Monday 1 April 2013

International Women's Day


International Women’s Day or IWD falls on March 8th and celebrates the achievements of women and celebrating everything about women that is great! Choices for Life teamed up with partner organisation DISC to deliver an entire day of activities and education all centred around women.

The day started out at DISC with female project members of Choices for Life joining members of DISC to look at food and mood for the female body which was hugely interesting and everyone even got to try out the foods later for lunch! Then project members were given a taster session about the Freedom Programme which helps women to take control and ownership of the relationships in their life. It was incredibly informative and project members were invited to take part in the course running from April.

After lunch project members (including men!) were invited to take part in a special Drop In session where snacks from around the world prepared with the help of project members that were part of the multicultural sessions.  A “Common Sense before Self Defense” session was delivered by Tang Soo Do  Master Charlie Featherstone and his apprentice Carla, which was followed by and a Relaxation  session by Jaki Savage the manager of Centre Yoga and Wellbeing who demonstrated breathing exercises.  Everyone had the chance to have a go, both sessions were really informative, beneficial and fun.

It was a really exciting and vibrant day and really helped people to appreciate everything that is wonderful about the women in their lives! Thank you to all who attended including all workshop leaders and partner organisations that helped to make it such a success.

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