Upcoming Q3 Chapter Meetups: Where Elephant Riders Come Together In Person

Something special happens when Elephant Riders gather in person.

Stories get shared. Cards get played. And conversations that rarely happen in workplaces—finally do.

We’re kicking off the second half of 2025 with a packed calendar of Local Elephant Rider Chapter Meetups across Aotearoa, Australia, and beyond. These events are hosted by our incredible community of volunteer Chapter Leads in cities around the world. They create space for connection, shared learning, and growing the movement to humanise work—one conversation at a time.

Some highlights from our Q2 Meetups

What are Chapter Meetups all about?

Our Chapter Meetups are 90-minute in-person gatherings created for the Elephant Rider community. They’re a chance to reconnect with the tools and each other, hear Bright Spot stories, and explore how emotional culture is showing up in the real world.

Here’s what to expect:

• We play with The Emotional Culture Deck (always!)

• We explore real workplace challenges and emotional culture topics together

• We share insights, stories, and Bright Spots

• We connect with fellow Elephant Riders in our cities and regions

These events are free and open to anyone who’s completed one of our ECD Online Courses. But we love it when Elephant Riders bring a guest—so if you’re not yet part of our community but know someone who is, ask them to bring you along!

Q3 Meetups: August & September 2025

• Sydney – Tue, Aug 12 – hosted by Desleigh White

• Perth – Wed, Aug 20 – hosted by Shae Beswick

• Canberra – Thu, Aug 21 – hosted by Tubi Oyston

• Auckland – Wed, Aug 27 – hosted by Erika Barden & Rebecca Frazer

• Nelson–Tasman – Mon, Sep 1 – hosted by Cathie Gould

• Wellington – Tue, Sep 2 – hosted by Andrea Hancox & Kristin Murray

• Melbourne – Tue, Sep 2 – hosted by Lorissa Garcia

• Hobart – Thu, Sep 4 – hosted by Katherine Riddoch

• Toronto – Wed, Sep 10 – hosted by Joanne Free-Pameli

• Brisbane – Wed, Sep 17 – hosted by Elena Kingston-Bedford

Keep an eye out in your local Chapter space for RSVP details!

Q3 Theme & Tool Spotlight: Workplace Rituals

This quarter’s Chapter Theme is all about Emotional Culture Crafting—and we’re zooming in on one of the most powerful (but often overlooked) parts of building culture: Workplace Rituals.

We’ll be using the ECD Rituals Canvas, our beautifully simple (and sneakily strategic) tool that helps teams embed emotional culture through small, intentional, human actions. It’s a bit of a trojan horse… one tiny ritual at a time, it shifts how people feel at work.

We’ve sent professionally printed copies of the Rituals Canvas to each Chapter Lead, to share at their meetups!

To all our Chapter Leads—thank you. None of this happens without your care, time, and generosity. You’re helping us build something truly human.

We can’t wait to see how each Chapter explores this theme in their own way.

Let’s make the invisible visible—one meaningful ritual at a time.