Women work to their own strengths
Whether it’s finding your strengths or learning how to manage your time, a new course in Upper Hutt is helping women balance their lives.
Women of Worth director Sue Kefali-Pattinson said the programme was about women coming together to make change.
‘‘Every woman has value,’’ she said.
Over the course, participants look at seven life topics, ranging from strength-finding lessons to how to manage their time. After proving popular in Lower Hutt, the course is starting in Upper Hutt.
Enrolments are open for it now and and it will start up in the next few weeks.
Kefali-Pattinson said the Upper Hutt courses were going ahead with the support of Upper Hutt Library.
‘‘[The library] has been amazing. They’ve given us their community rooms to use,’’ she said.
Women of Worth is for women who have at least one child aged up to five and Kefali-Pattinson said throughout the course, the theme of creating a home children can thrive in is threaded through.
‘‘We are trying to say ‘how can we get all those areas balanced?’,’’ she said.
Two Women of Worth programmes are running in Lower Hutt at the moment and both of them were ‘‘chocka’’.
The courses run for 14 weeks with each one limited to 15 spaces. Kefali-Pattinson said the smaller classes allowed for better one-onone time.
Women who had been through the course previously also often came back to lend a hand to the newcomers starting out. ‘‘It’s interesting, it’s fun.’’ Kefali-Pattinson said there was an emphasis on taking small steps at a time, week-by-week, to make bigger changes in women’s lives.
The Women of Worth organisation was started in 2012 and the first programme began in 2014. It is funded by the Wellington Community Trust. Community organisations often referred women to the programme as needed.