The Women’s Resource Centre held an open house last week to invite members of the public to meet the staff, find out about the programs they offer as well as enjoy lunch.
A small group attended, with about a dozen women and men stopping by.
The staff welcomed area residents into the Women’s Resource Centre last Wednesday as conversations brewed between current and new programs.
This year, the Women’s Resource Centre worked with the community to spread the message to end violence against women.
Gender-based violence continues to be a rising concern in Canada.
According to the Canadian Women’s Foundation, on average, every six days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner.
The same statistics offered that on any given day in Canada, more than 3,300 women look to emergency shelters, including the Women’s Safe Haven in Flin Flon.
The Women’s Resource Centre offers programs like The Vagina Monologues to help bring light to the importance of ending violence against women and children.
Many of the programs offered through the centre have a goal, such as putting an end to violence.
But the Women’s Resource Centre will be offering a new program to find that inner creativity that is often buried.
Towards the end of January, the centre will be hosting a workshop to “explore our creative muse.”
Limited space will be available for the workshop, so interested women are encouraged to sign up as soon as possible.
“This workshop is geared for women working in all fields,” said the Women’s Resource Centre’s Bob Hopkins.
“The busier we get the more stressed out we get,” read a brochure for the workshop, “and the harder is it for us to hear our creative muse calling out to us.”
Hopkins says too often the inner muse stays “buried deep within our psyche.”
The course will be offered at the Creighton Court Room with a focus on “exploring, creating and expressing our inner muse.”
“Who is our inner muse you ask?” reads the brochure. “She is the part of us that urges us on when we feel like we have hit a wall. She is our inner poet, our guiding spirit, our source of inspiration.”
Hopkins says the workshop will also help to answer questions of each person’s individual creativity.
“I encourage you to take a few moments and look within to catch a brief glimpse of her,” Hopkins repeated from the brochure.
The open house offered conversations of not only programs, but also members of the community getting to know each other as well as the staff at the Women’s Resource Centre.
