Sanctuary - CSE Live

SANCTUARY

The Intersection of Strategy + Soul

Redefining Leadership
Creativity, and Wellbeing in Events

SANCTUARY is the intersection of Strategy & Soul.

SANCTUARY is a leadership and creative development experience designed to renew your vision, deepen your connections, and sharpen your professional edge. This is a day to restore balance and nourish your mind, body, and creative spirit, while expanding how you lead, collaborate, and build sustainable success in a fast-moving industry.

Through honest conversation, interactive learning, and intentional moments of stillness, you’ll strip back the noise and explore what it really means to thrive – not just deliver in the business of events. You’ll reframe how you design events as year-round brand and business drivers, and uncover healthier, more effective ways of leading teams, vendors, and stakeholders.

Co-created by Canadian event leaders Carly Silberstein, Samantha Mele, Stacy Wyatt, and Connie Cay-Santos, SANCTUARY blends strategy, creativity, and soul work in one powerful experience; holding space for you, your team, your clients, and your balance.

About The Experience

Guests will be welcomed into an intentionally crafted environment featuring expert-led sessions, powerful speakers, guided moments of reflection and meditation, and deep creative explorations into how mind, body, and business intersect in our work. Throughout the day, guests will enjoy gourmet wellness-focused food, elevated snacks and treats, premium gifting, and thoughtful sensory experiences designed to nourish, energize, and inspire. Bold conversations, meaningful networking, and one-of-a-kind experiential moments are woven throughout, creating a rare space for connection, insight, and renewal. SANCTUARY is not a conference session or a retreat—it is a transformative leadership experience unlike anything else in Canada.

Sensory Reset

Experience a sensory reset for mind and body; a restorative journey blending nature, stillness, movement, and mindful indulgence to awaken creativity, renew focus, and bring you fully back to yourself.

Creative Intelligence

Explore imagination + leadership through hands-on creative play. Build your creative IQ, learn to stay inspired under pressure, and lead with more clarity & originality while designing experiences that truly move people.

The Worth Workshop

A heart-to-head reset on money, value, and ownership. Explore how we define worth for ourselves and our work to price, protect, and communicate it with confidence while building financial well-being.

Soul Food Stories

Food is the heartbeat of every event. Through tastings and meaningful conversation, you’ll explore how culinary storytelling creates connection, sparks emotion, and how intentional food design can elevate the experience.

And Even More..

Story Circles: A facilitated sharing space for event profs to speak honestly about leadership, burnout, identity, and balance.

Nourish & Indulge: Explore how intentional, beautiful food can be both a restorative act and a design tool for crafting more meaningful guest experiences.

Backstage Body Lab: Learn to deliberately reset your state so you stay composed, present, and decisive in high-stakes moments.

Play Studio: Reclaiming Joy & Creative Risk: An experimental playground designed to shake off perfectionism, spark braver ideas, and reclaim your zing.

The Future: Influence, Impact & Integrity: A conversation on defining influence beyond titles and reshaping the culture of events to value empathy, sustainability, and human connection.

Brave Boundaries & Hard Conversations: Learn how to say no, reset expectations, and navigate tough client and leadership conversations without burning bridges.

Why Attend

• Because you crave inspiration that feels genuine and speaks to both your creativity and your humanity.

• Because you’re ready to lead differently with intuition, less exhaustion that comes from calm, not chaos.

• Because you belong in a space where creative minds come together to exchange ideas and elevate one another.

• Because it’s time to reset, refocus, and reimagine what meaningful leadership and collaboration can look like in the future of events.