KIAMA will be well-represented at the Power of a Woman Conference in Sydney.
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Kiama resident Diann Rodgers-Healey is running the conference, which gives people the opportunity to understand the power of a woman and enable a woman to define her own power.
She said she was inviting feminist forces to "unravel their insights to who they are and who they are becoming".
Dr Rodgers-Healey is the founder and executive director of the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women, an online site that aims to increase the number of women leaders.
Dr Rodgers-Healey said the conference was about celebrating the power of women.
Speakers/panelists include Kat Armstrong, Women in Prison Advocacy Network director; Tracy Howe, chief executive of the Council of Social Service of NSW; Padma Raman, executive director of the Australian Human Rights Commission; disability activist Sue Salthouse; and Rachelle Towart, chief executive of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre.
Dr Rodgers-Healey said the main idea of the conference was to explore how the power of a woman emerges through her life, in terms of the experiences or the people that shape it.
"Also in terms of the kinds of sources within herself that emerge to interact with whatever she's facing in her life," she said.
"It also looks at experiences of adversity and diversity which shape her, but also which enable her to manifest her own power.
"I'm also looking at how transitions in a woman's life, be it personal or professional, lead to her aligning with her calling in life, and how that experience emerges.
"Overall, it's about her defining her own power, and the conference also through that hopefully will enable women to appreciate who they are.
"Because I think there's so much out there which focuses on what women lack, and what they should do to develop themselves ... Whereas this conference is trying to change that conversation."
Kiama's Belinda Brooks will sing at the conference, and event manager Christine Langford is also from Kiama.
The conference is on Saturday, August 8, at Sydney University.
Visit leadershipforwomen.com.au/empowerment/power-of-a-woman-conference.