Start Creating: Creative Workshops for Women

Rural women want places to connect with other women, have fun, learn some new skills and spend time tapping into their creativity through painting, photography, drawing, sewing and so many other activities. Holding a creative workshop provides a powerful women’s only space to build creative and social connections.

Some Tips on Holding Creative Workshops for Women

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Sharing Cultures to Connect

Australian men in farming come from many different cultures. How can men in your community connect and share culture and stories of farming with the community and other men? Culturally diverse farmers suggested sport and whole of community events like BBQs provided positive events for social and farming connections. How to create a culturally diverse…

Hold a Women’s Wellbeing Workshop

Wellbeing activities offer opportunities for women to nurture themselves and to connect with other rural women. They also provide an introduction to longer term wellbeing strategies and help women to locate wellbeing activities in your area. How to Create Wellbeing Workshops

Create a Rural Women’s Wellbeing Diary

Women codesigned diaries to create a tool to help women stay connected to community events, wellbeing services and to celebrate women’s achievements in rural and farming life. How to create a diary

Connect via Social Media

Do you have Facebook or Instagram? Upload a video of a service provider talking about who they are and what they do. For SOS Yorkes, this garnered over 50 shares and 3,500 views in 24 hours.

The Power of Local Service Providers

To help connect farmers and their families to health and wellbeing services, invite service providers to create short films for your social media sites about who they are and what they offer.

Let’s Reach Farmers

Coasters and bar mats were created for farmers and co-designed by a farmer suicide prevention group in Tatyoon, Mellow in the Yellow, along with an illustrator.