Acro Mel
Retreats
As an instructor, Mel partners with studios and organizations to offer retreats that are a couple days to a couple weeks long (average is about one week). Retreats are a wonderful way to focus on training, health, and wellness, while staying in exotic locations that offer opportunities for tourism, relaxing, and new experiences!
Upcoming retreats:
October 5-10, 2026
Silks and Hoop Retreat with Aerial Tropical Chillout (ATCO) Retreats
Sau Paulo, Ilhabela Island, Brazil
DM: www.instagram.com/aerial.tropical.chill_out
Email: aerial.tropical.chillout@gmail.com
*Includes accommodation, three meals per day, photoshoots, and private training time with Mel!
Prerequisites: inversions and familiarity with hoop and silks.
Questions or requests - email me at info@acromel.ca
Upcoming Events
Aerial Workshops @ The Bendy Studio in Bristol, UK
Friday, June 26
6:15-7:45 pm - Aerial Silks: drops and combos
Learn drops and combinations that work fabulous for lower ceilings! Including drops that don't take up too much height but still have that WOW factor, plus cool combinations and split balances that can be added on the entry or exits.
Prerequisite: aerial invert (short arm or long arm acceptable)
8:00-9:30 pm - Aerial Hoop: spins, drops, and combos
This workshop will focus on spinning entries and technique along with various split combinations, entries, and exits, along with drops on both spin and static!
Prerequisites: pull over to hip balance
Events, Workshops, and Customized Programming
As a workshop leader, Mel partners with various organizations around the world for workshops, festivals, and customized programming that suit client, studio, student, and organizational needs. Mel is also known as a conference speaker, moderator, and as a master of ceremonies, comfortable engaging with multinational audiences. Events may be focused on health and wellness, circus, yoga, fitness, and/or may include non-physical components, such as organizational culture, student development theory and practice, leadership, and healthy business practices.
Mel has worked with universities, executive leadership, corporations, healthcare professionals, women's caucuses, and more for enhancing individual and organizational success. For more information, please email info@acromel.ca including your organization, event (if applicable), audience demographic, expected outcomes, dates (if applicable), and location (in person, hybrid, or online).
Past (public) workshops include:
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Applicability of Leadership Styles in the MENA Region (Conference, USA, 2024)
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The Warmth-Competence Line Looking at Women in the Workplace (Conference, USA, 2024)
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Programs and Services: A Critique and Discussion (Indiana State University, USA, 2024)
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Global Student Affairs Practices (Conference, USA, 2024)
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Overcoming Ageism in the Workplace: Two Perspectives (Conference, USA, 2024)
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The Warmth-Competence Line: Women in the Workplace (Women’s Caucus, Webinar, 2024)
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Moderator: Living at the Edge of Climate Change (Keynote Lecture, Saudi Arabia, 2023)
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The Role of Servant Leadership (Conference, Online, 2023)
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Response Practice in the Workplace (Science and Research Conference, Saudi Arabia, 2023)
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Student Development Theory: Self-Authorship (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)
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Women in the Workplace (Conference, USA, 2023)
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Gender and Gender Identity Development (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)
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The Future of Student Affairs Practices (Indiana State University, USA, 2023)
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Women in the Workplace (Women in Science and Research Conference, Saudi Arabia, 2022)
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Corporate Health and Wellness Workshop (Dow Chemical Company, Saudi Arabia, 2021)
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Yoga and Wellness (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2021)
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Health and Wellness Workshop (Saudi Leadership Program, Saudi Arabia, 2019)
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Yoga and Wellness (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2019)
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Health and Fitness Workshop (University of Calgary in Qatar, Qatar, 2015)
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Fitness Workshop (Qatar Canadian School, Qatar, 2013)
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Health and Wellness Workshop (Qatar Sports Day, Qatar, 2013)
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Master of Ceremonies (University of Victoria, Canada, 2012)
