Women of menopausal age make up 23% of all women in the UK employment (3.5 million people) (Local Government Association, 2021). Our holistic approach to menopause addresses key symptoms that women find highly disruptive to their lives and work. We focus on increasing their psycho-emotional wellbeing, reducing feelings of isolation and equipping clients in self-management, seeing them become an active participant in their own care to reach their self-identified goals.
1-2-1 Sessions
1-2-1 support is personalised to the individual and focuses on increasing wellbeing, reducing feelings of isolation, and increasing self-management, seeing clients become an active participant in their care to reach their self-identified goals.
Our 1-2-1 health coaching sessions are provided by a dedicated menopause health coach who can support individuals by exploring outcomes and goals, increasing autonomy and motivation, providing supportive challenge, exploring their current situation and options of change, support self-reflection to understand relationships and connections between their emotions, feelings and behaviours, increasing their knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to move on and self-manage their symptoms where appropriate.
Menopause Champion Training
In addition to our 1-2-1 support we can provide tailored Menopause Champion training to your employees. Our CPD accredited training looks to empower your staff and improve menopause awareness, encouraging conversation and understanding the role of a Menopause Champion.
Why have a Menopause Champion for your workplace? Based on research confirming the value of champion roles within a work environment, we can offer opportunities for employees to train as “menopause champions”. This will not only benefit employees and/or their loved ones who are experiencing the menopause, but also those that live or care for those with menopausal symptoms. It will encourage employees with lived experience to reach out to trusted menopause champion colleagues to access support, contributing to the reduction of potential sick days associated with menopause and potential work issues arising due to unsupported colleagues going through the menopause.
Group Peer Support
Our 1-2-1 support can be provided alongside facilitated group peer support sessions. The sessions are delivered face to face and all clients are invited to take part if they wish.
The sessions look to encourage clients to share their experiences, positive or negative, with one another, discuss potential solutions, different ways to look at situations with one another by drawing on their own experiences. These sessions are great for client to share hints and tips they have found useful and are facilitated by our Menopause Health Coaches, to ensure a safe space and encourage healthy conversations.
“The support was very enabling, the more you do something the more you felt relaxed about it. I found with every session I did, I was starting to feel more confident talking to colleagues at work about my menopause. I was speaking more openly about my symptoms and what was going on.”
“This support has given me permission to talk about all the things that have been bothering me. It has helped me move forward and realise I can only make positive changes if I actually want to. Taking those steps alone are hard, but this coaching gives you the support you need to help yourself. The sessions have given me structure and focus and have helped me to facilitate a positive change.”
“I currently work in HR, and dealt with a sickness absence recently, where the lady might lose her job. She came back to work today and was very emotional. She is experiencing menopause and may end up losing her job because there is not the appropriate support for her.
Women who have worked all their lives to get to good positions in their career are then not supported correctly when this phase of life happens. There is a lack of support and understanding at work. This type of support is great at bringing awareness into the workplace.”
“I have noticed that things I used to do and would get joy from doing, I am now feeling ambivalent about them, I have a loss of confidence and have found this quite difficult. I am in a relatively senior position at work, and I am finding this hard.
Being anxious is not something I have come across previously. That loss of confidence and heightened sense of anxiety is difficult to manage and can be stressful.”
“Michele has helped me to focus on what my issues are, and we have explored them in a bit more detail. She has gently challenged me with things. We have identified specific issues to work on, she helped me to see how I might be able to make some changes and improvements, which will have a positive impact. She checks in on the actions I have set and holds me accountable. I need this type of support to help support myself.”