Our Wellbeing in The Workplace programme is designed to support your mental wellbeing alongside navigating your workplace commitments.
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Group Mentoring Sessions
2nd Tuesday of every month
Peer to Peer Group Mentoring programme, providing a platform for women experiencing fertility challenges at work to offer each other support and guidance. Monthly online zoom meetings.
Group mentoring takes place in a collaborative, safe and facilitated environment.
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Upcoming Sessions
There are no upcoming sessions currently.
You can view Fertility Network UKs general programme of health & wellbeing activities here
Previous Sessions
Fertility in the Workplace; Practical techniques for coping in the workplace during the festive period
We understand that the festive season can bring specific challenges, especially for those facing fertility struggles in the workplace. Join us for a supportive session with Linda Gillham, who will share compassionate insights, self-care strategies, and practical coping techniques.
With over 15 years in mental health and five years as a fertility counsellor, Linda is a Certified Transactional Analyst, senior accredited with both BACP and NCPS. Her expertise is a valuable resource for anyone seeking support during this time.
Unlock Your Potential with Mindfulness: A Workshop Series for Women Navigating Fertility Challenges in the Workplace.
Are you a driven professional balancing the demands of a thriving career while navigating the complexities of your fertility journey? Whether you’re a CEO making high-stakes decisions or working part-time the challenges you face in the workplace are unique and require a thoughtful approach.
Why Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is not about passivity; it’s about clarity, focus, and empowered decision-making. It’s about knowing when to speak up and when to hold back, when to act and when to pause. This series of workshops will equip you with the tools to enhance your mental clarity and emotional resilience, helping you navigate your career with confidence and poise.
We discussed…
- Strategies for balancing your professional life with fertility treatment
- Techniques to handle workplace stress and maintain your well-being
- Coping mechanisms – work and fertility treatment
- Practical ways on how mindfulness can enhance your work life and overall well-being
- How to communicate your needs and boundaries in the workplace
- How to embrace your current situation and set realistic priorities
- To develop a deeper understanding of yourself and cultivate compassion
- How to to set boundaries that protect your time, energy, and mental health.
- Simple, practical mindfulness exercises you can integrate into your workday
HOLISTIC WELLBEING FOR FERTILITY IN THE WORKPLACE – JUNE 2024
This 4 week holistic wellbeing programme helped participants achieve a more comprehensive understanding of body/mind connection (in relation to fertility) and promote overall well-being.
SESSION 1
Theory: Introduction to holistic fertility approach, Lifestyle medicine and comprehensive health optimization
Aim: Releasing all tension and discomfort from your joints, enabling a free and unrestricted flow of vital energy throughout the entire body. Inducing a sense of vitality, openness, and ease.
Practices included: yoga postures, breathing techniques, short relaxation techniques and simple meditation technique
SESSION 2
Theory: stress management, what is stress, types of stress, how stress influences fertility outcome, lifestyle modifications to deal with the stress
Aim: becoming aware of the level of stress, where is stress stored in the body, releasing accumulated tension on the physical, mental and emotional level
Practices included: yoga postures, breathing techniques, energy lock (bandha) yoga nidra (non-sleep deep rest technique)
SESSION 3
Theory: emotional management (awareness of the emotional states and how to deal with them with lifestyle interventions, specific tools of yoga and meditation)
Aim: awareness of the emotions, taking the attitude of a witness, their impact on body/mind, releasing and transforming negative emotions
Practices included: specific yoga postures for releasing emotional tension, breathing techniques, short relaxation techniques, meditation for emotional management
SESSION 4
Theory: mental resilience and mental balance, how to stay mentally healthy during the fertility journey. Lifestyle interventions to achieve mental balance, the tools of yoga, breathing, meditation and relaxation for mental balance.
Aim: inner/outer balance, calming the mind, releasing negative thoughts, transforming negative thoughts into positive ones.
Practices included: balancing yoga postures, specific balancing breathing techniques, yoga nidra (non-sleep deep rest technique), and inner silence meditation (has to do with the awareness of thought process).
Fertility & Mental Health – February 2024
FERTILITY IN THE WORKPLACE – STRESS & FERTILITY
FERTILITY IN THE WORKPLACE – PREPARING YOURSELF FOR TREATMENT AND NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS
FERTILITY IN THE WORKPLACE – SUPPORTING YOUR MENTAL HEALTH DURING FERTILITY
FERTILITY IN THE WORKPLACE – TRAUMA & INFERTILITY
Wellbeing in the Workplace 6-Week programme – September 2023
Guided Art Therapy
In this therapeutic art session, Maria-Katharina Richters will guide you through an art therapy technique, using paper and coloured pens/crayons, which is a technique that communicates with your intuition. The benefits can include:
- Inner peace and stress reduction
- Calming an intense emotion
- Unblocking a stuck energy
- Building self-confidence and self-esteem
- Fostering creativity
Fertility Yoga in the Workplace
Join Jane Dominey from FemFlow Yoga in this session using a unique approach to boosting your fertility from behind your desk. If you spend hours in the office with little to no movement, and not enough space to rollout a mat, then this unique practice is for you. This practice is designed for women in the office, however, for those of you who don’t work at a desk, there will be poses thrown in for you too.
Fertility & Nutrition
Join nutritionist Sarah Trimble in this session focused on nutrition, which is important for any woman trying to conceive. This education session will look at the importance of key nutrients, necessary for optimal reproductive health, including vitamin D. Sarah will discuss optimal dietary patterns for fertility and fertility boosting super foods, as well as how to eat better breakfasts and more nutritious lunches during the working week. We’ll look at the importance of better sleep and how a lunchtime walk could improve your sleep pattern.
Mindfulness
Join Natalie Wagstaffe, a practising Buddhist who has run a successful mindfulness practice for a decade. In this session, you will learn practical, time-efficient practices and tools which you can start using immediately to reduce stress levels and feel more at peace in your mind and body.
Balance and Breathwork
Join Anna-Marie Gough who started her therapeutic method with one goal in mind: to help people find calm, happiness and balance in their work, relationships, and life. This session will focus on using breathwork to achieve positive wellbeing. The way that we breathe affects every part of our mental and physical health and can enhance health, wellbeing and inner peace.
Understanding Mental Wellbeing & Infertility
Join Jenny Okona-Mensah, BACP registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Mental Health Practitioner, who will be talking about the mental impact of infertility. The following will be covered during the session:
- Understanding the impact of infertility on mental wellbeing
- How you can support your own wellbeing during your journey & the importance of self care
- Understanding the role of grief during infertility
Thanks to VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund, part of a partnership programme between Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England, and UK Health Security Agency and our partnership with Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic, Fertility In The Workplace (FITW) are delighted to be able to offer free support packages to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) until March 2025!