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Creative Excellence Program

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date October 2, 2025

The Creative Women’s Association has launched the world-first Creative Excellence Program, a 10-month leadership initiative certifying women as creative authorities and reshaping the global creative economy.

Tags arts leadership, Australia creative sector, creative authority, Creative Economy, Creative Excellence Program, creative frameworks, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, cultural innovation, future of work, professional certification, regenerative fashion, women creatives., Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Leadership

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CWA Australia

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date September 26, 2025

CWA Australia is redefining the creative economy by certifying women’s artistic, cultural, and health-based work as legitimate economic infrastructure.

Tags arts-based health, Australian innovation, creative certification, Creative Health, cultural authority, CWA Australia, Harris Tweed model, policy innovation, post-industrial economy, women’s economy, women’s labour

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Esther Rising. We Demand Partnership, Not a Hierarchy

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date September 25, 2025

Why The Time Has Come for Men to Lead, Women to Flourish, and Love to Be the Standard “We’re happy for men to lead — but only as leaders worth following, because true leadership lifts women, never breaks them.” — Esther. CWA Australia. The last week’s noise around Erika Kirk’s tribute has been deafening. People […]

Tags #Art and Emotional Regulation, #Creative Self-Care, #Creativity & Stress Relief, #CWA Wellness, #Nervous System Balance, truth in the middle

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Out Beyond Ideas of Wrong and Right

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date September 15, 2025

Rumi’s words — “out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field” — resonate in today’s climate of political extremism. This CWA post argues that the colour that unites us is the red of shared humanity, not the black-and-white of division. It explores how balance is not just a political position but a moral stance, how neuroscience reveals the dangers of rigid thinking, and why the true struggle is not left versus right, but good versus evil.

Tags #Art and Emotional Regulation, #Creative Self-Care, #Creativity & Stress Relief, #CWA Wellness, #Nervous System Balance, truth in the middle

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And now we have the “Vulnerable Female Narcissist”

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date August 11, 2025

A sharp, evidence-backed critique dismantling the “vulnerable female narcissist” narrative as a gendered pop-psych label that reframes women’s survival as pathology, supported by research on systemic diagnostic bias.

Tags CWA commentary, gaslighting in media, gender bias in psychology, Mamamia article review, misuse of narcissism term, modern media critique, pathologising vulnerability, pop psychology and women, vulnerable female narcissist critique, women’s emotional labour