Newsletter March 2017 Greetings – Kia ora koutou world women 17 is just around the corner and we’re working hard to put the finishing touches on what will be much more than just a conference. We see it as the beginning of a possible movement that we’d like you to be part of. As we celebrate International Women’s Day , here’s a special message from one of world women’s founders, Theresa Gattung. And speaking of celebrating women, 7 women who seriously wanted to attend world women 17 and reached out to us are able to do so due to the...

Newsletter February 2017 Greetings – Kia ora koutou Our event, worldwomen17, is just around the corner. More than 400 women will connect with each other and our inspiring speakers to spark new ideas and action. It is exciting to be hosting this inaugural event that will take our dreams to a new level! We believe in the innate gifts of women - listening and thinking out of the box while being grounded at the same time. It is easy to live only ‘in our heads’, without a connection to our communities, and our families. This can leave us so easily...

Newsletter January 2017 Greetings – Kia ora koutou With less than six weeks to go, momentum is building for world women 17 and we are getting very excited. When we started preparing for this event more than a year ago we could not foresee the urgency for women to unite, work together, stand up for each other and encourage each other around the globe. This is the moment to become active, the time is now! One of New Zealand's premier monthly magazines, Next, has featured two of our keynote speakers, Tererai Trent and Vicki Saunders , in the last two...

Newsletter December 2016 Greetings – Kia ora koutou Another year is nearly over and what a year it was! The state of the world confirms that something needs to be done and that is why we started the World Women Charitable Trust. 12 months ago it was only an idea and now we have a confirmed conference date, venue and wonderful international and national speakers http://www.worldwomen.org.nz/event/worldwomen17 Today we are proud to tell you, that we have nearly 300 registrations. We have had great support from the media. In the January issue of NEXT magazine, released in New Zealand early December,...

Dear all, I have been thinking a lot since the elections. The media did a lot to give Donald Trump's hatred publicity and were indulging in all the atrocity propaganda that was spread. All of us, wherever we live, woke up to a different world. It's now up to us to choose what to do.

National portrait: November 12 2016, photo by Bevan Reid. Remember the early 2000s? They were good times. There was a moment when New Zealand pretty much seemed like it was run by women. We were grown up, enlightened, sensible. Helen Clark was Prime Minister, Dame Sian Elias was Chief Justice, Dame Silvia Cartwright was Governor-General, Margaret Wilson was Attorney-General and Theresa Gattung was Telecom's chief executive.

8:45 AM Saturday Nov 12, 2016. NZ Herald. Photo by NZ Herald. Gattung's next big thing is a venture capital scheme which aims to raise money from women, for women entrepreneurs. Having been that very rare thing - a female leading a New Zealand publicly listed company - Gattung says she has dealt with the issues that come with being a woman at the top.

Newsletter November 2016 Greetings Theresa – Kia ora koutou We are getting a lot of questions about the world women 17 conference so we’d like to use this newsletter to give you some more information and updates. 1) Why are you doing this and who are you? We are a diverse group of women and we want to show that feminism is liberating, diverse, challenging, controversial, relevant and inclusive. With the conference we hope to offer inspiration for further involvement. That is what our speakers and the workshops at the conference will present. As we go through this journey together,...

Yesterday at CoOfWomen insp!re’16 camp ( www.coofwomen.biz ) I spoke about world women 17 and was deluged with interest from women in attending, or better put, in being part of the movement. And I do see this as a movement. It is not just about women of course, but it is about women who are at the forefront of responding to a change in the energies in the world. It seems so obvious and in a decade we are going to wonder why it took us so long to understand that things that we previously thought were separate like “business”...

Newsletter October 2016 Greetings – Kia ora koutou Do you ever have the feeling that it is only you who wants things to be different? That you want to bang your head against the wall in order to bring some common sense to our communities, countries and the world? Do you feel unsupported or isolated where you stand? Then come and be inspired by powerful local and international women who are already manifesting change in education, in health and in business. Women of the world, unite to make a difference! Being concerned about the state of the world, we, Theresa...