Are you seeking a partnership with a local eco-living social enterprise that offers creative, sustainable and impactful community-focused workshops?

ReNewy Living offers a variety of workshops aligned with your company’s social and environmental objectives. Each workshop engages your community or workplace team, exploring innovative, actionable ways to care for each other, our communities, our places and our planet.

We’d like to help your employees or community find the best local solution for big global issues. Contact Us to see how we can partner together with positive project solutions.

Eco-Living Workshops, Tours & Events

Here’s a selection of established workshops, tours and events that focus on supporting preloved, reducing food waste, reducing plastic waste, and supporting mindful sustainable living,

Supporting Preloved

These workshops help our community avoid, reduce, reuse and become more mindful about the impact our clothing, textiles and stuff have on people and planet.

Contact Mardi here to chat about how I can help your community support preloved…

The Good Stuff Shuffle

The Good Stuff Shuffle is a community-powered, waste-reducing treasure trove where people come together to share, give, and take with a focus on environmental sustainability and community. At a Shuffle event, everything is free.

Op Shop & Preloved Guided Trail

A guided op shop and preloved trail gives your community confidence to step into the preloved shops and learn how to op shop with purpose. There are a few options for how an op shop and preloved trail can work for your community. Go here for details…

Discover more about Op Shop Trails...

Community Clothes Swap Event

Community clothes swaps help our community embrace the sharing & preloved clothing economy, take localised action, foster positive community connections, and promote shared responsibility for reducing household textile waste.

Start Here with a Clothes Swap...

Mindful Sustainable Living Workshops

These workshops help your community understand the complexities of sustainable living by acknowledging the interconnectedness of people, places and production. The workshops offer insights into why living sustainably is key to driving the much-needed change towards a healthier planet.

Contact Mardi here to chat about how we can help your community live more sustainably…

Green Cleaning Workshop

Making the switch to DIY green cleaning products is possible when the alternatives are just as powerful as the artificial chemical-filled products. In this impactful workshop, your community learns which chemicals to avoid and why switching to DIY green cleaning products are better for our health & the planet.

Find out how to start Green Cleaning...

Keep, Toss, Gift: How to Declutter Mindfully

This workshop helps your community recognise how decluttering can positively impact our living spaces but also the environment by promoting responsible consumption and waste reduction. Participants will learn the How to’s and where to’s of decluttering their homes and spaces.

Ask how to Declutter Mindfully....

Creating Art from Waste

Foraged marine debris and clean discarded waste are sources of inspiration for creating something new from what we already have around us. Your community will learn to use a range of techniques, splashed with imagination, to create their unique creation.

More info here about Creating from Waste...

Reduce Food Waste Workshops

These workshops help your community reduce food waste by becoming more mindful about food and where food waste occurs. They give actionable ways, with a focus on healthier living, and budgeting for positive planet action.

Contact Mardi here to chat about how we can help your community reduce food waste…

Sustainable Meal Planning

The sustainable meal planning workshop shows how to cook with a zero waste approach, reduce packaging & preservatives for healthier eating, and develop a more mindful approach to food consumption.

Ask about Sustainable Meal Planning here...

Reduce Plastic Waste Workshops

These workshops help our communities take action by keeping our communities free from rubbish & toxic chemicals, learn about the impacts of plastic usage on people and planet, get creative with plastic reuse and switch to plastic-free and low tox alternatives.

Contact Mardi here to chat about how we can help your community reduce their plastic waste…

Corporate Creative Workshops

Are you looking for a creative and sustainable team-based workshop? ReNewy Living offers corporate craft, art and creative workshops for teams in the Newcastle and Central Coast region. In collaboration with artists and creators, our workshops can be a part of your team building days, corporate wellbeing workshop and fundraising events.

Get in touch with Mardi here…

Sharing the Good Word…

The Marine Debris to Art school holiday workshop was received with great positivity & enthusiasm by our community. The conversations throughout the day were valuable and I appreciate your guidance, leadership, and relaxed nature.

Elise Budden / City of Newcastle

Thank you so much Mardi for a wonderful workshop, and for being so accomodating to my Eucalyptus and Tea Tree allergy.

Shaye / Low Tox Green Cleaning Workshop Participant

Mardi sparkles with down to earth enthusiasm and commitment. Her friendly, relaxed and to-the-point content sustained engagement. Enjoyment and learning were paramount.

Leonie / Opshop-ology Panel Discussion Attendee

Mardi’s Low Tox Green Cleaning presentation was inspiring and full of useful recipes, hints and tips.

Alicia Sheen / City of Newcastle

It was wonderful for all ages!

Participant / Marine Debris to Art Workshop

Frequently Asked Questions

Workshops, Presentations and Tours

Where do you offer workshops?

French for Tuesday is located in the Newcastle region of NSW. The main geographical areas for workshops, presentations and tours are within the Newcastle, Port Stephens, Hunter and Central Coast regions.

I will consider some areas of Sydney, including the Sutherland Shire, Eastern Suburbs and northern areas of Sydney. Workshop and presentation costings for these areas will reflect additional travel and time.

Who are the workshops for?

All workshops are ideal for people who want to live a more sustainable lifestyle and are keen to take localised action to plan it for the planet. People who are ready to make a real change in their home, and establish new habits which become second nature. These workshops are here to share that living sustainably doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

Living sustainably is filled with diversity, and so are the people who attend the workshops! Targeted and interested audiences include primary school age kids, teenagers, business teams, teachers, and local councils who would like to offer a sustainable living series to their community.

My workshops highlight the positives of what we can do to live a more resourceful lifestyle, acknowledging that we are at different stages of sustainable living.

Can you do a workshop or presentation at my school?

Education is at the heart of Mardi’s professional background! As an early childhood educator for 20 years, Mardi is still keen to share her knowledge with all the stakeholders involved in the education system – young children, young people, teachers and families.

A range of environmental education workshops and presentations can support the early childhood, primary and secondary school curriculums by engaging interested students in meaningful learning. Get in touch with Mardi to chat about your aims and scope of possibilities to bring authentic sustainable living into the classroom or the dynamic outdoors.

Mardi has a NSW working with children check.

How much is a workshop?

Most workshops are designed as a 2 hour workshop, and vary in cost depending upon the type and location of the workshop. Please get in touch with Mardi to discuss your workshop timeframes and budget.

What are the space requirements for a workshop?

All workshops are ideal for flexible learning spaces – spaces that allow for a range of chair-seating, floor-seating, table-seating and standing. This could be in a cafe, a shared space, community hall, office, child care centre – wherever your community is, these workshops can be there to meet them.

Some of the workshops use technology as a complementary enhancement of the presentation. Adjustments to the workshop can be made if connection to technology is unavailable.