Ladypause Peer Support Network is a group offering women of middle years an opportunity to join together on the 3^rd or 4^th Monday of the month from 10am - 12noon, where they can receive information on varying health topics from a number of speakers from our community, at our current venue at the Brisbane Square Library 266 George Street the city, ground floor Community meeting room.

  Our group offers friendship and information, enjoying a chat with other members over morning tea before the session begins; there are no joining fees just a gold coin donation for the refreshments. While we are mainly a women’s group our title being Women Wise in Middle Years, men are most welcome at all our sessions. Afterwards some of the ladies often have lunch together. Ladypause is now in its twelfth year of existence bringing women of middle years together. Three years ago we joined forces with the Older Women’s Network which has worked in well with our aims.

  Ladypause came to be when several like-minded women came together seeking information regarding their own health issues some 12 years ago in 1999. We not only found many answers to our own questions, but friendships were forged along the way. Our commitment to helping other women with similar problems became very clear and under the watchful eye of Jan Roberts from Community Health Services at RBWH as it’s now known. We undertook the running of our small group called SIMS (Surgical induced Menopause) Jan gave us all the support and encouragement we needed to plan our own events each month.

  This led Jan to offer us the chance to run her old group at the Patient Education Centre at the Royal called WWIMY (Women Wise in Middle Years) which is still in existence today. Jan was moving onto other projects within Community Health, we felt very honoured by this support from her. We undertook a short cause at RBWH to understand and meet the needs of other women, offering them support in the way of peer support for women’s health issues. SIMS became Women’s Health info Evening to broaden the topics we would cover at our monthly meetings, and with Jan’s many years of experience in community health we started our venture with her guidance running both groups. WWIMY moved to a new venue at the City Hall Library as the Royal underwent major rebuilding on campus to what we have today.

  We also became involved with the monthly newsletter called Women’s News which covered varying topics and diary dates, this also included staff from Community Health Centre’s in Brisbane North and PineRivers. The newsletter sourced venues and information where women could find varying topics relating to women’s health issues. A survey done at RWH outpatients also showed there was a lack of support for people who wished to talk over their worries. The first issue of Women’s News was launched in July 2000 with Jan as the editor.

  In 2004 we underwent a further name change to coincide with the new Hospital Helpers Program, we decided on Ladypause as we felt this name reflected our work. So we became Ladypause Peer Support Network under the hospitals umbrella. We continued to work alongside Jan until her retirement mid-2006, we were all very sad to lose such a wonderful person and a very good friend.

  We continued on under Pauline Bonnici for a further 18 months, and then sadly funding was no longer available to be channeled into community health at RBWH. Our quest to continue with the work we loved as volunteers led us to join forces with the Older Women’s Network in 2008.

  Ladypause also thanks Rick Maynard from Thyroid Australia Brisbane; for his ongoing support to our group. Rick offered to share his Web site with Ladypause giving us our own Ladypause link from his home page. It is a wonderful opportunity to combine our efforts to bring community health awareness to people, and the opportunity to work together for the good of the wider community.

  Ladypause is also supported by the Brisbane City Council, advertising all our seminars in their What’s On brochures found at all local libraries and their online What’s On web page. Our topics are also found in the Older Women’s Network’s quarterly Newsletter.

 Ladypause Peer Support Network facilitator is Jacqui Geen.

Ladypause - Seminars

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 2012 Seminar Dates

10am – 12 Noon On Monday

19^th March 2012

16^th April 2012

21st May 2012

18^th June 2012

16^th July 2012

20^th August 2012

    17^th September 2012

15^th October 2012

19^th November 2012

Please note them in your diary

If you would like to read about some of our past events just follow the link to previous years.

Previous Years - Seminars

 For more information please E-Mail 

Jacqui Geen jacqui_ladypause@bigpond.com