Events and Workshops
Save the Date: Members Event and Brenda Gabe Leadership Award 2025
Our 2025 Members Event and Brenda Gabe Leadership Award will be held on Tuesday the 27th of May, 1:00PM to 4:00PM, at the Melbourne Town Hall. For members attending in person, afternoon tea will be provided.
It will be a hybrid event so if you are unable to attend in person, we would love to have you join us online.
Members will receive further information about how to register to attend in the coming weeks.
Quarterly Conversations
Quarterly Conversations are online events that deliver a guest or panel every three months, talking about topics and ideas of interest to our members.
Our next event is on Wednesday the 2nd of April, 2025.
This Quarterly Conversations is being held with help of panelist QENDO, a peak organisation for those affected by endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, infertility or pelvic pain.
Learn more about the event and register by clicking the button below:
Empowering Choices: Boosting Screening Access for Women and Gender-Diverse People with Disabilities - Online Workshop
Join us for a FREE cervical and bowel cancer screening educational workshop! Developed for women and gender diverse people with disabilities.
What to expect:
- Learn about the importance of regular cervical and bowel cancer screenings for early detection
- Get a step-by-step overview of screenings, and how to personalise the experience for your comfort.
- Feel empowered by understanding your healthcare rights, including accessible options and how to advocate for your needs
Q&A and Resources
Date: Thursday the 10th of April, 2025
Time: 11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom (Details will be provided upon registration)
Register by: Wednesday the 9th of April, 2025
This project has been funded by Cancer Council Victoria.
For more information, contact Melissa Jolley, WDV Women’s Health Project Officer at [email protected].
Enabling Women Leadership Program
Are you a woman or gender diverse person with disabilities living in Victoria?
Are you over the age of 18?
Do you want to harness your leadership potential?
Do you want to see what you are capable of in a strength-based disability inclusive environment?
If you answered YES The Victorian Enabling Women Leadership Program is the perfect opportunity for you.
As a part of this free Program, you will:
• Build confidence
• Explore who you are
• Reflect on your strengths (the things you’re good at)
• Learn more about your human rights
• Practise speaking up
• Work with a mentor to achieve a leadership goal
• Become a better leader in your community
Our Autumn 2025 intake is now open!
To learn more about the delivery and timeline of the Program, and to submit your application, click the button below.
Pleasure for Everybody: Accessible and Inclusive Intimacy
Pleasure, sex and intimacy are essential parts of our health and wellbeing. However, discussions about pleasure often exclude people from outside of cisgender, heterosexual and/or able-bodied experiences. In this FREE interactive workshop, we will be exploring the importance of pleasure and its role in our lives, as well as practical skill building to increase your confidence approaching and accessing pleasure. Passionfruit Sensuality Shop will also be presenting their range of accessible sex toys and accessories.
This workshop is for women and gender diverse people with disabilities and their allies who want to better understand the importance of pleasure and to make their intimacy more accessible and inclusive.
Topics that will be explored include:
Pleasure as a human right
How pleasure impacts health
Ways to think about pleasure
Consent and communication
Sex toys as accessibility tools
Resources and services available
This workshop is brought to you by Women’s Health In the North in collaboration with Women with Disabilities Victoria. This project is funded by the North Eastern Public Health Unit.
Please note that this same workshop is running on the following dates and locations so pick the one that suits you most:
Coburg Library – 20th of March 6-8pm
YCH Preston – 27th of March 6-8pm
New Podcast - From the Outskirts - Regional and Rural Women with Disability
Welcome to one in a series of podcasts about women from rural and regional Victoria and Melbourne outer east living with disabilities.
In this episode, Liz Wright talks with Elise Stewart, CEO of Deaf Hub, Bendigo. Whilst Elise discusses some challenging topics, she’s funny and honest and this is a really fascinating conversation.
Some of the content contains swearing and some of the content may be considered triggering.
Please enjoy and if you have any issues, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Community Hub Events
WDV facilitates five leadership networks (Hubs) for women and non-binary people with disabilities in local regions. Our Hub members get together regularly and support each other in their leadership, advocacy and empowerment goals. Join a hub to get involved in their events.