Vision Fitness and Support Services founder and chief operating officer Rebecca Huismann will share her experience leading a team that supports individuals to live empowered lives through compassion and lived experience.
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Rural Women's Day and Women of the Murray will host their second collaborative long lunch on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at Moama Bowling Club from 11.30am to 3.30pm.
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The event will feature guest speakers Rebecca Huismann and Benita Bensch, with a focus on connection and a celebration of rural and regional women.
Vision Fitness and Support Services founder and chief operating officer Rebecca Huismann will share her story of resilience and determination.
Growing up on a farm with a love for horses and the outdoors, her life took an unexpected turn at a young age.
What followed was a journey of rebuilding, redefining and refusing to be limited by circumstance.
Today, Ms Huismann leads a growing team and supports dozens of individuals to live meaningful, empowered lives through work deeply rooted in lived experience and compassion.
Australian author, speaker, coach, farmer and mother of four from Moama Benita Bensch, will also address the gathering.
Her work explores visibility, identity, transitions and purpose, particularly in motherhood, rural living and personal change.
Drawing on more than a decade of coaching experience alongside her lived experience in agriculture, family and business, Ms Bensch creates spaces for women to reconnect with themselves and their voice.
Benita Bensch, an Australian author, speaker, coach, farmer and mother of four, addresses visibility, identity and purpose, particularly in motherhood and rural living.
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Ms Bensch, a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner and author of The Art of Trying and Seen Again, emphasises the unique challenges facing rural women.
“I am a big advocate for women in rural or regional Australia,” she said.
“I am a big supporter, particularly where we experience unique challenges.
“We can experience unique challenges as rural and regional women in relation to isolation, agriculture and working as women in farming families.”
Ms Bensch finds that people are drawn to her work because she talks about things that aren’t often spoken about, shining a light on the less celebrated aspects of motherhood.
“There is a kind of thread that runs through my book about the power, the way the stories we tell rule our life and that we have this opportunity, and in motherhood and in life, to re-author our experience,” she said.
The event welcomes all ages, though those under-18 must be accompanied by an adult. Organisers encourage attendees to come alone or bring family and friends, describing it as “the best opportunity to get the ‘catch-up’ out of the group chat”.
The two-course lunch includes beverages at bar prices, with no reserved seating to encourage connection.
The event will be photographed by Lill Daly from Lens of Lill.
Organisers recommend Sunday lunch attire with added colour for winter.
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