Women vocal and intelligent at IWD dinner
Bendigo Zonta celebrated International Women’s Day with a dinner addressed by key note speaker Dr Louise Mahler, founder of Vocal Intelligence. Zonta is a global service organisation of executives and professional women working together to advance the status of women through service and advocacy.
Ten staff members from the School of Rural Health enjoyed an evening of good food and laughter. At the Bendigo dinner, the participants were taken through exercises in breathing and big gestures to achieve ‘the wisdom of voice.’ In order to understand how to make the mind, body and voice work together, there were tips for what to do with your hands and how to use your voice when speaking in public.
Dr Mahler told the group that ‘vocal Intelligence is a means of getting in touch with coherence of voice, words, emotions, relationships and context.’
Her background is in economics, business and Opera singing, and she sees the ‘voice as a much richer and more complex creative tool for effective personal and professional development.’
The School of Rural Health group agreed that Dr Mahler was one of the most entertaining and informative speakers that it had the privilege to hear, and highly recommend attending one of her sessions if anyone gets the opportunity.
The group also thanked the volunteers from Bendigo Zonta for organising the event for International Women’s Day.
Bendigo Professional staff enjoyed the dinner, as the photo shows. In the front row from left are Cheryl Sutherland, Lyndsey Brown, Sonya Steve, Cathy Wheel and Sandra Paschkow, while in the back row are Gillian Fallon, ZONTA District 23 Governor Ann Horrocks, Bendigo ZONTA President Rosalie Lake, Michelle Moon, Terri Galea and Melissa McNicol. Bendigo Regional Clinical School Regional Manager Kerrie Thomsen took the photo.