Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
Gender and Disaster Australia training in Newcastle
Gender and Disaster Australia training in Newcastle
DATE: 26 March
TIME: 9:30am - 5pm
VENUE: Quest, Newcastle West
REGISTER
This training strengthens the capacity of local government, health, community and emergency sectors to understand the relevance of gender stereotypes and inequalities in a disaster context.
Understand gender and disaster and why violence against women can increase during and after disaster.
Unpack how gender inequality during and after disaster distinctly impacts women, men and LGBTIQA+ people.
Learn how applying an inclusive gender-lens can lead to world-leading disaster recovery.
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
Zonta Club of Hunter Newcastle Women of Note exhibition
Zonta Club of Hunter Newcastle (ZCHN)
Hunter Newcastle Women of Note exhibition for International Women’s Day
DATE: Friday 13 March
TIME: 5pm
VENUE: MAP mima, Speers Point
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
Hunter Business Women's Network IWD
Hunter Business Women’s Network International Women’s Day Event
DATE: Wednesday 11 March
TIME: 5:30pm
VENUE: NEX Newcastle
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
DFSV Healing & Recovery Symposium
DATES: 11 - 12 March 2026
TIME: 9am - 5pm
VENUE: 290 King Street, Newcastle
A key forum for professionals on supporting healing and recovery for those who have experienced domestic, family and sexual violence.
Hosted by the Hunter New England & Central Coast Primary Health Network, in partnership with the Hunter DFV Consortium.
This event is a key forum for frontline workers, managers, policy makers, commissioners and clinicians on supporting healing and recovery for those who have experienced domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV).
Key Themes
Whole-of-Family Recovery: Holistic, trauma-informed approaches supporting all family members impacted by DFSV.
Recovery as Prevention: How healing services disrupt cycles of violence.
Children & Young People: Supporting children—especially boys and young men—to break intergenerational trauma.
Cultural Safety: Delivering care that is trauma-informed and culturally appropriate.
Collaboration & Integration: The power of a coordinated, person-centred systems response to support sustainable recovery.
Capacity Building: Strengthening DFSV services to effectively support victim-survivors through the healing and recovery journey.
Zonta Club of Hunter Newcastle Women of Note exhibition
Zonta Club of Hunter Newcastle (ZCHN)
Hunter Newcastle Women of Note exhibition for International Women’s Day
DATE: Sunday 8 March
TIME: 2 - 4pm
VENUE: MAP mima, Speers Point
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
International Women's Day Poetry Salon
IWD Poetry Salon
DATE: Sunday 8 March
TIME: 2 - 5pm
VENUE: The Oak, Tighes Hill
Hunter Workers Women's Committee International Women's Day March
Hunter Workers Women’s Committee IWD March
DATE: 8 March
TIME: 10am
VENUE: Gregson Park Hamilton
MORE INFO
Sleapy’s Foundation IWD Fundraising Luncheon
Sleapy’s Foundation International Women’s Day Fundraising Luncheon
DATE: Saturday 7 March 2026
TIME: 12 to 3:30pm
VENUE: Concert Hall, Newcastle City Hall
COST: $90pp | $850 table of 10
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
All tickets include:
2 Course Meal
Arrival drink
Special gift
Hunter Workers Women's Committee Working Women's Festival 2026
Hunter Workers Women’s Committee Working Women's Festival 2026
DATE: Saturday 7 March
TIME: 10am - 4pm
VENUE: Hunter Unions Building, King St Newcastle West
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
Hunter Workers Women's Committee IWD Dinner 2026
Hunter Workers Women’s Committee IWD Dinner
DATE: Friday 6 March
TIME: 6:30pm
VENUE: The Courtyard - Club Charlestown
TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION
Gen Collective 2026 IWD Luncheon with Cathy Freeman
Gen Collective 2026 International Women’s Day Luncheon with Cathy Freeman
Date: Friday 6 March 2026
Arrival Time: Doors open 12pm
Venue: Newcastle City Hall - 290 King Street, Newcastle
Ticket Pricing:
Concert Hall
$170 | Members
$180 | Non Members
Gallery
$85 | Members
$95 | Non Members
Singleton Women In Business IWD
Business Singleton is proud to welcome Melinda Schneider as a special guest for their International Women’s Day Luncheon
DATE: Friday 6 March 2026
TIME: 11:30am
VENUE: Singleton Civic Centre
MORE INFORMATION
Celebrating Cessnock's Hidden Herstories
Celebrating Cessnock's Hidden Herstories
Thursday 5 March
1 pm to 3 pm
By Cessnock City Library
MORE INFORMATION
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
Tuning in to Kids - Woodberry
Tuning in to Kids
DATE: Fridays 27 February - 27 March
TIME: 10am - 12:30pm
VENUE: Place of Friends Woodberry Public School
REGISTER: 0478 116 675 / 0491 060 916
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FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
FEAST WITH FRIENDS
Join the GYBS Community once a fortnight for a morning of cooking followed by tasting the sessions culinary creations with your fellow Sistas. During this session you will learn about food preparation, healthy options, budgets and techniques for storing food.
Feast with Friends runs fortnightly on a Wednesday during the school term from 11 am to 1 pm.
Starting Wednesday 11 February - 25 March 2026
Got Your Back Sista, Tighes Hill
MORE INFO: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/events/feast-with-friends/
Empowerment Circle
Got Your Back Sista FREE weekly Empowerment Circle workshops we will be covering a different topic each week including personal and financial goal setting, stress management, resilience skills, time management, organisational skills, self care, self compassion, kindness to self and others, forgiveness, and vision boarding and meditation.
DATES: Empowerment Circle runs every Wednesday Starting 4 February 2026 during the school term.
TIME: 9.30 - 11am
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/empowerment-circle/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.
Tuning in to Kids - Windale
Tuning in to Kids
DATE: Mondays 16 February - 30 March
TIME: 10am - 12pm
VENUE: Milabah, Windale Public School
REGISTER: 0400 344 032 / allicon.forsyth@det.nsw.edu.au
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Rebuild and Reconnect Workshop
Got Your Back Sista will run ‘Rebuild and Reconnect’, a program developed to help women rebuild their self-esteem, confidence, and resilience when facing adversity. The purpose of this program is to rebuild relationships with friends and family and reconnect with others to form a positive self-identity.
DATE: program starts 12 February 2026 for 6 weeks.
TIME: 10 am to 12 pm
VENUE: GYBS Tighes Hill
MORE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION: https://www.gotyourbacksista.com/programs/rebuild-and-reconnect-workshop/
You must register to attend GYBS programs.