This is more than just an art class—it’s a chance to nurture your emotional wellness, tap into your creativity, and walk away with a beautiful painting you create yourself.

 During this workshop, you’ll:
 Learn simple painting techniques in a relaxed, supportive space
Express yourself through color and texture
Gain tools for stress relief and emotional resilience
Connect with others in a creative, empowering environment

Please REGISTER HERE

Workshop cost:

• ₡9,000 – PWNCR Members
• ₡12,000 – Non-members
• Premium Members: Free entrance (₡6,000 materials fee only)

Exact change is appreciated. Sorry, but SINPE will not be accepted for this event. Also, for non-members, you can become a member at this event.

This month‘s event will be held at the Cocina Ecléctica in Trejos Montealegre, Escazú. Click here for the Google Maps pin.
 Lunch: Approx. ₡12,000
 Cash, SINPE Móvil, or Zelle only. No credit cards accepted.

 Why Premium Membership Is Your Best Investment 

The PWNCR Premium Advantage: Invest Once, Benefit All Year

While our standard membership provides tremendous value at ¢20,000 annually, our Premium Membership at just ¢30,000 per year offers exceptional returns on your investment:

Become a Premium Member today!

Payment information: Please contact Rommy Herrera, PWNCR‘s Director of Membership, for bank transfer information at info@pwncr.com.
You can also pay using SINPE Movil

Benefits of PWNCR Membership

What’s in it for you? What we know you’ll gain from becoming a member:

• Opportunities to network with other professionals
• Lifelong friendships
• Get collaboration and advice on your projects
• Promote your business using our social media
• Get strategic contacts when needed
• Join our monthly meetings
• Knowledge and education on professional and personal development
• In-person events and workshops
• Opportunities to become a speaker at our meetings
• Become a mentor or receive mentorship
• Opportunities to belong to our Leadership Team
• Join our WhatsApp group
• Increased job opportunities
• Webinars and virtual workshops

Membership is only ¢20.000 per year or ¢50.000 for a 3-year membership. Under this scheme, you pay an additional fee of ¢3,000 for each event you attend.

A Premium Membership is now available for ¢30.000 per year.  Under this scheme, you may attend all events for FREE.

Join us, won’t you?

Payment information: Please connect with Rommy for bank transfer information.

Email Rommy, our Director of Membership!

PWNCR‘s Healthy Living Hub

How To Get More Healing Potential From Our Turmeric

Combining herbs and spices in our meals can have a huge effect on how our bodies are able to use the medicinal properties in them, not to mention a fun way to include more interesting flavors, colors and aroma in our meals and drinks.

One of the most famous and researched combinations of Healing Spices is our ol’ favorite, the classic “black pepper and turmeric combo”. Now, if you have ever heard one of my talks over the years, I often explain that our bodies are “water based” that is to say, we more easily absorb most nutrients that are water soluble. Turmeric has many medicinal chemicals, sometimes referred to as active ingredients, but some of them are not so easy for the body to extract or use as it travels through your digestive tract. Curcumin is one of the most famous chemicals in turmeric along with the lessor known tumerone, zingerene, phellandrene, cineole, sabinene and borneol, several amino acids aka protiens, vitamins and minerals. So how do we get the most out of this amazing colorful spice and put the famous curcumin and its chemical friends to work healing us from the inside out if our bodies struggle to get to them? Great question! You combine it with something that will help protect it and guide it as it travels through your digestive track to be absorbed in your small intestine and send from there off to all your inflamed nooks and crannies. Kind of like a digestive mentor.

And let’s be honest I don’t know about eating turmeric all by itself anyway… who does that? You might as well combine it with things that will help activate its healers since you are not likely to be eating the tiny carrot like rhizomes or popping a spoon full of powder straight into your mouth anyway.

As previously mentioned, black pepper is a great option. Most of the research I have read describes a ratio of 5% black pepper to 95% turmeric as being enough for the peperine, one of black pepper’s most famous active ingredients, to catalyze the curcumin, (as well as carotenes, selenium, vitamin Bs, vitamin C, coenzyme Q10 and many more), and make it more bioavailable for our bodies. Studies show it can effectively transport curcumin and turmeric across the intestinal barrier and protects it from drug metabolizing enzymes. Some studies suggest we are able to absorb and use 2000% more curcumin with the help of just a 5% ratio of black pepper. Seems easy enough.

If you don’t like or can’t use black pepper to help your body get the most out of your turmeric, good news. There are more options.

“Fats / oils / Lipids have a different mechanism than piperine in increasing systemic availability of curcumin and turmeric, but it definitely increases availability by several folds than unformulated turmeric.”

That is to say that oils and fats can also work to guide medicines in turmeric to where you need it most in your body. You can include healthy oils or fats in whatever meal or drink you are preparing with your turmeric. Butter, ghee, milk, olive oil, avocado, eggs, and meats are all great options to play with. Although, the routes the curcumin takes in your body when combined with lipids is distinctly different than with peperine it still helps us absorb 30 to 50 times the medicines than turmeric can alone.

So, I encourage you to tap a little turmeric powder or shred some fresh turmeric on your avocado toast, morning eggs, on your meat rubs, in your salad dressings and in your soups. Not only will it be amply absorbed by your body but it will go right to work supporting your immune system, reducing inflammation, help lower your triglycerides and cholesterol, heal wounds in your liver, skin, eyes, brain and much much more.

PWNCR Social Responsibility

Supporting the Rahab Foundation 

Our current social responsibility campaign in support of the Rahab Foundation is well under way. An anonymous donor generously kicked things off with $100 and pledged to match an additional $200 if we reached that target by the end of June.

At our June meeting, members raised $372—an amount we were able to donate immediately to the Rahab Foundation. With the donor match, our current total stands at $672.

This is a powerful start for a cause that truly matters. Let’s keep the momentum going and aim to surpass $1,000 this year.

The Rahab Foundation is a local NGO that the PWNCR has worked with for many years. This Foundation helps save women who have been victims of sex trafficking.

In addition to the women and children who are temporarily housed at their shelter in San José, they are currently working to begin a new shelter in the mountains of Heredia where they will begin construction as soon as they can raise $30,000 USD.

The foundation has an urgent need for financial support to supply food and to meet the needs of these women and their babies and the long term goal of building the space in the Heredia mountains.

The PWNCR still needs your help in collecting donations for them!

When you make the donation please put PWNCR in the description so we can keep track of the donations for the match incentive! Also – please email a screenshot or photo because we want to recognize you as a donor.  info@pwncr.com

Cuenta Colones
Cuenta Banco Nacional: 100-01-095-000143-4
Cuenta Cliente: 15109510010001434
Cuenta IBAN: CR2501510951001000143

Cuenta Dólares
Cuenta Banco Nacional: 200-02-095-002327-4
Cuenta Cliente: 15109520020023272
Cuenta IBAN: CR82015109520020023272

Donate here through Amigos de Costa Rica (if you prefer making a US charitable tax-deductible donation):
https://www.amigosofcostarica.org/affiliates/fundacion-rahab

If you missed the visit by founder and director of Rahab, Mariliana Morales, at our June event, we encourage you to watch these recent TV spots describing the importance and scope of the Rahab Foundation’s projects:
TN7 Report and NR Report (please note, these are local Costa Rican news channels with reporting in Spanish.)

The Professional Women’s Network of Costa Rica was founded on July 17th, 2010 at the Union Club as an Interest group of the Women’s Club of Costa Rica (WCCR). We had a lot of support from the officials and members of WCCR, who saw it as a way to involve employed women who could not attend the Wednesday morning meetings.  50 women attended the first meeting, including many still involved in PWNCR.

It became clear after a while that the non-profit, charitable status of the WCCR and the profit-encouraging role of PWN were not compatible. One wanted to make money and one wanted to give away money. So we separated from WCCR and became independent. We wanted our members and speakers to be able to show their wares, have fairs, and improve their lives. We are proud that we have been able to provide these advantages for our members and continue to expand and form a vibrant community.

Thank you, each and every one for being part of this thriving network. We hope to have you join in a toast over lunch at our July event to celebrate a decade and a half!