Workshops

JANUARY 2025

Lighten Your Mental Load Workshop

When: Monday 20th January 2025 6-7.30pm

Where: Walkerville Library, 66 Walkerville Tce, Gilberton SA 5081

Price: $5 per person (heavily discounted by the Walkerville Library)

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the endless tasks it takes to run a household? Join Space & Time Optimiser Bridget Johns for a workshop designed to help you reduce your mental load, take control of your time, and get your family on board!

Learn practical strategies to:

• Master your calendar and make the most of your time
• Host family meetings to get everyone involved
• Build simple routines to share the load with family members
• Stop clutter from sneaking into your home
• Discover how your local library can save you money and space with books, audiobooks, toys, and more!

This workshop will equip you with the tools to declutter not only your physical space but also your mind, helping you create a more balanced, stress-free life.

Spaces are limited! Register at https://www.walkerville.sa.gov.au/community/events/events/lighten-your-mental-load-workshop

JUNE 2023

Kitchen Clutter Clean Up Masterclass & Challenge

Are you tired of dealing with a cluttered and disorganised kitchen? Do you find yourself struggling to find what you need amidst the chaos? Join Bridget for this masterclass and take the first step towards reclaiming your kitchen space. To help you take ACTION, we will have a 3 day challenge to help you start simplifying your kitchen right away.

FEBRUARY 2023

How to simplify your home & life in 2023 Masterclass

* Are you feeling overwhelmed by the demands of daily life?

* Are you struggling to keep your home, calendar, and mind organised and in balance?
It’s time to be simply free! Join Bridget for this masterclass and learn how to simplify your life and take back control in your home, calendar and mind.

DECEMBER 2022

5 Ways to Create a Joyful Christmas Without Costing The Earth workshop

🎄 Do you wish gift giving was simpler?

🎄 Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy but are you stressing yourself out with a never ending to do list?

🎄 After Christmas is your home overflowing with even more stuff?

🎄 Does it feel like everything is falling onto you with minimal support from other family members?

I will share ways to do things differently so there is less stuff (gifts) and less waste, helping you have a more eco-Christmas. Plus I will give you the tools to help set things up for lower waste festive seasons into the future.

DECEMBER 2021

Chaos Free Christmas Online Masterclass

5 ways to bring joy back into gift giving and Christmas Day

Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy but are you stressing yourself out with a never ending to do list? Is everything falling onto you with minimal support from other family members? Join Declutter Expert, Bridget Johns, as she shares five ways to streamline gift giving and your Christmas Day.

NOVEMBER 2021

How to find an extra 5 hours in your week

We all have 1,440 minutes in every day, so why does it feel that it’s never enough? And why is our To Do list still never ending?

Join us for our Clare Valley lunch at the Rising Sun Stables in Auburn, when Declutter Expert, Bridget Johns helps us to release unrealistic expectations of doing it all and find five more hours in your week.

Bridget Johns is founder of Be Simply Free and her mission is to empower women to live a life where their homes and minds are decluttered and so they can go from being time poor to time rich.

SEPTEMBER 2021

Women’s Network Forum: Find Time for You

We all have 1,440 minutes in every day, but I bet you feel like there isn’t enough time in your day to do everything on your ‘to do’ list.

Join Declutter Expert, Bridget Johns, as she helps you to release unrealistic expectations of doing it all and find five more hours in your week.

Bridget Johns is a Declutter Coach, Life Organiser and founder of Be Simply Free. Her mission is to empower women to live a life where their homes and minds are decluttered so they can be simply free. Bridget teaches women to go from being time poor to time rich by decluttering their homes, phones, calendars and minds.

Bridget is also a grant writer and works part-time for the Barunga West Council as their Grants & Investment Coordinator. She uses her organisation skills to help businesses, councils and community groups organise their wish lists of dreams into fundable projects and find grants to help turn ideas into reality.

SEPTEMBER 2021

The importance of prioritising self care for business success

If you want to give the best to your business, you need to look after yourself.

In our busy lives of juggling many balls which can include families, friends, business, and so much more, we can forget to prioritise self care into the mix.

At our Yorke Peninsula dinner at the Weeronna Hotel in Wallaroo we have Bridget Johns, Declutter Coach, Life Organiser and owner of Be Simply Free to help us take a fresh look at looking after ourselves so we can then look after our business success.

AUGUST 2021

Kitchen Spring Clean Masterclass

Join Declutter Expert, Bridget Johns, as she shares seven ways to organise your kitchen to gain more time in your day!

Bridget will be sharing simple kitchen tips and systems to reduce the feeling of overwhelm when you cook in your kitchen.

This online event will be held on Tuesday 31st August 7.30-8.30pm ACST Adelaide time (which is 8-9pm Melb/Syd/Bris time). It’s always best to join live but still register if you can’t, as the replay will be sent to everyone that registers.

AUGUST 2021 

Declutter Your Mind & Find Time Masterclass

Always feeling you are running out of time?

We all have 1,440 minutes in every day, but I bet you feel like there isn’t enough time in your day to do everything on your ‘to do’ list.

Join me, as I help you to release unrealistic expectations of doing it all and find five more hours in your week.

If possible, please bring a laptop to this hands on workshop so you can start mapping out your future during the session (we can lend you laptop if necessary).

Your $30 ticket also includes 1 spot in the Playhood creche for children 7 months to 5 years old and a healthy morning tea. 50% discount for Villagehood Members.

JUNE 2021

Finding time masterclass

Hands up if you wish there was more time in your day!

We all have 1,440 minutes in our day but we all use our time differently.

I share 7 tips to help you clear the mental clutter so you can review your week and find more time in your calendar.

APRIL 2021 

Seeds of Ambition – YP women’s wellbeing day 

If time and money were no object what would you do?

Seeds of Ambition was an in person women’s wellbeing day held in Kadina in April 2021.

WoTL and Be Simply Free teamed up to support women to start decluttering their lives by making space in their calendar for a day of self reflection and self care. The day reminded women they are more than the titles of wife, mum or employee.

We connected Yorke Peninsula women with other smart, talented and passionate rural women and gave them permission to put themselves first and plant a seed of the future life they want to live.

FEBRUARY 2021

Making time for memories masterclass 

Do you struggle to find time for yourself in your week?
Are you doing everything for everyone else and not finding enough me time for yourself?

We all have 1,440 minutes in our day but we all use our time differently.

In this masterclass, I guided attendees through reviewing their week and finding the time for self care and creating memories with family and friends.

JANUARY 2021

Making back to school a breeze masterclass 

Do you want to make sending the kids back to school a breeze?

Interested in learning skills to streamline the back to school madness and day to day school life?

In this masterclass, I guided attendees through how to streamline the back to school process and take the headache out of getting back to school in 2021.
I shared hints and tips to streamline school life and beyond!

OCTOBER 2020

Get Remarkably Organised Program – Expert breakthrough session – clearing “the stuff”

As part of Lorraine Murphy’s Get Remarkably Organised program, I joined the group as their Declutter Expert helping the group clear the stuff from their homes. We talked about:

Understanding your why for decluttering your home
When it’s too overwhelming where do you start?
How to set yourself you for success
My ‘Stop, Focus, Notice’ and ‘Sort, Simplify, Systemise’ strategies
Why narrowing down your choices means less overwhelm and more creativity and
What to do when decluttering gets hard.

MAY 2020

Declutter & get organised

• Want to live with less and have more time for the important things in life?
• Feeling frustrated with extra ‘stuff’ around your home?
• Want to know how you can do all this sustainably?

Bridget Johns and Allison Byrne Marion City Council’s Waste Education Officer teamed up to offer a free webinar on decluttering your home and finding sustainable solutions for your stuff during the pandemic.