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2025-11-05 18:00 - 18:45 (Australia/Melbourne) | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350
In Conversation with Benita Bensch

July 15

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6:00 pm

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7:30 pm

$11.78

Humffray Room

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Seen Again: Light On Matrescence

Benita Bensch

Seen Again is a modern companion through matrescence, the profound transition of becoming a mother.

Matrescence is a biological, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual transformation that can leave mothers without the language or support to make sense of who they are. Many feel disconnected or invisible, wondering: Who am I now? Is it normal to feel this way?

Blending intimate memoir, eighteen real-life stories and years of coaching into a compassionate framework, Benita Bensch explores the inner landscape and seismic shift of matrescence with unflinching honesty. If you have ever felt lost, remember: you are not broken, you are evolving. This is an invitation to reimagine your next season of life, free of shoulds.

Seen Again: Light on Matrescence is a return to the inner campfire, where the dark is honoured, the light is reclaimed, and your true self is waiting to be seen again. By you, first.

About the author

Benita Bensch, Author

Benita Bensch is an Australian author, coach and speaker whose work explores identity, transition, purpose and visibility through storytelling and the creative life. She is a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner with over a decade of coaching experience, drawing on narrative therapy principles in her work with women in rural and regional communities. She is a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner with over a decade of coaching experience, drawing on narrative therapy principles in her work with women in rural and regional communities. Benita lives and farms near Moama, New South Wales, with her husband and four sons.

This event will be supported by Collins Booksellers on Lydiard

$11.78 per person includes booking fee & gst, also includes light refreshment. All proceeds go to the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to support the staging of our author events. Book on-line or contact Rosemary at the Libary via email library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042

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This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

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