Amanda


About Amanda

Amanda Viviers has published ten books and is a presenter on radio across New Zealand and Australia. She is also the co-founder of Kinwomen; a network created to inspire women to start conversations that matter. Head of Narrative for Compassion Australia, she is driven by a passion for social justice, she loves supporting projects for women in developing countries. Teaching women to live creative lives, beyond the circumstances, is something she pursues daily. Wife of Charl and Mum of Maximus and Liberty, she lives a creative life, longing to see people live inspired. Pinterest/ Twitter/ @Mandaviviers Instagram: @amandaviviers Facebook: @amandaviviersperth

Rose Parker is doing a Gospel tribute gig at the Ellington on Friday the 13th of June. We are going to be attending the night to support our kinwomen friend, but also extending the invitation to anyone from our network who would like to bring along a friend and have […]

Across the tracks


Recently I have just finished reading a brilliant book by Author Brene Brown called Daring Greatly. This book is all about the shame culture that we have been brought up to believe as truth. That shame is used in our parenting, leadership, our careers, our friendships to keep an emotional […]

forgiveness and shame



Finding wisdom is not something that is promoted as being desirable in our culture. As women, we are subliminally bombarded by many other competing messages that try to form our character. We must be productive (i.e busy, not be idle, work hard), acceptable (i.e quiet, helpful or not too much), […]

the quiet call of wisdom


Kinwomen founder Kelley Chisholm will be speaking for the city of Mandurah on the 14th of March. The topic for her presentation is on ‘Optimistic Parenting’. The focus of the free seminar is for the new cultural shift in our society towards the FIFO lifestyle. The seminar details; ‘Want more […]

Optimistic Parenting



Kinwomen’s founder Penny Webb has been nominated in the International Women’s Day Awards for Western Australia. International Women’s Day is all about promoting and encouraging women internationally. This year the women who have been nominated will be coming together for a presentation and morning tea at Government House on Friday […]

Nomination


On Sunday at 2pm all the writers and speakers from Kinwomen gathered together for a planning meeting for 2014. Enjoying one another’s company over a cup of tea, getting to know our new members and discuss the exciting events that we can come alongside in the community this year… With […]

kinwomen catch up