date. The RAD will not accept liability for travel, accommodation or any other expenses incurred by participants.
Insurance
Participants are advised to consider taking out insurance against withdrawal due to injury/illness, medical treatment, or hospitalisation, or due to personal or family reasons which might prevent them completing the activity. Participants with an existing injury attend at their own risk.
Force Majeure
The RAD shall not be liable to refund fees or any other penalty should activities be cancelled due to any cause whatsoever beyond their control.
Data Protection Statement
The CPD Department hold information and contact details requested at the time of your booking that enable them to provide you with information relating to a participant’s registration for an activity. We will not disclose your information to a third party except where legally required to do so. In addition, our Privacy Statement and Company Privacy Policy are available to view and download: The CPD Privacy Statement is available to view online here. The full RAD Privacy Statement is available to view online here.
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CPD Seminar Registration – Fuel Your Fire 17 August 2025
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