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Elana ShyongCreative facilitator & trainer

Chinese Visa, Drama in Education Across Asia and More: Weekly Recap, 5 December 2025

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This week reminded me that growth rarely happens in straight lines.

Here is my week recapped 👇

✨ Started the week with a visa run and officially have my Chinese visa in hand. I’m so excited to share my work in drama-in-education across Asia over the next few months. Every time I’m there, the energy, curiosity, and openness to creative methods remind me why I love this work.

🎥 Wrapped up filming an on-demand course on confidence in the workplace for Sarah Knop's Center Stage International. Loved diving into the intersection of communication, presence, and mindset, and translating it into something people can access anytime.

☕ Continued the week with a nourishing conversation with Monica Rodriguez over afternoon tea and pecan pie. We talked about how inner mastery shows up in the workplace, the power of the pause, and the small practices that shift how we show up in rooms (and with ourselves).

🌪️ Two projects cancelled, and then new ones were confirmed, all within the same day (and it's only noon!). That's the freelancer life: unpredictable, occasionally chaotic, but always full of possibility. A reminder that spaciousness often makes room for the right things.

Feeling grateful today for the joy of working a truly#collaborative sector and all the beautiful#unpredictability that comes with this path.

If you’re in#Asia and would like to explore potential collaborations, workshops, or trainings, I’d love to connect!

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