Contact us: femshare@proton.me
Femshare Consulting
Capacity Strengthening Workshops, Tailored Gender Assessments, Wellbeing Support and more
Photographed by Hilary Stock Photography (www.hilarystock.co.uk)
Who we are
Gender & Development Specialists
Femshare Consulting offers capacity strengthening workshops, evaluations, organisational development advice, gender assessments and other services to women's organisations, NGOs, and other development agencies. We also provide personal wellbeing and resilience support for women's rights/gender equality activists.
Our work is done with a feminist, participatory approach, inspired by values of equality, social justice, respect for nature and for each other, and is based on the belief that we are stronger together.
Principal consultant Manon van Zuijlen has more than 30 years of experience working with women's organisations, social service sector NGOs and development agencies of all sizes on issues relating to gender equality and social justice. Manon has lived and worked in the Netherlands, India, Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Guatemala and Australia for extensive periods of time. She has also worked short-term in Cambodia, Fiji, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Turkey. While Femshare Consulting's office is based in Melbourne, Australia, we offer services anywhere our expertise can be used effectively.
What we do
Activities, initiatives, possibilities
For organisations
Consultancy services
We offer various types of consultancy services, including training/capacity strengthening, organisational development advice, participatory gender assessments, evaluations, policy briefings and proposal development.
For individuals
Nature challenge
Using nature as an inspiration and resource, Femshare invites you to challenge yourself on a wilderness hike and while walking, confront a professional or personal issue that you are struggling with. We will offer as much or as little guidance as you'd prefer during this experience.
Building connections
ZOOM meetings
Imagined as a platform to build connections among women's rights/gender equality activists and share experiences, information and resources. Four to six-weekly informal, confidential ZOOM meetings are hosted by Femshare Consulting on Saturdays. Email us to get a link sent to your inbox.
Ask Femshare
Tailored services
With a broad experience and a strong network with other gender and development specialists in Australia and Southeast Asia, Femshare Consulting can develop tailored support for you or your organisation. Contact us for further discussion!
Recommended reading
My sister Danielle gave me an interesting book about living with intention, or intentional living. Written by young Dutch journalist Ernst-Jan Pfauth, the book stems from his personal experience of burn-out, which led him to research 'simple habits for more focus and happiness'. He did this by reading and reviewing self-help books on happiness, grounded in scientific research. He also interviewed several of the authors and started hosting a podcast in which he talks with guests about thir 'life lessons'. The book is based on this research, and discusses seven simple habits to develop more focus in your life and experience more happiness:
1. Less deferring and procrastination, focus on what you do.
2. Change your focus from performing to learning something in which you believe.
3. What can you do for someone else today?
4. What are you grateful for, and why?
5. What financial savings can you achieve in order to have more control of your time?
6. Spending time with people you love.
7. Live according to your personal values.
Gradually adopting these habits will create a life of intention and results in more sustainable happiness, according to Pfauth.
Ernst-Jan Pfauth (2024) Intentioneel Leven. 7 simpele gewoontes voor meer focus en geluk. Amsterdam: Maven Publishing. ISBN 978 94 932 1386 9 www.intentioneelleven.nl
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These images communicate some of what we do and value.
Copyright: image 1- Shutterstock, image 2 - GLSSA, image 3 - LinkedIn, 4 - Yolande Morris.
All other photographs by Manon van Zuijlen, unless otherwise mentioned.
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Myanmar earthquake survivors need our help:
On march 28, Myanmar was hit by a 7.7 earthquake, with devastating consequences for a population already suffering from four years and counting of civil war. Until now, support is mostly organised and provided by civilians and local organisations. Please donate generously to sustain the long-suffering people rom Burma/Myanmar. Funding going directly to community groups is the best, for example: https://gofund.me/c210efcc
