Network@Night (N@N) – Sound Healing and Chakra Meditation with Karen Fox of OneTone Therapy We'll be having a super time... Thursday, March 26, 2026, 6:00 pm at our Network@ Night at Brian's Healing Arts, 461 main Street, Niantic, CT. Register and pay online, $10 per person, or cash at the door. This is an opportunity to experience a calming, stress reducing and renewed sense of mental clarity through Sound Healing and Chakra Meditation that can empower personal growth and healing with Karen Fox of One Tone Therapy. The event will benefit Brian’s Healing Hearts.
If you are interested in hosting your own Network @ Night event? Click this link to submit a Host Application Google Form.
Coffee & Connections – Filomena's Restaurant, Waterford, CT Start your day with us... Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 8:45-9:45 am at our Coffee & Connections, at Filomena's Restaurant, 262 Boston Post Road, Waterford, CT. $5 – pay online or at the door, registration optional, coffee included. You're invited to an informal gathering to exchange information and leverage your contacts in a relaxed setting! Bring your business cards, flyers and QR codes to exchange. Looking to network without all the formality? Join us for an hour! Coffee, tea and conversation await! Questions Email gina@ginajohnson.co or engage@habitatect.org
Tatyana's War, Escape and Survival from the Eastern Front in WW II — Helen Charov, Author
Be sure to join Us Wednesday, April 15 at 11:30 am for our monthly luncheon at Little Neck Restaurant & Events at Great Neck Country Club, $25 for member pre-registrations, $30 for non-member pre-registrations, and $35 for late registrations and walk-ins includes gratuity and tax. Please note price change. Pre-registration is encouraged. Learn about the survival and persistence of a woman/mother during World War II. When Nazi troops invaded her Donetsk, Ukraine home in 1941, Helen's mother, Tatyana Artemyeff, a 25-year-old teacher, was left on her own to save her two children and mother when her conscripted husband's unit retreated from the city. Luckily, Tatyana spoke German and was determined to find a way to survive the brutal occupation and keep her family from dying of starvation or execution. Decades later, Helen found her mother's diaries in a Connecticut attic, and discovered a unique account of Tatyana's life as a teacher in the Stalinist Soviet Union, the 1941 Nazi invasion of Donetsk, her survival under Nazi occupation, and her harrowing escape to the West. This book switches seamlessly between Tatyana's account of life and death and Helen's story (Tatyana's American-born daughter). Many readers of Helen's book, Tatyana's War, have commented that they learned a lot about an unknown aspect of World War II (the Eastern Front) and how the book inspired them with the story of a courageous woman during war. She will also speak about how to approach getting your first book finished, handled by an agent, and published. Born in Brooklyn, New York, of émigré parents who came to the U.S. as displaced persons after World War II, Helen Charov grew up in Sea Cliff, a village on Long Island's north shore. After graduating from New York University, she traveled extensively throughout the USSR with a U.S. government exhibit. Ending her career of entrepreneurship and nonprofit management, she retired to write her first book. She lives in Moodus, Connecticut.
*Registration closes at 9am on the Monday before the luncheon. * Remember to bring cash for the 50/50. Your fun ticket purchase at lunch on Wednesday, funds our Network operations, community and charitable engagement activities, and our scholarships! $1 each ticket, no limit. * Member Benefit: Members (only) may place their business info on the Members Info Table.
Network@Night (N@N) – Your Closet is Your Identity with Donna Capoverde of Behind the Style Grid, LLC. We'll be having a super time... Thursday, April 23, 2026, 6:00 pm at our Network@Night with Donna Capoverde at 7 Holdridge Court, Mystic, CT. Register and pay online, $10 per person, or cash at the door. Did you know that your closet is so much more than a storage space? Your closet holds your identity, your memories, and your confidence! As a Personal Stylist for 10+ years, I have learned to love my closet and feel amazing every day by following a few essential "rules" when building my wardrobe.
Join me for the most fun you will ever have cleaning out your closet! The clothes we choose every day tell a story about who we are to the world and can have a major impact on our emotions and mood. What we wear speaks for us when we enter a room. And here’s the challenge: the fashion industry has worked to deeply ingrain the belief that the best and fastest way to achieve your own style aspirations is to simply keep buying more stuff.
The result: A closet full of clothes and nothing to wear every day. As a Personal Stylist, I work with women to first understand their needs and second to build a relationship with someone they can trust. What you get in return is a wardrobe that totally works for you – enhances your personal style, sometimes helping you discover for the first time, how to feel amazing in your own skin. I help women build a wardrobe that works for the life they live every day. I will give you another perspective on who you are and how you present yourself. I teach women about color, texture, silhouette, and fabric. To have fewer clothes but more outfits. To understand the confidence and power that comes with feeling good about who you see in the mirror. During the next hour or so, we are going to learn how to bring the joy back into dressing every day, starting with the dreaded work of cleaning out that closet…and hopefully have some laughs along the way.
Coffee & Connections – Filomena's Restaurant, Waterford, CT Start your day with us... Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 8:45-9:45 am at our Coffee & Connections, at Filomena's Restaurant, 262 Boston Post Road, Waterford, CT. $5 – pay online or at the door, registration optional, coffee included. You're invited to an informal gathering to exchange information and leverage your contacts in a relaxed setting! Bring your business cards, flyers and QR codes to exchange. Looking to network without all the formality? Join us for an hour! Coffee, tea and conversation await! Questions Email gina@ginajohnson.co or engage@habitatect.org
Sound Therapy: The Effects of Sound and Music on Our Health and Wellbeing — Karen Fox, CGIHH, CCH
Be sure to join Us Wednesday, May 20 at 11:30 am for our monthly luncheon at Little Neck Restaurant & Events at Great Neck Country Club, $25 for member pre-registrations, $30 for non-member pre-registrations, and $35 for late registrations and walk-ins includes gratuity and tax. Pre-registration is encouraged. Karen Fox will share a short personal and professional background about herself and educate attendees on the true nature of sound and music, how it effects our health and influences dramatic healing of our mind, body and spirit.
She will begin with a 3-5 minute "sound bath" demonstration with guided imagery to create an atmosphere of relaxation, comfort and openness. She will also talk about her educational and personal history with music and sound. Karen will share some music samples that demonstrate the concepts she is teaching about (10-15 minutes) and finish with a "pick me up" dance party! (2 minutes or so.) Karen Fox is a Certified Consulting Hypnotist and Shamanic Sound Healer. Her spiritual journey began as a teenager when she discovered meditation and alternate forms of consciousness. Through spiritual discipline, an educational background in science, and a basic understanding of the Universal Laws of light and sound energy, she experienced the Omnipotent Nature behind our existence. She is a lover and player of music by nature with formal training in Music Theory, Harmony, Guitar, and Vocal. She has an Advanced Degree in Integrative Health and Healing from The Graduate Institute in Bethany, CT. Kare's focus is on the Art and Science of Hypnosis and using Music and Sound Healing as an adjunct to hypnosis. Her passion is Vocal Toning and Guided Affective Imagery (GAI). She is a Certified Consulting Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She is a member of the SECT Women’s Network. OneTone Therapy is a privately owned business that provides hypnosis as a means to bring about great positive changes to ones personal, professional, mental, spiritual and emotional selves. Music and Sound Healing only adds to the hypnotic experience to facilitate healing. OneTone Therapy’s Mission is to educate the public on the importance of music, sound, and noise in our environment and how it directly affects our health and wellbeing. OTT utilizes the Art of Hypnosis and Sound Therapy to affect change in an individual’s health and wellbeing. OTT's Vision is a society with a healthier physical, mental and emotional state of wellbeing in whatever form that takes.
Light the Way Tour at Safe Futures – with Marie Kenny, Director of the Center for Safe Futures Project We'll be having a super time... Thursday, May 28, 2026, 6:00 pm at our Network@Night with Marie Kenny at Safe Futures, 16 Jay St., New London, CT 06320. Register and pay online, $10 per person, or cash at the door. Join us for a Light the Way Tour, a one-hour tour of our mission at Safe Futures. At Safe Futures we are stopping abuse, restoring hope, and saving lives of those affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking, elder abuse and child abuse throughout Southeastern CT. Meet some staff members and volunteers, see some of our facilities. Learn about the wide range of services we provide and the impact of our work. Enjoy light refreshments following the tour. Safe Futures is the charity to benefit from this event. Register now, maximum 20 attendees.
Coffee & Connections – Filomena's Restaurant, Waterford, CT Start your day with us... Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 8:45-9:45 am at our Coffee & Connections, at Filomena's Restaurant, 262 Boston Post Road, Waterford, CT. $5 – pay online or at the door, registration optional, coffee included. You're invited to an informal gathering to exchange information and leverage your contacts in a relaxed setting! Bring your business cards, flyers and QR codes to exchange. Looking to network without all the formality? Join us for an hour! Coffee, tea and conversation await! Questions Email gina@ginajohnson.co or engage@habitatect.org
Installation of Officers and Board Members, and Presentation of Annual Awards
Be sure to join Us Wednesday, June 17 at 11:30 am for our monthly luncheon at Little Neck Restaurant & Events at Great Neck Country Club, $25 for member pre-registrations, $30 for non-member pre-registrations, and $35 for late registrations and walk-ins includes gratuity and tax. Pre-registration is encouraged. Be with us as we thank our current Board of Directors and install our Leadership Team for 2026-2027 and present our annual awards. This is always a fun luncheon and a great time to network!
To view local chamber events, click on appropriate link below.
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern ConnecticutGreater Mystic Chamber of CommerceThe Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce
Copyright 2008-2025 SECT Women's Network A registered not-for-profit organization founded in 1976.
